הפודקאסטים הטובים ביותר ב-Frequent Flier (2024)

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How data-driven decisions can speed up the transition to sustainable flying 42:15

2d ago42:15

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In this episode, we talk to Yann Cabaret, CEO of SITA FOR AIRCRAFT, the aircraft business arm of SITA Group. Cabaret shares how SITA’s technology can help airlines meet their sustainability goals through better operational efficiency and compliance management. He also shares insights into SITA’s digital platforms and solutions aimed at reducing avi…

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Delta: Ed's Dilemma And Richard's Decision 42:29

2d ago42:29

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If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! Watch us on YouTube! BIG ask this week! We're conducting another fundraiser for an incredible organization, Give Kids The World. These are the "behind the scenes" folks who help Make-A-Wish vacations happen for critically ill children. Give …

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Albania's bunker mentality 3:40

8d ago3:40

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One of the legacies of Albania’s communist era are concrete bunkers. Around 175,000 were constructed all over the country. They range in size from small, shallow bunkers for a couple of soldiers to massive underground complexes with rooms, corridors and heating, electrical and water systems. Although the regime sometimes put out the line that the A…

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Albania: No hippies, please 6:55

8d ago6:55

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For half a century after World War II, Albania was ruled by a communist regime so paranoid that its leaders believed that even the Soviet Union and China had sold out to capitalism. Albania zealously guarded its borders to stop anyone from leaving the socialist paradise, and to closely control anyone crazy enough to want to visit. Among those who w…

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Why flight paths matter more than you think for climate change 47:59

9d ago47:59

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In this episode, we talk to Sian Andrews, SESAR Environmental Lead at NATS, UK’s leading provider of air traffic control services. She shares insights into how air traffic management can significantly reduce aviation’s environmental impact through innovative solutions and research projects. Andrews discusses: NATS’ role in making aviation sustainab…

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Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Changes Explained And New Bilt Transfer Partners 32:40

9d ago32:40

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If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! Watch us on YouTube! Alaska Airlines has rolled out a number of changes to their loyalty program Mileage Plan. Do Richard and Ed think these are positive or negative changes? What's the best way to maximize your miles given these new changes…

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Why the world’s best-known explorer is backing hydrogen-powered flying 58:33

16d ago58:33

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In this episode, we talk to Bertrand Piccard, renowned Swiss explorer, psychiatrist and clean technology pioneer. He shares insights into his ambitious Climate Impulse project that aims to set a historic precedent by flying a hydrogen aircraft around the world non-stop in 9 days. Piccard achieved global recognition for completing the first non-stop…

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The Best Airline And Hotel Loyalty Programs. The Freddie Awards Are Back! 39:16

16d ago39:16

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If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! Watch us on YouTube! Gary Leff of View From The Wing joins us for an announcement that the Freddie Awards are back. Richard and I quiz Gary on who he thinks were the best loyalty programs last year and offer our own opinions. Finally, we fin…

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CATF wants us to re-think everything we know about sustainable aviation 57:47

23d ago57:47

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In this episode, we talk to Lee Beck, Senior Director for Europe and the Middle East, and Thomas Walker, Transportation Technology Manager at Clean Air Task Force (CATF), who share insights into innovative solutions for decarbonising the aviation industry. Beck and Walker discuss CATF's role as a global climate organisation focused on overlooked so…

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Should You Use Your Miles For Holiday Travel? 36:51

23d ago36:51

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If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! Watch us on YouTube! Richard and Ed are digging into a report that "friend of the show" Points Path and The Points Guy teamed up on to determine whether you should use your miles for holiday travel. Lots of great data here, some of which may…

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How SAS wants to pioneer sustainable aviation in Scandinavia 48:25

1M ago48:25

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In this episode, we talk to Anko van der Werff, President & CEO of Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), who shares insights into the airline’s ambitious sustainability initiatives and how they’re shaped by the unique environmental consciousness of Scandinavia. SAS, a longstanding Scandinavian carrier, faces distinct challenges and opportunities in its sust…

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New Southwest Assigned Seating Details And Massive Atlanta Changes 41:04

1M ago41:04

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If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! Watch us on YouTube! We're starting this week's episode with some bad news about Southwest Airlines. Amid rumors and internal announcements that the airline would make some cuts, they announced pretty massive service cuts to service from Atl…

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How Nova Pangaea Technologies plans to turn agricultural and forestry waste into SAF 39:50

