The Next Trip - An Aviation and Travel Podcast

Updated: 01 Sep 2025 • 305 episodes
www.nexttripnetwork.com

The Next Trip is a weekly, internationally acclaimed 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

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Send us a text Happy Labor Day to all the aviation workers for getting where we need to be, safely, this summer. Doug and Drew talk about their aviation work weeks including Doug’s trip to Tokyo and Drew going back to airport ops midnight shift.  We discuss:Aviation job opportunitiesKorean Air orders 103 Boeing planesF

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Send us a text Doug and Drew talk about their exciting (not by choice) flights home on standby during a busy week. Drew also does his airfield runway inspections solo and is free to roam about the airport. Doug is back from his old love-hate work destination - London. We discuss:Celebrating our 300th episode!Passengers

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Send us a text Doug and Drew are doing their final summer nonrev trips which promise to be exciting - not in a good way. We discuss:Who is Chester, the eskimo on the Alaska tails?Is Atmos the name of Alaska/Hawaiian’s new frequent flier program? Is it the name of a combined airline (Drew, calm down) Hawaiian cancels th

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Send us a text Drew responds to a bird strike and gets to learn more about snarge - it ain’t pretty. Doug is living a nonrev drama trying to get his family home from Denver. Both of us live vicariously through Drew’s husband Robbie who is flying to Turkey. We discuss:How are the travel numbers looking so far this summe

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Send us a text Doug is with family in Colorado after just making it there and Drew is having to change from airline radio lingo to airport lingo. Its, “roger”… copy? We condense days of NTSB hearings on the DCA crash into 3 main takeaways. Also on this episode:So long SeatGuru!Blue Sky gets the Green LightAmerican Airl

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Send us a text Drew is back from tubing, hiking, and a road trip between Denver and Montana and Doug is back from his new commuter station - Barcelona. We discuss:European LCCsUpdate on the JejuAir crashSouthwest sets a date for its major changesAmerican’s Q2 resultsMajor airspace closuresListener feedback  Join the co

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