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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: See the talk station.
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Speaker 2: Eight thirty on a Thursday. One thing's for sure, and
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Speaker 2: I'm happy about it. It's time rightheart Mediamah expert Jay
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Speaker 2: Ratliff joined the program to talk about some actually some
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Speaker 2: really fun topics this morning. Jay, welcome back to the program.
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Speaker 2: You don't know this, but I saw you yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Did you really satellite over Savannah?
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Speaker 1: I told Jerry about stuff Montgomery Road?
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Speaker 2: What were you doing there? Oh it was your billboard,
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Speaker 2: it was your day trade fund billboard.
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Speaker 1: Probably hanging out if you were.
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Speaker 2: Hanging out anyway, I got a big kick out of it. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: Moving away from stock trading over to seventy thousand ecstasy pills,
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Speaker 2: Jay Ratliffe.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a Middlasia Airlines pilot. He was arrested
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Speaker 3: after Indonesian customs officials found not to be exact. I
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Speaker 3: think it was seventy thousand and one and fourteen ecstasy
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Speaker 3: pills in his bag and did the urine Pastry came
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Speaker 3: off the flight to find out, Hey, this guy is
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Speaker 3: under the influence of cocaine. So not only was he
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Speaker 3: carrying drugs, oh wow, he was flying.
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Speaker 1: Under the influence of cocaine.
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Speaker 3: Thirty nineteen year old wilet again, it's from Malaysia Airlines.
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Speaker 3: So the good news here is it was not a
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Speaker 3: US carrier. The good news even better they caught the
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Speaker 3: guy so that he can't be a risk to anyone else.
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Speaker 1: But good facious.
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Speaker 3: I mean that, I guess you'd have to be high
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Speaker 3: to think that you could try to sneak on seventy
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Speaker 3: and fourteen pills of drugs.
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Speaker 1: In your bag.
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Speaker 2: Well, it gives me some comfort anyway that he got busted.
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Speaker 2: So there's that. But the question mark always is swirling around.
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Speaker 2: You know, they catched you know, they found three tons
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Speaker 2: of cocaine coming over the border. How many tons got
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Speaker 2: through that they didn't find. There's the component we all
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Speaker 2: want to know about.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly it.
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Speaker 3: And that's why with security with crew members and people
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Speaker 3: that work at airports and everything else, it needs to
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Speaker 3: be as high as we can make it. And sadly
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Speaker 3: that still remains one of the softer parts security when
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Speaker 3: it comes to aviation around the world. And you know,
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Speaker 3: hopefully stories like this allow us to kind of tighten
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Speaker 3: it just a bit bit, to make make sure the
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Speaker 3: random screening of some of these full becomes every single
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Speaker 3: time it's your airport type of thing.
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Speaker 2: Fair enough, nof you jump over to the other topic.
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Speaker 2: I just want to let my listening audience know, yes,
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Speaker 2: we are aware, Joe as where I'm aware, maybe Jay
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Speaker 2: isn't because you can't hear it. I don't know the
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Speaker 2: popping noise, the interference with the fun that's our phone system,
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. We've got a lot of requests
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Speaker 2: to get the problem solved, so it's a long term solution.
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Speaker 2: Of course it is. Anyway, we were aware of it.
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Speaker 2: I apologize for it. Occasionally. Sometimes the words get so
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Speaker 2: garbage you can't even hear them, so I am just
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Speaker 2: trying to nip the inevitable emails and text messages and
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Speaker 2: everything else we hear about when the phone starts popping
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Speaker 2: like that. So sorry to interject that, Jay, but I
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Speaker 2: felt it was necessary.
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Speaker 3: I thought it might be me. I was standing on
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Speaker 3: one leg leaning hoping that that would help. But obviously
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Speaker 3: you can stop that, so you can.
