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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: A twenty nine on a Thursday of Love. This time
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Speaker 1: a week I heard media aviation extpert Jay Ratliff joins
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Speaker 1: us every week to talk aviation issues when we're not
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Speaker 1: talking stocks. Right, Jay, welcome back, my friend. Love having
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Speaker 1: you on the show.
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Speaker 2: I will talk about either one of them my friends,
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Speaker 2: but it's it's always good, always good to be here.
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Speaker 1: Jay always follows up the segment sometime in the morning,
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Speaker 1: like an hour from now. He's say, look, I'm made
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Speaker 1: eight grand today. It took me five minutes.
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Speaker 2: You actually I'm using I'm using a stock as we speak,
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Speaker 2: so they can do anything with it. For the end
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Speaker 2: of the segment, I'll let you know.
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Speaker 3: It only takes you a couple of minutes to turn
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Speaker 3: it around. I like to report you get that's Brian.
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Speaker 2: When I tell people that I I reduce the risk
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Speaker 2: of my stock trading by day trading, they look at
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Speaker 2: me like I'm nuts. But if you can take a
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Speaker 2: small bit of it, put it in the market for
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Speaker 2: you know, eight ten minutes at a time, you're reducing
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Speaker 2: your risk big time, and that's better protecting your portfolio.
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Speaker 2: So to me, that's the way to do it. I'm
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Speaker 2: not a part of the long term by holding prey
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Speaker 2: crowd and now the last six weeks, I think I'm
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Speaker 2: averaging seven thousand dollars a week. So look, Northwest Airlines
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Speaker 2: didn't pay me that. I mean it was worth it.
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Speaker 2: But I know, I know, I know how corporate America is, right,
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Speaker 2: I do care what we think.
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Speaker 3: You don't care.
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Speaker 1: And Southwest Airlines, I guess, is not going to be
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Speaker 1: cunning an eleven million dollar check. What's the story on this?
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Speaker 1: I know, I know you're really pleased about this outcome.
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Speaker 2: So you had and you just had to start with
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Speaker 2: this one, right, Let's get Jay's blood pressure up. The
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Speaker 2: Southwest Airlines two Christmases ago, it was the week of
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three Christmas week, they had a computer meltdown.
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Speaker 2: I mean, no other way to put it. The computer
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Speaker 2: system that we later found out was last updated in
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Speaker 2: like I don't know, nineteen ninety four, had crashed. This
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Speaker 2: is a computer system for scheduling that was developed, right,
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Speaker 2: I think at a time when Southwest was a third
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Speaker 2: of the size of what they are now. So the
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Speaker 2: Department Transportation under the Biden administration stepped in and said
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Speaker 2: time out here, you really drop the ball with regards
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Speaker 2: to your customers, we're finding you thirty five million dollars.
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Speaker 2: They were holding the airlines accountable. I was thrilled. And look,
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Speaker 2: Southwest is a great airline, but when you don't devote
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Speaker 2: the resources that your employees need, yeah, you've got to
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Speaker 2: pay for it. So Southwest has paid twenty four million
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Speaker 2: of that. The next payment of eleven million was due
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Speaker 2: in the next month in January, and the US Department
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Speaker 2: Transportation stepped in said, you know what, You've already paid enough.
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Speaker 2: You don't need to pay any more. You promise never
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Speaker 2: to do it again. It's going to be okay. Just
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Speaker 2: forget about that last of eleven million dollars. Now, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that bothers me a great deal. But this is the
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Speaker 2: trend of the Trump administration, which I'm a big fan of,
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Speaker 2: with regards to the treatment with the airline industry. The
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Speaker 2: airlines almost get a free pass. Not from a safety
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Speaker 2: related standpoint, Don't get me wrong there, because the FAA
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Speaker 2: is still doing their job there, trying to keep everything
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Speaker 2: safe as they can. But Brian, it just it drives
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Speaker 2: me out of my mind when we've got a situation
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Speaker 2: when you have just time after time after time of
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Speaker 2: having a situation where you've got this ongoing issue of
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Speaker 2: airlines getting away with what they do. It just it
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Speaker 2: drives me crazy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can imagine.
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Speaker 1: So this was a proprietary software that Southwest itself developed, yes, okay,
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Speaker 1: part of their system.
