Alex listens to LiveATC as ASMR, whilst Paul recaptures the Greece of his youth.

From Tokyo in what may be the best business class there is, to Costa Rica for the battle of the carts, with a joyful ode to the wild horse of aircrafts, the 757.

From tech glitches to pristine skies, from the hustle of DXB T1 to an unexpected flyby in Curaçao, we taste turbulences, KLM food, and airborne Starlink speeds.

YVR-SIN-KUL-SIN-TPE-NRT, a long-haul family adventure, and not on a dusty train.

From the controversy of BA to the pinnacle of First Class extravaganza, from London to Delhi to Helsinki to New York to Dubai to Tokyo, this installment has all the emotions of a 10 year anniversary episode.

De-icing adventures, a tour of Europe, a visit to the wonderful Le Bourget aerospace museum, and the alternative timeline of retro-futuristic air travel.

Paul ventures into Ukraine. Alex soars above the Himalayas.

We take a little tour of those airports: OKA, ISG, HND, HNL, OGG, SFO, CEB, CRK, DXB, LGW, and wish all airlines would be called something like Japan Transocean Air.

Another episode around the world, LAX, KEF, AKL, BNE, AUH, DOH, LHR, IST, PDX featuring the consummate aviation professional, and ever-friendly, Hakan, with everything you ever wanted to know about flight planning, the secret of Heathrow Terminal 1 (why it's still standing), and more.

The AvGeek Odyssey of Vinod, from ground crew, to flight attendant, to two Covid Olympics: an episode full of aviation and travel stories, and lots of laughs.

It's Alex and Paul this time, not Paul and Alex, for it's another Alex (you've met her in 133!). From Male, with an all business airline, to Abu Dhabi, who means business with its new airport, we fly all around and over-analyze details of airlines (is there an orange remnant on that 319?) and airports (when even signage isn't enough).

Paul and Paolo share almost the same name, almost the same birthday, nearly the same height, and a great friendship and love for air travel. We compare notes on Cambodia and Vietnam.

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.

Kyle Potter, Executive Editor at Thrifty Traveler, all-around awesome dude, Hello Kitty enthusiast, and long time Layovers listener and friend, tells us all about why MSP is the best thing ever, like everything in Minnesota.

We ate a lot of chocolate, lots of cheese, and laughed a lot — how we traveled to Geneva to record Attaché for YouTube (the airline didn't put us on a scale for the return leg).