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Speaker 2: And here all along until I found out that it
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Speaker 2: was the phone system, I thought it was my headset
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Speaker 2: doing it. Every time it happened, I would be adjusting
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Speaker 2: the little mic jack, thinking that was going to solve
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Speaker 2: the problem. Anyway, there's your answer. Lets I want to
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Speaker 2: jump ahead because I am wildly curious about the last
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Speaker 2: topic on your topic list, passengers bringing personal hammocks through security.
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Speaker 2: What is this something I missed out on.
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Speaker 3: It's a thing now. I mean you can google it
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Speaker 3: limits as far as airport hammocks, and you will find
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Speaker 3: passengers that are traveling with their carry on luggage a hammock,
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Speaker 3: so that if they're delayed at any any step along
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Speaker 3: the way, they can, you know, just like they're between
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Speaker 3: two trees in the woods, you know, string up this
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Speaker 3: canvas hammock and just lay down and take an ap.
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Speaker 3: But gone are the days you kind of grab a
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Speaker 3: sleeping bag and you slide over in the corner against
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Speaker 3: the wall trying to grab some z's because we know
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Speaker 3: you can't sleep in the chairs at airports because of
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Speaker 3: how all the arms prevent us from laying across. True,
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Speaker 3: and they're designed for that obviously. But the point here
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Speaker 3: is that, yeah, this is becoming more and more prevalent,
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Speaker 3: and airlines can't really do much. TSA can't back. TSA
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Speaker 3: was asked this week are you going allow these through
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Speaker 3: the security checkpoint? And they say, well, it's not a
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Speaker 3: security issue. So yeah, obviously we're going to allow them through.
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Speaker 3: So I suspect it's going to be airports that are
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Speaker 3: going to have to step in and say, wait a minute, you.
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Speaker 1: Can carry them.
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Speaker 3: You start stringing these things up between two pillars at
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Speaker 3: twenty feet across, and that creates, you know, problems for
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Speaker 3: people that are I don't walking through the terminal area
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Speaker 3: or the gate area.
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Speaker 1: That's going to become an issue because you have.
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Speaker 3: Twenty thirty state that are up there. I mean, it's
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Speaker 3: going to be a problem for a lot of people
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Speaker 3: that are trying to move. And that's one of the
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Speaker 3: things that we're looking at right now is the airports
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Speaker 3: are probably going to have to weigh in on this
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Speaker 3: because apparently the these are like way easy to carry
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Speaker 3: a sturdy and if you've got you know, three four
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Speaker 3: five hours, you're coming off of an international flight where
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Speaker 3: you've got an extended period of time at an airport,
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Speaker 3: or you're just facing a bunch of delays in a
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Speaker 3: day when you're exhausted. Yeah, now you can just bring
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Speaker 3: your own hammock and throw it up and just take
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Speaker 3: a nice nap in the airport.
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Speaker 2: That is okay. Yeah, I can certainly see the becoming
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Speaker 2: a problem part.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice. It's a nice.
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Speaker 2: Comfort controlled environment usually in an airport HVAC and nice
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Speaker 2: and cool in the summertime, warm in the winter. I
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Speaker 2: can see someone maybe take advantage of the ability to
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Speaker 2: now comfortably sleep in an airport and maybe set up
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Speaker 2: shop there as a permanent residence. Just the thought homeless problem.
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Speaker 1: Some airports to have a homeless situation. Yeah, homeless where
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Speaker 1: people come in.
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Speaker 3: So when and now you have they're not even flying,
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Speaker 3: they'll bring these things and just you know, I can
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Speaker 3: of camp.
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Speaker 2: Out there, all right. So anyhow, we're gonna we got
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Speaker 2: another problem going on. It's close calls. We have yet
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Speaker 2: another one that Jay's going to let us know about.
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Speaker 2: Uh plus, will you be dealing with humanoid robots?
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Speaker 1: Maybe not?
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Speaker 2: Maybe more with Jay Ratliff, I heard men the aviation
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Speaker 2: expert don't go away fifty five the talk station.
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Speaker 3: Listen, have you ever been in the cockpit before?
