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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff talks about the week in aviation · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Many things to be thankful for. To be otherwise, brother,
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  Speaker 1: you know that is I know it's been a very
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  Speaker 1: good day.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I love the post you put up on
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  Speaker 2: Facebook because always have this inspirational positive message. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's always something positive you can focus on, and that's
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  Speaker 2: why I like you so much. You're good man. Jay
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  Speaker 2: Rat left and what happened to Southwest? Real quick? Your
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  Speaker 2: curve all time? Last time you were on you were talking.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was Spirit Airlines who was getting rid
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  Speaker 2: of reclining seats or you had to pay extra for them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually that's West Jets West and yeah, west Jet
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  Speaker 1: in Canada. They're kind of the Southwest Airlines, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: of Canada to a smaller version. They're premium seats, are
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  Speaker 1: seats that we can pay extra for if we want,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to really like the premium service of reclining. Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But Southwest just has redesigned their interiors of all some
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  Speaker 2: of their airplanes anyway, and they're now switching to brand
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  Speaker 2: new Riccaro R two seats featuring multi adjustable headrest, kitchen,
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  Speaker 2: integrated tablet and phone holder in the rear and in
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  Speaker 2: seat power with integrate USBA and Sports. Sounds like they're
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  Speaker 2: going the opposite direction. Didn't they pay attention to making
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  Speaker 2: us more miserable in order to make more money?
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  Speaker 1: Jay, Well, you know, but part of this is also
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  Speaker 1: so they can put in their premium seats, which are
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  Speaker 1: things that they are just now doing, because they've got
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  Speaker 1: the assigned seats that are coming up, and they've got
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  Speaker 1: the premium seats where you can pay to sit in
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  Speaker 1: a seat that's got a little bit more leg room
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  Speaker 1: because Southwest really learned a couple of years ago that
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  Speaker 1: they really needed to start paying attention to the fact
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  Speaker 1: that there's a segment of the traveling pump population that's
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  Speaker 1: willing to pay above and beyond what they would normally
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  Speaker 1: pay for an airfare for a more comfortable seat with
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  Speaker 1: more legram. And I love the fact they're going to
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  Speaker 1: assigned seating that means no more of these wheelchairs out
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  Speaker 1: the door type of thing where people are just trying
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  Speaker 1: to get on early. But the idea that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have the ability to have a premium seat, which
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  Speaker 1: is a little bit larger seat, a little bit more legram, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the seat's larger, but you've got more legroom.
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  Speaker 1: More pitched between rows is going to be a great thing.
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  Speaker 1: Because Delta and United reported earnings recently and they were
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  Speaker 1: incredibly strong, and they credited this the premium seats that
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  Speaker 1: they've been selling and how popular they have been, and
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  Speaker 1: how they continue to make that one of their their
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  Speaker 1: primary you know, marketing points. And you know other airlines
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  Speaker 1: are doing the same thing. They're recognizing that. Look, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: cramming as many seats onto an aircraft as you can
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  Speaker 1: is one thing. It's like that double decker aircraft, the
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  Speaker 1: airbus A three eighty. If it's all coach configuration, no
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  Speaker 1: business class, no first class, no premium seats, you can
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  Speaker 1: put eight hundred people on that airplane.
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  Speaker 2: Oh lord, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think that's tempting fate. But that's another story. But that's
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  Speaker 1: the first came from you got that right. So, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, when when airlines start putting in the first
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  Speaker 1: class seats, the business class, and then these premium seats,
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  Speaker 1: which are the you know, the extra comfortable coach seats. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: some airlines found out that the coat the premium coach
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  Speaker 1: seats were more popular than some of their first class
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  Speaker 1: seats and some of their business class. So we've actually
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  Speaker 1: seen airlines over the last couple of years removing some
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  Speaker 1: of the business class first class seats so they can
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  Speaker 1: make more room to put more of these premium seats
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  Speaker 1: in because even though they obviously sell them at a
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  Speaker 1: reduced price versus what they took out, they can put
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  Speaker 1: in more of those, and they sell those out much
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  Speaker 1: more frequently than they do the seats that many times
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  Speaker 1: they are just an upgrade for people with their frequent
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  Speaker 1: flyer miles, where really, you know, they're not getting a huge,
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  Speaker 1: you know, benefit from a revenue standpoint. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: fascinating to see this shift to premium seats. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: surprise me because as tough as it is to endure
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  Speaker 1: travel these days, to pay a couple extra dollars to
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  Speaker 1: sit in those premium seats, it's certainly the way.
