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Welcome to our ”easy-listening” podcast introducing the exciting variety of commercial aviation!
Tailored for budding aviation enthusiasts, young aviation professionals, students thinking about aviation careers, and of course the long-time AvGeek too!
Tailored for budding aviation enthusiasts, young aviation professionals, students thinking about aviation careers, and of course the long-time AvGeek too!
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We welcome back two special guests, Courtney Miller and Brian Rynott, for this episode to close out 2024 and kick off 2025 with their perspectives.
Also, we open our trivia round to a round robin, with Courtney, Brian, Ashwin and Peeter each asking the group a trivia question. We all learned something new, and hope you do too!
How does one get into reporting on aviation, and what does it entail?
Brian Sumers, editor of "The Airline Observer" and co-host of "The Airshow" podcast, shares his fascinating and unique path with us!
We welcome Captain Matthew Fischbacher, an airline pilot with over 20 years of flight experience, who shares insights from his career flying in various parts of the world as well as details about sustainable aviation from a flight operations perspective.
We cover a variety of airport topics with Craig Simon, Director of Aviation, at California's Oakland airport.
From infrastructure, to air service, and airline relations, Craig gives great insight into all it takes to be a Director of Aviation. Craig is also a wealth of knowledge about Oakland airport and shares some very interesting facts about the airport on the bay.
Given the extensive background of our guest, Lee Brewster, we are able to pack a lot of fascinating topics into this episode!
From maintenance training, to aircraft brokering, and the International Aviation Women's Association (IAWA), listen in to hear about Lee's vast experience and learn about her unique aviation career path.
In our first "pilot" episode we are very lucky to welcome Captain Jeff Whiteman, Chief Pilot for UPS!
Hear all about UPS flight operations, the role of the Chief Pilot, as well as the many other roles that help keep UPS flying smoothly.
Captain Whiteman also gave us some fun UPS trivia along the way, so be sure to listen in!
Happy to have Andy Balser, from Air Partner, joining us to share the intricacies of private aviation customer service and customer experience. What are the differences and how are both manifested in aviation?
Andy offers a number of interesting personal examples and insights from his extensive experience on the topic, so enjoy!
What is a relatively affordable way to take advantage of private aviation in Europe? Consider an air taxi!
We speak with Stefaan Ghijs, Founder & CEO of Fly Aeolus, to tell us how his air taxi business model has taken shape and grown.
What role does an airport take in attracting new airline service?
We welcome Nate Lavin, Air Service and Business Development Manager at Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC / KSLC) to share more about how SLC has done it, while also transitioning from a historically majority connecting airport to one now with more origin & destination traffic.
We welcome Brian Rynott to the podcast to hear about his broad and unique aviation career, including a deeper dive into Altavair where he is currently Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Americas.
Brian is arguably one of the industry's most respected AvGeeks, so we had to up the ante on his trivia lineup. Listen in to hear how he performed under the pressure (no L1011 misses in this episode).
Get the inside scoop on Routes, an amazing forum and network that airlines and airports around the world use to plan prospective new air service.
We welcome Deanna Dow, Director of Airline Partnerships at Informa Markets, to explain more about Routes and the critical role its forums and offerings play in fostering new air service.
We welcome Harrison Wolf to the podcast as we take a slight tangent into the world of drones and Harrison's role at the Flight Safety Foundation.
Aviation touches so many facets, and we were excited to hear a bit more about this fascinating and growing segment.
What role can aviation play as a personal or corporate investment? We speak with Shelley Svoren, of Infinite Branches, to find out. We also get to hear Shelley's unique career path vector into aviation.
What goes into the perfect cabin design? How do you achieve great passenger experience while keeping it financially viable? We welcome Blake Emery to discuss!
Hear how Blake tapped "research driven strategy" to help develop the well recognized Boeing Sky Interior.
From Airbus' winglets, to new airport openings, listen in to Blake's trivia round, where Blake tips us with a potential future trivia question!
In this episode we discuss two great aviation topics with our esteemed guest Cristiane Dart:
SITA and
International Aviation Women's Association (IAWA).
Working communications and marketing at both SITA and IAWA, learn more about these organizations and about Cristiane's experience.
Yes, of course we challenged Cristiane to a round of Aeropedia Trivia too. Listen in to hear whether she was familiar with the "Reef Runway", or airport lighting color palettes.
From network carriers to regional, charter to ultra-low cost, our guest Koen Karsbergen of Air52 explains the many different airline business models that exist today.
From Saab spotting, to African alliance carriers, Koen proves his #AvGeek chops during the Aeropedia Trivia Challenge!
Join us as we venture into the world of business aviation with our guest Steve Saxton.
Also known as corporate aviation or private aviation, we learn about the many facets and breadth of opportunities in this exciting segment of aviation.
Stay tuned for the Aeropedia Trivia Challenge round too, and hear whether Steve could remember some of the unique features of the BAe 146 airplanes he used to sell.
David Yu provides us with insight into how finance energizes the aviation industry. If you aren't a finance person, don't worry, David walks us through in a very engaging and easy to follow way.
Even as David predicted he would get no trivia questions right, he proved he does have Aeropedia Trivia Challenge skills. Listen in to learn what he mastered.
We have the pleasure of hosting Courtney Miller to discuss aviation data and analytics. Courtney is a fellow aviation podcaster (Time on Wing Podcast) and owner of Visual Approach Analytics.
Listen closely to our trivia round, where we asked Courtney about the “Whisperliner”, a U.S. airline European hub, and other topics. Is Courtney in the running to be our trivia champion?
We’re cleared for takeoff as we discuss Air Traffic Control with Richard Kennington, a controller at Portland International Airport (PDX / KPDX).
Learn about the various air traffic control facilities, what characteristics make for a good air traffic controller, the paths to becoming a controller in the United States, and so much more.
And, from "Freedoms of the Air", to 767’s, and cargo in between, hear how Richard did in the Trivia Challenge, and see if you would have beat him.
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