Hosted by Michael Seong · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 11 episodes
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Wake Up and Smell The Jet Fuel! is an AI-generated aviation show for people who love airplanes and love watching spreadsheets, software, and human decisions occasionally set those airplanes up for the most chaotic day imaginable.Each episode takes a real aviation incident, operational meltdown, or forgotten airline-era oddity and breaks it down like a group chat doing forensic analysis—except we actually explain what the acronyms mean. Expect sharp humor, dramatic reenactments of cockpit confusion, and plain-English translations of the things that make aviation both brilliantly
Michael Seong hosts Wake Up and Smell The Jet Fuel!, a leisure show with 11 episodes published.
On July 4, 2000, Malév Flight 262 rolls into Thessaloniki with big “I’ve done this a thousand times” energy, and then casually forgets the one accessory that makes landings landings: the landing gear. Bianca and Tiffany
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Show notesIn the summer of 2008, as fuel prices spiked and airlines panicked, US Airways tried an idea so unpopular it became aviation folklore: charging coach passengers for soft drinks and bottled water. Starting August 1, 2008,
Show notesAt 41,000 feet over the Pacific, an Air Nippon Boeing 737-700 turned into a physics lesson because of one simple human error: the First Officer tried to unlock the cockpit door for the captain and accidentally operated t
Show notesIn July 2001 at 1 AM in Bangkok, a charter flight home for Korean tourists turned into a surreal airport nightmare. The airline was Kampuchea Airlines, the aircraft was a well-aged Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, and the flight
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Show notesIn October 2009, Northwest Airlines Flight 188, an Airbus A320 from San Diego to Minneapolis, managed to do the one thing an airliner is not supposed to do on approach: it casually flew right past the destination. For 77
Show notesBefore QR code menus and fifteen-dollar snack boxes, Delta ran a brilliantly cynical little experiment called SkyDeli. Starting in the mid-1990s, instead of serving tray meals on many domestic flights, Delta handed passe
Show notesSummer 2000 should have been peak travel season. Instead, United turned it into a case study in how an airline can collapse without a single hurricane in sight. With an on time arrival rate that cratered to 41.7% in July
Show notesIn 2000, American Airlines did something so rare it deserves to be preserved in a museum: they voluntarily made economy class roomier. The “More Room Throughout Coach” campaign, aka MRTC, pulled roughly 7,200 seats out o
Show notesA Malaysia Airlines 777 leaves Perth for Kuala Lumpur and immediately chooses violence, but in the most corporate way possible: by politely delivering contradictory warnings and letting the computers argue about reality.
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Wake Up and Smell The Jet Fuel! is hosted by Michael Seong. The show is categorised under leisure (aviation) and has published 11 episodes.
Wake Up and Smell The Jet Fuel! has published 11 episodes.
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