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Speaker 2: And I can't remember if it was the flight control system,
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Speaker 2: not flight control system, but if it was a crew
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Speaker 2: management system or something they were using for their flight
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Speaker 2: control as far as the using that, but it was
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Speaker 2: a system that was woefully outdated and over the years
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Speaker 2: Southwest has had issues with this. But Brian, they have
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Speaker 2: an all star team at Southwest and every single time
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Speaker 2: the men and women would find a way to pull
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Speaker 2: it out. They would rise to the occasion and save
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Speaker 2: the day. And sadly that's what worked against Southwest Airlines
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Speaker 2: because they could always rely on that happening. Well, it
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Speaker 2: just got to the point where it was just too much,
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Speaker 2: too quick, and there was no way they could get
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Speaker 2: past it. And yeah, you had a lot of passengers
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Speaker 2: that were in essence put in a situation over the
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Speaker 2: busy Christmas seat travel season, all the flights were filled
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Speaker 2: where you gonna put them. I mean, you've got a
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Speaker 2: flight of one hundred and fifty three people just canceled.
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Speaker 2: Every single flight around is full. I don't know where
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Speaker 2: you're gonna put them.
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Speaker 1: I understand the reason for the fine, and that becomes
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Speaker 1: crystal clear, Unlike, for example, if it was the outdated
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Speaker 1: ancient air traffic control system. So when's the federal government
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Speaker 1: can of find itself for not improving that one?
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Speaker 2: Oh, they'll find it and then they'll wave the fine
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Speaker 2: and we'll all feel better because they find themselves. That's
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Speaker 2: how it works.
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Speaker 3: I learned that from you, brother, amen.
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Speaker 1: And meanwhile they're they're busily scrambling around looking for five
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Speaker 1: and a quarter it's floppy disk to keep the thing
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Speaker 1: up and running.
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Speaker 2: Seven forty seven. Still, yeah, still are at a at
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Speaker 2: a point where they do get their updates through that.
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Speaker 1: So yes, indeed, I'll tell you what. Rather than go
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Speaker 1: extra long and draw the hairy eyeball from Executiveroducer, Joe
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Speaker 1: Strecker will pause right now, we'll bring you back. We'll
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Speaker 1: find out about this quantus flight, which is u given
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Speaker 1: faulty load and balanced numbers before takeoff. That sounds frightening.
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Speaker 1: Plus Tampa Airport award bonuses to some workers, et cetera.
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Speaker 1: We got multiple topics to go over with. I heart
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Speaker 1: media Aviation Expert Jay Ratlef's stick Around Right Back.
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Speaker 3: Fifty five KRC Champion Windows, seasons, the talk spatial. Have
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Speaker 3: you ever been in a cockpit.
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Speaker 1: Before Jay Ratliff has I heard Media Aviation Expert. We
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Speaker 1: had the pleasure of his company every Thursday for a
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Speaker 1: few segments. Segment number two here, This one's kind of weird.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how this works in terms of the
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Speaker 1: load distribution on a plight on a flight, but apparently
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Speaker 1: you have to watch that kind of stuff. What happened
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Speaker 1: with this Quantus flight, Well, we had.
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Speaker 2: We had a situation where you know Quantus, which is
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Speaker 2: known as what the safest to.
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Speaker 3: Airline in the world according to rain Man.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's absolutely the case. What ended up happening was
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Speaker 2: that the crew was given the detail. Well, what we're
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Speaker 2: hearing is that Quantus flight in December took off with
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Speaker 2: fifty one more passengers than were reported. Now, the weight
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Speaker 2: and balance calculations for each flight are exact, I mean
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Speaker 2: to the last pound, and a lot of times if
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Speaker 2: there's bad weather, the crew can say, you know what,
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Speaker 2: we could use some extra fuel because we may have
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Speaker 2: encounter delays. So since we've got a lighter load, let's
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Speaker 2: go ahead and put on some more fuel. And the
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Speaker 2: problem is you could then exceed your maximum allowable takeoff weight,
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Speaker 2: and you've got a problem because they had ten thousand
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Speaker 2: pounds of extra weight they did not know about. Now,
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Speaker 2: they could have also said, since we have a lighter load,
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Speaker 2: let's take off from a shorter runway. So yeah, it
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Speaker 2: just the the the ramifications of this being off this
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Speaker 2: much could have been could have been tragic, could have
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Speaker 2: been horrific. Now, the crew did taxi, they took off,
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Speaker 2: there was no problem, and it wasn't until they were
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Speaker 2: airborne that they realized when they were told what had
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Speaker 2: taken place. So as a result, you know, QUANTAS is investigating.
