Another episode around the world, LAX, KEF, AKL, BNE, AUH, DOH, LHR, IST, PDX featuring the consummate aviation professional, and ever-friendly, Hakan, with everything you ever wanted to know about flight planning, the secret of Heathrow Terminal 1 (why it’s still standing), and more.
Show Notes
What’s next for the aviation industry?
The post-pandemic rejigging of air travel with less business travel, and more leisure travelers in the front (who want, like most of you, to experience the full array of premium travel), more often off-season.
Will fares keep increasing (it’s the economy, stupid!), the unstoppable rise of ancillary revenues (gotta keep those nice margins), and were airlines underpricing their miles up to the pandemic (Emirates believes so)?
Where is the next aircraft, it seems neither Boeing nor Airbus has anything on the drawing board (the great Embraer might not dent the market, Comac on the other hand?), and Airbus softening’s stance on the future of the 380 (the Emirates pressure could be working).
What about single pilot aircrafts (touchy subject!).
Greener tech for greener aircraft, and the question of incentives versus punishment (do you know where the term carbon footprint come from?) — and more from the great Hakan Yilmaz (Paul, meanwhile, just spends his time quoting Tim Clark).
Everything you wanted to know about the intricacies of flight planning (choose your wind provider right!).
Did you know what purpose does the seemingly abandoned T1 LHR serve? (the guys at the new IST could really teach a thing or two to Heathrow…).
BA Fly no more (well, you’ll see), and European Single Sky not yet (or ever?!).
Flying down under to Brisbane and Auckland, and an Air New Zealand who punches above its weight.
And we should really do an episode about the best business seats for tall people (the “old” Turkish one is fabulous for that, we both agree).
Oh, and what’s your favorite aerobatic display team? (A loaded question, Paul goes for the lunatics).
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