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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: The fifty five KCD talk station regular listeners. No, I'm
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  Speaker 1: always excited about this time of the week because my
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  Speaker 1: good friend and our good friend I heart Media aviation
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  Speaker 1: expert Jay ratt If, who's like on every single station
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  Speaker 1: in the iHeartMedia Company, like makes like seven hundred. He's
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  Speaker 1: a busy man throughout the week, and he gets some
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  Speaker 1: time here in the morning show. I hold him over
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  Speaker 1: for an entire half hour because of love his stories
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  Speaker 1: we talk about, and I find it very entertaining. Welcome back,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, Jay Ratliff. It's good having you on as always.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I protect our time brother. Let me tell you
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  Speaker 2: because Newsmax wanted me eight thirty to eight forty five,
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  Speaker 2: I said no, so we did eight fifteen, eight thirty.
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  Speaker 2: When Fox wants me from eight thirty till nine on
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  Speaker 2: a Thursday, I'm like, no. They don't even ask anymore
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  Speaker 2: because they know it's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: You're the best.
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  Speaker 2: No, I look forward to being here. We get we've
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  Speaker 2: got a great audience, a lot of well educated men
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  Speaker 2: and women, and I love that. I get that through
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  Speaker 2: the emails and changes. And you're great at educating people
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  Speaker 2: on things that you know. A lot of times hoster
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  Speaker 2: are are bad about talking down to their audience, and
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  Speaker 2: I kind of catch that. I just grimace, because you
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  Speaker 2: never want to underestimate the people that you're blessed enough
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  Speaker 2: to be their lives, and you always talk up. And
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  Speaker 2: I love that because you know, that's the respect that
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  Speaker 2: you have for the people that allow us to be
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  Speaker 2: a part of their lives. And it's not common, which
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  Speaker 2: is what makes this much time or this time of
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  Speaker 2: day for me so enjoyable.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that means the world that you say that.
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  Speaker 1: My wife often accuses me of giving people too much
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  Speaker 1: credit for intellect. My default mode is that everyone out
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  Speaker 1: there is at least as smart as me, and in
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  Speaker 1: many cases, and it's true on a lot of topics,
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  Speaker 1: people out my listening answer smarter than me.
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  Speaker 2: Brian. If you and I walk into a room, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not the smartest guy in the room. So I'm just
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  Speaker 2: telling you, if it's just you and I there, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not winning that one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm still going to defall to me just assuming
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  Speaker 1: that I don't know anything and I am searching the
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  Speaker 1: world for answers to the questions.
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  Speaker 2: That I have. So you are.
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  Speaker 1: Let us talk about tailwind does it really mean a
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  Speaker 1: lot of you get tail When I see you have
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  Speaker 1: an article here about Jet Blue and got a strong tailwind,
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  Speaker 1: apparently to the passengers benefit. What's this? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a Jet Blue flight five twenty four
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles to JFK. They're zipping across and they arrived
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  Speaker 2: in JFK early, thanks in part to a two hundred
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  Speaker 2: mile an hour tailwind. I pushed that aircraft more than
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  Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty five miles of mark. It was
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  Speaker 2: booking big time because when you looked at this, it was, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty five miles an hour when it's
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  Speaker 2: typically Brian that's what five hundred and fifty miles an
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  Speaker 2: hour is what we're looking at as far as the
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  Speaker 2: average time. So there's really no danger to the aircraft
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  Speaker 2: those excessive speeds because the pressure on the aircraft itself
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  Speaker 2: remains pretty consistent. We do have a slight increased risk
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  Speaker 2: of some turbulence, but beyond that it's nothing. The biggest
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  Speaker 2: concern is if there's an available gate for the plane
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  Speaker 2: to land, you know, once it arrives to get there,
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  Speaker 2: because look, nothing can mess up the works more than
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  Speaker 2: a flight before it arrives a way beforehand. But Brian,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm reading all these reports and just enjoying
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  Speaker 2: these these these articles I'm reading across the country, and
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  Speaker 2: of course I come across the Do you know why
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  Speaker 2: there was a two hundred mile an hour tail wind?
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  Speaker 2: Global warming? It was climate change, Brian, That's why we
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  Speaker 2: had this happen. And I thought, you know, look, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in my early sixties. I remember goal global cooling
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  Speaker 2: in the seventies. We talked about acid rain in the eighties,
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  Speaker 2: and how the population boom was going to kill twenty
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  Speaker 2: five percent of the planet in the eighties and nineties.