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Speaker 2: They're trying to look at this, trying to see exactly
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Speaker 2: what's taken place so that they can try to avoid
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Speaker 2: this kind of mistake from happening. In the airline industry.
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Speaker 2: As you and I have talked about forever, constantly shares
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Speaker 2: mistakes so that people at other airlines can learn from
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Speaker 2: what took place at Kuanas, so that they can make
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Speaker 2: sure they can take necessary steps to try to reduce
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Speaker 2: the likelihood of that taking effects so terrific company.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the airline that the flight ended up with fifty
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Speaker 1: one more people than originally expected, is that?
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Speaker 3: Is that what I understand?
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Speaker 2: Know, then the manifest showed let's say that they were
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Speaker 2: expecting two hundred and fifty one people. The paperwork showed
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Speaker 2: two hundred, so that two hundred people boarded, but they
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Speaker 2: really had two hundred and fifty one, So the manifest
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Speaker 2: itself didn't match with what they had. And you give
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Speaker 2: the crew the total number of passengers, the bags, the cargo,
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Speaker 2: all the stuff, so that they can compute what their
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Speaker 2: their maximum takeoff weight is going to be, and it
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Speaker 2: dictates everything that they do on the flight deck. So
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Speaker 2: when that's off, then the most critical moment of flight
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Speaker 2: take off has been in essence compromised if you're not careful.
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Speaker 2: So that's one of the reasons that so often, you know,
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Speaker 2: we tend to overlook sometimes just how good flight crews
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Speaker 2: are and all the inner workings of what goes on
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Speaker 2: in the airline industry, and it's got to be exact,
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Speaker 2: and sadly in this case for some reason, Yeah, think
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Speaker 2: through ten thousand extra pounds on the aircraft and passengers
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Speaker 2: and bags and the flight crew is unaware. Well, they
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Speaker 2: were operating on a different set of data.
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Speaker 1: It seems unusual to me, just based on all the
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Speaker 1: stories that you've talked about in this segment over the years,
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Speaker 1: that they would rely on the manifest in determining how
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Speaker 1: much extra fuel in this case, they could put on
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Speaker 1: the plane. Because we listen, there's always a scramble at
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Speaker 1: the end. People coming up in the gate lay, they
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Speaker 1: buy a ticket last minute, some people don't show up,
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Speaker 1: they overbook a flight, in which case I imagine they
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Speaker 1: wouldn't add extra fuel. But just to rely on manifest
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Speaker 1: and not rely on a head count, that just seems no.
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Speaker 2: What the crew gets is exact. So the people at
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Speaker 2: the gate may be expecting three hundred people, but if
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Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty three get on board, that's the
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Speaker 2: number of the crew uses. The crew's given exact numbers.
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Speaker 2: We have one hundred and eighty three souls on board.
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Speaker 2: You've got all of that stuff squared away so that
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Speaker 2: everybody's operating from the same you know, the same thing.
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Speaker 2: The problem was what was put on the airplane. The
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Speaker 2: information gave the pilots was ten thousand pounds off. It
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Speaker 2: was an operation issue where they did not h Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and that was really the problem.
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean the horror that you know, I can
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Speaker 1: imagine might happen as a consequence of this. You know,
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Speaker 1: the planes is not going to have lift off, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, isn't that really what you're talking about?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean remember the horrific common air crash in
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Speaker 2: Lexington that happened because the crew took off on the
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Speaker 2: wrong runway which was too short And yeah, I mean
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Speaker 2: had had quantas done something like that where they needed
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Speaker 2: more run Brian, It's just it's you know, flying is
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Speaker 2: in incredibly, incredibly safe. My apologies to anybody who's on
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Speaker 2: their way to the airport right now, because it's not
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Speaker 2: like something that happens. But you know, when you have
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Speaker 2: the number of flights that we have in the course
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Speaker 2: of the day, and you have eight or ten million
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Speaker 2: people a day that are flying worldwide, how often do
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Speaker 2: we talk about an accident that takes place? Very very
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Speaker 2: rarely do we. And that's a result of the training
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Speaker 2: that the crews have, the incredible equipment that we have,
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Speaker 2: and you know, just all the things that go on
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Speaker 2: behind the scenes to keep things safe. But one of
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Speaker 2: the things we have to have is a very exact