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  Speaker 2: To do it well, and almost a requirement considering society's
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  Speaker 2: collective girth is increasing even as we speak. Got to
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  Speaker 2: have room to put the person, and I would be
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  Speaker 2: willing to pay extra for some space if I had
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  Speaker 2: a girth issue. Pause from it will bring Jay Ratlif
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  Speaker 2: back plenty to talk about with his massive A new
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  Speaker 2: the talk station. We've ever been in a cockpit before? Hey,
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  Speaker 2: thirty eight fifty one air CD talk station returning with
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  Speaker 2: iHeartMedia Aviation expert Jay Rattlift. You were one other thing right,
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  Speaker 2: and again not on your list?
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  Speaker 1: But how why reference what I send you? That's mine?
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  Speaker 2: No, we'll get to all that. I just like to
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  Speaker 2: build a.
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  Speaker 1: Fit all the time your show, brother, you lead.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to have to go back and leave
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  Speaker 2: myself to my own devices. I have you as a
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  Speaker 2: vehicle to keep the conversation going. Jay, you know that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Pete Heggsa's flight had to divert. They a windshield got cracked.
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  Speaker 2: How does a windshield get cracked? Or is this a
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  Speaker 2: fairly common phenomenon. I'd never read about that before.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, when when you're talking about a cockpit windshield,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about several different layers of protection. When you
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  Speaker 1: look at it, because it's multi layered, it's obviously very
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  Speaker 1: high strength, and there's a lot of times that this
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  Speaker 1: this acrylic glass, if you will, can shatter. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like it blows out, but it cracks. And when you're
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  Speaker 1: in the cockpit, when that happens, it sounds like a
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  Speaker 1: gun went off, but because of the fact it's multi layered,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times you've just got one layer of
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  Speaker 1: those I think three that you have there that has
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  Speaker 1: been impacted. So what happens is the plane normally will
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  Speaker 1: make an unscheduled landing. It's not necessarily considered an emergency landing.
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  Speaker 1: But the land because obviously the you're worried about the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the windshield components, which even though they're in separately,
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  Speaker 1: contains separately. It happens frequently. The biggest issue is if
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  Speaker 1: they're landing, it could impair the pilot's ability to see
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  Speaker 1: the sure an extent. But no, I mean it's they happen.
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  Speaker 1: And when you look at the number of flights that
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  Speaker 1: we have in the course of a day, a week,
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  Speaker 1: a month, a year, I'm surprised we don't have more
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  Speaker 1: occurrences of that taking place. But the pictures when you
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  Speaker 1: do a Google image of the cockpit windshields when they
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  Speaker 1: do this, yeah, it's something to look at for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Fair Enough, in aviation terms, it's almost a non event,
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  Speaker 1: other than the fact that if you're drinking coffee when
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  Speaker 1: it starts, you might spill your coffee, because you get
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  Speaker 1: it's quite a start because you've got that cockpit the
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  Speaker 1: flight deck that's contained, so anything in there it echoes,
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  Speaker 1: but at a much louder sound. And believe me, the
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  Speaker 1: flight crew was made aware of it immediately when it.
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  Speaker 2: Happened, I imagine, So so in addition to cleaning up
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  Speaker 2: the coffee, you probably had to hit the restroom and
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  Speaker 2: do a shorts change, at least I would anyway. But oh,
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  Speaker 2: to Boeing, it looks like they're on the move in
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  Speaker 2: terms of deliveries. They're increasing the deliveries behind air busts though,
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  Speaker 2: but are they delivering planes that are set jay We hope.
