We begin the year with a mess in Amsterdam as more than 3,000 flights have been canceled at the airport this week following snow storms and a long list of operational problems. We look at the impact on civil aviation from the US military action in Venezuela last weekend. Kazakhstan investigators issue an update on their investigation into Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243.

We delve into a wide variety of regulatory updates, including another round of radio altimeter updates because of 5G mobile data. It would appear that Pakistan International Airlines is actually on its way to privatization.

And in our most exciting story on this week’s episode, Coulson is developing a 767 Very Large Air Tanker for fire fighting.

Other helpful links

• American bets passengers might actually prefer longer trips – CrankyFlier
• Cathay Pacific’s 80th anniversary livery A350
• American Airlines’ newest 100th anniversary livery

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