Airways Podcast
86 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 81 ratingsWelcome to the Airways Podcast, the digital audio extension of one of the world's leading aviation publications, Airways Magazine (www.airwaysmag.com). Hosted by Enrique Perrella (@enrique77w), Vinay Bhaskara (@TheABVinay), and Rohan Anand (@rohanaanand), the podcast is a bi-monthly deep-dive into three important aviation stories or trends, featuring exclusive interviews, journalist reports, and coverage from worldwide aviation events.
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Episodes
Episode 61: JetBlue's New A220; 737 MAX Returns To Service; New USA Travel Mandate
February 03, 2021 15:49 - 58 minutes - 107 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! In this first episode of 2020, Rohan, Vinay, and Enrique jump right into three very interesting topics: • JetBlue unveils the interiors of its brand-new Airbus A220-300. • The Boeing 737 MAX flies back into service. • Analyzing President Biden's new PCR testing and Quarantine order for international travelers flying into the USA. Stay tuned, The Airways Podcast is here!
Episode 60: Hawaiian Launches New Routes, Alaska Retires A320
January 03, 2021 12:51 - 43 minutes - 36.5 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! In this last episode of 2020, Rohan, Vinay, and Enrique jump right into three very interesting topics: • Hawaiian Airlines announces three all-new domestic routes to Orlando, Austin, Ontario. • Alaska Airlines announces the retirement of the Airbus A320 fleet. • The Top 5 most-read news on Airwaysmag.com • Closing remarks on 2020. Stay tuned, The Airways Podcast is here! Happy New Year to all our listeners.
Episode 59: Diving into the Skift Forum
December 04, 2020 18:22 - 48 minutes - 88.3 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! In this third episode of Season 4, Rohan, Vinay, and Enrique jump right into three very interesting topics: • The Skift Forum • Emirates and the Airbus A380 • The State of the Industry and COVID-19 • The Top 5 most-read news on Airwaysmag.com Stay tuned, The Airways Podcast is here!
Episode 58: Singapore Axes Some A380s, Air Canada Cancels Few A220/737MAX Orders, Alaska Names New CEO
November 17, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 129 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! In this second episode of Season 4, Rohan, Vinay, and Enrique jump right into three very interesting topics: • Singapore Airlines to retire some Airbus A380s and Boeing 777-300s. • Air Canada cancels some Airbus A220s and Boeing 737 MAX orders. • Alaska Airlines names new CEO (bonus: fleet discussion) • The Top 5 most-read news on Airwaysmag.com And in this episode, we welcome Chris Sloan, founder of The Airchive, who shares with Rohan the det...
Episode 57: Season 4 Kicks Off - The Airways Podcast is back!
November 02, 2020 15:04 - 41 minutes - 75.4 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! Season 4 of The Airways Podcast launches with Rohan, Vinay, and Enrique chatting about what's happened in the commercial aviation world since Season 3 ended in June. Discussion topics: • Southwest Airlines announces new routes in the middle of the pandemic / Potential Airbus A220 order to replace the aging Boeing 737-700 fleet. • The Boeing 737 MAX is back on schedule to fly. • The Airbus A380 is on its way out. • Singapore Airlines swaps Newar...
Episode 56: Talking Pride In The Aviation Industry
August 06, 2020 19:24 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The 56th episode of The Airways Podcast launches with a slightly different tune. Rohan and Vinay dive into the end of Pride month, in which hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ+ airline industry personnel were involved. Later on, Enrique welcomes the Chief Development Officer of Airways, Vincenzo Pace, for a quick interview in which he reveals his latest airside adventure at New York-JFK, where he was blessed to spot numerous heavies landing and taking off a...
Episode 55: COVID-19 Aviation Recap
June 17, 2020 03:13 - 1 hour - 128 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The 55th episode of the show launches with our three hosts chatting about their encounters with abnormalities during this prolonged COVID-19 quarantine. Rohan talks about his recent experience traveling between Dallas/Ft. Worth and Chicago-O'Hare onboard a 1/4-full Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner while both Enrique and Vinay share some of their experiences in Boston and in Caracas. Up next, James Field, Europe Correspondent for Airways Magazine joins our episo...
