Episode 19 - Fees, Oil, and Stocks with Dan Webb [54:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (788)

Max and Court welcome back Dan Webb from the Things in The Sky Blog.  The topic of discussion is the airlines, and there’s no shortage of news after last week:

AOPA Interviews the Candidates on GA

New Japanese airport will be cooled with snow

Boeing Strike May Be Good News for Airlines

American Airlines orders up to 100 Boeing 787 jets

Airbus forecast sends EADS shares plunging

Airline shares jump on recent oil price decline

Southwest Has First Loss in 17 Years

Max has a “special” pick this week.  You can visit it at Air$&#*.com

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 Episode 17 - An In Depth Look at VLJ's [55:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1105)

It’s all VLJ’s this week as Max and Court welcome Shane Price from the Eclipse Aviation Critic NG Blog. Shane shares his expertice with the VLJ industry in some interesting conversations about the new industry.

Southwest to challenge Northwest with Midway flights to Minneapolis (Chicago Tribune)

JetBlue’s eBay auction scores a big hit with buyers (ATW)

TSA Likely to Relax Restrictions on Liquids in 2009 (Wall Street Journal)

The World’s Greatest Aviation Innovations (Wired)

Eclipse Aviation Meets Congress (AIN Online)

Eclipse Will Make Its Small Jets in Russia (New York Times)

Market, Aircraft Issues Sealed DayJet Fate (Aviation Week)

Pick of the week:

Sky-Lens.com is by French aviation writer and photographer François Brévot and has some very impressive photography of air shows and other events.:

Sky-Lens.com

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We’ll be bringing you these show notes, as well as some of the week’s news we didn’t have time to cover.
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You’ll be able to hear excerpts of The Airplane Geeks weekly.

Brother Love is responsible for this episode’s opening and closing
music, and you can visit his site at brotherloverocks.com.

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can send it to thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com.

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 Episode 6 - Oil Speculating with Dan Webb [50:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (398)

This week, Max and Court Welcome Dan Webb from http://www.danwebb.us.

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 Episode 5 - Cranky Flyin' [59:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (355)

This week, Max and Court welcome Brett Snyder of the Cranky Flier blog.  Brett brings his insight to the industry, and discusses Allegiant and Frontier in detail.  If you’d like to fast forward to Brett’s interview, it begins at 15:30.

Several topics are discussed in the news section including:

• Re-regulation gets a push
• Jet fuel dumped over Lake Michigan likely will degrade within a week, experts say
• Continental ordered to trial in Concorde explosion
• Pentagon to outline new tanker strategy ‘very soon’

Max’s pic of the week:

http://www.solidworkspilot.com/
Paper Pilot: Battle of the air
This is just about the coolest paper airplane page you’ll find.  A true time sink for airplane geeks.

The intro music is once again produced by Bruno Misonne.  Check out Bruno’s aviation music at http://www.brunomisonne.com.

A special thanks to Chris and Jorge for their engaging emails about the Air Force tanker situation and the future of pilot hiring.  If you have a question or a comment for the Airplane Geeks, you can send it to thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com.

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 Episode 4 - News Extravaganza! [34:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (251)

We had quite a difficult go of the AirplaneGeeks podcast for episode 4.  From failed hard drives, to guest cancellations, we did what we could to pull together an industry podcast for you.  Unfortunately, there are some serious sound quality problems that we’ve tried desperately to rectify.  So, if you make it to Episode 5, we consider you a true fan!

This week, Max and Court focus on news.

• United to Eliminate 950 Pilot Jobs
• American Airlines Details Flight Cutbacks
• Denver wins big in Southwest Airlines’ schedule changes
• EU strikes deal to cap airline emissions
• Abandoned change adds up for TSA
• Mother and Autistic Child Kicked Off Airplane Flight
• High Flyers and Soaring Inequality

Max’s pick of the week can be found at http://www.techinflight.com.  Please visit their site and tell them The Airplane Geeks sent you.

The winner from last week’s trivia  is Leslie from Michigan.  Don’t miss this week’s trivia question.

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