AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

From people who live and breath the nuts and bolts of running an airline to journalists covering the business of aviation, our conversations took us all over the world and down more than one rabbit hole. To close out the year, we revisit some of our favorite AvTalk conversations from 2022. Flying Zero G Novespace […] The post AvTalk Episode 196: Our favorite conversations from 2022 appeared first on Flightradar24 Blog.

On this special episode of AvTalk, we’ve reproduced the audio from our video live stream episode about Southwest Airlines’ cancellations and operational meltdown that began with massive storms across the United States on 22 December and morphed into a IT infrastructure nightmare for the airline and its passengers. You can replay the video live stream […] The post AvTalk Special Episode: Southwest Airlines’ Operational Meltdown appeared first on Flightradar24 Blog.

On this episode of AvTalk, Boeing ends the year on a high note with a Congressional reprieve for the 737-7 and 737-10 certification, the return of the 777X to flight tests, and the final first flight of the mighty 747. Christmas comes early for Boeing Congress included the Cantwell amendment in the Omnibus spending bill, […] The post AvTalk Episode 195: Boeing gets an early Christmas gift appeared first on Flightradar24 Blog.

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, United orders every Boeing plane they can get their hands on, Boom announces a trio of companies it says will help build an engine for its Overture supersonic jet, and we speak with Jim Fawcett, lead Flight Test Engineer at Airbus about the 13 hour A321XLR test flight earlier […] The post AvTalk Episode 194: What do you do on a 13 hour test flight? appeared first on Flightradar24 Blog.

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, the final Boeing 747 rolls out of the factory, Airbus didn’t deliver nearly as many planes this year as they thought they would, and Gabriel Leigh talks to Air Greenland CEO Jacob Nitter as the airline takes its first (and only) A330-800neo. The final 747 leaves the factory With […] The post AvTalk Episode 193: The final 747 leaves the factory appeared first on Flightradar24 Blog.

On this episode of AvTalk, an aircraft catches the wire—and we’re not talking about aircraft carriers. Plus, Airbus details its plans for the future at its Summit in Toulouse, GE Aviation is trying to figure out what’s wrong with the GE9X engine, and Senator Maria Cantwell may just have a way forward for Boeing. Catching […] The post AvTalk Episode 192: He fought the wire and the wire won appeared first on Flightradar24 Blog.

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we discuss the tragic collision between a LATAM A320neo and an airport fire fighting rig in Lima and what we know so far about why they fire truck was on the runway. We also have a our first listener contestants, Ciara and Ganning, play the AvTalk trivia game. LATAM […] The post AvTalk Episode 191: What happened in Lima? appeared first on Flightradar24 Blog.

On this episode of AvTalk, we have a lot of news to catch up on after last week’s episode solely focused on Boeing’s future. And Ian and Jason preview an avgeek trivia game that you can play on the show! If you’d like to play on next week’s show, send us an email. P-63 King […] The post AvTalk Episode 190: Would you like to play a game? appeared first on Flightradar24 Blog.

On this episode of AvTalk, we’re joined by The Air Current’s editor-in-chief Jon Ostrower to parse the news from Boeing’s first investor day in four years last week. We cover CEO Dave Calhoun’s comments that Boeing will not begin building a new airplane until at least the next decade and the status of Boeing’s current […] The post AvTalk Episode 189: Looking into Boeing’s Future appeared first on Flightradar24 Blog.

On this episode of AvTalk, Ian is harassed by a mystery drone, Cathay Pacific resumes flying over Russia, and pilot Mark Vanhoenacker joins us to discuss his new book, Imagine a City. Ian gets harassed by a mystery drone While grocery shopping, Ian gets harassed by a DJI Mavic 3. Boeing hosts its first investor […] The post AvTalk Episode 188: Harassed by a Drone appeared first on Flightradar24 Blog.