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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: I Heeart Media Aviation ext for Jay Ratler for joining
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Speaker 1: the program every Thursday at this time to talk aviation issues.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, my friend, A real pleasure, may.
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Speaker 2: Pleasant good morning to you, and an early Merry Christmas
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Speaker 2: to you, my friend.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, right back at you. This will be our last
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Speaker 1: discussion before the end of the year, since I'm off
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Speaker 1: after the twenty third until the fifth, so we'll hit
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Speaker 1: the ground running in January, and I'm certainly looking forward
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Speaker 1: to that. Already perfect timing. Issue number one now, the
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Speaker 1: United States admitted liability in the January Army helicopter crash
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Speaker 1: that killed sixty seven people. Helicopter flying right in front
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Speaker 1: of a runway and a plane ran into it. Bad
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Speaker 1: Absolutely as I understand the way this happened. So the
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Speaker 1: plane or the helicopter flying in this crowded airspace was
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Speaker 1: not using the Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast technology called ADSB,
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Speaker 1: which transmits the location of the aircraft. The system wasn't
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Speaker 1: on because they had a waiver exempting those military helicopters
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Speaker 1: from broadcasting where they were. After that, the FAA required
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Speaker 1: all aircraft in that airspace to use the ADSB technology.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday they passed the nine hundred and one billion dollar
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Speaker 1: National Defense Authorization Act, which removed that obligation.
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Speaker 2: Unreal, unreal, It is mind boggling. In fact, it was
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Speaker 2: so egregious that the chair of the National Transportation Safety
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Speaker 2: Board actually and something that's never really happened before, was
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Speaker 2: commenting on that bill as it was moving towards approval,
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Speaker 2: saying that to take a step back is ridiculous and rare,
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Speaker 2: is it. Do you have anyone connected with the NTSB
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Speaker 2: that's active that will come out and make that kind
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Speaker 2: of a comment. But that was exactly the case, and
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Speaker 2: why we are okay and taking a step back still
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Speaker 2: confuses me. I don't have anyone yet that's been able
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Speaker 2: to say why that's an okay thing to do. And
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Speaker 2: it's another indication of many brian where it's real easy
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Speaker 2: to say safety is are number one priority. Yeah, blah
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Speaker 2: blah blah, prove it. And when you do things like this,
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Speaker 2: it's just you scratch your head thinking these are supposed
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Speaker 2: to be intelligent people. We're trying to honor the lives
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Speaker 2: of the sixty seven people that were lost in January.
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Speaker 2: Why are we not making things safer? Instead of saying, well,
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Speaker 2: that was bad but you know, we're going to make
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Speaker 2: things actually worse than they were. And you know, one
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Speaker 2: of the things that investigation really bore out in January
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Speaker 2: as we move forward was just how many other near
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Speaker 2: misissues and things that we'd had in that airspace over
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Speaker 2: the years, and the fact that you had so many
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Speaker 2: of these helicopters and other military aircraft that were actively
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Speaker 2: crossing the arrival departure runways of so many different aircraft,
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Speaker 2: and we had several times where crews had to divert
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Speaker 2: their landing and go around and come back to another runway.
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Speaker 2: It was such a common occurrence. It was pretty much
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Speaker 2: a red flag that said this is an issue and
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Speaker 2: we are in essence on borrowed time here before something
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Speaker 2: horrific happens. And the situation in January, there was just
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Speaker 2: a whole number of events that contributed to it that
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Speaker 2: you sadly again cost sixty seven lives and we don't
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Speaker 2: make things safer. Shame on us.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, really, And you one of the weird facts about
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Speaker 1: this and reading the reporting on it, apparently members of Congress,
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Speaker 1: House and Senate use those helicopters to get to the
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Speaker 1: airport real quick when they want to go home for
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Speaker 1: Christmas time soccer, and so I know that, and see
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Speaker 1: that's the first reaction like, oh, they just want to
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Speaker 1: make this so easy for themselves, but that just puts
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Speaker 1: their lives in more jeopardy because if they're the ones
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Speaker 1: that are using these helicopters more frequently, and I assume
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Speaker 1: they are than anybody else on the planet with the
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Speaker 1: exception of the military personnel flying them, they just put
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Speaker 1: themselves in greater risks of getting knocked out of the
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Speaker 1: air by an airplane.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And it's again just another one of those situations
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Speaker 2: that just it baffles logic and common sense when you're
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Speaker 2: talking about it. But then we're back to managing the
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Speaker 2: perception of secure more than we are actually security itself.
