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).

What rookie mistake did Alex do this time? A story involving cheeseboards, Star Wars mirages, and a hot air balloon.

Alex finally flies something else than BA/AA to the US, and Paul has so many questions (but no ceiling).

How is it we had never actually done MAD as an episode title? This ends today, however the mad MADrid dash from T4S to T4 never does.

The romantic rendez-vous in Charles de Gaulle — and yes, we finally give you our answers to: airports we think are overrated, airports we like, airports you love, airports we feel ourselves in, airports we need to visit.

Our friend Hakan, aka LAFlyr, is opening 2023 with us — from going early at the airport as a kid to see the planes, to, err, going early to the airport as an adult to see the planes (but he works in aviation as an adult!). He's got tons of avgeek stories, and thoughts.

Ed heard the Concorde prototype as a kid, flew on the Concorde before it got retired, explored all the Concordes in existence around the world since, and now accesses the Concorde Rooms. What a great guest for a fun episode full of insights, thank you so much Ed!

A few snowy destinations, a few Italian destinations, some airport gardens, and everything in between — be excellent to each other.

The adventure of flying to Saudi Arabia to see the Nabataeans tombs of AlUla.

Alex needed to be in Quebec City, so he obviously flew to Montreal — or maybe Paul did send him there so he can have an excuse for STILL not having been to Canada.

Paul flies in, out, and around Pakistan. Alex gets plusgraded to Upper Class.

The Southern/Baja California Alex & Megan 2022 Tour, and the air travel stories of the summer. (And no, it's the other La Paz, everyone).

Strikes add to the travel chaos, for a summer of discontent, and Alex experiences it all first hand — are we back to the 1970s? Two hours of air travel stories to unravel it all, and more.

Brace brace brace, travel chaos ahead! Another two hours fly by between Alex and Paul, going to Medellin and back, with a million stories in between.

A Round the World conversation with our friend Mark Vanhoenacker for the launch of his new book 'Imagine a City'. We talk about our love for cities, the small ones of our birth, the big ones of our dreams, afar from the skies, and up close on the ground. Mark also tells us about moving from his beloved 747 to the 787. A conversation even a fire alarm couldn't stop.

Virgin Atlantic to the Caribbean and back, Paul is finally no longer a Virgin virgin. Flying from SLU over St Lucia in an Airbus Helicopter. The Cathay white liveries. The 777X is delayed for the 500th time. Who's flying the Air France 777?