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The Air Travel podcast — created by Paul Papadimitriou, with Alex Hunter & Vinod Viswalingam — #1 in 50 countries and counting.
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Visit website →Vinod returns to share a three-week family journey through Tokyo, Sapporo, and Osaka, plus more in between — and the choices along the way: fly or ride the Shinkansen, explore the airport or head into the city, and which flight is worth taking just f
Hakan Yilmaz is an airline management and operations consultant, and a longtime listener to the show.
He returns to the podcast to share everything relevant in aviation today, what he sees through his work and travels.
Notably, we discuss the trend
Christian Nolle is a maker, designer, photographer, whose work focuses on aviation culture, the stories behind route maps, and the historical impact of flying on what ties us all together and makes us dream. He is the editor of Direction of Travel.
Varig, VASP, Panair, the names are long gone, but they put Brazil on the map for us, alongside iconic cinema imagery and a legendary national football team that captured every kid's imagination.
Grab a caipirinha (and some black licorice) as we char
Two sagas of snow and ice: going to Dubai via Helsinki, in that unconventional (revolutionary?) cocoon seat by Finnair, and to Kelowna (YLW) with the appropriately named Air North — snowy take offs, blueberry juice and de-icing drama (no blueberry ju
Vinod's Olympics adventure: Flagship lounge, Flagship upgrade, Flagship Wifi (err), Flagship chicken, Flagship plane (well…), all the hopes and expectations of American Airlines Flagship were placed into that trip. And that Black Card! That vintage b
Ever wondered what it’s like to fly 17+ hours straight? Matt Drinkwater comes to share his experience with Qantas on the near-Kangaroo route to Perth (we talk the past and present of that route), and more, onto Brisbane.
Matt and Paul share a deep bo
The road that Lufthansa took to get to their new business class seemed somewhat long and convoluted, Paul is finally able to tell you if it was worth the wait (choosing a seat on Allegris might be as long and convoluted a process though).
And hey, th
Flighty has changed how we experience air travel.
The flight tracking app, which obsessively focuses on the user experience and data accuracy, has been mentioned in nearly all our episodes since Paul got on the beta in early 2019, and we're so please
Alex finally boards a Qatar Airways flight, and finds how to get a premium economy seat in this airline that doesn't have premium economy (not through that ethernet port though). Paul completely changes his mind about United, a true Christmas miracle
We are at Rolls-Royce, exploring the engineering marvels behind aviation engines, the inner workings behind the quiet hums of those incredible machine.
We dive into the importance of expertise, heat management, and innovation in ensuring engine dura
A lot of Premium Economy, a lot of BA, a bit of Safari Link, some Precision Air, and a sparkle of Emirates.
A Skeleton Coast drive, a wide-body bingo, and some SWISS chocolates.
More adventures for our 150th, from seemingly attempting to cook mid-flight, to landing in an abandoned primary school.
Raves at Narita? On the apron? Can you bring your own air vent? What?
Alex listens to LiveATC as ASMR, whilst Paul recaptures the Greece of his youth.
From Tokyo in what may be the best business class there is, to Costa Rica for the battle of the carts, with a joyful ode to the wild horse of aircrafts, the 757.
From tech glitches to pristine skies, from the hustle of DXB T1 to an unexpected flyby in Curaçao, we taste turbulences, KLM food, and airborne Starlink speeds.
YVR-SIN-KUL-SIN-TPE-NRT, a long-haul family adventure, and not on a dusty train.
From the controversy of BA to the pinnacle of First Class extravaganza, from London to Delhi to Helsinki to New York to Dubai to Tokyo, this installment has all the emotions of a 10 year anniversary episode.
De-icing adventures, a tour of Europe, a visit to the wonderful Le Bourget aerospace museum, and the alternative timeline of retro-futuristic air travel.
Paul ventures into Ukraine. Alex soars above the Himalayas.
We take a little tour of those airports: OKA, ISG, HND, HNL, OGG, SFO, CEB, CRK, DXB, LGW, and wish all airlines would be called something like Japan Transocean Air.
Another episode around the world, LAX, KEF, AKL, BNE, AUH, DOH, LHR, IST, PDX featuring the consummate aviation professional, and ever-friendly, Hakan, with everything you ever wanted to know about flight planning, the secret of Heathrow Terminal 1 (
The AvGeek Odyssey of Vinod, from ground crew, to flight attendant, to two Covid Olympics: an episode full of aviation and travel stories, and lots of laughs.
It's Alex and Paul this time, not Paul and Alex, for it's another Alex (you've met her in 133!). From Male, with an all business airline, to Abu Dhabi, who means business with its new airport, we fly all around and over-analyze details of airlines (i
Paul and Paolo share almost the same name, almost the same birthday, nearly the same height, and a great friendship and love for air travel. We compare notes on Cambodia and Vietnam.
Alex flies to New York, meets the jet stream and an unbelievably bad customer representative. Paul flies to Dubai, tries the new Emirates plant-based signature dishes with a First upgrade that this podcast made possible.
"They looked around the region at all these great airports and gone: let's get the TK Maxx version of that"
Alex returns to Hong Kong, Paul discovers La Compagnie. So much travel, so little time to record!
At Layovers, we keep our promises: long time listener Alex Vukolova waited 5 years to be a guest, and this is the day, she's been awesome, for a very special show — we travel on Condor, JetBlue, Transavia, or BA, from Berlin to Almaty to New York to