Flight 044. Want to look like a fool in airports? Play Pokemon Go or ride a motorized carry-on. Asia on top, the US way behind: the Skytrax world’s best airlines and world’s best airports awards tell no surprise. It’s finally game over for the US4 against the ME3. Alex eats like a king and sleeps like a baby in his premium journey to Shanghai with Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon. Paul tests the sole European short haul lie-flat seat in the ex-BMI A321 and flies a brand new 777-300ER for 22 minutes. Drones will offer faster turnarounds for Airbus aircrafts, and last mile deliveries for Amazon UK.
Show Notes
Pokemon Go makes you do stupid things
Carry-on might make you look like an idiot
A beautiful AV Geek engagement
Lufthansa sells seats on AirBnB
Mitsubishi also wants to enter Iran
Air Astana wants the Embraer E2
Farnborough 2016
The end of the 747?
Alex flies Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon
Singapore Airlines in rough air
Air France sees more strikes
Unlimited flights Paris/London – NY
Game over for the US4 griefs (finally!)
The SkyTrax awards
Lots of words, almost no action for London airports
Drones
The photo app for BA pilots
Paul experiences lie-flat seats in short haul flights
Review your flights on Tripadvisor
The search for MH370 os almost over
The FlyDubai leaks
Solar Impulse ends its round the world jounrey
PVG
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Creators and Guests
Host
Alex Hunter
Co-host of Layovers, Creator of Attache Travel
Host
Paul Papadimitriou
Creator and host of Layovers
What is Layovers – Air Travel podcast?
The Air Travel podcast — created by Paul Papadimitriou, hosted with Alex Hunter & Vinod Viswalingam — #1 in 50+ countries — listen everywhere, watch on Spotify and YouTube.