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Speaker 2: And it's happened too many times, and I've seen it
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Speaker 2: happen more times than I can count over the last
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Speaker 2: four decades, and it's just it's frustrating. I mean, I've
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Speaker 2: walked out of meetings with the Federal Aviation Administration over
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Speaker 2: just that. You know, we're having a meeting for the
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Speaker 2: sake of a meeting, talking about things we talked about
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Speaker 2: a year ago. There's nothing getting done. So this is
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Speaker 2: a waste of time, goodbye, and because it just it
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Speaker 2: just I don't know. And when you talk about the
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Speaker 2: number of people that are behind creating a bill, passing
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Speaker 2: a bill, saying that the bill is okay, it makes
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Speaker 2: me want to point a finger at every single person involved.
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Speaker 2: We're not one single person that I'm aware of raised
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Speaker 2: their hand prior to the National Transportation Safety Board chief
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Speaker 2: chair and say wait a minute, this is this is wrong.
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Speaker 2: We've got to address this now. And I'm hoping that
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Speaker 2: something can be done. Where as the outrage obviously grows
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Speaker 2: that the Washington d C. We have individuals that are
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Speaker 2: actually going.
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Speaker 1: To fix unbelievable Well. I don't wish ill will on anybody,
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Speaker 1: but maybe if a member of Congress or maybe one
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Speaker 1: of our senators is on one of those helicopters and
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Speaker 1: they are involved in the mid air collision, but perhaps
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Speaker 1: they'll change their mind. Jay rattlift, I didn't know. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know. There are parking tickets for parking and airplane
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Speaker 1: if you forget about it, that and more, we got
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Speaker 1: a bunch of topics to try to run through with. Jay,
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Speaker 1: Just stick around me right back fifty five KRC.
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Speaker 2: No One celebrates that.
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Speaker 1: The cockpit before it. Jay Rye Left has a thirty
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Speaker 1: nine If you have KCD Talks edition, Jay real quick
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Speaker 1: here Mark's point. He says, what about covert operations? If
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Speaker 1: you got this ADSB hardware going alerting the people to
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Speaker 1: where the the helicopters flying, Well, my responsible was, well, fine,
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Speaker 1: COVID operations may be a reason not to want to
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Speaker 1: use that, But that means that the covert operation may
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Speaker 1: not be completed because they got blown up during a
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Speaker 1: plane collision with a plane. The best path that the
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Speaker 1: best path that success may not involve the most direct
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Speaker 1: flight path was my follow up point, right.
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Speaker 2: And of course you want to make it the training
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Speaker 2: you play as your practice, and practice as you play,
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Speaker 2: so you're going to do everything you can to try
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Speaker 2: to make it as it would be during an actual exercise,
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Speaker 2: if it was for real. The problem is when you're
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Speaker 2: conducting that in amid a crowded airspace with a lot
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Speaker 2: of commercial flight activity, you are increasing the risk. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and you know that to me is what's either acceptable
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Speaker 2: or unacceptable. And I'm always going to air on the
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Speaker 2: side of caution and say, if safety is the number
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Speaker 2: one priority, you know there needs to be some adjustments
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Speaker 2: to prevent a disaster from taking place, and we've had one,
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Speaker 2: so we've obviously seen the results. We've got to pivot
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Speaker 2: from that direction, or it's going to happen again.
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Speaker 1: Ah Air India one hundred and twenty thousand dollars parking tab.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah, it's that. For some reason, Air India
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Speaker 2: needed to park one of their seven thirty sevens at
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Speaker 2: another airport at Kolkata and it's airport in India and
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Speaker 2: it's you know, perhaps they had maintenance scheduled for the
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Speaker 2: aircraft and it was parked on a remote part of
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Speaker 2: the of the airport grounds there. But shortly thereafter Air
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Speaker 2: India had changes in their staffing and management team and
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Speaker 2: apparently somebody forgot it was there. Okay, So eventually the
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Speaker 2: airport contacts Air India think, you know, how much longer
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Speaker 2: is this airplane of year is going to be here?
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Speaker 2: And initially Air India said that's not ours, and of
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Speaker 2: course yeah, they got in essence the ven number if
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Speaker 2: you will, and said, hey, do you not still own
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Speaker 2: this and they said, oh gosh, yeah we do. And
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Speaker 2: they said that's fine because the parking is so much
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Speaker 2: and since it's been here since twenty and twelve, the
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Speaker 2: fee is going to be one hundred and twenty thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars in air India paid it and they're removing the
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Speaker 2: aircraft by ground. They're going to make it part of
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Speaker 2: their training facility as far as that type of aircraft
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Speaker 2: because it's no longer fit to fly because the work
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Speaker 2: that has to be done to it. But you know,
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Speaker 2: you go through airport parking lot and we encountered this
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Speaker 2: a lot at the airports that I was connected with,
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Speaker 2: and you would have cars that would be parked in
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Speaker 2: the parking lot for years, in long term, even short term,
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Speaker 2: and in some instances, you know, you'd have to have
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Speaker 2: the cars removed toad try to contact the owner. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: it was an individual passed away, individuals.