1M ago39:50

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In this episode, we talk to Sarah Ellerby, CEO of Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT), a UK-based cleantech company that has created a patented technology called the REFNOVA®, to enable SAF production from agricultural and forestry waste. Ellerby discusses: NPT’s REFNOVA® technology, which processes non-food derived feedstocks such as sugarcane bagasse…

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Medical Tourism And Breaking Down The Alaska/Hawaiian Airlines Merger 40:23

1M ago40:23

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If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! Watch us on YouTube! Richard notches his first flight out of Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport, one of the truly unique airports in the world. The airport sits on an island next to downtown. It can be reached by a very short ferry boat ride or …

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How LYTE Aviation’s 40-seater eVTOLs could disrupt the status quo 48:31

1M ago48:31

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In this episode, we talk to Freshta Farzam, founder and CEO of LYTE Aviation, who shares the company’s innovative approach to developing a 40-seater eVTOL aircraft for regional travel and cargo transport. Farzam discusses: The inspiration behind LYTE Aviation’s focus on larger capacity eVTOLs, challenging the industry trend of smaller air taxis. Th…

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How Much Does A Family Vacation To Japan Cost? 42:20

1M ago42:20

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If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! Watch us on YouTube! Richard and Ed take a moment to reflect on 9/11. Then, they dive into the latest incident on an airfield, where an A350 sheared the tail off of a regional jet at Atlanta airport. After that, Ed is breaking down how much …

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Upscale beef language 5:02

2M ago5:02

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After Turkish investors backed out, the first international hotel in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek officially became a “Joint Kyrgyz-Malaysian Venture.” Because English is widely spoken in Malaysia, you’d expect the new foreign partner to have tidied up the English grammar and spelling on the hotel’s printed materials. No way. The room service menu …

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This is how Russians live? 3:55

2M ago3:55

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As the train pulled out of Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, Valery opened the first bottle of cognac and was figuring out how much alcohol our compartment would need for the 15-hour overnight trip. It was only 4:30 p.m. and, with several hours of daylight left, I wanted to look out of the window, not drink. But to be sociable, I agreed to a couple of s…

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Soviet gerrymandering 7:07

2M ago7:07

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Before the Soviet era, there were no national borders between the peoples of Centra Asia, and identity was defined by religion, family, clan and place. The Soviets attempted to counter pan-Islamic and pan-Turkic tendencies by constructing nationalities, giving each a defined territory with national borders, along with a ready-made history, language…

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Lost in Stanland 8:51

2M ago8:51

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The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave us fourteen new countries (plus Russia) including the five “stans” of Central Asia—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. We can be grateful the Soviet Union did not break up any further, or we would have to deal with Bashkortostan, Dagestan, and Tatarstan, all now Russian rep…

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From southern Kyrgyzstan to suburban Maryland 6:21

2M ago6:21

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On Christmas Eve 1995, my wife, Stephanie, picked me up at Washington’s Dulles airport. After almost a month in Central Asia, I looked forward to returning to the United States. Instead, I experienced, for the first time in my life, reverse culture shock. One of the blessings—but also one of the curses—of international air travel is that in the spa…

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Central Asia frequent flier 6:41

2M ago6:41

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When the Soviet Union broke up, its national airline Aeroflot suffered the same fate. The governments of cash-strapped new republics seized the aircraft sitting on the tarmac, repainted them in the new national colors and hoped they could round up enough spare parts to keep them flying. National airlines have since modernized their fleets, adding B…

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Camping Indoors, Soviet style 6:17

2M ago6:17

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Provincial Soviet-era hotels reflect the ostentatious public architecture of the Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras. The impressive facades often conceal dark and drab interiors, with poor heating and ventilation, dangerous wiring, and leaky pipes. Even small cities boasted establishments with several hundred rooms. Of course, the number bore no …

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Westin Bora Bora Opens And How To Handle A Strike At Your Hotel 42:14

2M ago42:14

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If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! Watch us on YouTube! Richard and Ed are discussing the new Westin Bora Bora. Ed has trivia questions for Richard to guess in regards to how many points and how big the resort fee is. They're also answering questions from the Slack community,…

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How Estuaire’s data platform can help airlines and airports make better sustainability decisions 50:34

2M ago50:34

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In this episode, we talk to Maxime Meijers and Nicolas Meijers, co-founders of Estuaire, who share insights into their innovative data platform that provides comprehensive climate impact assessments for the aviation industry. Maxime and Nicolas share: The development of Estuaire’s data platform, which fuses various data sources to provide granular …

