005 MUC - Lufthansa low cost, the ME3, Delta lost dogs, China Eastern digital butler

SHOW NOTES I. News of the week US airlines vs the Gulf airlines, round two U.S. Airlines vs Gulf Carriers: That Escalated Quickly — Paul Papadimitriou, Layovers Qatar's Al Baker firmly rebukes Delta chief in subsidies row — Max Kingsley-Jones, FlightGlobal Delta CEO apologizes for terrorist remark — Karen Walker, ATW Emirates Boss Pushes Back on Delta's Open Skies and 9/11 Claims — Jason Clampet, Skift U.S Airport Group Sides Against Airlines in Open Skies Battle — Marisa Garcia, Skift The Battle Over Open Skies Forces U.S. Tourism Industry to Choose Sides — Marisa Garcia, Skift Emirates Considers Reducing Tickets Prices — RJ321, Airliners.net Are cabin toxic fumes a health risk? Warning over toxic fumes in plane cabins — Andrew Gilligan, Telegraph North Korea Air Force One See Inside Kim Jong Un's Remodeled Air Force One — Taylor Rogoway, Jalopnik Turkish might get two A380s Turkish Air Said to Consider Leasing A380s From Malaysia Air — Ercan Ersoy and Andrea Rothman, Bloomberg Gulfstream breaks world record Gulfstream Breaks Round The World Record With Only One Fuel Stop — Chris Clarke, Jalopnik FAI.org Lufthansa's premium costs versus LCC Lufthansa Proposes Legacy Growth Plan In Return For Staff Concessions — Jens Flottau, Aviation Week Lufthansa's Eurowings agrees new pay deal with pilots — Reuters Lufthansa's new budget airline cleared for take-off — Chris Bryant, FT ($) EU releases report on LCC working conditions Zero-hour pilot contracts threaten air safety, says study — Euractiv Virgin America posts profits Virgin America posts second consecutive full-year net profit — Aaron Karp, ATW Delta lost dogs Furious owners claim Delta lost their show dogs at airport — Matt Markovich, Komonews Russia requests API Russia to require API for all overflights — hugolover, Flyertalk II. Innovation in AirTech, PaxEx and design Air France mobile upgrade game Air France Upgrade Challenge — AirFrance.com The upgrade challenge: new cabins launch in Asia — Air France (video) Air France Launches The Upgrade Challenge Social Game — Ryan Lum, Creative Guerilla Marketing Breathometer Breathometer ties in Uber and last-minute hotel stays for drunk — Nick Vivion, Tnooz Airports set to impose tougher restrictions on alcohol sales in the departure lounge after number of 'air rage' incidents triples in three years — John Hutchinson, MailOnline Anti-alcohol group calls for booze to be banned on planes following increase in mid-air incidents — Andrea Magrath, MailOnline China Eastern introduces digital personal assistant China Eastern Chatbot Flight Takes Off: Will "XiaoIce" Raise In-Flight Services to Unprecedented Levels? — Kai-Chin Shih, Talk Airlines Meet XiaoIce, a Chinese chatbot that works with their version of Cortana — John Callaham, Windows Central Microsoft XiaoIce (Chinese) Siri in the cockpit Honeywell tests voice-recognition technology on flight decks — Meryl Fishler, Cronkite News Cool New Cockpit Technologies — Honeywell Aviation (video) 3D printed Rolls-Royce engine Rolls-Royce to fly Trent XWB with largest-ever 3D-printed part — Murdo Morrison, FlightGlobal ANA sells 747-400 parts as memorabilia Forever 747 — ANA A-Style (Japanese) A Concorde podcast episode Flying the Concorde — Omega Tau, episode 166 III. App of the ...