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Speaker 2: count of everything that's on the airplane so that the
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Speaker 2: crew at the last moment can do their weight and
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Speaker 2: balance calculations they can go from there. A lot of
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Speaker 2: times with those comm air jets, we would have a
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Speaker 2: situation with those fifty passengers, which were great to have,
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Speaker 2: but boy, they were painting the butt because if you
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Speaker 2: had a long flight with a lot of fuel, you'd
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Speaker 2: have to leave four or five people off the plane
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Speaker 2: because of the weight and balance requirements because they had
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Speaker 2: to take extra fuel, or you could take all the
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Speaker 2: passengers and no bags, or where you could take forty
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Speaker 2: seven people in some of the bags. I mean, there
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Speaker 2: was always this tightrope. Now, the bigger the airplane gets,
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Speaker 2: the more relaxed you can be on that where the
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Speaker 2: airplane is going to be able to be big enough
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Speaker 2: that it can take everything that you have, but those
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Speaker 2: weight and balance numbers that you give to the crew
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Speaker 2: have to be exact.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, well it just reminds me that the de
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Speaker 1: icing the wing thing. Since we're getting a big winter
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Speaker 1: storm tonight. You know, my dad and I were on
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Speaker 1: that flight bringing the Bengals back from Denver, long, long
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Speaker 1: time ago, and we sat on the runway in this snow,
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Speaker 1: and it kept snowing. We kept sitting there and sitting there,
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Speaker 1: and sitting there and sitting there. My dad has this
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Speaker 1: just pale white, you know, power to him, and he's
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Speaker 1: kind of holding onto this armrest. And after we finally
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Speaker 1: took off, I'm like, Dad, what is wrong with you?
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Speaker 1: He said, they didn't de ice the wings. They didn't
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Speaker 1: de ice the wings. And it was like, what are
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Speaker 1: you talking about. So explained me the icing procedures and
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Speaker 1: apparently there's a time limit that you have to follow
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Speaker 1: and you're going to get the ice the wings. I'm
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Speaker 1: on a flight several many years later, same situation, sitting
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Speaker 1: on the runway in this it's kind of a sleety
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Speaker 1: coming down, and I just looked at the stewardess. I said,
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Speaker 1: is the pilot going to have the wings the ice
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Speaker 1: before we take off? And she goes, oh, don't worry
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Speaker 1: about that. The pilot knows what he's doing. And then,
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Speaker 1: you know, five minutes later, she disappears, and then the
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Speaker 1: captain comes on, we're going to be taking a brief
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Speaker 1: break to pull over and have the wings the ice.
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Speaker 1: And I always think that I was responsible for getting
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Speaker 1: the wings the ice because my dad brought that to
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Speaker 1: my attention when he didn't say a word.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, and you've got to be aware of that,
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Speaker 2: because Brian, it's just it's a critical thing. And I've
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Speaker 2: said before, if you really want to have a lot
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Speaker 2: of fun on a plane you're not on, you can
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Speaker 2: go to YouTube and look up. I think it's a
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Speaker 2: Russian aircraft that is taking off and it has like
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Speaker 2: I don't know, a put of snow on the wing.
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Speaker 3: Oh lord, yes, how can you get lift?
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Speaker 2: How that airplane got off the ground? I don't I
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Speaker 2: tell you this. I would have been the next aviation
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Speaker 2: story because I had I been anywhere near an exit,
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Speaker 2: I would have been out the door before they pressurize
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Speaker 2: that aircraft to get out of there, because there's no
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Speaker 2: way that aircraft.
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Speaker 3: All right, food for thought for people who are flying
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Speaker 3: later in this evening.
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Speaker 2: Again, apologies, I get I get lots of fun emails.
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Speaker 3: Like stop it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know, yeah, And I'm no huge
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Speaker 1: fan of flag. Anyway, let's pausele ring jay back got
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Speaker 1: a couple more stories to talk about and get.
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Speaker 3: Our hubs see ice A forty nine.
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Speaker 1: If you have KCD Talk Station Brian Thomas with j
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Speaker 1: ratliffar aviation Expert. The entirety of iHeart Media is aviation expert.
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Speaker 1: He's on all over the nation. We get in for
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Speaker 1: a few segments on Thursdays and I love it. Let's
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Speaker 1: talk real quick since tomorrow's Tech Friday with Dave Hatter,
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Speaker 1: the TSA is warning about using public Wi Fi while
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Speaker 1: traveling through airports.
