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On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Ian and Jason return from their respective travels to survey this week’s news. We return to India where IndiGo’s meltdown last week left the government none-too-pleased with the airline. In the US, Peraton gets the nod as the FAA’s prime integrator for ATC modernization. Boeing completes its acquisition of Spirit Aerosystems (with Airbus picking up some pieces too).
A quickly fixed typo in a Qantas computer started a chain of events that resulted in a 737 taking off thinking it was much lighter than it actually was. And Air India is on the hook for more than $100,000 after discovering they own a 737-200 freighter that had been collecting dust in Kolkata for more than a decade.
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Air India paged me to the gate in Calcutta in January 2023 because I had inadvertently packed my laptop in checked luggage. When I fessed up to the breach, they led me down into the baggage-handling bowels of the airport to retrieve my computer and take it with me in the cabin. I was never so deep behind the scenes at an airport before or since.
Not surprised. India is in such disarray internally and externally.