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Shanghaied 4:31

2M ago4:31

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It was a classic Catch-22. I did not have a confirmed itinerary or a China transit visa. The Malaysian Airlines agent in Kuala Lumpur could have refused to rebook me, but he realized that the problem was not of my making. “Here’s your boarding card,” he said. “I’m just not sure what will happen in Shanghai.” The arrival of an itinerary-less, visa-l…

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Bangladesh: The barrels of Barishal 6:51

2M ago6:51

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Since the Mughal era, Barishal has been the commercial gateway to the southwest delta. It’s been whimsically described as the “Venice of Bengal.” although if you’re just counting waterways, almost any large town in southwestern Bangladesh is a Venice. At its commercial dock, brightly colored barges were drawn up on the muddy, litter-strewn beach, w…

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Bangladesh: Land of rivers 8:25

2M ago8:25

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For a small country, Bangladesh has a lot of rivers, around 700 according to most estimates. Roughly 10 percent of its total area is water, a high proportion considering that it has no large lakes. In other words, most of that water is moving. For the rural population, the rivers are interwoven with every aspect of their lives. They sustain agricul…

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The $2.50 phone bill 2:58

2M ago2:58

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Even for those with good language skills, getting things done in Kyrgyzstan in the mid-1990s was a challenge. A seemingly straightforward task, such as banking or paying a utility bill, often turned out to be a complex, time-consuming activity that required visiting several offices, filling out forms and slips of paper, and obtaining signatures and…

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How GBTA is shaping the future of sustainable corporate travel 46:32

2M ago46:32

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In this episode, we talk to Delphine Millot, Senior Vice President for Advocacy & Sustainability at Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), who shares insights into GBTA’s initiatives to promote sustainability in business travel and the challenges faced by the industry. Millot also serves as the Managing Director of the GBTA Foundation, which se…

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Travel News Speed Round: 7 Topics In 39 Minutes 46:50

2M ago46:50

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If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! Watch us on YouTube! Richard and Ed are covering a bunch of travel news on today's show. There are multiple airline status match offers in the market right now. Should you be taking advantage of the Vietnam Airlines or AirFrance/KLM offers? …

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India-Bangladesh: The world's craziest border 8:52

2M ago8:52

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The 1947 partition of British India into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan created artificial borders that are still hotly disputed today. In Bengal, the zigzagging border with East Pakistan (and from 1971, Bangladesh) was dotted with enclaves—little islands of one country surrounded by the territory of the other. In total, there we…

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South Africa: Allemand right to Elsburg 7:24

2M ago7:24

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I drive out to a Johannesburg suburb for a church dinner and barn dance and find myself deep in Afrikaner country. Descendants of the Boers who trekked north from the Cape from the 1830s settled on the High Veld, a plateau region of grassland and scrub bushes. More than 4,000 feet above sea level, it resembles the High Plains of Montana or Wyoming.…

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South Africa: The borders of Johannesburg 12:09

2M ago12:09

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It tells you something about how South Africa has changed that the sprawling townships of Soweto outside Johannesburg are now on the tourist bus routes. Soweto came to world attention in 1976, when police opened fire on 10,000 secondary school students marching to protest the policy of enforcing Afrikaans as the only language of instruction in scho…

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Malawi: The bus to Blantyre 7:10

2M ago7:10

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The main north-south highway from Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, to Blantyre, the commercial capital, passes through a dry, flat landscape of scrub grass and small trees, broken by cultivated fields, with goats and cattle wandering close to the road and groups of men squatting under trees. The bus passed roadside stalls selling fruits, vegetables, hou…

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Malawi: Incredible miracles and supernatural breakthroughs 8:45

2M ago8:45

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According to the census, two out of three Malawians claim to be Christian. One in five is Catholic, with others scattered among the mainstream Protestant groups; Muslims make up about one quarter of the population. Christianity is mixed with traditional beliefs drawn from animism and witchcraft, and often has a revivalist fringe. In storefront chur…

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Malawi: South Africa's only ally 6:27

2M ago6:27

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It is a paradox of history that South Africa’s apartheid regime, sanctioned and shunned by the international community, had a friend in Malawi. Its long-time authoritarian president, Hastings Banda, was politically conservative, suspicious and fearful of the socialist regimes of other countries in the region. Malawi was the only country in Africa t…

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Who drew the borders? 8:11

2M ago8:11

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As a history student, it was challenging enough to keep up with the shifting borders of European countries. When I opened the atlas and turned to other continents, the borders of some countries seemed to make no sense at all. Why were some strangely shaped, with portions of their territory protruding into other countries? Why were there straight li…

