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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Are iHeartMedia Aviation expert. We are lucky to get in
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Speaker 1: for a few segments on a Friday Eve. Welcome back,
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Speaker 1: I heart media Aviation Expert. Jay Ratt left my friend.
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Speaker 1: Good to hear from you.
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Speaker 2: As always, plus a good morning to you.
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Speaker 1: I know we do hub delays last, and I know
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Speaker 1: the TSA shut down or the government shutdown of the
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Speaker 1: TAS and the impact on TSA isn't on the list,
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Speaker 1: but I just really have to quickly ask you. We've
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Speaker 1: been reading about delays because of the TSA agents not
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Speaker 1: showing up for work, and I guess when you make
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Speaker 1: an average of forty five grand a year and your
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Speaker 1: paycheck's been deprived, you may not be able to make
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Speaker 1: ends meet at home, so you go off and you
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Speaker 1: find an extra job. That's happening right now. We've had
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Speaker 1: three hundred or so TSA agents quit already because of this.
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Speaker 1: But the three to four hour delays that it's causing,
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Speaker 1: and then the warning that some small airports or some
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Speaker 1: of the airports might be shut down over this. I
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Speaker 1: was thinking of you talking about the ripple effect of
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Speaker 1: like a flight being shut down or an airport being
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Speaker 1: delayed because of weather and the profound effect that has
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Speaker 1: in terms of impacting other flights. What's your take on this?
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Speaker 1: And I hope that people who are experiencing the TSA
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Speaker 1: problem know that it is Chucky Schumer and his crew
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Speaker 1: that have caused this. But your reaction to what's going
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Speaker 1: on and do you think do you see an end
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Speaker 1: insight what's going on?
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Speaker 2: Well? I see an urgency in DC to fix this.
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Speaker 2: And I think that's one of the real issues with
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Speaker 2: a lot of the TSA employees. It's as though they're forgotten. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's as though they're out there along with the Department
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Speaker 2: of Homeland Security. Ay, do your job, but we're going
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Speaker 2: to pay you later. You can file for unemployment, but
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Speaker 2: you pay it back. There's just so many things here
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Speaker 2: that just aren't you know, from the standpoint of taking
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Speaker 2: care of the individuals as you should. It really bothered me.
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Speaker 2: And when I see a lot of these individuals that
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Speaker 2: are ye out faced with that they missed their first
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Speaker 2: paycheck on the fourth of March. I believe the second
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Speaker 2: miss paycheck would have been maybe yesterday if it's every
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Speaker 2: other week. But Bran, I mean, how long can anybody
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Speaker 2: go without a paycheck to just work for free indefinitely,
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Speaker 2: and the idea that these men and women are saying, Look,
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Speaker 2: I've got to feed my family. I've got to put
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Speaker 2: food on the table. I've got to do what I
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Speaker 2: can do. I'm going to go get it, get something
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Speaker 2: that will bring in money. Now, I totally get that,
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Speaker 2: and you know, you don't want to let the people
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Speaker 2: down that you're working with, But the bottom line is
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Speaker 2: our families come first. You're going to do what you
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Speaker 2: have to. Now. Air traffic controllers had to face this
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Speaker 2: exact same situation in the previous government shut down, but Brian,
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Speaker 2: you had a much smaller number. You have. You have
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Speaker 2: fifty thousand TSA employees that are directly responsible day to
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Speaker 2: day with screening. So we've got that scattered across you know,
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Speaker 2: several hundred airports. The benches can be a little deeper.
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Speaker 2: But when you have air traffic controllers who are a
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Speaker 2: short as it is from a staffing standpoint, even add
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Speaker 2: to that with individuals not being there to work. That's
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Speaker 2: one of the reasons that the FAA had Many airlines
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Speaker 2: reduced their flag activity by as much as ten percent,
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Speaker 2: and several markets in the Northeast to try to help
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Speaker 2: absorb that issue. Now we're to point now where people
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Speaker 2: are being told to show up at airports three and
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Speaker 2: four hours before departure. It is just it's just nut
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Speaker 2: at a time when we're seeing an increasing number of
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Speaker 2: people flying because of spring break. That's why you saw
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Speaker 2: a lot of the airline CEOs reaching out to people
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Speaker 2: in Washington saying this has to stop. Now, stop using
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Speaker 2: these people as a political football. Let's get this deal done.