Episode 54: Heli Spotting With Andy Luten
June 02, 2020 00:19 - 1 hour - 118 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The 54th episode of the show kicks off with Enrique sharing some details of his super technological surgery with Rohan and Vinay, finding an aviation angle that made it quite a unique anesthetic experience. The analysis segment of this episode covers the current state of the airline industry as it navigates through the COVID-19 crisis, with Vinay and Rohan weighing in with their well-informed data. This episode's interview features Andy Luten, an acc...
Episode 53: Gordon Bethune Weighs In On The Current Airline Industry Situation
May 16, 2020 13:52 - 1 hour - 116 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The 53rd episode of the show starts with Rohan Anand, Vinay Bhaskara, and Enrique Perrella chatting about how the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the world's airlines, focusing on Avianca, Colombia's flag carrier, which just filed for Chapter 11. The next segment of this episode welcomes our Senior Correspondent, Chris Sloan, who jumped on a phone call with Gordon Bethune, a retired US airline executive who was the CEO of Continental Airlines fro...
Episode 52: Quarantine Potpourri
May 01, 2020 21:24 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The 52nd episode of the show kicks off with a completely different tone. Rohan Anand and Vinay Bhaskara take control of the show while Enrique is left behind battling with a lack of internet connectivity, not making it into the recording room on time. Rohan and Vinay dive into a potpourri of aviation-related topics while trying to keep things spiced up in an environment where only bad news are reigning the headlines. As the world continues to battle...
Episode 51: American Airlines Turns 90
April 15, 2020 14:51 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The 51st episode of the show kicks off with Rohan Anand and Enrique Perrella sharing their isolation stories as the world continues to be under lockdown due to COVID-19. To steer away from the trendy negative news that has overwhelmed the globe, this episode focuses solely on an interview with David H Striner, the history editor at Airways Magazine. David is responsible for the history department at Airways and has written an extensive feature on th...
Episode 50: Debating the US Airline Bailout; The Twilight of the Jumbo Era
April 01, 2020 21:29 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The 50th episode of the show launches with our hosts sharing their occurrences while on quarantine due to the major coronavirus spread that has brought the world to a halt. Enrique introduces the new Airways Digital Suite, which brings an all-new interface, upgrading the standards in our readers' digital magazine reading experience. The new app is based on a platform that allows readers to search, read, listen to, customize, bookmark, print, share, and...
Byrne Hobart: The aftermath of Coronavirus in the US Airline Industry
April 01, 2020 14:33 - 1 hour - 62 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! This bonus episode welcomes Byrne Hobart (@ByrneHobart), an author (The Diff), financial analyst, consultant, and equity research professional who likes to focus on using complex datasets to understand company fundamentals. Hobart discusses with our host, Vinay Bhaskara, what the outcome of Coronavirus might be for the US airline industry, including analysis of the US airline bailout and forecasts for the industry's once Coronavirus is contained.
Gary Leff: Are you in favor or against a potential US airline bailout?
March 18, 2020 20:38 - 49 minutes - 42.6 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! This bonus episode welcomes Gary Leff, editor of View from the Wing, who discusses with our host, Vinay Bhaskara, whether the proposed airline bailout in the US should happen. US airlines and airplane manufacturing giant, Boeing, have all requested aid from the Federal Government following the ongoing COVID-19 crisis that has forced the grounding of almost 80% of the country's fleet and crippled Boeing's output further. Boeing said that “a minimum of...
Episode 49: Coronavirus Impacts Global Aviation According To Will Horton
March 16, 2020 11:50 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The 49th episode launches with our hosts recapping on Rohan’s recent trip to India and Vinay’s fears that the Coronavirus will cause major disruption in the US commercial aviation industry. To analyze further, this episode’s special guest is Will Horton, a renowned airline analyst based in Hong Kong—close to the epicenter of the first Coronavirus spread, and home to Cathay Pacific, one of the airlines that has suffered the most. Horton, who’s worked ...
