039 DME - Throne seat, Wow Air Snapchat, Solar Impulse, Malaysian loses CEO, US consolidation

Flight 039. King size bed seats, throne seats, configurable bench seats, new inventions in a world of reduced leg room. How consolidation in the US skies might hurt choice for the consumer. Another smart luggage, one we might actually buy. A quite epic Emirates business class experience. Wow Air will fly you to Snapchat for them. Solar Impulse crosses the Pacific Ocean. The non-story of a drone hitting a plane. The turnaround CEO of Malaysian quits after less than a year.

Show Notes

Congrats Solar Impulse!

• Solar Impulse completes long-delayed flight across the Pacific | Ars Technica

Virgin America

• Alaska Air reaches for sky with Virgin America deal - FT.com ($)
• Seth Miller on Twitter: ".@AlaskaAir hopes for DoJ approval of VX merger by EoY."
• Virgin America Staff Have Fun With Personalised Messages On Gate Screens
• Virgin America on Twitter: "We've touched down on Snapchat. Follow us: VirginAmerica https://t.co/inaK5aZrjh"

WOW Air wants you to Snapchat

• snaptraveler.wowair.com

US consolidation

• Start-Up Airline Idles on a California Runway, Stymied by Bureaucracy - The New York Times

FlyerRights responds to our 038 leg room story

• FlyersRights.ORG - Largest Non-Profit Airline Consumer Organization
• Flyers Rights (@KendallFlyers) | Twitter
• FAA Bill: Bill Shuster, airline lobbyists meet - POLITICO
• Shuster admits relationship with airline lobbyist - POLITICO

Alex flies Emirates Business Class and more

• Business Class Cabin Features | Flying with Emirates

TripIt half-repaints its website

• TripIt - Travel Itinerary - Trip Planner

Seats, seats and more seats

• Formation Design nominated for elevated lie-flat seating concept | Daily Mail Online
  A New Airplane Cabin Design Features King-Size Beds | Travel + Leisure
• Airbus patent bench seat revolutionize airline ticket sales - Business Insider

Another smart carry-on

• FLOATTI - The World's First SUPER SUITCASE by Floatti Inc — Kickstarter

David Verch tells us all about LugLoc

• David Verch - You guys talked about the luggage tracking... | Facebook

Amber and Eric mention us one more time!

• Episode 17: Luxury #AvGeek Experiences |

We're on iTunes, give us a review, pretty please :-)

• layovers ✈︎ by Paul Papadimitriou and Alex Hunter discuss aviation innovation and technology on iTunes

A new Matrix ITA guide

• Matrix ITA Advanced Guide: Tips for Finding Cheap Airfare

Drones are made out of plastic too, you know

• Drone believed to have hit British Airways flight 'may have been a plastic bag' | Hacker News
• That drone that hit a British Airways plane might have been a plastic bag — Quartz
• Drone hits plane at Heathrow airport, says pilot | UK news | The Guardian

Mueller leaves Malaysian

• Christoph Mueller bids farewell to MAB in September | Astro Awani

DME

• Moscow Domodedovo Airport

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Paul Papadimitriou

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