The Next Trip - An Aviation and Travel Podcast

Updated: 04 Nov 2024 • 262 episodes
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The Next Trip is a weekly podcast with aviation insiders Doug and Drew, who together bring more than 40 years of industry experience as a professional pilot and a hub operations manager at a major airline. Join them, and their frequent guests, as they create a network for other AvGeeks and travel enthusiasts to obsess about all things aviation. Doug and Drew discuss today’s aviation news, share personal operational stories, regale listeners with trip reviews, and engage in friendly AvGeek banter. All thoughts and opinions are their own.Visit us at www.nexttripnetwork.com or follow us on Twitter at @nexttrippodcast

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Drew is back from a winter ops summit and Doug’s body clock is all over the map after a multi-day domestic trip. We discuss: An airline starts bouncing boarding line-cutters. European airlines see softening load factors and Spirit continues layoffs. Airbus delivers the first A321XLR to Iberia. TFRs - temporary flight r

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Our buddy and 2nd time guest, Stephen,  joins us to talk about going from cargo to passenger flying. We had to have him on atfer a hotline message last week where he wanted to strangle us about our pronunciation of new airline destinations. Stephen stays to discuss: Indian carriers are menaced by multiple bomb threats.

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Doug and Drew have an impromptu avgeek meetup in DC, Doug packs sweaters and hula shirts for this trip, and Drew welcomes pandas back to DC.  In this episode we discuss:  Panda Diplomacy. The recipe for frost . Marburg Virus and aviation. Delta and United 3rd Quarter Results. Boeing raising cash while troubles arise at

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Doug is back from Barcelona and Drew just did his 2nd Cessna 172 solo. Drew gets a visit from a group of airline mileage members and was asked “what do you do when a plane crashes?”. We discuss:  Exotic routes announced for next summer. Captain on a Turkish Airlines flight from Seattle to Istanbul dies inflight. The Bo

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Drew celebrates 25 years at the company and gets a visit from world traveler and frequent guest, Ian. Doug takes the jumpseat on a personal trip home and feels like he’s at work. We discuss: Mark Cuban asks for lifetime travel. Israel’s ground offensive in Lebanon causes more flight disruptions. Spirit fights to stay o

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Doug has an emotional send off to the last KC10 in service. We remember the KC10 and its predecessor, the DC10, with stories about our most memorable flights. Doug also talks about his trip to NYC, cough, Newark, and Drew recaps his Winter Kickoff meeting and short(er) field landings on the Cessna 172.  We also discuss

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