DLD 493: Is your crowd on strike?

What a mess for airlines and more as millions of Windows-based computers were knocked offline last Thursday night. The recovery was still ongoing as the week rolled on.

Also in this episode:

• XLR Certified by EASA
• Farnborough
  
  
  
  • Pretty good Boom article from Flight Global
  • Some eVTOL plans
  • Boeing still hoping to get back to 38 MAX/month by EOY
  
  
  
  
• China-UK
  
  
  
  • Virgin Atlantic bails on Shanghai
  • BA down to just one 787 for HKG
  • Mainland carriers backfilling massively
  
  
  
  
• Alaska Airlines retrofitting interiors
• CLD getting American flights (On the E75, not a CR7/9 like Seth said in the show)
• TA for AA FAs
• Quick DCA slots update
• First DL/SkyWest CRJ-550 is out of paint

For our Patreon subscribers we have bonus content, including:

• Greenland flightseeing
• Vance’s charter got the TFR wrong
• Euro football canceled trains
• WN @ TPA
• Fiji Air to DFW