About this episode
Join Carlos, Nev, Matt and Armando for this week's episode of the UK's Number One Aviation Podcast. Andrew from the 'Plane Reclaimers' TV Show joins us to talk about the ins and outs of taking the in's of the aircraft out. In this week's show we learn there is a heady mix of apologies and law suits for Luton's favourite low cost carrier, facemasks and smoking force a Canadian budget airline to divert to Winnipeg and the last ever flight of an A380 operated by the French flag carrier takes place. In the military there is a US Military First as the Air Force pick a Woman as their Top Enlisted Leader and we get our first look at the UK government's newly painted A330. In this week's "The Plane Truth" with Captain Al our topic is: Airplane Lightning Strikes - Are they Dangerous? Search social media for 'PlaneTalkingUK' Whatsapp Number - +447572249166 Email - podcast@planetalkinguk.com Website - www.planetalkinguk.com Why not subscribe to our YouTube channel - You'll get notifications when we go live and you can help shape the conversation of the show by joining us in the chatroom. Go to www.youtube.com and search for Plane Talking UK. Contribute to the show by simply doing your shopping through our special link through the Amazon Website. They pay us a small referral fee for any purchases made using our link that we can use to buy equipment for the show. Simply click on https://www.amazon.co.uk/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl2&tag=platalukpod-21&linkId=ddc934736c4c1aee089a965f480688c3&language=en_GB and do your shopping from there. Can you spare a $1? Then why not help us out by becoming a Patreon of the show. You'll hear about special events and announcements before anyone else - Even exclusive content too. Simply take yourself to https://www.patreon.com/planetalkinguk to sign up. Here are the links to the stories we featured this week : COMMERCIAL NETJETS ADOPTS ADVANCED QUALIFICATION TRAINING PROGRAM https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2020-06-22/netjets-adopts-advanced-qualification-training-program EASJET LAWSUIT OVER DATA BREACH ATTRACTS 10,000 PASSENGERS https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-06-24/easyjet-lawsuit-over-data-breach-attracts-10-000-passengers EASYJET 'SORRY' AFTER MISLEADING CANCELLED PASSENGERS OVER REFUND RIGHTS https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/easyjet-uk-flight-cancellation-refund-passengers-a9579121.html?amp ALMOST 1 IN 3 PILOTS IN PAKISTAN HAVE FAKE LICENSES, AVIATION MINISTER SAYS https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53182750 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/25/business/pakistan-fake-pilot-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.caapakistan.com.pk/Upload/SIBReports/AAIB-431.pdf AU REVOIR A380: AIR FRANCE BIDS FAREWELL TO AIRBUS' GIANT https://simpleflying.com/au-revoir-air-france-airbus-a380/ PAX NOT WEARING MASK, SMOKES AND FORCES WESTJET FLIGHT TO LAND https://simpleflying.com/westjet-737-smoking-passenger/ EMIRATES FLIGHT EK380 BRINGS COVID-19 CASES TO HONG KONG https://www.aerotime.aero/rytis.beresnevicius/25263-emirates-flight-covid-cases-hong-kong https://gulfnews.com/uae/emirates-suspends-passenger-services-from-pakistan-after-announcement-of-covid-19-cases-1.72220656 https://www.chp.gov.hk/files/pdf/flights_trains_en.pdf AMERICAN AIRLINES WELCOMES CUSTOMERS TO THE NEW TERMINAL B AT LAGUARDIA AIRPORT https://news.flightag.com/american-airlines-welcomes-customers-to-the-new-terminal-b-at-laguardia-airport/ ÁNGEL FLIGHTS DURING PANDEMIC https://abcnews.go.com/US/angel-volunteer-pilots-families-us-pandemic/story?id=71417037 MILITARY ACC AIMS TO CUT PILOT TRAINING TIME BY UP TO HALF https://www.airforcemag.com/acc-aims-to-cut-pilot-training-time-by-up-to-half GEOPOLITICS IS CHANGING AS B-2 AGAIN FLIES ARCTIC MISSION TOGETHER WITH NORWEGIAN F-35 https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2020/06/arctic-geopolitics-changing-b-2s-again-flies-high-north-mission-together-norwegian HERE IS FIRST GLIMPSE AT UK GOVERNMENT'S REPAINTED AIRBUS VOYAGER A330 https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/raf-voyager-boris-johnson-plane-takes-off-cambridge-airport-a4480356.html US AIR FORCE PROMOTES A FEMALE TO THE TOP ENLISTED RANK, A US MILITARY FIRST https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/06/19/us-military-first-air-force-has-picked-woman-top-enlisted-leader.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1592592323