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Speaker 2: Jay Ratliff? Has I heard media aviation expert Jay Love
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Speaker 2: every Thursday for a few segments. Ketnting over to Washington
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Speaker 2: Reagan International Airport, Jay Ry left got another close call,
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Speaker 2: this one a little bit different than the other. One's
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Speaker 2: kind of an important close call.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of a big time issue here because it
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Speaker 3: involved Marine one. You had the President flying from the
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Speaker 3: White House to Air Force to the aircraft is the
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Speaker 3: air Force one. And then the typical protocol is before
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Speaker 3: they leave the White House, they'll get a hold of
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Speaker 3: Washington Reagan Airport and give them a three minute We're
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Speaker 3: going to be wheels up in three minutes. That's the
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Speaker 3: advanced notice. They know to clear the airspace, stop aircraft
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Speaker 3: from taking off and landing, and that gives them ample notice. Also,
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Speaker 3: from a security standpoint, you want to make sure you
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Speaker 3: don't give too much notice. Three minutes seems to be it.
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Speaker 3: So Marine one very clearly, as you listen to air
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Speaker 3: traffic control tapes, it did, in fact give not only one,
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Speaker 3: but multiple indications of their departure. They're coming across the
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Speaker 3: sky and all of a sudden, the air traffic control
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Speaker 3: tower says, hey, what happened to our three minute notice?
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Speaker 3: They said, we provided that. So there was a regional
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Speaker 3: jet that was allowed to take off, and it did.
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Speaker 3: At the time, I believe there was one and a
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Speaker 3: half miles horizontal separation, five hundred feet vertical separation. There
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Speaker 3: was no close call here other than it was closer
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Speaker 3: than the FA mandates. Plus those parameters are in place
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Speaker 3: for two commercial aircraft. When it comes to Air Force one,
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Speaker 3: you have a much bigger no fly zone that is
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Speaker 3: in place, and no aircraft should have been allowed to
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Speaker 3: take off or land. So the NTSB and the National
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Speaker 3: Transportation Safety Board are going to be investigating this to
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Speaker 3: see what happens. And you know, the couple of things
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Speaker 3: that immediately came to mind when the report surface was,
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Speaker 3: you know, here we go again. We've got to do
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Speaker 3: what we can to really kind of tighten things up
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Speaker 3: at this airport because we're talking about this too much.
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Speaker 3: And then Brian I wondered how many people were going
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Speaker 3: to lose it job today because they went on social
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Speaker 3: media to make some comment about wishing things had gone
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Speaker 3: differently with that.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's going to happen, it will, there's anyhow, I
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Speaker 2: don't send me down that road, Jay Ratliffe, Annie, this
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Speaker 2: is the same airport where they're plane collide with a
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Speaker 2: military helicopter, right yes, And.
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Speaker 3: It's also the same airport where they've not really restricted
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Speaker 3: things as they need to, which is driving the head
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Speaker 3: of the National Transportation Safety Board absolutely out of her mind.
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Speaker 3: She has indicated that we had that situation where we
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Speaker 3: had the military helicopter in the American Airlines regional jet collide.
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Speaker 1: We had a loss of life.
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Speaker 3: We knew that this was a problem because it had
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Speaker 3: been happening hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times in
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Speaker 3: a short period of time where aircraft were being forced
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Speaker 3: to board either take off or landing because of the
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Speaker 3: helicopters that were crossing the river there or along the
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Speaker 3: river crossing an active runway. And I mean we were
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Speaker 3: on borrowed time. Nobody did anything about it. You have
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Speaker 3: a loss of life, and now we're really not talking
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Speaker 3: about doing all we need to do. And the NTSB
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Speaker 3: chairs said, look, we don't want to have to investigate
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Speaker 3: these again. These changes have to be put in place
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Speaker 3: if we're serious about safety being our number one priority,
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Speaker 3: which is a great talking point and they always say that,
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Speaker 3: and I always laugh and get sick at the same
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Speaker 3: time when they do, because it's not and when you've
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Speaker 3: got these politicians and all these other people that want
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Speaker 3: to feel super important and being commanding individuals that they
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Speaker 3: fly across there so they're not delayed, Yes, it puts
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Speaker 3: people at risk, but please don't bother me with those details.
