Optimum Air's marketing campaign is very similar to Southwest Airline's strategy when it was just a start-up in 1967.
This episode titled "Flight Risk" was inspired by the Harvey Weinstein scandal, but set in the airline industry as opposed to the movie industry in Hollywood.
The airport scenes are filmed at Westchester County Airport (HPN) in Rye Brook, NY. The hallway the detectives and airline rep are walking down connects the terminal to the parking garage.
When Finn says that Captain Carter "flew during Shock and Awe" he is talking about the initial airstrikes during the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003. The initial attack happened on March 19, 2003 with the Iraqi military being hit with the full force of the United States, British and Australian military. The first strike of the operation was carried out by members of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. A flight of MH-60L Action Penetrators and four 'Black Swarm' flights - each consisting of a pair of AH-6M Little Birds and a FLIR equipped MH-6M to identify targets for the AH-6's (each Black swarm flight was assigned a pair of A-10A's) engaged Iraqi visual observation posts along the southern and western borders of Iraq. In the space of seven hours, more than 70 sites were destroyed, effectively depriving the Iraqi military of any early warning of the coming invasion. As the sites were eliminated the first heliborne SOF teams launched from H-5 airbase in Jordan, including vehicle-mounted patrols from the British and Australian components who were transported by the MH-47E's of the 160th SOAR. Ground elements of Task Force Dagger, Task Force 20, Task Force 14 and Task Force 64 breached the sand berms along the Iraqi border with Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the early morning hours and drove into Iraq. The invasion was swift, leading to the collapse of the Iraqi government and the military of Iraq in about three weeks. A perfect example of a shock and awe tactic if there ever was one.
This is the first time since "The Newsroom" that the death of Mike Dodds is mentioned.