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Drew is back from 3 days in Dublin and Doug is back from Osaka. Drew just had his first airport winter ops event. We discuss:

• Our travels
• Early season snow
• Thanksgiving travel numbers and 2026 travel trends
• Unexpected growth at a major airport
• Impact of the government shutdown comes into focus
• The FAA is investigating airlines after the shutdown
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Doug tapes during another trip to Taipei and Drew finishes his airport scavenger hunt. We discuss:

• Orders pour in from Dubai
• Airbus teases a new model
• An Alaska pilot is sentenced from his 2023 fire handle incident
• Update on UPS 2976
• Aircraft lights
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Doug is back from London and Drew lost a fight with a windsock. We discuss our weeks in flight and airport ops as well as the latest aviation news:

• Aurora Borealis wows pilots and passengers
• Government shutdown ends and aviation recovers
• 2 airlines serving the UK, Eastern Airways and Blue Islands, shut down
• FAA extends MD11 grounding to its predecessor, the DC10
• Windsocks - what are they and what do they do
• Near miss at LAX
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Doug is back from Taipei and Drew has a busy week at airport ops. We discuss:

• More nonrev adventures
• Thanksgiving travel numbers and a way too early weather forecast
• More government shutdown issues impacting aviation
• Security scare in DC
• UPS Flight 2976
• Engine failures

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• Doug’s Taipei whisky tasting place: Style Liquor and Whisky
• FAA MD11 Emergency Airworthiness Directive

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Doug is back from a whirlwind nonrev trip to Germany with his dad. We remember the history of Hawaiian Airlines as its airline code and operating certificate are laid to rest. We discuss:

• Doug and Dale’s amazing, and fast, nonrev adventure
• Good bye Hawaiian Airlines
• Creeping 777-9 certification delays
• ATC controllers not getting paid as shutdown drags on
• The COMAC 919 gains traction in Asia
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Drew is back from a weekend in Quebec City and Doug is preparing for a nonrev adventure with his dad. We discuss:

• Birds on approach path
• Travelers Aid people are interesting
• Engine shortages
• EK9788 - ACT Airlines 747-400BCF crash in Hong Kong
• American Airlines 3rd quarter numbers
• United flight 1093 severely damaged at 36,000ft
• What are weather balloons?
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