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Speaker 2: And you know, you've got a lot of airlines that
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Speaker 2: are struggling. Look at Spirit. Spirit Airlines has filed bankruptcy
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Speaker 2: twice in the last year year and a half. They're
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Speaker 2: skimming down that I think they have eighty planes left
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Speaker 2: from the fleet that they used to have to try
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Speaker 2: to keep things going. Fuel prices are going through the roof,
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Speaker 2: and now you've got the t SSU, we can need
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Speaker 2: even harder for people to get to the planes to travel.
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Speaker 2: So it's a mess. And sadly, on the day that
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Speaker 2: we hit thirty nine trillion dollars in death, that another
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Speaker 2: indication of just people in DC that have absolutely no
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Speaker 2: regard for, you know, taking care of people. It's like,
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Speaker 2: what headline can I use today to score my political points?
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Speaker 2: And forget about the people. I'm supposed to be here
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Speaker 2: to represent it bothers me on both sides of the aisle,
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Speaker 2: and Brian, it does you too, And I'm just glad
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Speaker 2: that you keep everything straight because in this day and
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Speaker 2: age of people just skimming headlines, it's tough to lose
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Speaker 2: some of the real facts that are going on behind
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Speaker 2: the scenes.
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Speaker 1: Well, and God forbid, you know my recollection is correct.
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Speaker 1: TSA was created in the aftermath of nine to eleven,
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Speaker 1: so we wouldn't have bombers on airplanes. Gee, last time
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Speaker 1: I checked, we're at war currently with one of the
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Speaker 1: biggest global sponsors of Islamic fundamentals terrorism, and we've had
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Speaker 1: some problems with those kind of things before. Oh that's right,
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Speaker 1: like nine to eleven. So yeah, I wonder how Chucky
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Speaker 1: Schumer's going to react if God forbids something like that happens,
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Speaker 1: Because for one of TSA agents. We'll leave it at that,
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Speaker 1: Jay Ratliff, bring it back and talk about well, leg room,
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Speaker 1: I guess Frontier Airlines kicking passengers off, Southware Airlines ditching Chicago.
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Speaker 1: We got a whole lot of topics with Jay, So
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Speaker 1: don't go away, be right back fifty five about karc
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Speaker 1: de talk station. Jay raylf Vassi's the iHeart Media aviation expert,
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Speaker 1: and he's going to answer the question which airlines offers
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Speaker 1: the most room to recline. I got a lot of
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Speaker 1: people having problems with people reclining their seat on an airplane.
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Speaker 1: It's your prerogative to lean the seat back, and it
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Speaker 1: doesn't lean back that far, but quite often fistfights are
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Speaker 1: erupted and things like that when people recline their seat.
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Speaker 1: But who's got the best reclining seat day?
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Speaker 2: That would be cutter. We got to go to the
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Speaker 2: Middle East. They'd give us seven inches of reclining space,
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Speaker 2: which is nice. And you're right. There's a lot of airlines,
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Speaker 2: such as Allegiance, Frontier Spirit that have seats that do
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Speaker 2: not recline. They are what they call pre reclined in
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Speaker 2: some instances where the seats are reclined just a bit,
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Speaker 2: and the airlines sell it to us this way as
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Speaker 2: a matter of you know, customer service. We want everybody
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Speaker 2: to make sure they have their own space or own room.
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Speaker 2: Nobody's encroaching. So we don't have seats that recline, they're
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Speaker 2: pre reclined, and we do this to provide better service. No,
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Speaker 2: they don't. They do it because when you have that,
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Speaker 2: you can actually put an extra row sometimes two in
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Speaker 2: the back of the aircraft, so you now have six
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Speaker 2: to maybe twelve extra river new seats because you don't
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Speaker 2: have these seats that recline anymore. So they do it
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Speaker 2: from a revenue standpoint. They do not do it for
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Speaker 2: anything that is even closely related to a customer service.