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Speaker 3: It just drives me crazy. So you know, is it
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Speaker 3: going to take a second accident a third At what
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Speaker 3: point in time does the loss of life dictate a
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Speaker 3: change in protocol because obviously, right now it's not enough.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, Well, it sounds like they may be at thinking
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Speaker 2: in advance, getting ahead of potential problems they've identified. Have
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Speaker 2: I don't realize. I didn't realize there were humanoid robots,
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Speaker 2: robots out in the world world that were capable of
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Speaker 2: doing all kinds of things we can. But anyway, from
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Speaker 2: what I understand, nearly every airline has banned humanoid robots.
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Speaker 2: Is this as passengers or as employees?
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Speaker 3: Well, on the passenger side, and we'll talk about both.
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Speaker 3: On the passenger side, we had a Southwest Airlines flight
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Speaker 3: where there was a man flying He was actually returning
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Speaker 3: from a Las Vegas technology convention where he was traveling
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Speaker 3: with this and if I put a tall robot, this
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Speaker 3: humanoid and on the way back, the Southwest agent said, Hey,
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Speaker 3: wait a minute, what.
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Speaker 1: Powers this thing?
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Speaker 3: And they said, oh, a very nice powerful lithium battery.
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Speaker 3: And they're like, ooh, time out here. Those are the
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Speaker 3: things that we really are weary of on cell phones laptops.
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Speaker 3: This thing is a much bigger one. And the guy said, okay, well,
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Speaker 3: once it's seated, I'll just detach the lithium battery, and
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Speaker 3: Southwest said, no, we need some direction from corporate. So
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Speaker 3: they did not allow the individuals, the individuals, the man
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Speaker 3: in his robot to make the return trip, and what
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Speaker 3: ended up happening was Southwest later came out and said, look,
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Speaker 3: we're concerned about this from the listium battery standpoint, so
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Speaker 3: we are going to not allow for the time being
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Speaker 3: these humanoid robots to fly as passengers aboard our planes.
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Speaker 3: Were having Delta, United and others that have come out
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Speaker 3: echoing that same policy. And I think it was Fortune
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Speaker 3: magazine last summer that had an article that was quite
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Speaker 3: telling and saying, in ten years, we're going to have fifteen.
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Speaker 1: Million of these human robots walking among us.
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Speaker 3: So it's going to become more and more prevalent, and
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Speaker 3: airlines are trying to get ahead of it. I'm certainly
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Speaker 3: glad they did. You would think the FAA might have
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Speaker 3: done something along those lines, but they're not, so thankfully
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Speaker 3: the airlines are now we do have In Japan. Japan
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Speaker 3: Airlines is under a two year program right now test
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Speaker 3: program where they have these humanoid robots loading airplanes. They've
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Speaker 3: got a shortage of personnel there and they said, hey,
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Speaker 3: we'll look to see if these robots can do repetitive
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Speaker 3: tasks to alleviate some of the shortage that we have
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Speaker 3: from a personnel standpoint.
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Speaker 1: That seems to be going well. And I can tell you.
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Speaker 3: Every airline on the planet brand is watching this to
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Speaker 3: see how it goes if they can, uh, you know,
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Speaker 3: and and of course all the airline ages are gonna
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Speaker 3: get excited. Hey, you know, we're gonna get some help.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna get some help. No, you're gonna get replaced, replaced.
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Speaker 3: What's gonna happen is they get enough of these bad boys.
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Speaker 3: They don't tend to call in sick.
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Speaker 2: No four oh one K to fund Jay, No four
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Speaker 2: to one, no health insurance premiums to pay.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 2: You can go on and on and on every human
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Speaker 2: failure that we can identify, problem solve with a humanoid robot.