Episode 48: Analysis on Breeze Airways; Boeing 777X First Flight
March 02, 2020 14:57 - 1 hour - 117 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The 48th episode starts off with our hosts discussing the importance and threat of the current Coronavirus outbreak, which is causing endless trouble on the worldwide commercial aviation scene. Rohan's trip to India ignites Vinay's fears, diving into an initial discussion that will carry on in our next episode with invited experts. Stay tuned! Our first analysis segment in this episode features Vinay and Rohan chatting about David Neeleman's newest air...
Episode 47: American Airlines Goes Long-Haul From Seattle; Interview with IngiGo, London Stansted CCOs
February 16, 2020 12:05 - 1 hour - 101 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The 47th episode kicks off with our hosts chatting about Enrique's recent scare with a potential case of Coronavirus onboard a SAS Airbus A350; Rohan's upcoming trip to India; and Vinay's shock at American Airlines' new Seattle adventure. Because of that, this episode's first analysis segment offers a long discussion between Vinay and Rohan, analyzing whether the move by American Airlines to jump into the Seattle market with two new long-haul flights t...
Episode 46: Air Canada Launches First A220-300; Delta Invades Miami Market
February 01, 2020 13:58 - 53 minutes - 98 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The 46th episode kicks off with Vinay, Enrique, and Rohan chatting about Enrique's recent experience at the TWA Hotel, which he liked so much he's going back to it very soon. Then, the first analysis segment covers Air Canada's Inauguration of its brand-new Airbus A220-300, which the airline deployed on the Montreal-Calgary route on January 16. Our team analyzes how the plane will transform the Canadian carrier's domestic and regional network. The se...
Interview: Aboudy Nasser, CCO at London-Stansted Airport, talks about the future of Long-Haul/Low-Cost Airlines
January 18, 2020 02:32 - 32 minutes - 58.9 MBThis bonus episode of The Airways Podcast welcomes Aboudy Nasser, Chief Commercial Officer at London-Stansted Airport to discuss the future of the industry's newest trend: Long-Haul/Low-Cost Carriers. Nasser, who has 20 years of airline and airport commercial expertise in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, has worked with British Airways, Etihad Airways, Oman Air and AirAsia, before joining the fastest and fourth busiest airport in the UK, London Stansted Airport, as its CCO. This discus...
Episode 45: Two Giants Are Retiring - Tim Clark (Emirates), Willie Walsh (IAG)
January 17, 2020 18:14 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The first episode the year kicks off with Vinay, Enrique, and Rohan chatting about the retirement of two of the world's most iconic and influential airline CEOs, Tim Clark from Emirates and Willie Walsh from IAG. These two fine gentlemen have re-shaped the global aviation landscape as we know it. Clark grew Emirates to become one of the world's largest and most powerful airlines, whereas Walsh was key in the consolidation of the airline industry in Eur...
Episode 44: United Names Scott Kirby CEO, Buys A321XLR; TWA Hotel Deep Dive
December 14, 2019 13:16 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The eight episode of Season 3, and the last official episode of the year, kicks off with Vinay and Enrique welcoming Henry Harteveldt, President of the Atmosphere Research Group about United Airlines and its new CEO, Scott Kirby, who will be replacing Oscar Munoz in May 2020. Harteveldt weighs in on Kirby's experience as a top airline executive, all the way since his tenure at America West, US Airways, American Airlines, and now United Airlines. Later on...
Episode 43: Emirates Orders Dreamliners; Air Peace Founder Indicted; El Al To Melbourne
December 01, 2019 22:38 - 54 minutes - 50.6 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The seventh episode of Season 3 kicks off with Rohan, Vinay, and Enrique chatting about Emirates confirming an order for 30 Boeing 787-9 aircraft, worth $8.8 billion at list prices. The Dubai-based carrier firmed up the Memorandum of Understanding that it had signed with Boeing in 2017, swapping the 787-10 for the smaller 787-9. The second topic covers the US Department of Justice (DOJ) charging Allen Onyema, the Chairman and Founder of Nigerian carrie...
