Episode 292 - More Travel Records!

Photo credit - Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Aired on June 30, 2025

Despite warnings of a travel slowdown, we exceeded 3 million passengers on June 22nd per the TSA.  Drew is back from Dayton and facilitating EMAS repairs in hot and muggy DC (we’ll explain). Doug was relieved to be dismissed from jury duty. We discuss:

• Dayton Air Show

• EMAS - Engineered Materials Arresting System - what is it and does it work?

• Update on single pilot ops

• Update on Air India 171

• NTSB issues initial report on the MAX door plug issue

• Summer travel numbers

• Airspace closures

• Contributor comments

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Dayton Air Show:

Doug’s AI image of Bob Ross drawing a gay bar at Chicago O’Hare. 😂