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Speaker 2: We'll bring Jay ratlift to talk about. I'm wondering in
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Speaker 2: whose benefit will American Airlines refund policy benefit. Plus, the
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Speaker 2: FAA actually did something. Speaking of the FAA, Jay just
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Speaker 2: mentioned that we'll find out about that as well. And
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Speaker 2: if it's a good day to travel more a fifty
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Speaker 2: kars de talk station that e Friday eve I heard
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Speaker 2: media expert Jay Ratlift on the phone. We got some
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Speaker 2: little if you couple more timebics that covered this morning. Jay,
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Speaker 2: and I certainly enjoyed discussing these topics with you every week.
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Speaker 2: Let me guess the new refund policy benefits American airlines
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Speaker 2: more than the customer. I'm just going out at a
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Speaker 2: limit suggesting that I have no idea what the policy
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Speaker 2: change is, but that seems to be the direction they go.
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Speaker 2: So what's the story on this one?
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Speaker 3: It is, it's act well, but it's a minor and
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Speaker 3: we can live with this one because before with American
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Speaker 3: we could make a reservation, we head up to forty
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Speaker 3: eight hours to cancel.
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Speaker 1: It if we didn't want it.
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Speaker 3: Now they have moved that forty eight hours back to
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Speaker 3: twenty four, which is comparable to pretty much every other
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Speaker 3: airline in the country.
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Speaker 1: So what they're doing.
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Speaker 3: Is it's a little bit more consistent with what the
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Speaker 3: carriers are, but the whole but The bottom line is
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Speaker 3: that if you make a reservation on American as long
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Speaker 3: as it's not within the week of the travel, you've
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Speaker 3: got twenty four hours to cancel it if you don't
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Speaker 3: want it, or you know, something comes up. And that's okay. Yes,
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Speaker 3: it's going to benefit American airlines where you know, slightly
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Speaker 3: from a revenue standpoint, but they're not doing something crazy
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Speaker 3: out of the box like our friends in Europe with
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Speaker 3: Jetstar as they're going to start charging for overhead storage
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Speaker 3: compartment use. Yeah, wait for that for an airline coming
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Speaker 3: to us here in the States. Because they can figure
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Speaker 3: out how to police it.
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Speaker 1: You better believe they're.
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Speaker 2: Going to do just that, no doubt about that. Now
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Speaker 2: he's comment about the FAA, and of course foot dragging
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Speaker 2: is kind of common there, but they actually did do
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Speaker 2: something certified the Boeing seven thirty seven seven Max.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the seventh series.
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Speaker 3: It's going to allow Boeing to finally continue to deliver,
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Speaker 3: produce these aircraft and get them out, especially early next year,
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Speaker 3: and the airline is going to benefit. I think the
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Speaker 3: most from this is going to be Southwest because Southwest
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Speaker 3: either has or has orders in for three hundred of
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Speaker 3: these aircraft. They're very fuel efficient, very customer friendly. Of course,
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Speaker 3: the Boeing Max issues, we've talked about those issues in
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Speaker 3: the past.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that have happened.
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Speaker 3: The FAA has done, i think a pretty good job
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Speaker 3: of making sure that Boeing is doing everything they're supposed to.
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Speaker 3: There's still an element on some of the Boeing produced
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Speaker 3: airplanes that the FAA is going to again allow Boeing.
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Speaker 1: To do self certification. Yes, kids, grade your own homework,
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Speaker 1: will show you be honest.
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Speaker 3: Hopefully that's Hopefully that's not going to be a mistake
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Speaker 3: again because that got us into trouble before. But you know,
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Speaker 3: I'm just hopeful that Boeing does what Boeing has done
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Speaker 3: in the past, and that is be the the leader
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Speaker 3: in safety that's been for decades. That hasn't been the
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Speaker 3: case of late. And I'll know in four or five,
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Speaker 3: six years, we'll all see if their promises are actually
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Speaker 3: genuine this time, because we believed them years ago, six
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Speaker 3: years ago, and they lied to us and hopefully may
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Speaker 3: now mean it.