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  Speaker 2: And I just don't understand how many times this stuff
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  Speaker 2: has to happen. But poor for poor people start questioning
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  Speaker 2: like like, wait a minute, can I really take what
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  Speaker 2: I'm being told at face value? But why mess up
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  Speaker 2: a good aviation story with climate change?
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  Speaker 1: I know they love doing that, But wait a second.
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  Speaker 1: The speed of sound is right about seven hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty one miles an hour. Does this mean that that
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  Speaker 1: regular commercial airliner could have potentially broken the sound barrier?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, because in essence, their ground speed remained the same,
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  Speaker 2: So we didn't have any worries about them breaking the
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  Speaker 2: sound barrier because as far as they were concerned, they
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  Speaker 2: were still going at that same rate of speed. So
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  Speaker 2: it can think of it as kind of a pocket
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  Speaker 2: that's moving with them, and within that pocket, they're still
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  Speaker 2: maintaining that, you know, five hundred and fifty miles an hour.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that would have been a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: an issue if we had to be worrying about that,
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  Speaker 2: but thankfully we do not. But there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times you have flights come in and brand that flight
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  Speaker 2: arrived thirty nine minutes early. It would have been much
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  Speaker 2: much sooner, but when they got there, they had to
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  Speaker 2: circle for a while before they were allowed to finally
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  Speaker 2: land at JFK, So they probably would have been an
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  Speaker 2: hour and five hour and ten minutes early had they
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  Speaker 2: been able to land immediately when they got there. So
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  Speaker 2: passengers were, you know, delighted in that, because anytime you
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  Speaker 2: can catch that kind of a tail wind, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna help that connection that you have a JFK to
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  Speaker 2: be a whole lot easier.
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  Speaker 1: All right, coming up, this is insane because I was
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  Speaker 1: a parent of a toddler. I absolutely would not allow
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  Speaker 1: my toddler to sit anywhere but next to me on
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  Speaker 1: a plane. That may not be the case if you're
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  Speaker 1: working with Southwest. I heard mediaviation expert j rat Let's
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  Speaker 1: go explain that. A whole lot more coming up. Don't
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  Speaker 1: go away fifty five KRC the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: They are a scene the talk station.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been in a cockpit before?
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  Speaker 2: Jay?
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  Speaker 1: Has I hurt? Media aviation expert J Rattlift Jay? This
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  Speaker 1: one troubles me.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Toddler's are bad enough in it of themselves, but if
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to be sitting next to a parent
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  Speaker 1: on an airline, you know, amid stories about crazy people,
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  Speaker 1: I just saw another one. They had to reroute a
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  Speaker 1: flight because some guy had a mental health breakdown and
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  Speaker 1: started wailing on passengers. If that wasn't bad enough, the
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  Speaker 1: idea that a toddler would you know, I could even
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  Speaker 1: comfortably enjoy a flight being away from mom and dad.
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  Speaker 1: I and the legal challenges to make along with this,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what happens if you have your toddlers sitting
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  Speaker 1: next to somebody turns out to be a pervert, you know?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, yeah, what's this? It's a story about
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  Speaker 2: mom and dad come to the airport and they have
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  Speaker 2: traveling excuse me, they're traveling with two toddlers, and they
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  Speaker 2: elected on Southwest, which you now have assigned seats. They
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  Speaker 2: elected not to pay the fee to have all the
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  Speaker 2: seat assignments in advance. So what they opted to do
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  Speaker 2: in order to save money or because they did not
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  Speaker 2: know better to get to the airport and have Southwest
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  Speaker 2: to sign the seats. Now, the problem is when you
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  Speaker 2: get there and the flight is ninety percent full, and
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  Speaker 2: the available seats would be there's two here, one there,
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  Speaker 2: one there, those kinds of things, there's no force eats together.
