Podcast – Dots, Lines & Destinations

Scavenging for spare parts, profitable routes, or just good travel ideas? We've got it all in this week's show.

Airlines raked in revenue in Q2, but not all of them reported a profit. And that raises a lot of bigger picture questions.

More leisure travelers than expected, plus some gardening tips. Oh, and lots of airline news, too.

Despite being one of the slowest major air shows for new order announcements in years, Farnborough 2022 offered plenty of news.

We haven't had much to say about travel to Asia in recent months. That changes this week, as we're joined by Michael Traeger from TravelZork to share some thoughts. A lot of thoughts, really.

As if airport crowds and luggage SNAFUs aren't enough, summer heat waves are adding to the challenges in travel.

Great news: The holiday weekend wasn't a total meltdown, despite warnings from airlines.

Summer travel is definitely here. Good luck with that.

Trade shows are back, and so are we. Greetings from Hamburg and the 2022 edition of the Aircraft Interiors Expo.

Change happens. But it gets way worse if the airline forgets to tell you.

Day two of a trip to Europe always brings along some jet lag challenges. But we're trying our best.

Some terribly dorky jokes get us started this week, but eventually we manage to transition to terribly dorky conversations about airplanes, so that's mostly a win.

Sure, the conversations were great, but our plans for birthday festivities came up short.

Mergers generally reduce competition. Upstarts increase it. And somewhere in the middle, we like to talk about all of options.

Flight status. Travel history. Connection updates. And lots more. That's the promise from Flighty, and we've got founder Ryan Jones on this week's show to talk about it.

Hard to believe we're still saying this, but please stop being an asshole on airplanes. Or anywhere else, really. But definitely not on airplanes.

The lack of appeal, perhaps, is the most interesting part. But the CDC mask mandate for travel is gone, thanks to a court ruling in Florida.

Who is to blame? And does it matter when you finally admit that? Plenty of challenges in the industry these days and more flight cancellations are coming.