The Next Trip - An Aviation and Travel Podcast
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
Show episodes
Doug is back from Paris after a triangle routing of SFO-EWR-CDG-SFO. He basically has no idea which time zone his body clock is in! He talks about the Olympic buzz already being felt around the city. We discuss: Paris airports prepare for the Summer Olympics. Dutch startup Elysian working on what could be the first ele
Drew is back from an airport ops summer planning session in Chicago and Doug visited Amsterdam (not just the airport) for the first time. Drew also had a visit from, Aaron, our favorite podcast critic. We discuss: Boeing 767 slide falls near house of lawyer suing Boeing for a plug door falling out. Turkish orders up to
Doug is back from Raleigh Durham after flight simulator training on the KC46 and Drew is getting better at landings on a Cessna 172. We discuss:Lara from Non Rev Lounge Podcast visits DC.Will Gen Z, the Toolbelt Generation, fill aviation"s need for skilled technicians?Southwest cuts service and expects to lose 2,000 em
Would you pay 30,000 miles for a flight to a mystery destination? We would, and so did several lucky passengers who got to fly on SAS to Athens. We discuss this and: Delta and United report 1st quarter performance. Southwest and United reduce schedule due to Boeing 737 delivery delays. Floods in Dubai shut down the air
Science journalist, Jeff Wise, joins us to share his views on how Boeing lost its way after it acquired McDonnell Douglas. We also look back at one of aviation"s biggest unsolved mysteries - the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 just over 10 years ago. Check out Jeff’s recent article on Boeing and his intrigui
Drew is back from Hong Kong and Doug is about to do domestic legs from Chicago, to Denver, and then to Maui. How does he pack for this? We discuss: US adds 303,000 jobs, more than forecast, promising a strong summer travel season. Doug and Drew love to name lounges according to their themes. Is the “Captain Cook “ lou