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  Speaker 2: So what happens is when they get to the gate,
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  Speaker 2: the system, the computer for Southwest, assigns those seats to
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  Speaker 2: the four people the best they can. So what happened
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  Speaker 2: was the couple gets on, they demand people to move,
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  Speaker 2: and you had a group of people that said absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: we want you sitting with your kids. And then you
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  Speaker 2: had another segment of the of the traveling population on
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  Speaker 2: the airplane say wait a minute, time out here. You
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  Speaker 2: could have paid the money to have all your seat
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  Speaker 2: assignments done before you got here, you chose not to,
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  Speaker 2: and now you're asking us to move out of our
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  Speaker 2: window seats so you consider them to be next to
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  Speaker 2: your child and I'm not doing it. So uh, there's
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  Speaker 2: people that are against the new Southwest policy. So they're
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  Speaker 2: looking at this and trying to drum this story up
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  Speaker 2: and make it make it much bigger than it is,
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  Speaker 2: because they're saying, well, look what happens when Southwest tries
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  Speaker 2: to assign seats. They don't know what they're doing, blah
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  Speaker 2: blah blah. But either they did not know the parents
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  Speaker 2: or they did know and figured, eh, they'll work it
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  Speaker 2: out when they get there, because there's no way they're
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  Speaker 2: going to allow me to not sit with my toddler.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes when you presume upon the airline's goodness or
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  Speaker 2: people that are you're traveling with you is goodness, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to work out for you. So uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's what happened here. And they could have all been
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  Speaker 2: avoided had they simply done what you should have done
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  Speaker 2: and grabbed the seat assignments, paid that extra money so
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  Speaker 2: that you know you're all seated next to each other.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and that's a layer that I wasn't familiar with
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  Speaker 1: the story. So there is some blame to pass along
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  Speaker 1: to the parents for not doing exactly that I mean.
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  Speaker 2: As a society, Brian. You know that people don't read
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  Speaker 2: past the headline, so when.
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  Speaker 1: They see that, that's.
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  Speaker 2: The gist of the story. But at least that wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the blame on climate change. So I'm not a workup
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  Speaker 2: over that. As the one we talked about before.
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  Speaker 1: They just forgot they were gonna put it in there.
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  Speaker 1: But there's an editorial that Barn Prince siye.
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  Speaker 2: They just didn't have enough room to squeeze that one in.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what kind of money we talked about in a
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  Speaker 1: Southwest new policy? How much is extra is it to
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  Speaker 1: get the seat assignments up front?
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  Speaker 2: Brian? I don't have that memorized, so I can't guess
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  Speaker 2: at that, but I know it's a nominal fee in base.
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  Speaker 2: It's in line with what other carriers are charging. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's like the basic economy seats that you
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  Speaker 2: would get from Delta United American, where you're paying the
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  Speaker 2: lowest possible fare. And part of that deal is when
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  Speaker 2: you get there you may or may not get freaking
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  Speaker 2: flyer miles. And when you get there, you only have
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  Speaker 2: a carry on bag that can only go underneath the
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  Speaker 2: seat in front of You can't take up the space
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  Speaker 2: in the overhead and your seat's going to be signed
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  Speaker 2: at the gate at the last minute, which means you're
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  Speaker 2: probably gonna have your butt stuck in the middle seat.
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  Speaker 2: That's just part of the deal of paying for basic transportation,
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  Speaker 2: you know that, going in and for a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people saying, look to our flight to wherever I'm going,
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  Speaker 2: I don't care. I'm gonna save money, take my small bag,
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  Speaker 2: I'll sit in the middle seat and Grant and Barrett
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  Speaker 2: get there and save myself quite a bit of money
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  Speaker 2: in the process.
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  Speaker 1: Understood. All right, Let's move over to the new seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven Dreamliner, apparently now being built to detect and also
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  Speaker 1: respond to turbulence free.
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  Speaker 2: Drive into that day real quick.
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  Speaker 1: I just have to ask you, because I've been on
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  Speaker 1: flights before and they said, well, we may be approaching
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  Speaker 1: some turbulence up here in the New York time, so
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  Speaker 1: please sit in your seat and bucket your seatbots. Do
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  Speaker 1: they know that turbulence is coming based upon the weather?
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  Speaker 1: Is it because prior air air airplanes have flown through
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  Speaker 1: and they've issued a lit warning about the turbulence. How
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  Speaker 1: do I know that there's turbulence coming before you hit
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  Speaker 1: it the.