Episode 42: IAG Purchases Air Europa; WOW Air Becomes PLAY
November 15, 2019 19:51 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The sixth episode of Season 3 kicks off with Rohan, Vinay, and Enrique chatting about IAG's move to purchase Spain's second-largest carrier, Air Europa, for the sum of €1 billion. Is this an anti-competitive move by the airline conglomerate, which already owns Spain's other two carriers, Iberia and Vueling? Secondly, our hosts chat about WOW Air's resurrection as PLAY, which will launch with a small and modest fleet of Airbus A321s to a handful of dest...
Episode 41: Air New Zealand Nonstop To New York; AA MD-80 Farewell Insider
November 01, 2019 01:11 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The fifth episode of Season 3 kicks off with Rohan, Vinay, and Enrique chatting about Air New Zealand's exciting news, which will see the Kiwi carrier link Auckland and New York on an ultra-long-haul nonstop flight on its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. This will be the sixth-longest flight in the world when it launches next year. The second segment has Rohan and Vinay interviewing Chris Sloan, Managing Editor at Airways, who was lucky enough to be onboard ...
Episode 40: Delta Invests In LATAM Airlines; Airline Alliances Forecast
October 15, 2019 11:35 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The fourth episode of Season 3 kicks off with Rohan, Vinay, and Enrique chatting about Ed Bastian's remarks on the alleged failure of SkyTeam Alliance. In addition to the 10 most relevant headlines in the aviation arena, our hosts analyze the future of the airline alliances after the CEO of Delta Air Lines, Ed Bastian, said that SkyTeam has failed to add value to its customers. The second analysis segment has Rohan and Vinay discuss the repercussions...
Episode 39: Interview with Volaris CEO; Thomas Cook Airlines Shuts Down
October 01, 2019 13:03 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The third episode of Season 3 kicks off with Rohan, Vinay, and Enrique analyzing the most relevant headlines in the commercial aviation industry. In this episode, we welcome the Founder and CEO of Volaris, Enrique Beltraena. Together with Indigo Partners in the US, Beltraena has managed to outgrow its competitors and become the country's largest domestic airline by passengers transported. Enrique Beltraena tells Airways some interesting facts about ...
Episode 38 - Interview with Neeleman, Pt. 2; American Airlines Retires the MD-80; British Airways Strike; Frontier into New York
September 15, 2019 01:21 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The second episode of Season 3 kicks off with Rohan Anand, Vinay Bhaskara and Enrique Perrella going over the most relevant headlines in the commercial aviation industry since this month's Episode 1, two weeks before. In this episode, in the second part of our exclusive interview with David Neeleman he tells Airways Managing Editor, Chris Sloan, his thoughts on the ultra-long-haul segment of the industry, the A321XLR, what he thinks about his involveme...
Episode 38: Interview with Neeleman, Pt. 2; American Airlines Retires the MD-80; British Airways Strike; Frontier into New York
September 15, 2019 01:21 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! The second episode of Season 3 kicks off with Rohan Anand, Vinay Bhaskara and Enrique Perrella going over the most relevant headlines in the commercial aviation industry since this month's Episode 1, two weeks before. In this episode, in the second part of our exclusive interview with David Neeleman he tells Airways Managing Editor, Chris Sloan, his thoughts on the ultra-long-haul segment of the industry, the A321XLR, what he thinks about his involveme...
Episode 37 — Season 3 Kicks Off / Interview: David Neeleman talks Moxy
August 31, 2019 21:10 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! Season 3 kicks off with an all-new format. Rohan Anand and Vinay Bhaskara welcome Enrique Perrella as the third host of the show. Enrique, the Publisher & Editor in Chief of Airways Magazine, also joins the production team, bringing in numerous guests from the industry to be featured in this season's interview segment. This new season will be edited and cured by our new team member, Jeffry Nova, a professional radio veteran who's taking The Airways P...
