AvTalk Episode 291: They strike on

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Boeing announces a $6 billion third quarter loss, while the company’s striking machinists reject the latest contract offer, sending negotiators back to work. A close call in Austin as TCAS comes to the rescue, while Indian airlines deal with a spate of hoax bomb threats. Frontier and Spirit could revive merger talks and it was a terrible week to taxi an aircraft at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* Boeing’s third quarter earnings
* Boeing CEO statement on third quarter earnings
* TCAS saves the day in Austin
* Indian airlines facing hoax bomb threats
* ULD container wedged in Japan Airlines 747, 2009
* FAA “powered lift” final rule and Medium post
* Final Qantas 717 flight
* Final CSA Czech Airlines flight

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 291 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenik here as always with...
0:16.0	Jason Urbinoitz. Hello, Ian.
0:18.0	What's up?
0:19.0	Hello, Jason. Where are you joining us from today?
0:20.0	I am unexpectedly in Istanbul at the moment. As one often does, you know, the
0:27.3	unexpected arrival in Istanbul. Of course, the unexpected trip that I did not know I was
0:32.2	taking until about two days before I left on business travel,
0:35.4	but it was my first time flying Turkish Airlines, first time to Turkey or Istanbul as a whole, actually. So I'm actually happy to be on business travel for a change.
0:45.7	There you go. Well I know the backstory to all of the
0:49.8	shenanigans that went on to get you on to that flight and make everything work.
0:54.4	So I'm glad it all worked out.
0:55.8	I'm glad you made it.
0:57.1	And I hope you're having a nice time.
0:59.2	And because of Jason's presence in Istanbul, we're recording before the largest story of the day
1:07.2	breaks in a couple hours.
1:09.5	So it's Wednesday.
1:10.5	Yeah, but yeah.
1:11.5	We're about it anyway. So we're going to record and put in the podcast to brief stories and one of them will be correct.
1:20.3	So it's Wednesday, October 23rd at just a little past 8 in the morning here in Chicago, just a little past 4 in the afternoon in Istanbul, and that means that Boeing machinists are currently voting to either accept or reject the latest proposed
1:35.1	contract offer from Boeing. Boeing raised the base pay rate for the
1:42.1	currently striking machinists to a 35% raise over the four-year life with a contract.
1:47.3	The union leadership felt that this latest offer, which was not the last, best, and final offer issued on the 25th of September, so almost a month ago.
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