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Speaker 1: Were running away, malfunctioning autokay, or.
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Speaker 2: It would have been somebody that was involved in you know,
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Speaker 2: some sort of legal illegal operation, or it was just
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Speaker 2: a stolen car. But yeah, it's amazing when you have
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Speaker 2: that type of thing where you've got a large number
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Speaker 2: of these, but you know, one car kind of blends
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Speaker 2: in with the rest of them in the carking lot.
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Speaker 2: One aircraft kind of sitting there day after day after day,
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Speaker 2: week after week, month after month, and yes, year after year.
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Speaker 2: I love it. Kind of stand out, I would think, so.
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Speaker 1: I would think, but you know, Air India not even
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Speaker 1: losing track of a multi million dollar aircraft and denying
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Speaker 1: it even owned it, that seems rather peculiar to me.
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Speaker 1: But then again, I don't run airlines, so.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's easier to say it's not ours than to
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Speaker 2: admit craft we forgot about it for thirteen years. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: True, rumors still swirling about Spirit Airlines being on the
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Speaker 1: brink of collapse. What happened to that Frontier thing?
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Speaker 2: Well last year, well, you know, Frontier and Spirit we're
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Speaker 2: going to merge years ago, and jet Blue came in
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Speaker 2: kind of pushed him out of the way and we
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Speaker 2: had all that go through where eventually then the Spirit
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Speaker 2: jet Blue merger didn't come through. And this last weekend
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Speaker 2: you had individuals saying that Spirit Airlines was on the
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Speaker 2: brink of shutting down. They weren't even going to get
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Speaker 2: through last weekend. Spirit executives quickly commit and said, look,
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Speaker 2: we've got some cash to keep us moving. They're in
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Speaker 2: the Chapter eleven bankruptcy process, the second time they filed
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Speaker 2: in less than a year. And obviously there's concerns, certainly
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Speaker 2: for passengers that are coming up on vacations over the
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Speaker 2: next two and a half weeks. But right now we're
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Speaker 2: also hearing that there's a kind of rekindled conversations that
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Speaker 2: have started to in between Frontier and Spirit about a
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Speaker 2: possible merger. Now I'm glad this is going to happen.
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Speaker 2: You and I've talked about it before. How I really
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Speaker 2: liked that initial merger between the two low cost carriers
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Speaker 2: of Spirit and Frontier because their route maps compliment each
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Speaker 2: other so well. When you overlapped them, there was very
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Speaker 2: few cities that were overlapped, meaning those two airlines you
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Speaker 2: would have a less reduction of service into airports, a
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Speaker 2: fewer jobs cut, not the case with Jet Blue and Frontier.
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Speaker 2: That or Spirit that had so many overlapping markets, which
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Speaker 2: is one of the reasons it was not allowed to
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Speaker 2: move forward. So low cost carriers, Brian, you and I
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Speaker 2: have talked about so many times before keep the average
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Speaker 2: low fare down, so we love low cost carriers. I
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Speaker 2: certainly want to make sure Spirit continues flying, and I
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Speaker 2: would love to see the merger with Frontier because I
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Speaker 2: think that would make them a much stronger carrier. It
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Speaker 2: would keep them around and it would have more low
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Speaker 2: cost carrier seats in the marketplace, which is obviously what
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Speaker 2: we want to see happen.
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Speaker 1: And then and real quick, because we have quite a
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Speaker 1: few topics to get to, we won't get to all
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Speaker 1: of them real quick since it evolves. Jet Blue dodged
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Speaker 1: a mid air collision with the US military refueling tanker.
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Speaker 1: Briefing on that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, coming out of Caroseo, the Caribbean Airline near Venezuela.
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Speaker 2: They're climbing and all of a sudden there's a US
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Speaker 2: Air Force aircraft five thousand feet in front of them,
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Speaker 2: same flight path, and they didn't know it was there.
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Speaker 2: If they had to take evasive action. It was classified
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Speaker 2: as possible a mid air situation. From a collision standpoint,
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Speaker 2: we had five thousand feet separation. Bottom line was that
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Speaker 2: there was a minimum There was no there's a breakdown
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Speaker 2: communication from the Air Force to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Speaker 2: They couldn't notify the crews because they weren't aware of
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Speaker 2: it was there at the time, and you know, luckily
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Speaker 2: they didn't get super close. Jet Blue crew did what
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Speaker 2: they were trained to do, and we can learn from this,
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Speaker 2: so hopefully things can be made safer as we move forward.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of like we were supposed to learn from
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Speaker 1: the helicopter plane collision. We just got done talking about.