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Crossing borders 6:01

2M ago6:01

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A shakedown by cops at Almaty airport in Kazakhstan provides a glimpse of life in a post-Soviet society undergoing wrenching social and economic transition. And as travel writer Thomas Swick notes, travel only becomes interesting (and therefore worth writing about) when things go wrong.על ידי davidhmould

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Passport from adolescence 6:40

2M ago6:40

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It was a proud day in 1965 when, at the age of 15, I was issued my first British passport. Looking back, the stern instruction in elaborate cursive not to mess with the Queen’s loyal subject seems like the pompous posturing of a country that had surrendered its empire but was not yet ready to accept its new, reduced role in the world. I’ve held a U…

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Nairobi Airport: No time for the lion park 7:55

2M ago7:55

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After a 12-hour delay on a return flight from Madagascar, I engage in a polite but frustrating battle with the Kenya Airways customer service staff at Nairobi International Airport.על ידי davidhmould

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How INERATEC plans to turn 1 gigawatt of power into 125 million gallons of e-fuel 42:29

2M ago42:29

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In this episode, we talk to Tim Boeltken, Founder and Managing Director at INERATEC, who shares insights into the innovative world of e-fuels and their potential to transform the aviation industry and beyond. INERATEC is at the forefront of e-fuel production, developing modular technology that converts green hydrogen and carbon dioxide into carbon-…

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Big Southwest And Spirit Changes. What You Need To Know! 37:45

2M ago37:45

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If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! Watch us on YouTube! Southwest and Spirit Airlines have both made some pretty significant changes over the past few weeks. Richard and Ed are breaking down these changes, offering their opinions, and telling you all the things you need to kn…

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Can New Zealand achieve its sustainable aviation goals despite its geographical isolation? 52:10

2M ago52:10

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In this episode, we talk to Billie Moore, Chief Executive at NZ Airports Association, who shares insights into New Zealand’s distinctive approach to sustainable aviation and the challenges of operating in an isolated island nation. In essence, the NZ Airports Association serves as a central hub for coordination, advocacy, and knowledge sharing amon…

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5 Days In Tokyo: Planning A Japan Trip 29:37

2M ago29:37

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If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! Watch us on YouTube! Richard and Ed are both back at home. They're breaking down Ed's Tokyo trip and Richard is sharing suggestions from his time living in Tokyo. We discuss whether it's worth a trip to Toyosu, the replacement fish market fo…

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Why Transport & Environment believes aviation’s carbon bill is long overdue 50:39

3M ago50:39

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In this episode, we talk to Matt Finch, UK Policy Manager at Transport & Environment (T&E), who shares insights into the challenges and opportunities in sustainable aviation. Finch discusses T&E's role as Europe's leading advocate for clean transport and provides a critical perspective on current efforts to decarbonise the aviation industry. He hig…

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A Week In Kyoto And A Brief Stop In London 34:53

3M ago34:53

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If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! Watch us on YouTube! Richard and Ed are back this week and even on the same continent. After a drive-by appearance in Vegas, they're recapping some of their travels. Ed breaks down their time in Kyoto and Nara while Richard is recapping his …

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How Hawaiian Airlines' approach to sustainability goes beyond environmental concerns 48:05

3M ago48:05

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In this episode, we talk to Alanna James, Managing Director Sustainability Initiatives at Hawaiian Airlines, who shares insights into the airline's distinctive approach to sustainability and the challenges of operating in an island environment. Hawaiian Airlines, a 94-year-old company headquartered in Honolulu, faces unique sustainability challenge…

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Can Delta Still Deliver? And, A First-Hand Look At Maui Wildfire Recovery 42:39

3M ago42:39

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If you enjoy the podcast, I hope you’ll take a moment to leave us a rating. That helps us grow our audience! Watch us on YouTube! Clint Henderson from The Points Guy is joining us to talk Delta and Hawaii today. Delta has had their fair share of troubles lately. Their "halo" is a bit tarnished, and Clint is wondering if they're getting a bad rap or…

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How Urban-Air Port is revolutionising infrastructure for advanced air mobility 55:36

3M ago55:36

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In this episode, we talk to Ricky Sandhu, Founder and Executive Chairman of Urban-Air Port, who shares insights into the company's groundbreaking vertiport technology and vision for the future of urban air mobility (AAM). Urban-Air Port is at the forefront of AAM infrastructure, with their main product Air-One being the world's first fully-operatio…

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