AvTalk Episode 183: Closing down, Opening up

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we look at the aviation effects of Hurricane Ian, check in on ICAO’s 41st assembly in Montreal, and try to understand how a rumor took off before we even knew it was on the runway. Hurricane Ian passes through Florida * Replay of live stream on how to track Hurricane Hunters and use weather layers on Flightradar24 Eviation’s Alice electric plane flies for the first time * See playback of the first flight FAA issues new Vertiport rules * Read the new rules and see the FAA’s preferred vertiport icon US DOT proposes new rules for airline pricing * The US DOT wants to make sure you know how much your flight will cost the first time you see the price. Hong Kong, Japan, Canada drop Covid restrictions * Hong Kong scraps hotel quarantine * Japan is open visa-free from October 11 * Canada dropping all restrictions from October 1 Copa Airlines 737 goes offroading * Copa Airlines 737 suffers runway excursion on landing in Panama City Swift (West Atlantic) 737 just wants a drink * Swift (West Atlantic) 737 runs off the end of the runway in Montpellier Virgin Atlantic joins SkyTeam * Virgin Atlantic (finally) joins SkyTeam British Airways and Qatar Airways further join themselves * British Airways and Qatar Airways did whatever this is New airlines, new orders * MSC Group is starting an airline, to be operated by Atlas Air * Xiamen Air order 40 A320neo aircraft A weird weekend of rumors * Over the weekend misleading photos and data from Flightradar24 were used to support rumors of a coup in China. We explain the bizarre situation.   Please click here for a transcript of this episode.