Layovers - Air Travel podcast Paul Papadimitriou

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 Tokyo and then some, and we geek out on aviation, from a rant about the bundling of the unbundling, to an admiration for Air Astana (not really for the current Almaty airport).

We visit Bologna, Istanbul, Bari, Birmingham, Brindisi, we are in a Mission Impossible movie, and we're running like Tom Cruise over the new Midfield Terminal in Abu Dhabi.

It's a lot about Japan in this episode. And the two dings, the ominous two dings, they will make robots of flight attendants.