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
The Next Trip - An Aviation and Travel Podcast
Boarding Pass 234: Embraer Superiority
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Doug and Drew
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Episode 234
Drew got some good Cessna 172 training in with his first landing at an airport which wasn’t the one he took off from. Martin State Airport to Easton, MD was the route which was short but only 15 miles shy of a “cross country” training flight. Doug is home this week and has been dance dad (vs. soccer mom) . We discuss:
Do customers like preordering meals?
Customers and airlines love the Embraer E jets. We discuss why.
The Embraer E190 and E195 gain ETOPs 120 certification which may open up transatlantic flights.
Could a stretched A220, the A220-500,, mean the end of the A319 and 737-700?
What constitutes a general aviation cross country training flight?
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