Episode 37: Season 3 Kicks Off / David Neeleman talks Moxy in exclusive interview
August 31, 2019 21:10 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBWelcome Aboard The Airways Podcast! Season 3 kicks off with an all-new format. Rohan Anand and Vinay Bhaskara welcome Enrique Perrella as the third host of the show. Enrique, the Publisher & Editor in Chief of Airways Magazine, also joins the production team, bringing in numerous guests from the industry to be featured in this season's interview segment. This new season will be edited and cured by our new team member, Jeffry Nova, a professional radio veteran who's taking The Airways P...
Episode 36 - CSeries Goes Airbus & JetBlue-United Merger
November 30, 2017 16:36 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBAirbus is taking a majority stake in Bombardier's troubled CSeries Program (0:35) which Rohan likes to call, "the mic drop." As if Vinay doesn't have enough reasons to call Rohan out for being a stereotypical millennial, Rohan insisted that Vinay humor a discussion about a potential United - JetBlue merger (23:35) which was a topic raised by some high-ups at Wall Street (aka Hunter Keay) a few weeks back, and how it would address some gaps in the United network, i.e. the Southeast, which ha...
Episode 34 - Checking in on AirBerlin, Alitalia, and Ryanair
October 03, 2017 18:32 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBWe start off by wishing Vinay a Happy Birthday, but certainly, a "mediocre birthday" (his words) pales in comparison to the continued woes for AirBerlin and Alitalia (1:10) after we perform a health check on Europe's biggest ailing carriers (for now). And the drama doesn't end there: Ryanair, which once appeared to be one of the highest bidders for some of Alitalia's assets, is suffering from extensive operational and commercial fallouts over a pilot shortage (16:35). With no end in sight, w...
Episode 33 - Guess Who's Back Again
September 21, 2017 19:50 - 43 minutes - 40 MBSchool's in session, airlines routes are proliferating and Vinay and Rohan are back on U.S. soil after a busy summer filled with work and travel. We're ready to hit the ground running after an extended hiatus, thanks to our listeners who awaited our return! We start off by examining the consequences that natural disasters have on air travel (4:07) in light of the recent tropical storms in hitting the U.S. and Caribbean coasts and how airlines have to respond tactically from a pricing and inv...
2017 Paris Air Show Special - Day 1 Recap
June 20, 2017 06:44 - 18 minutes - 41.4 MBVinay breaks down all of the action from day one of the 2017 Paris Air Show in a solo podcast. If you enjoy the show, please consider contributing to our IndieGoGo campaign.
Episode 31 - Crisis for Qatar Airways & United Adds LA - Singapore
June 13, 2017 13:12 - 40 minutes - 93.5 MBVinay and Rohan kick off the show discussing Qatar's diplomatic spat with several Middle Eastern neighbors (0:45), which may spell sinister things for Qatari aviation. Rohan and Vinay don't expect the situation to subside very quickly, or at least without repercussion. On a more positive note, they discuss United Airlines' announcement of nonstop service from Los Angeles to Singapore on the Boeing 787-9 (12:44), which certainly took everyone by surprise, even though an 18-hour flight in 9-...
Episode 30 - LAX Terminal Shuffle, Alaska's Paine is Seattle's Gain, & Electronics Ban Expansion
June 07, 2017 10:06 - 40 minutes - 92.3 MBVinay and Rohan kick off the show discussing the fact that Air India is still in growth mode (2:05) and will be expanding in Scandinavia, not to mention stated intentions to grow in the U.S., thanks to the electronics ban that has affected Gulf competitors operating to the U.S. Will Air India fill the remaining void for the underserved nonstop U.S. - India markets? They then move on to discuss the great "Terminal Shuffle" at LAX airport (12:58) last month went relatively smoothly, which we...
