Runway Briefing

About Runway Briefing

Your five-minute daily briefing for people who love aviation. From new routes and aircraft orders to airline strategy, fleet changes, airports, and the stories everyone’s talking about — everything you need to know about the world of aviation, delivered like a friend catching you up over coffee. Whether you work in the industry, rack up the miles, or just spend way too much time on Flightradar24, Runway Briefing is for you.

Publisher

Ryan Holstein

Category

business · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Aug 2026

Latest episode

8 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

55 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Nov 2026

   LAX Near-Miss, a Cessna Flip at John Wayne, and American's Split Personality on First Class

   An Air France A350 and an American A321 come within 400 feet of each other over LAX, and a Cessna gets flipped by jet blast at John Wayne the same weekend. Plus, a Southwest flight attendant apparently quits mid-flight after a crew blowup, and American Airlines can't decide if it loves or hates first class.

2. 

   7 Nov 2026

   Southwest's Rough Week, Airlines Accused of Price-Fixing, and Qatar's Hans Zimmer Boarding Music

   The NTSB drops a scary report on a Southwest 737 MAX that flew 44 times with undetected tail damage — and then, as if on cue, another Southwest jet loses an engine on takeoff. Plus, airlines get hit with new price-fixing lawsuits, the industry's top lobbyist says everyone's happy while his own survey says otherwise, British Airways trains crews on urine-soaked seats, and Qatar Airways gets Hans Zimmer to score your boarding music.

3. 

   6 Nov 2026

   Singapore Airlines Goes All In On Luxury, Europe's Bomb Hoax Headache, and KLM's Layoffs Keep Growing

   Singapore Airlines just dropped its biggest cabin redesign in a decade — complete with a double bed in first class and a theme song performed by flight crew. Plus, a fresh wave of bomb hoaxes disrupts flights across Europe for the second day running, KLM piles on another thousand job cuts, Southwest can't find the on-time gate, and Emirates somehow turns a profit in the middle of a war zone.

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Spotify

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2 ratings

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