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Speaker 1: So we'll have to wait and see.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, clearing that seven thirty seven seven series for
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Speaker 3: approval to certificate process was huge, not only for Boeing
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Speaker 3: because they got a nice little pop in their stock price,
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Speaker 3: but also for a lot of airlines around the world
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Speaker 3: that are trying to replace older, aging aircraft and bring
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Speaker 3: in these more fuel efficient aircraft. And boy, first a
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Speaker 3: time to have a more fuel efficient airplane, it's now
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Speaker 3: with some of the elevated cost.
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Speaker 1: Of a fuel eric.
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Speaker 2: I understand the Boston Red Sox or having a difficulty
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Speaker 2: with Delta airline charters.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: In fact, they used Delta for their charters and not once,
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Speaker 3: not twice, but three times the aircraft that they've used
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Speaker 3: has broken down and caused significant delays. They were coming
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Speaker 3: out out of la with the recent series with the Dodgers,
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Speaker 3: and they get on the plane as their travel day
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Speaker 3: and it's not until the wee hours of the morning
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Speaker 3: that they were able to get that airplane fixed. They
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Speaker 3: travel on a Boeing seven fifty seven, which is an
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Speaker 3: older type of aircraft. It's specifically tailored for, you know,
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Speaker 3: with fewer seats and different configurations for VIP travel and
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Speaker 3: the you know, the Red Sox spent a great deal
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Speaker 3: of money on these charters. And when I was with
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Speaker 3: the Northwest, I was a travel coordinator for the Detroit
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Speaker 3: Lions when they chartered a seven fifty seven from US,
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Speaker 3: and there was nothing more important than the charter department
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Speaker 3: to take care of this customer that's spending a lot
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Speaker 3: of money. Typically, if you've got an airplane issue, you
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Speaker 3: quickly have another plane swapped, so you don't you alleviate
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Speaker 3: some of the inconvenience. And you know, on these baseball
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Speaker 3: teams sometimes you don't have that next day off. You're playing,
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Speaker 3: right and if you don't get to the hotel till
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Speaker 3: you know, two, three, four in the morning or later,
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Speaker 3: and it's maybe an afternoon game or normally an evening
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Speaker 3: game on that Yeah, it can be very problematic. And
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Speaker 3: I don't think the Red Sox are too happy right
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Speaker 3: now with Delta, and I suspect the charter department from
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Speaker 3: every other airline is knocking at the door of the
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Speaker 3: Red Sox saying, hey, if you'd like a airplane that
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Speaker 3: actually works, get with us and we'll take better care
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Speaker 3: of you. I know I would if I was another airline.
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Speaker 2: On the plane that the team is on. Maybe something
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Speaker 2: that folks on the polymarket betting scene follow look, the
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Speaker 2: plane is late. That's an impact on the outcome of
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Speaker 2: the game. Potentially it could be, or.
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Speaker 3: The maintenance team is like, you know, we don't like
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Speaker 3: the Red Sox delay this there you go.
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Speaker 1: I doubt that's it, but you just never know.
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Speaker 2: Or the maintenance team has a bet eddiehow pivoting over?
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Speaker 2: We always end on hub delays. How's it looking for
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Speaker 2: travel out there, Jay Ratliffe.
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Speaker 3: Chicago's going to give us some glancing blows as we
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Speaker 3: go through the morning. I think early afternoon could see
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Speaker 3: some delays creeping in there. Southern Florida, Miami Fort Lauderdale
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Speaker 3: going to get a lot of issues there.
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Speaker 1: So if you're.
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Speaker 3: Flying on American airlines connecting through Miami headed south or elsewhere,
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Speaker 3: could see some delays. But other than those two hubs,
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Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be pretty gooda to fly.
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Speaker 2: Jay Radliff, thank you so much for your time every Thursday.
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Speaker 2: We'll do this again next week and as always, between
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Speaker 2: now and then, best of health and love you and
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Speaker 2: your better half.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate it, my friend. Thanks