Podcast – Dots, Lines & Destinations

Refreshing cabins is a nice touch, but why does it take so long?? Also, how long will it take Southwest to pay out all the comp it owes.

Diversions galore, and a meltdown, too. It was a rough end for many in 2022, but 2023 is starting strong.

Nothing but the best for our listeners as we wrap up the 2022 season.

Just a couple hundred (more) new planes coming to United through the end of the decade. Nothing to get excited about here.

Singapore Airlines is out spending cash like it is 2019 again, so that seems to be good news for other airlines.

Long flights, jet lag, and do pilots need to sleep on a trip, too?

How many million milers is too many? Plus a crazy crash and new transatlantic routes on the horizon.

Maybe we're supposed to say something in advance when the publishing schedule changes. Oopsie.

The semi-annual IATA seasonal schedule change happened last weekend, and it brings some fun and interesting new routes and slot opportunities to the industry.

What happens when you dupe consumers for decades with the confusing names between classes of service then make a change to a tiny part of the fleet? Fun times, indeed.

New cabins, new partners, and new fuels are just a few of the major investments airlines announced that we're talking about in this week's episode.

Halfway through a long trip and still suffering from jetlag, but there's news to consider and punditry to ponder, so here we go…

It was supposed to be a quick weekend getaway for the crew. That didn’t work out so well. Also in this episode: Virgin Atlantic joins SkyTeam Eurostar’s Brexit capacity cuts Cleveland gets its European nonstop...

We considered just having this episode go missing, an homage to the HTTP 404 status code. But there's too much interesting stuff to cover instead.

Catching up on some reader mail, and also on big changes coming in airports served, meals on board, and vaguely boring partnerships.

Can Russia produce more than 300 commercial aircraft by the end of the decade to backfill the Boeing and Airbus frames that will be inoperable by then? And would you fly on one if they do??

Summer is ending, but travel continues. And optimism remains strong, at least in some segments of the industry.

Another airline disappears, but we're still here. You can decide if that's a good trade or not.

So much news from American we might have to rebrand the show. But lots of other goodies, too.

Scavenging for spare parts, profitable routes, or just good travel ideas? We've got it all in this week's show.

Airlines raked in revenue in Q2, but not all of them reported a profit. And that raises a lot of bigger picture questions.

More leisure travelers than expected, plus some gardening tips. Oh, and lots of airline news, too.

Despite being one of the slowest major air shows for new order announcements in years, Farnborough 2022 offered plenty of news.

We haven't had much to say about travel to Asia in recent months. That changes this week, as we're joined by Michael Traeger from TravelZork to share some thoughts. A lot of thoughts, really.