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  Speaker 1: So that is the plan, and normally Boeing an Airbus
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  Speaker 1: it's fifty to fifty, but obviously with the production delays
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  Speaker 1: that we've been talking about with Boeing, that's not been
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  Speaker 1: the case for the last several years. But Boeing is
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  Speaker 1: starting to close the gap. I was looking at the
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  Speaker 1: numbers for Airbus. Airbus has delivered five hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: eight aircraft to date and Boeing four hundred and forty.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's a little bit closer than what it's been
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  Speaker 1: of late, but what's really interesting, Brian, and we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about this from time to time, is the backlog of airplanes. Now,
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind, Airbus is hoping to deliver about nine
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  Speaker 1: hundred airplanes this year. They have a backlog at Airbus
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  Speaker 1: of eight thousand, seven hundred and sixteen jets that they
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  Speaker 1: still have to build. Airbus has got the eighty seven hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Boeing's backlog is sixty five hundred and thirty one jets
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  Speaker 1: between them, that's fifteen thousand planes that have been ordered
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  Speaker 1: that they have yet to be built and delivered. And
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  Speaker 1: that's if you order a jet today, yeah, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be delivered sometime during the next presidential administration, because
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  Speaker 1: it's going to take a long time. When you're cranking
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  Speaker 1: out a thousand airplanes a year and you've got a
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  Speaker 1: backlog of eighty seven hundred, Yeah, it's going to take
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  Speaker 1: some time. And that's why a lot of times we
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  Speaker 1: talked about why do one airline buy another airline because
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  Speaker 1: the fact that if you want to increase the size
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  Speaker 1: of your fleet, yeah, you can get in line with
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  Speaker 1: everybody else, or you can go buy a Spirit or
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  Speaker 1: somebody else and immediately increase your fleet. By a couple
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  Speaker 1: hundred aircraft of the type that that you want to use.
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  Speaker 1: So that's one of the reasons a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: you'll see those acquisitions. It's not so much market based,
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  Speaker 1: you like where they fly, the schedule type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's the fact that you want the equipment that that
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  Speaker 1: air airline saw or flies. But yeah, Boeing's making up
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  Speaker 1: some distance there and yeah, we'll see if they can
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  Speaker 1: continue to close that gap.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, considering the data, the data of you know,
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  Speaker 2: signing the contract to purchase and the data delivery decade,
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  Speaker 2: what of all the technological advances that might occur of
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  Speaker 2: that period of time, wouldn't you want the most state
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  Speaker 2: of the art, safest, quietest, most efficient fuel wise aircraft?
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  Speaker 2: And I got to imagine that type of research and
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  Speaker 2: development is going on all the time. We've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot quieter planes out in the world than we used to. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: are you getting today? Like if I order in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, is that the kind of technology I'm getting
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  Speaker 2: in twenty thirty five when the thing shows up? Or
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  Speaker 2: do you get the benefit of an improvements?
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  Speaker 1: You do? Because what happens the avionics package is normally
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  Speaker 1: one of the last things that they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: putting in. So it's going to be the state of
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  Speaker 1: the art of what you have a lot like the
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  Speaker 1: power plane or the engines that you put on an
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  Speaker 1: aircraft or are you know, towards the end of the
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  Speaker 1: aircraft be being produced and installed. So that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that you look at there. So, yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: would be getting the benefit of that. That would be
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  Speaker 1: almost insult to injury if you had to worry, if
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  Speaker 1: you had to worry about getting an airplane, Yeah that
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  Speaker 1: had a package of you know, ten years old on
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  Speaker 1: some of its components. Yeah, that's not what we're after,
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  Speaker 1: and fortunately that's not the case. But you know, these airplanes,
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  Speaker 1: they continue to get more quiet, they continue to get
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  Speaker 1: more fuel efficient, and they allowed the airlines to be
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  Speaker 1: more profitable. And you know, one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: blows my mind to this day is continuing to see
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  Speaker 1: airlines like Delta in United that report quarterly profits of
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  Speaker 1: more than a billion dollars. Delta just last week announced