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Speaker 2: But you go to the top five airlines that have
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Speaker 2: the most of reclining space, they're all international carriers. Nothing
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Speaker 2: here in the United States, nothing even close. And that's
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Speaker 2: in coach, and which is you know, seven inches to
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Speaker 2: recline and coach.
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Speaker 1: Is not too bad, No, it's not. It's above average
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Speaker 1: for what I heard. Anyway, Frontier Airlines have it a
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Speaker 1: bit of a problem, a whoops moment over at Frontier.
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Speaker 2: This is a who you do you want to believe?
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Speaker 2: We had a situation where we had a viral video
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Speaker 2: that took off went everywhere showing a flight attendant for
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Speaker 2: Frontier kicking off a passenger for, according to the passenger,
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Speaker 2: not paying full attention to the flight attendant and as
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Speaker 2: a result, she said, look, I'm deaf, I have a disability,
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Speaker 2: and but you know, and so they escort or off
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Speaker 2: the plane. One tier who's normally not known for being
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Speaker 2: totally transparent on everything, Brian. They came out with both
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Speaker 2: barrels and said time out here, time out, time out.
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Speaker 2: That's not what happened. This woman boards their airplane with
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Speaker 2: an out with a drink in her hand. Now, you
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Speaker 2: cannot bring alcohol on board and aircraft. You can't consume
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Speaker 2: it on board and aircraft because it's it is a
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Speaker 2: federal fence. You have to serve what's served, and you
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Speaker 2: can't bring your own. And the cup she had even
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Speaker 2: had a sticker on it said do not bring it
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Speaker 2: on an airplane federal fence. Well, she brings it on anyways,
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Speaker 2: and the flight attendants mentioned it to her. She drowns
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Speaker 2: the drink, gives it to him, has some words back
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Speaker 2: and forth. Well, then the captain's notified, and Frontier has
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Speaker 2: a policy that says, if you break that rule, you're
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Speaker 2: kicked off the plane. And that's exactly what they did.
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Speaker 2: They followed that rule. Now, Frontier also added, look, when
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Speaker 2: this woman was in the gate, there was nothing in
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Speaker 2: her record that indicated any sort of a hearing disability,
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Speaker 2: and our agents had no trouble whatsoever in communicating with
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Speaker 2: this person, kind of leading us to think maybe it's
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Speaker 2: not a hearing impairment or what. We don't know. But
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Speaker 2: it comes down to who you want to believe, Frontier
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Speaker 2: or the passenger. If you just look at the little video,
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Speaker 2: it looks like Frontier is heartless. When you see everything
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Speaker 2: that happened from the galley back to the time she
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Speaker 2: sat down, it's a little bit more clear what was
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Speaker 2: taking place.
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Speaker 1: Fair enough. You know, it's funny you mentioned alcohol and
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Speaker 1: you can't bring your own alcohol on an airplane. I
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Speaker 1: guess you're allowed to bring bottles of water though, right
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Speaker 1: you can't.
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Speaker 2: Well, you can buy water. You can even buy a
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Speaker 2: rain in the duty free shops and bring them on
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Speaker 2: the plane. You just can't consume anything unless it's been
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Speaker 2: given to you by a alcohol wise by a flight attendant.
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Speaker 1: How do they police that? I mean, I just gotta
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Speaker 1: be honest with the Urban lobbying was a class I
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Speaker 1: took at UC. We used to stop over the Gentlemen
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Speaker 1: or Gentleman Square, the Student Union Square and buy beers
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Speaker 1: and put them in what we used to jokingly refer
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Speaker 1: to as opaque cups, and you can enjoy a beer
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Speaker 1: in urban lobbying because no one knew what was in
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Speaker 1: the container. You can still do that in an airplane.
