Hello and welcome to episode 260 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenick here as always with

Jason Rabinowitz. Hello Ian, how are you? Hello Jason, I'm well sir. How are you? Welcome, I believe you're in the Dulles area today?

Yes, unfortunately, I have transitioned directly from vacation in in Vancouver changed planes in Newark.

The first time I've ever changed planes in a New York airport actually and then went straight to

Dallas for three days of meetings.

So pretty dramatic falaf and grace there.

But you made it back which was not without some uncertainty.

Yeah so I flew out to Vancouver from Newark last week on Air Canada, a 787-9.

Thankfully it wasn't during most of the scheduled time where the flights operated by 7-3 max that I much prefer

obviously the wide-body experience was much better. Great pair of flights on Air Canada

and then on the way down back I had scheduled a three something hour

layover at Newark connecting on a separate ticket down to here at Dulles,

since that's where my office is.

If I got three hours, that's plenty of time,

no big deal, and I was right.

And unfortunately, three hours turned into something like eight hours but I was

thankfully able to avoid that due to the creative skills of one of the United's

gate agents at Newark and was able to get to my ultimate destination

more than an hour ahead of my originally intended schedule, which is much better that instead

of arriving here at 12.30 a.m. the following day.

Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you made it.

I'm honestly surprised that the original flight actually operated.

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