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  Speaker 2: Latter point, it's nothing we can see on radar. It's
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  Speaker 2: nothing that we really know that we're there unless we're
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  Speaker 2: on top of it. And what ends up taking place
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  Speaker 2: is you have turbulence that if you're flying, you might
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  Speaker 2: have light, moderate, severe turbulence, and when you're going through that,
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  Speaker 2: you'll ask air traffic control, can we go to a
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  Speaker 2: different altitude, either climb or descend so that we can
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  Speaker 2: try to find some smoother air. Once that's reported, every
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  Speaker 2: aircraft behind them at that same altitude requested to go
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  Speaker 2: to different altitudes as well to try to provide the
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  Speaker 2: smoothest possible flight, because in itself, turbulence isn't necessarily dangerous,
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  Speaker 2: especially when you're at altitude. It's like kind of hitting
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  Speaker 2: a speed mump, a little pothole or something, but it
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  Speaker 2: just kind of rattles you, unless, of course, you know
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  Speaker 2: your seat belt on and you kiss the ceiling. You
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  Speaker 2: got to be careful there. But a Dreamliner, the seven
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  Speaker 2: eighty seven's have a system that actually it's called a
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  Speaker 2: vertical gust suppression system. It monitors air data and some
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  Speaker 2: of the acceleration cues in when it detects pressure variants.
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  Speaker 2: It actually has an automatic command system that controls the
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  Speaker 2: elevators and the flaps to try to move the aircraft
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  Speaker 2: in such a way that it dampens the turbulence, kind
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  Speaker 2: of trims the vertical acceleration, and the goal is to
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  Speaker 2: reduce that vertical motion by sixty to seventy percent. Now
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  Speaker 2: Boeing is very quick to say, look, we can't eliminate
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  Speaker 2: turbulence entirely, that's not going to happen. But the Dreamliner
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  Speaker 2: is built in such a way that everything works properly
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  Speaker 2: that it can actually give you a smoother ride. And
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the benefits of this. And I tell
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  Speaker 2: you Boeing is off to a great start. In January,
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  Speaker 2: they outsold and out delivered more aircraft than Airbus Buyer
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  Speaker 2: a lot. So hopefully they're going to keep that moving.
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  Speaker 2: And when they've got this kind of technology, and again
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  Speaker 2: with new ge engines and things of this nature, which
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  Speaker 2: United in other airlines are gobbling up as much as
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  Speaker 2: they can getting a very powerful, fuel efficient, more quiet
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  Speaker 2: aircraft engine. So a lot of this technology is really
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  Speaker 2: moving us in the direction of again fewer emissions, which
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  Speaker 2: is always good, and quieter aircraft, which is also good.
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  Speaker 2: And you just love to see the technology make aviation better.
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  Speaker 2: You just wish some of those improvements would happen inside
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  Speaker 2: the cabin on customer service. But I guess we can
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  Speaker 2: give up on that because I don't see that happening
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  Speaker 2: anytime soon.
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  Speaker 1: Noah, I don't hold your breath for that. Jay, We
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  Speaker 1: enjoy hanging you around please A forty six That they
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  Speaker 1: ever ever the FAA had a time where they were
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  Speaker 1: not hiring based on merit scares the living crap out
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  Speaker 1: of me. Apparently they've righted the ship on that. More
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  Speaker 1: with Jay Rattliff plus hub delays is a good day
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  Speaker 1: to fly. I don't know what the front rolling in.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Jay on that as well. Stick
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  Speaker 1: around me right back fifty five K see the talk
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  Speaker 1: station eight on a Friday eve One more segment here
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratlift. Oh my word, FAA
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  Speaker 1: orders airlines to base hiring on merit. What I mean
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about our lives here, Jay Ratliffe. If merrit
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  Speaker 1: did not wasn't involved in the first and foremost thing
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  Speaker 1: in terms of hiring, I'm worried.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I tell you, if it's a Walmart Greeter. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more comfortable with that.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: When you're talking about pilots, and this kind of SEMs
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  Speaker 2: back to a few years ago. Airlines United specifically was
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  Speaker 2: leading the charge on this. United identified a goal by
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  Speaker 2: the end of the decade, by twenty thirty, they were
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  Speaker 2: going to hire five thousand new pilots. They needed it
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  Speaker 2: because the growth of aviation, the attrition. They were saying
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  Speaker 2: within their ranks, they knew they needed five thousand new pilots,
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  Speaker 2: and they said, our goal is fifty percent of those
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  Speaker 2: new hires are going to be women, are individuals of color,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what they were pushing for. Now, when you
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  Speaker 2: recognize it currently in aviation, less than five percent of
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  Speaker 2: the pilots that we have in the country, or women
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  Speaker 2: less than five percent are people of color, you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about total ten percent. So if United is really dedicated