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Speaker 2: You and I talked about the the the charging ports
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Speaker 2: that are at their airports and how to be careful. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: because some some somehow we've had hackers that put out
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Speaker 2: some of these things like the fake ATM things or
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Speaker 2: things you put a gas pumps where people can unexpectedly
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Speaker 2: u you know, put something in and your your right
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Speaker 2: information is subject to hackers. Well, we've had that where
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Speaker 2: the TSA said, look, if you're going to charge your
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Speaker 2: phone at an airport, use your own charger. But they're
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Speaker 2: also saying, the TSA that they're getting reports of people
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Speaker 2: that are connecting to the public Wi Fi and airports
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Speaker 2: are placing themselves at risk as well because it's not
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Speaker 2: as secure. And Dave had it would know all about that.
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Speaker 2: Because the TSA is saying that Look, a lot of
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Speaker 2: these people are connecting to things that aren't as secure,
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Speaker 2: and it's allowing hackers to more easily access our personal information. Now,
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Speaker 2: when you've got the hectic pace of an airport, that
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Speaker 2: can cause a lot of people to let their guard
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Speaker 2: down because look, hits the time of travel exhaustion, the
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Speaker 2: last thing you're thinking about is protect your identification. So
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Speaker 2: I think that the TSA's warning comes at a good
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Speaker 2: point as we're approaching the end of the year with
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Speaker 2: we've got a lot of people traveling because you simply
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Speaker 2: can't be too careful. And that's something that I think
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Speaker 2: we can repeat over and over and over again, because
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Speaker 2: you've got to be careful when you're dealing with, you know,
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Speaker 2: trying to protect your identification.
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Speaker 1: Right, Well, that's a warning we all need to heed.
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Speaker 1: So and I think Dave has brought that kind of
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Speaker 1: thing up before too.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, he's yawning right now because you're so boring
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Speaker 2: to him. But I like to talk about it because
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Speaker 2: it was a TSA warning and it's just reminding people
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Speaker 2: when you're at the airport, just protect yourself.
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Speaker 1: You're electronic hygiene so to speak. All right, good, I
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Speaker 1: guess some of the Tampa Airport TSA workers are happy some.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think twenty one of them up till
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Speaker 2: now they got a ten thousand dollars bonus for their
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Speaker 2: their performance during the government shutdown. This is something that
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Speaker 2: was recommended by their supervisors and others and it was
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Speaker 2: a nice ten thousand dollars check and others are looking
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Speaker 2: to get the same. And it's nice because not one
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Speaker 2: time during that six week period of time did we
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Speaker 2: talk about too much the letdown of the TSA checkpoints
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Speaker 2: where you know they were miles or three mile long
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Speaker 2: screening lines. Know, most of the focus was on the
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Speaker 2: air traff controllers. The TSA did their job. I mean
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Speaker 2: they I don't know how most of us would be
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Speaker 2: if you showed up for work for six weeks and
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Speaker 2: you weren't getting paid at that time and you still
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Speaker 2: were expected to be as professional and good at what
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Speaker 2: you do as as you would do normally. I mean,
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Speaker 2: that's a lot of pressure and a lot of stress.
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Speaker 2: So the fact that they're getting rewarded, I think is
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Speaker 2: great and I think I'd love to see it more often.
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Speaker 1: Yep, I agree with you on that. Finally, wait, a
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Speaker 1: second good news from Spirit Airlines.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they were going only three hundred and sixty five
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Speaker 2: pilots off the latest of a bunch of layoffs. They've
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Speaker 2: decided they don't need to do that. And I'm thrilled
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Speaker 2: to death to hear it, because Spirit right now is
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Speaker 2: a good airline. But they're struggling right now, and it's
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Speaker 2: going to take some time for them to regain their footing,
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Speaker 2: and they're really headed in the right direction, and I
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Speaker 2: hope that it continues because you want Spirit Airlines to