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Speaker 1: But if you get caught, I guess the concern I
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Speaker 1: would have is what the penalty is and is it
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Speaker 1: pretty significant?
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Speaker 2: Days it can be I mean you hear this. You
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Speaker 2: could be banned from the airline. The FAA could find you,
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Speaker 2: you could go to j oh blah blah. It's the
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Speaker 2: federal The bottom line is, most of the time, if
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Speaker 2: you're sipping on something, most slide tends could care less.
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Speaker 2: If you're acting up, it's going to become an issue.
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Speaker 2: I'm not telling you to break any federal rules. Don't
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Speaker 2: go there, But I'm saying what tends to happen on
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Speaker 2: board an aircraft, and that's typically what takes place. And
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Speaker 2: you know, these flight attends have so much on their
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Speaker 2: plates already as it is, and to have to worry
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Speaker 2: about that. But look, when somebody's acting up and especially
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Speaker 2: calling attention to themselves, you're forcing them into a position.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot like the idiot that jokes that they
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Speaker 2: have a bomb in their bag. You have forced them
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Speaker 2: into a position that there's only one way to go,
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Speaker 2: there's no great area, there's no well we'll slide this time. No, no, no,
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Speaker 2: We've got a very set a protocol that we follow,
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Speaker 2: and these steps mandate us taking you off the plane
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Speaker 2: with everybody you're flying with. So you know, you just
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Speaker 2: don't please don't break any federal rules.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't be that guy. You may be able to
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Speaker 1: get away with it as long as you're not being
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Speaker 1: that guy. So fair enough, all right, Yeah, moving over
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Speaker 1: to Southwest. Southwest Airlines decision to drop Chicago Hair airport service.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was minimal, as you know, from Chicago Midway everything,
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Speaker 2: so that's the main operation. But Southwest said, look, we
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Speaker 2: can save money if we consolidate our operation not only
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Speaker 2: in Chicago but in Washington, DC. We're going to pull
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Speaker 2: out of Washington Dulles, we're gonna pull out of Chicago Hair,
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Speaker 2: and we're going to just fold those flight activities into
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Speaker 2: what we have at our other Washington airport as well
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Speaker 2: as the other Chicago airport in Midway. So they're saying
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Speaker 2: it's a better way to streamline their service and people
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Speaker 2: that frequent them out of O'Hare just drive over to Midway.
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Speaker 2: It is not the most convenient, but you can do it,
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Speaker 2: and it allows Southwest to be a stronger financial airline,
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Speaker 2: and that's what they're after. That's why all of these
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Speaker 2: steps are being made, and even though passengers may not
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Speaker 2: totally agree with it, they're setting things where Southwest is
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Speaker 2: going to become a much stronger and much more profitable
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Speaker 2: airline if they keep doing what they're supposed to be doing.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people haven't seen it yet. A lot
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Speaker 2: of people still are complaining about what's going on. But
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Speaker 2: Southwest knows if you make these course corrections now down
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Speaker 2: the road, it's going to pay off in a big way.
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Speaker 2: And I suspect that we're going to see just that
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Speaker 2: from them.
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Speaker 1: Fair enough. You know, I've been in and out of Midweb,
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Speaker 1: in and out of Chicago O'Hare, and honestly, it's a
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Speaker 1: lot easier to navigate Midway Airport than it is O'Hare.
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Speaker 1: That place is a zoo.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's say you've got two main hubs, You've got
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Speaker 2: American in United to continue to get bigger at that location,
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Speaker 2: and when you've thrown all the construction issues and the
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Speaker 2: things that are going is that mega airport. It's a
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Speaker 2: nightmare and for passengers trying to get to the airport
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Speaker 2: and then trying to get out in time. Look, you
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Speaker 2: and I've been on planes where you know, you pull
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Speaker 2: out of the gate and you're number fifty four per time,
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Speaker 2: and it's like, just you know, just take it easy
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Speaker 2: for an hour and a half because you're not going anywhere.