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  Speaker 2: as they have been, to this diversification approach, then the
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  Speaker 2: diversity means that if I've got ten candidates and the
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  Speaker 2: most qualified are someone who happens to be white versus
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  Speaker 2: a woman or someone of color, then to make sure
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  Speaker 2: I'm fulfilling my quota, there's going to be the tendency
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  Speaker 2: to go with less qualified applicants. Now United has been
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  Speaker 2: pushing back on this thing. Look, we're not hiring anybody
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  Speaker 2: who's not qualified, true, But what they are doing is
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  Speaker 2: you might have an individual that might have eight thousand
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  Speaker 2: flight hours versus somebody that has two thousand flight hours,
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  Speaker 2: and to fulfill the diversity goal you have, let's hire
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  Speaker 2: the pilot with two thousand hours. So if the Federal
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  Speaker 2: Aviation Administration is doing now through obvious pressure from the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration, and I totally agree with it, is Look,
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  Speaker 2: let's just hire the best person qualified, if a black woman,
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  Speaker 2: a person of color, non color, who cares, let's just
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  Speaker 2: put the best possible person into the flight deck of
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  Speaker 2: an aircraft. And that's where the sanity is starting to
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  Speaker 2: return here. It's a lot like a few months ago,
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  Speaker 2: it was ordered that the millions of dollars the FAA
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  Speaker 2: spent removing all the offensive terms like you know, manpower
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  Speaker 2: and and a lot of these other terms, so you
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  Speaker 2: can't have notice to airmen because oops, that could be
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  Speaker 2: a you know, we went back to what we did before,
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  Speaker 2: which is what we should have done. But Brian, here,
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  Speaker 2: they're just trying to make sure that the airlines are
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  Speaker 2: proceeding without that the anything other than based on merit,
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  Speaker 2: which is exactly what they should.
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  Speaker 1: Be doing exactly. And I've been thinking like, well, if
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  Speaker 1: I have to go into the knife and have a
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  Speaker 1: surgeon operate on me, I'm not looking for a DEI hire.
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  Speaker 1: I want whoever is the best qualified. This is life
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  Speaker 1: and life and death stuff we're talking about here. We
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  Speaker 1: don't have time for games, So no.
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  Speaker 2: Not when you're thirty thousand and five thousand seed and
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  Speaker 2: plus I mean, look at the situation with the miracle
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  Speaker 2: on the Hudson. You've had two incredibly qualified pilots and
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  Speaker 2: Sully and Jeff Skiles that worked that situation and they
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: called upon their experience and they did an incredible job
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: and saved a lot of lives. That's what you want
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: on the flight deck, not somebody that's there simply because
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: there was a box that needed to be checked. And look.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I help out the Legacy program in Chicago. They try
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: to bring in a lot of women in minorities into
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: aviation to try to get them excited as kids about
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: aviation so that they can become pilots at a later age.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I love doing that because there's a need for it,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: but you can't push it to the point that you're
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: compromising levels of safety. And sadly, that's what's happened in
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: the past, and it's just you know, sanity has returned.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: You just hope it's going to remain here for a while.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Indeed, and I suppose you pulled any man, woman, or
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: person on the airplane, regardless of color or gender, they'd
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: all agree they want the best qualified person behind the
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: stick of the airplane that they're on, right.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean put every prejudice you might have aside.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: You want the best qualified person up there. Yeah, you know,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: And I don't care what their orientation is or what
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: this or what I want the most qualified. And I'll
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: even give them a hug if they get me on
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: the on the ground safely. I don't care a brother.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: All Right, we got a front coming today. What's looked
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: like out there for air travel? Time for the hub delay.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the winds could give us some issues as the
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: day progresses, Ryan, But right now, I think the biggest
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: concerns are going to be towards the south. We're seeing
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Atlanta and Charlotte expecting some delays. Detroit as well, that's
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: going to be probably the biggest issue today. Now. Obviously
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: the West Coast is getting hammered San Francisco in LA.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: But as far as the closer home stuff to around us,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: those are the ones that are going to be seeing
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: the biggest impact. Towards late in the day, some of
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: those winds and the issues could kind of hit impact
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: US in the Northeast and Philadelphia, DC, in New York.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's gonna be till late in the
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: day though.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, Jay Rayler, thank you for your thoughts.