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Speaker 2: be around because all the low cost carriers that are
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Speaker 2: out there helped to keep the faverage fares down. Yes,
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Speaker 2: that's why when we get a carrier here at CBG,
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Speaker 2: if it's Frontier, Allegiance Southwest, whoever it is, we talk
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Speaker 2: about let's support them. And if it Breeze has got
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Speaker 2: a great fare to the West coast. And you're thinking, well,
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Speaker 2: I'm a Delta freaking flyer. They matching the fair I'll
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Speaker 2: fly Delta. Okay, you do that, but then in six
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Speaker 2: months when an airline says, you know, we're not getting
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Speaker 2: the loads we thought we're gonna leave, please don't email
17:18
Speaker 2: me because I'll remind you that it's up to us. Well,
17:22
Speaker 2: that happened with air Tran. Air Tran came in in
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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety five in February trying to compete with Delta
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Speaker 2: Airlines with forty nine dollars fares from Cincinnati to Orlando,
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Speaker 2: please forty nine bucks. The problem was Delta matched the fares,
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Speaker 2: So are you gonna fly Delta or an air Tran
17:38
Speaker 2: which maybe you hadn't heard, you know, you didn't know
17:40
Speaker 2: who they were. They were spent off of Northwest Massaba Airlines,
17:44
Speaker 2: so it was a great airline. But the problem was
17:47
Speaker 2: everybody flew Delta, so air Tran ran practically empty flights
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Speaker 2: back and forth to Orlando for a year and a
17:53
Speaker 2: half before they said enough. And the minute they left,
17:56
Speaker 2: people started complaining about where an air Tran go. Excuse me,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'll me where they went. They left because
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Speaker 2: of us. But look, the community has done such a
18:06
Speaker 2: great job because when Frontier came here with their one
18:08
Speaker 2: flight of day to Denver, bringing it from the Dayton Airport,
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Speaker 2: I was pleading, please, this is our opportunity to support
18:15
Speaker 2: because it took a lot of work to get Frontier
18:17
Speaker 2: to come here. This is a place where on where
18:19
Speaker 2: you had low cost carriers came to die. You never
18:22
Speaker 2: bought a low cost carrier in here. Frontier came in here,
18:24
Speaker 2: started having success. Here comes Allegian all of a sudden,
18:27
Speaker 2: Southwest uproots their entire daton operation, brings them down here.
18:30
Speaker 2: You've got great things happening. Why because the community is
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Speaker 2: supporting the low cost carriers. I'm preaching to the choir
18:36
Speaker 2: because we've done a great job. But when I'm on
18:38
Speaker 2: when I'm on the air around the country, I tell
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Speaker 2: them to do what's what's happening right here at Cincinnati
18:42
Speaker 2: because we've we've got the model and the community as
18:45
Speaker 2: an incredible service.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's demonstrabs, demonstrable success. We were the highest airport
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Speaker 1: in the country in terms of the cost of airfare.
18:52
Speaker 1: People used to drive the Dayton to get a cheaper
18:54
Speaker 1: flight and then lay over to Cincinnati on the way
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Speaker 1: to wherever they were going.
18:57
Speaker 2: They would go anywhere. Well, now Dayton's a ghost town. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and you come down here and look at the license
19:02
Speaker 2: plates in the barking lot. They're from all over the
19:04
Speaker 2: Tri state area because they're coming here. Look when you
19:06
Speaker 2: can jump on a flight to go to Vegas for
19:10
Speaker 2: you know, one hundred and eighteen Bucks round trip or
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Speaker 2: Orlando for ninety nine dollars on trip, but during certain
19:14
Speaker 2: times of the year you factor in inflation. It's cheaper
19:18
Speaker 2: to fly now than it ever has been in the
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Speaker 2: history of aviation, only made possible by low cost carriers.
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Speaker 1: Support your low cost carrier. Keith from Iowa says hello,
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Speaker 1: he loves you, and Eric wants to know if you
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Speaker 1: have your own podcast.
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Speaker 2: I do not. I've been asked, ive been encouraged, in fact,
19:32
Speaker 2: by several of our producers to do so. Sleep is
19:35
Speaker 2: already an interruption of my day. Do you think I'm
19:37
Speaker 2: gonna have time for a podcast?
19:39
Speaker 3: Listen, you're making fat bank in the market. You don't
19:42
Speaker 3: need that job day. I understand completely.
19:45
Speaker 2: Can I can I give you the amount that I
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Speaker 2: made in the time we've been talking, go ahead, six
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Speaker 2: eighty one dollars and twenty one pos.
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Speaker 3: I've been talking to him since eight thirty this morning.
19:55
Speaker 2: I sent I sent, I sent you screenshot because I
19:57
Speaker 2: want you to know that we've got a few other
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Speaker 2: stocks at my ste ns and I are looking at
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Speaker 2: I come. Just protect your portfolio, Just go enjoy the
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Speaker 2: rest say opening bells, not for what thirty four.
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Speaker 3: Minutes or so.
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Speaker 3: Jay.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, hub delays. I guess I gotta worry
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Speaker 2: Nothing nothing, With apologies to Bismarck, North Dakota. We're in
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Speaker 2: good shape.
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Speaker 1: Wonderful news, Jay rightlift, love you man, appreciate you being
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