Episode 29 - Dr. Dao vs. United, WestJet's ULCC, and Emirates capacity cuts
June 02, 2017 15:20 - 49 minutes - 68.3 MBIt's been some time, but Vinay and Rohan lend their thoughts on the UA 3411 incident with Dr. David Dao, along with some commentary on some minor follow-up stories that have taken place since (2:32). Next, WestJet is launching an ultra-low cost carrier - WestJet Lite? WestJet Encore Minus? What are the implications (15:10). Emirates is doing what was unthinkable three years ago: cutting US capacity in wake of the electronics travel ban (27:19) - or is it? Finally, Jet Airways is growing agai...
Bay Area Aviation - Deep Dive #10
May 17, 2017 16:54 - 19 minutes - 26.2 MBAt the suggestion of listener Tak Wong, Vinay and Rohan discuss aviation in the Bay Area, covering San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose. They begin the episode talking about United's growing hub at SFO (4:00), before moving on to cover new foreign carrier services from SFO to various points around the world (6:20). They then move on to discuss the secondary airports at San Jose (12:00) and Oakland (15:00). The episode concludes with thoughts on whether the growth in Bay Area air travel is su...
Post-Merger Growth at Alaska Airlines [Network Beat #11]
May 03, 2017 17:45 - 25 minutes - 35.6 MBAlaska Airlines is adding routes out of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego and many places in between to points North, South, East, and West. This week, Vinay and Rohan discuss the new additions (2:00) and what the logic is behind the new routes and capacity changes given the new assets and fleet that the combined carrier will leverage (6:00). In particular, they take note of many of the new red-eye and trans-con routes (14:20) that Alaska is adding that indicate how Alaska is b...
Episode 28 - Delta's Operational Meltdown and Ryanair 2.0
April 25, 2017 17:46 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MBSUPPORT THE AIRWAYS PODCAST ON INDIEGOGO Rohan and Vinay kick off the show discussing the abysmal April for US carriers beginning with Delta's 4-day operational meltdown (2:10) which lead to thousands of canceled flights after its Atlanta hub was throttled by bad weather. Was it REALLY as bad as the media said it was, or was it simply "schadenfreude" for people wanting to chastise the widget for its, "on-time machine" hubris? United is pulling Tokyo - Seoul and shifting 737s from its Guam...
It's Time For United Airlines to Come Home - Network Beat #10
April 20, 2017 17:29 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MBUnited's revenue underperformance versus its peers is now front and center, thanks to Scott Kirby's transition to United and greater transparency on levers the carrier is pulling to improve its unit revenues relative to Delta and American. But why is United lagging, despite having hubs in some of the largest and wealthiest U.S. cities (1:10)? Vinay's theory: the carrier is over-exposed to the volatilities of a large international network that could be off-set if the carrier were to re-alloca...
Episode 27 - United's Leggings, Delta's Got S(e)oul, AmeriCanton, and Frontier's IPO.
April 13, 2017 14:45 - 56 minutes - 77.7 MBIt's time to put the issue du jour to rest with a brief discussion of the #LeggingsGate situation (1:43). Once they're done poking fun at Lululemon, Vinay and Rohan move onto more pressing topics, namely Delta and Korean Air's proposed Joint Venture Agreement (8:30), which will (finally) give Delta the fortress hub of its dreams in North Asia, after years of head-wringing. And the transpacific partnership plot thickened further with American's new $200 million stake in China Southern Air...
Episode 26 - Electronics Ban, IAG Levels Up, and Cathay Pacific's Woes
April 03, 2017 17:32 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBVinay and Rohan kick off this week's episode by discussing the electronics ban on flights from certain Middle Eastern countries to the US and UK (2:40). Does this mean that Vinay won't be able to take selfies on his iPad on certain airlines despite getting Global Entry? While on the subject of UK-based carriers, the two discuss the business case for IAG's new Barcelona-based long-haul, low-cost carrier, "LEVEL," (23:32) and what impact will it have alongside the other North Atlantic, "disrup...