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  Speaker 1: their third quarter profit was one point four billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: in the third quarter. United United was a much less
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  Speaker 1: impressive nine hundred million, I think or so in the
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  Speaker 1: third quarter. But Brian, what what just blows my mind
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  Speaker 1: is I remember all the decades when airlines were losing
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  Speaker 1: money like crazy. You couldn't get Warren Buffett to buy
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  Speaker 1: an airline stock if you dared him. But what happened
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  Speaker 1: was airlines have gotten to the point now where they're
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  Speaker 1: using the credit cards and the other things to help
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  Speaker 1: them make this money. From a revenue standpoint, last year,
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  Speaker 1: the big four airlines made eight billion dollars in profit collectively,
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  Speaker 1: those four. But when you look at the boring numbers
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  Speaker 1: what we talk about the available seat miles per carrier
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  Speaker 1: and the revenue generated per available seat mile, they're actually
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  Speaker 1: losing money on the transportation side of the equation. Think
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  Speaker 1: about that. If all they did was transportation and that
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  Speaker 1: was the sole vein of their revenue stream, they would
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  Speaker 1: be losing money in a lot of it. But because
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  Speaker 1: they've got the ancillary fairs and those credit cards, you're
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  Speaker 1: now seeing this revenue being generated at just an unbelievable pace.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why you know, everybody's got a credit card
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  Speaker 1: that's tied to miles and things of this nature. Whether
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  Speaker 1: or not we use them or not another thing. But
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  Speaker 1: that's where they're making this money from other resources in
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  Speaker 1: additional revenue streams, and it's really become a multifaceted business
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  Speaker 1: where you've got these multiple revenue streams that are contributing
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  Speaker 1: to these un I mean, the idea that an airline
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  Speaker 1: could make a billion dollars in profit in a year
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  Speaker 1: was unthinkable a number of years ago. Now you've got
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  Speaker 1: United doing it almost every quarter, as is Delta, and
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  Speaker 1: it's mind boggling mind modeling.
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  Speaker 2: Most notably that it isn't based upon the core function
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  Speaker 2: of their business, which is air travel.
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  Speaker 1: Why do that? You know, any business has multiple revenue streams,
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  Speaker 1: they need to. But when you look at the fact that, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're in business to transport people, and just because of
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  Speaker 1: the competition, thank God for the low cost carriers. That's
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  Speaker 1: why anytime we get a low cost carrier in Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: and we've had some recent news with Frontier and Allegiance
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  Speaker 1: which has really been exciting at Cincinnati. I love it
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  Speaker 1: because the stronger these low cost carriers are, the more
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  Speaker 1: in check they keep these larger legacy carriers. And regardless
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  Speaker 1: of which city I'm talking to across the country, when
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  Speaker 1: they say, hey, Jay, we just landed a Breeze or
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  Speaker 1: a Legion or Frontier. I'm thinking, great, make sure you
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  Speaker 1: support them because they're the reason that we have these
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  Speaker 1: low fares. If these airlines, like a Spirit and others
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  Speaker 1: start to disappear from the landscape, we're toached because these
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  Speaker 1: large legacy carriers will start to raise their their fare.
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  Speaker 1: As we've seen before.
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  Speaker 2: The old CDG. Yeah, the old CDG.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what Well, we had no competition at the time,
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  Speaker 1: no low cost carriers. So Frontier kind of broke that
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  Speaker 1: model a number of years ago. Thank God for that,
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  Speaker 1: bringing that one flight from Dayton that they had for
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  Speaker 1: seven years down to Cincinnati to Denver and the next
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  Speaker 1: thing you know, they're going crazy. Here comes Allegiant, here
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  Speaker 1: comes everybody else. Right, So it's because of that, So
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  Speaker 1: please continue to support those low cost carriers. And at
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  Speaker 1: that the website at the Cincinnati Airport CBG Airport, you
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  Speaker 1: can see where some of these new low cost carriers
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  Speaker 1: are bringing him back some of their seasonal service, introducing
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  Speaker 1: new service, and it's really some exciting things to see
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  Speaker 1: and I'm thrilled that the community is supporting them as
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  Speaker 1: we are.
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  Speaker 2: Jay Ralip pause, We're ringing back for a real quick hit.
