AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
An aviation podcast by aviation geeks for anyone who looks up when they hear an airplane fly overhead. Listen in as Ian Petchenik and Jason Rabinowitz bring you aviation news, views, and special guests every Friday. If you're a new avgeek or just can't get enough aviation in your life, get your avgeek fix with us.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 309
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
AvTalk Episode 335: the Plovdiv mystery
On this week’s AvTalk, we discuss European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s flight to Plovdiv—from initial breathless reports talking of circling for hours, using paper maps to land and “p…
AvTalk Episode 334: They got Nuuk’d
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Nuuk, Greenland cancels international flights after security screeners need additional training. Korean Air signals its intent to purchase more than 100 Boeing aircr…
AvTalk Episode 333: Whinging about windowless window seats
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, United and Delta Air Lines face lawsuits for charging extra for window seats without a window. Serbian investigators reveal the extent of damages to a Marathon Airli…
AvTalk Episode 332: “Ongoing concern” concerns
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Spirit Airlines’ second quarter earnings report raises “ongoing concern” concerns and paints a bleak portrait of the airline’s future. A French notification about a …
AvTalk Episode 331: Stuck on the plane for 28 hours
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, what we learned from days two and three of the NTSB’s hearings on the midair collision at DCA. A Delta A330neo experiences severe turbulence, Boeing adds a new 777-9…
AvTalk Episode 330: Acceptable deviation?
On this episode of AvTalk, what we learned from the first of three days of investigative hearings by the NTSB into January’s crash at DCA. Russian investigators peel the layers of problems that led t…
AvTalk Episode 329: Planes where they shouldn’t be
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Ian returns from Europe and Jason returns from sitting and staring at the wall for a brand new episode. We discuss the conversation around the Air India flight 171 p…
AvTalk Episode 328: Lock the cat in the lav
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Indian investigators narrow the focus of their investigation on the crashed 787’s fuel cut off switches. Lufthansa has quite the week with a damaged A340 in need of …
AvTalk Episode 327: Overrun by squirrels
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Indian investigators have downloaded the data from AI171’s recorders. Chinese authorities decline to release a report on China Southern flight 5735, citing threats t…
AvTalk Episode 326: Diversions and diversion tactics
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we discuss all that has happened in Middle East airspace over the past week—from the US attack on Iranian nuclear facilities and elaborate diversion flights to the I…
AvTalk Episode 325: The crash of Air India flight 171
AvTalk Episode 324: Five flights to nowhere
AvTalk Episode 323: Raccoons on a plane
AvTalk Episode 322: They bounced the wheel right off
AvTalk Episode 321: Global gets off the ground
AvTalk Episode 320: About that Qatari 747
AvTalk Episode 319: What’s old is Newark again
AvTalk Episode 318: “All the brain damage of buying a whole airline”
AvTalk Episode 317: The (Q1) results are in
If all of the first quarter earnings reports could be summed up in a single headline, it would …