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Speaker 2: And typically that's when I'm flying back to Daton or Cincinnati.
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Speaker 2: I could drive it in the time I get a
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Speaker 2: flown it with those delays. But yeah, Chicago Hair is
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Speaker 2: a place I always say we're on time flights co
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Speaker 2: to die. It's just a huge, huge mess of an
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Speaker 2: airport that look, when the weather's good that they operate
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Speaker 2: those flights in and out there, you know. But it's just,
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Speaker 2: you know, one of those situations where Southwest made a
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Speaker 2: business decision, and I'm glad they did because that's going
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Speaker 2: to make Southwest a stronger carrier.
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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, Spirit Airlines slashing their fleet, boeings
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Speaker 1: involved in litigation and well rising fuel costs. You expect
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Speaker 1: Station A forty nine if you have KRCD talk station
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Speaker 1: always enjoyed these conversations. I heard media aviation expert Jay
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Speaker 1: Ratlift heaving over to Spirit Airlines. They slashed their feet.
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Speaker 1: The entire airline only has eighty planes.
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Speaker 2: Down from the first time they went into bankruptcy they
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Speaker 2: had two hundred and I think thirty or forty, wow,
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Speaker 2: and they have been shedding them off. They're sticking with
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Speaker 2: only the most profitable routes, even some routes that they've
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Speaker 2: had in the past that have been profitable. They found
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Speaker 2: that they can go places and be more profitable, and
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Speaker 2: that's what they're planning on doing. They're adding premium seats
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Speaker 2: and again sticking to the markets that give them the
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Speaker 2: highest yield or profit for passenger. And what that's doing
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Speaker 2: brand is giving him a fighting chance here to survive. Now.
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Speaker 2: Of course, with the rising fuel costs, that's creating some
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Speaker 2: issues for them, but the demand for travel seems to
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Speaker 2: be hanging in there, and hopefully for them that's going
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Speaker 2: to be the case. I still think that Spare is
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Speaker 2: probably going to have to be merged, acquired, do something
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Speaker 2: with some of the carrier to have any long term
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Speaker 2: success here. But I'm not a big fan of mergers.
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Speaker 2: But I love every low cost carrier and I want
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Speaker 2: them to all stick around because they give us the competition.
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Speaker 2: We need it help us to drive down airpairs around
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Speaker 2: the country a.
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Speaker 1: Man and litigation usually drives the cost of anything up
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Speaker 1: as it's expensive. I guess Boeing's under pressure from a
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Speaker 1: lawsuit by investors. Is this a shareholder derivative suit.
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Speaker 2: It's a lawsuit that goes back to the time period
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Speaker 2: of twenty eighteen and nineteen. It's a judge in Chicago
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Speaker 2: said that shareholders who owned that Boeing stock between I
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Speaker 2: think it was November seventh, twenty eighteen and October eighteenth
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Speaker 2: can sue as a group. They've got a collective lawsuit
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Speaker 2: here in this class action suit is against Boeing, saying
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Speaker 2: that they were holding or withholding critical information from shareholders
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Speaker 2: and of course airlines and pilots and other things. And yeah,
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Speaker 2: this lawsuit's going to move forward. And Boeing has admitted
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Speaker 2: on multiple occasions that's exactly what they did. And then
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Speaker 2: one time they did admit in criminal court the wrongdoing.
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Speaker 2: But after Trump became president, they went back to the
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Speaker 2: DOJ asked if they could withdraw that admission, and they
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Speaker 2: were apparently a lie to do so, which again just
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Speaker 2: just just uh, you know what it does to me, Brian,
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Speaker 2: give me my give me my blood pressure medication. Because
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Speaker 2: the idea that people can get away with this blatantly
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Speaker 2: like that, nobody's gonna notice. Come on, we'll just we'll
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Speaker 2: just do this.