Episode 25 - The Rise of the Middle Eastern Airline Giants
March 22, 2017 17:43 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBAs a companion to Vinay's two-part series featured on www.airwaysmag.com, "The Rise, Fall and Eventual Resurgence of the Middle East's Airline Giants," Rohan and Vinay discuss all things Gulf-Aviation in a unique special on the MEB3 and Turkish Airlines. They kick things off by talking about the "rise" of Emirates, Etihad, Qatar and Turkish thanks to political will and pro-aviation government establishments relative to their peer countries (5:00). But in today's world, low oil prices, the 20...
Episode 24 - Airport Traffic Results in 2016 Part II
March 10, 2017 20:53 - 1 hour - 116 MBVinay and Rohan head west to discuss airport changes in Europe, Latin America and North America. In Europe, they start off in Stockholm (1:31) and make their way through the Continent, while also covering Russia and Turkey (you can look forward to hearing Vinay school Rohan on Russian airport pronunciations). Next, they make the long jump across the Atlantic to cover Latin America (38:25) beginning with Rohan's favorite country, Chile. Then they'll travel up north, inching closer to the U....
Airport Traffic Results in 2016 - Part I [Deep Dive #9]
March 01, 2017 05:28 - 1 hour - 119 MBVinay and Rohan invite you to join them a special two-part series featuring airport traffic changes from around the world. This week, we hit up Oceania, Asian, African and Middle Eastern airports that experienced the most salient passenger traffic adjustments. We'll not only provide objective data on the numerical changes, but also our insight and analyses explaining the trends. We start off in Oceania (4:05) wrapping up in Auckland and landing in Mumbai (11:02) and covering the Subcontinent...
Episode 23 - Singapore Slings the 777X and Trump's CEO Meet
February 23, 2017 15:56 - 1 hour - 84.7 MBThis week, Vinay and Rohan conclude their synopsis of the Q4 and FY 2016 earnings with coverage of airline earnings. But first, a bonus gift for our listeners: learn how you can get 15% off of Cranky Flier's Cranky Concierge travel service (1:55). In the core segment, they head to Seattle to talk about Alaska Airlines' earnings results (4:45) during the quarter in which its merger with Virgin America. They then move across the coast to the District to slice and dice the major takeaways of Do...
What's Wrong With Etihad [Deep Dive #8]
February 15, 2017 21:00 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBFor this week's bonus segment of Airways Deep Dive, co-producers Vinay Bhaskara and Rohan Anand head to Abu Dhabi (virtually) to assess the evolving mosaic of Etihad's partially-owned equity partners. If you've been out of the loop, they'll provide you an overview of Etihad's ownership strategy (2:05) including the recent partnership with long-time foe, Lufthansa Group. Rohan challenges Vinay to give his take on the "scattered" partnerships that Etihad has created around the world (7:42) and...
Episode 22 - Airways vs. Wall Street and Route News Galore
February 08, 2017 12:00 - 1 hour - 88.1 MBYour Airways Podcast duo Vinay Bhaskara and Rohan Anand continue their coverage of the Q4 and FY 2016 earnings reports for American (2:25), Southwest Airlines (18:42) and JetBlue (28:18). Extending beyond the usual humdrum of strong earnings, we analyze and dissect attributes unique to each airline, and baseline them against broader trends in the industry, to create our interpretation on revenue forecasts, Wall Street reactions and potential customer perceptions. For the route gurus, we did ...
The Rise of Iceland [Network Beat #9]
January 31, 2017 20:03 - 24 minutes - 33.2 MBWe head to Iceland this week in the Network Beat bonus segment of the Airways Podcast, where Creator and Co-Founders Vinay Bhaskara and Rohan Anand dissect the Whos, Whats and WOWs of Islandia. We start by delving into the strategic importance of Rekjavic's Keflavik International airport (1:30), paying close attention to the capacity breakdown at KEF and its unique connecting model as a transit and stoppover point between Europe and North America. We'll then discuss Icelandair (6:40), the l...