Our friend Hakan, aka LAFlyr, is opening 2023 with us — from going early at the airport as a kid to see the planes, to, err, going early to the airport as an adult to see the planes (but he works in aviation as an adult!). He’s got tons of avgeek stories, and thoughts.
Show Notes
Friend of the show, and very long time listener (since episode 1!), Hakan Yılmaz, aka @LAFlyr on Twitter, grew up wanting to go early at the airport to see the planes, and collect avgeek paraphernalia, and never stopped being a kid, by still going early to the airport to see the planes, and a career that led him to American Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Atlas, etc., with millions of miles under his belt, and tons of stories to share — from the admirable rise of Turkish Airlines (fascinating SAS story on the invention of the hub and spoke model), to the celebrity stories at Virgin (do you carry money when traveling but nothing else? Or lots of LV luggage instead? Reach out to us!), from over-complicating airline operations (which airline is it, do you reckon?) to the uncomplicated life as loyalty programs free agents (the three of us are becoming so, though it’s a mental fight to let go), we geek out and rant and laugh, we get the in and outs of LAX (that’s Hakan’s pun), and thank you all for still listening to us in 2023.
Follow Hakan on Twitter: @LAFlyr
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