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On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Silver Airways ceases operations immediately and Qantas says subsidiary Jetstar Asia will wind down flights by the end of July. The NTSB releases the preliminary report on the American Airlines 737 fire in Denver. May was a big month for Boeing, with more than 300 orders, while Airbus recorded orders for precisely 0 aircraft. This month’s Paris Air Show has the potential to close the gap.
Southwest is looking at “monetizing its order book,” while American Airlines sends the wrong 787 to Naples. And Condor operates five flights in a failed attempt to get passengers from Zurich to Heraklion.
Note: this episode was recorded prior to the crash of Air India flight 171 on 12 June. Our discussion of the crash will be available in episode 325 next week.
Helpful links for this week’s episode
- Silver Airways ceases operations
- American Airlines 737 Denver Fire NTSB preliminary report
- US restricting aerospace component exports to China
- American Airlines sends the wrong 787 to Naples
- Condor’s five flights to nowhere, A320 D-AICA
- NTSB 3-day hearing scheduled for July 31-August 2
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I was on a Southwest flight similar to the 787-9 situation in Naples. A “nonstop” from MDW to SAN where the gate agent got on the PA at the gate and said that our nonstop was going to make a stop, but she wasn’t going to tell us why until we boarded the plane. She gave people the opportunity to change their tickets to another flight.
Once we boarded, the captain explained that they had sent a 737 to MDW that was too big to takeoff and they either had to bump a lot of passengers or not take on enough fuel to make it nonstop to SAN. They thought it would be better to keep all the passengers and just make a short stop in MCI to refuel.
And that’s just what they did. Our stop was only 20 minutes — land, taxi to the ramp, take on fuel, then taxi and take off. We made it to SAN only 15 minutes after the scheduled arrival.
Hey – great show you guys are doing.
But in Minty McMintface you covered only half the story.
Clearly a reference to BoatyMcBoatface.
That was the name the British public voted for as the number one name in a naming competition for a state of the art 200m polar research vessel. Very British humour back in 2016.
To note – the Uk government gave it the final name and overruled the public, naming it Sir David Attenborough (a popular and iconic nature presenter on television). but at least they conceded the name to an Autonomic Underwater Vehicle.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
Not that I am more a ship-enthusiast than an aviation geek, but it was one of my first do tact with proper British humour when moving to the UK.
Keep up the great work.