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 276: We Have No Choice
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Doug and Drew
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Episode 276
Drew is back from an airport operations conference in Chicago and Doug’s KC46 flight gets canceled by birds. We discuss:
- ATC Controller paper on leased aircraft and when call signs don’t match liveries. Link here:
https://ifatca.org/wp-content/uploads/WP158.pdf - Yet ANOTHER new aviation startup is aiming to shake up the industry with a major airline partner
- No more paper tickets
- Mergers and acquisitions update from across the pond
- What does it cost to retrofit an airline’s fleet
- KC-46 issues
- Listener comments on Paris and Starlink