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TBD | Why Flying Is So Bad Now

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

U.S. air travel is being strained on all sides—travel demand is back to 2019 levels, but the number of pilots and planes and ground crew hasn’t caught back up, and a rash of close calls are raising safety concerns about America’s aging flying infrastructure. Guest: Jon Ostrower, editor in chief of The Air Current. Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there TBD listeners!

0:03.1

Before we start the show, I want to let you know about a story coming up a little later.

0:07.1

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0:10.6

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0:15.7

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0:18.4

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0:23.1

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0:24.1

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0:26.9

Talk about living more sustainably.

0:29.2

And stick around to hear from people who love their EVs.

0:36.2

Hey everyone, just a quick warning here.

0:43.0

You're going to hear an air traffic controller swear.

0:45.5

Okay, here's the show.

0:47.5

On the evening of January 13th, JFK airport in New York was operating normally.

1:07.8

The tower controllers gave various flights their instructions.

1:10.6

Here's what the winds like, go to this runway, get ready for takeoff.

1:15.3

And a Delta flight, flight 1943, bound for the Dominican Republic, was getting ready

1:20.2

to take off on runway 4 left.

1:23.2

But then, something very out of the ordinary happened, causing the controller to swear.

1:38.7

He's telling the Delta plane to abort takeoff because another plane, an American Airlines

1:43.3

jet headed for London, had mistakenly crossed the wrong runway, putting it right in front

1:49.2

of the Delta plane.

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