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Speaker 1: It's like it, I'll obstruct the jury to disregard that comment, Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: go ahead and try to unring that bell. No, I
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Speaker 1: committed it to memory. Now, So is this swirling around
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Speaker 1: that failed software update that they didn't bother telling the
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Speaker 1: pilots about, Jay, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It's over the MCAST system where they had that uh
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Speaker 2: something that was on the airplane that they knew that
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Speaker 2: there were issues too that they were planning on fixing
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Speaker 2: on a later update that was going to happen, and
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Speaker 2: as a result, they were going to in essence, just
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Speaker 2: just let it stay as it was, and when airlines
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Speaker 2: and different pilots and individuals would ask about it, there
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Speaker 2: was very little, uh transparency back to a lot of
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Speaker 2: the pilots. I know for American Airlines it was on eight.
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Speaker 2: Otherwise I wouldn't have believed what I was hearing was
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Speaker 2: asking some of the engineers at Boeing why they weren't
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Speaker 2: telling us about the MCAST system that could violently rip
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Speaker 2: the controls out of our plane, out of our hands
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Speaker 2: when we're trying to fly the plane. And they said,
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Speaker 2: we don't want to overload you with a lot of
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Speaker 2: needless information. That was their exact word. And you know, pilots,
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Speaker 2: when it comes to controlling my aircraft will tell me
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Speaker 2: something isn't needed when it you know, because this is
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Speaker 2: something that in essence, it rips the controls out. It
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Speaker 2: sends a plane into a dive for ten seconds, It
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Speaker 2: gives the pilots back their control for five seconds, and
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Speaker 2: then does another ten second dive. So when that system
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Speaker 2: malfunctions and it's saying that there's a stall and that
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Speaker 2: aircraft needs to drop the nose and build up speed
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Speaker 2: to get out of the stall. When that malfunctions, it's
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Speaker 2: a thing where the pilots have control for five seconds,
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Speaker 2: the aircraft has control for ten and it goes back
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Speaker 2: five And you understand how quickly you can run out
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Speaker 2: of altitude when the plane has controlled ten seconds down
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Speaker 2: and you can only have control for five seconds up.
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Speaker 2: And that's what led to those two horrific crashes, as
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Speaker 2: those pilots were trying valiantly to try to save the
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Speaker 2: passengers on board their airplane and technology was fighting them
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Speaker 2: technology they weren't even aware that was on the plane.
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Speaker 1: To this day, every time we talk about this story,
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Speaker 1: I still cannot believe that that was the attitude out
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Speaker 1: of Bowick Lord Almighty.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Brianon, I'm sorry. We were the last planet
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Speaker 2: country on the planet to ground the airplane. We had
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Speaker 2: a lot of these very well known aviation analysts that
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Speaker 2: are out there that were talking about how safe the
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Speaker 2: aircraft was and how they would get on it and
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Speaker 2: not to worry, blah blah blah, and they blamed everything
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Speaker 2: that they could. And I was the only one in
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Speaker 2: the country. I was screaming on Fox and all the
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Speaker 2: other stations. I was on for us to please ground
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Speaker 2: that airplane until we knew what was going on. And
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Speaker 2: it wasn't until not the airlines, not the FA, but
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Speaker 2: President Trump who finally said, let's ground this airplane till
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Speaker 2: we see what's going on. Thank god he did.
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Speaker 1: It fair enough. Real quick Hub Delays has a look
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Speaker 1: other than tsa three to four hour potential lays. Jay
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Speaker 1: Rhetliff has a looking otherwise.
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Speaker 2: Likes island and get on a long line for a ride.
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Speaker 2: Same thing as the airport. So yeah, and you get
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Speaker 2: to do it indoors, which is nice. Bright I can't
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Speaker 2: find a delay to save my life. This morning.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's the.
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Speaker 2: Best day of the week to fly. It's a beautiful day.
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Speaker 2: It's all the all the garbages out of the way.
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Speaker 2: The issues are going to be at the airport. Just
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Speaker 2: get there soon enough, get through the scared and checkpoint
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Speaker 2: as soon as you can, and get to the gate
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Speaker 2: of departure long before you're supposed to be, just to
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Speaker 2: make sure you can make that trip.