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  Speaker 2: We'll end on a comical note and even though it
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  Speaker 2: involves a sad and pathetic passenger and to get a
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  Speaker 2: hub delay, don't go way right back s THEEP talk
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  Speaker 2: station eight if you want, if you five care City
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  Speaker 2: Talk Station closing another Thursday with one more second with
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  Speaker 2: iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliffe from the Don't Be That
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  Speaker 2: Guy file. We got another passenger attacking crew members. What's
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  Speaker 2: this one all about, Jay, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is a don't be that woman story because this
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  Speaker 1: was a sixty sixty one year old passenger that was
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  Speaker 1: aboarded a Last Airlines flight. It was scheduled to fly
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  Speaker 1: from Portland to Dallas. But during the course of the flight,
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  Speaker 1: this woman started acting irrationally and flight attendants were trying
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  Speaker 1: to come to her aid. Well that's when she struck them,
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  Speaker 1: and that's all it took that she was immediately restrained.
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  Speaker 1: Flight was diverted and you know it's bad when you
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  Speaker 1: have to divert to Boise, Idaho, but that's where they
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  Speaker 1: landed to get her off, and obviously the airline quickly
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  Speaker 1: came out saying, you know, charges could be filed obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, assaulting a flight attendant, and also that she'll
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  Speaker 1: never be flying a Last Airlines ever again, which is good.
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  Speaker 1: But then back to my overused comment that she can
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  Speaker 1: still fly any other airline in the country she wants
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  Speaker 1: to after assaulting a crew member, which should not be allowed,
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  Speaker 1: but continues to be so. So one of these, Brian,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to take something serious and that's when the
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  Speaker 1: airlines are going to decide that that's when they need
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  Speaker 1: to do it, at which point we'll be screaming why
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  Speaker 1: did it take this long for us to make that
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  Speaker 1: kind of a decision.
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  Speaker 2: It's like our lithium battery discussions from time to time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: wait till that happens on an eight hundred passenger airplane.
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  Speaker 2: Jay Ratliff, let's hope, not hop, lee all right, as
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  Speaker 2: we typically do or always do, if we can fit
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  Speaker 2: in hub delays. How's it looking out there today for
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  Speaker 2: air travel, one of.
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  Speaker 1: The days of the week we've had to fly. I
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  Speaker 1: think Salt Lake City is about the only hub that
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  Speaker 1: I've been able to find from a weather standpoint that
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  Speaker 1: could see some delays. Chicago may be late in the day,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that's going to be minimal. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be Salt Lake, and I don't think the
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  Speaker 1: delays are going to be any more than thirty to
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  Speaker 1: forty minutes there. So if you picked today, you picked
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  Speaker 1: a great one, knowed from the good weather standpoint, but
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  Speaker 1: probably a reduction in turbulence, which is also nice. But
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean not to keep seat, bet On, please
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  Speaker 1: do so. Is you flying fair enough?
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  Speaker 2: But what I'm hearing is the government shut down, even
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  Speaker 2: though it may impact air travel, controller salaries or something,
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  Speaker 2: is not impacting air travel itself at least yet.
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  Speaker 1: No. Last Friday we had thirty nine hundred flights that
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  Speaker 1: were delayed, and a lot of that's being touted because
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  Speaker 1: of the shutdown. Blah blah blah blah blah. But again,
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  Speaker 1: to introduce facts to the story, the average number of
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  Speaker 1: delays we've had this year has been forty one hundred
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  Speaker 1: a day. We actually had fewer delays on the snapshot
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  Speaker 1: I took on Friday than what we normally have, So
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  Speaker 1: that would lend me to say, yes, we are having
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  Speaker 1: pockets of problems. I won't discount that, But Brian, don't
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: tell me we're having a coast to coast problem. If
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: we have fewer delays now per day than what we
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: have normally.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Fair enough, Jay Rayliffe, thank you so much for joining
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: the program every week. I thoroughly enjoy our exchange and
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: the information we talk about, and I'll look forward to
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: next Thursday and another discussion between now and then. Best
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: of health and love to you and of course your
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: better half.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Same to you, my friend.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks brother. It's a fifty four right now
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: if you get a chance to listen in