The Next Trip - An Aviation and Travel Podcast
The Next Trip is a weekly, internationally acclaimed podcast with aviation insiders Doug and Drew, who together bring more than 40 years of industry experience as a professional pilot and a hub operations manager at a major airline. Join them, and their frequent guests, as they create a network for other AvGeeks and travel enthusiasts to obsess about all things aviation. Doug and Drew discuss today’s aviation news, share personal operational stories, regale listeners with trip reviews, and engage in friendly AvGeek banter. All thoughts and opinions are their own. Visit us at www.nexttripnetwork.com
The Next Trip - An Aviation and Travel Podcast
Boarding Pass 265: AvGeek Stocking Stuffers
Doug is back from New York and Tokyo and Drew is on a much needed break from a busy start to the Christmas travel week. There’s no huge aviation news this week so we have a bunch fun news stocking stuffers for you. On this episode we discuss:
Christmas season passenger volumes and possible disruptions
ANA acquires 100% of LCC Peach Air
Air Kerala plans to launch in mid 2025
Archer Aviation and Joby Aviation make progress with their eVTOL air taxis
Frontier brings back an all-you-can-fly pass
China Airlines brings cheer to Boeing and Airbus with widebody orders
United has a new widebody route surprise for Denver
We unpack OAG’s just released busiest routes lists