On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we add extreme heat to the unpleasantness of this summer’s travel woes, one flight comes within six feet of a much different ending, and we begin a new special segment to stay up to date on merger news. The smoldering summer of suck becomes the sweltering summer of suck Airlines and airports continue to look for solutions to travel woes, with middling success. But Icelandair has come up with a way to ensure its Amsterdam flights operate on time: they’re sending their own baggage handlers on each flight. London’s Heathrow Airport is capping passengers at 100,000 per day, but there’s a wrinkle in that plan as far as the airlines are concerned. And Lufthansa is canceling another 2,000 flights through the end of August. Accidents and investigations A flight operated by Airhub Airlines into Paris came within six feet of a very different ending. A snow shovel could have prevented a Embraer E145 from landing on the grass in Presque Isle. The UK AAIB r...