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Speaker 2: That, but pilots have also been notified in that area.
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Speaker 2: If you're flying anywhere around Venezuela a lot of activity,
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Speaker 2: be on guard because there are military aircraft from all
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Speaker 2: different kinds that are flying and you may not be
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Speaker 2: aware of the fact that they're there until you see them.
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Speaker 1: Great point. More with iHeart mediaviation Expert Jay Rat left
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Speaker 1: right after these brief words. Fifty five KRC fifty.
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Speaker 2: Five KRC they talk station.
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Speaker 1: A forty eight if you have KRCD talk station. Very
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Speaker 1: very happy Friday or Friday Eve to you, love Heaven.
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Speaker 1: I heard mediaviation Expert Jay let Rat left on the
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Speaker 1: program program every Friday Eve. And of course you're going
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Speaker 1: to indulge me here for just a moment. It is
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Speaker 1: the Christmas season. You already risk me. Merry Christmas. I
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Speaker 1: wish you merry Christmas. I hope you enjoy the holiday
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Speaker 1: spirit and just have a just a really heartwarming message
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Speaker 1: to pass along. Brian Ibold from the Help Squad. Jay.
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Speaker 1: If you're not familiar. They help out westsiders and need
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Speaker 1: Every dollar you give to the Help Squad is a
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Speaker 1: dollar in benefits to someone truly in need. Brian Ibold
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Speaker 1: form Sinceni police officer started the whole thing. He was
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Speaker 1: on the program not that long ago. He got a
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Speaker 1: text from him this morning. I received this letter along
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Speaker 1: with one thousand dollars a check for one thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: because this woman, her name is Shannon, was on my program.
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Speaker 1: He said thank you for the continued support. So that
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Speaker 1: really warmed my heart. In a shout out to Shannon
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Speaker 1: who or it's either Shannon or Sharon. It's cursive and
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Speaker 1: it's I can't read the writing very well, but she
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Speaker 1: did say she heard about the Help Squad on my program.
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Speaker 1: She was thanking him for helping people who otherwise would
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Speaker 1: not get any help. And the thousand dollars contribution. So
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Speaker 1: thank you Brian for passing along the information and to
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Speaker 1: that listener who made the contribution. That kind of thing
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Speaker 1: just warms my heart. Jay, It's just such a wonderful
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Speaker 1: position to be in where I can spread the information
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Speaker 1: about these great charities out there and how people can
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Speaker 1: get in touch with them and help out. It's just great.
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Speaker 2: Is that link on your website or.
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Speaker 1: It's the help Squad? Sincey withthewy dot com it's been
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Speaker 1: up many times over the year. It is not currently
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Speaker 1: there because this I just literally got the message from Brian.
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Speaker 1: We were on the brain.
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Speaker 2: I will add to that.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, the nice thing, Brian is that it's
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Speaker 2: this time of year where, you know, there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of crazy things going on with all the activities that
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Speaker 2: were over committed to do, but it's also a time
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Speaker 2: that a lot of us just kind of take stock
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Speaker 2: in the fact of just how blessed we are. And
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Speaker 2: sometimes it's this or that doing things. And I remember
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Speaker 2: when I met Sherry nineteen years ago. We were dating,
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Speaker 2: and one of the things she was doing with her
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Speaker 2: young young sons at the time was when they would
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Speaker 2: get a Christmas present a toy, they would take an
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Speaker 2: old toy and donate it to someone else. That way,
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Speaker 2: when they got something, they were giving something, And it
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Speaker 2: was just kind of a type of thing she was
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Speaker 2: trying to ingrain into them about being thankful for what
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Speaker 2: you have and then taking sometimes even a toy you like,
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Speaker 2: and let's donate it to somebody that may not have one.
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Speaker 1: There you go, and there's.
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Speaker 2: Just so many people, especially in this audience, because I
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Speaker 2: hear from so many people that had that mindset and
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Speaker 2: they appreciate what they have, and look, life's temporary, so
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Speaker 2: let's let's make them most of it. Be thankful. And
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Speaker 2: and you know this idea of just not not trying
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Speaker 2: to help your fellow man, you know, fortunately for a
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Speaker 2: lot of us, that's that's a foreign concept. We're gonna
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Speaker 2: do what we can to help. And I'm glad that
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Speaker 2: you mentioned that that worthwhile organization.
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Speaker 1: The help Squad since you with a why the help
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Speaker 1: squadsincy dot com. They are terrific of what they do
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Speaker 1: and focusing on an area that they found was desperately
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Speaker 1: in need for help. So salute all the help Squad folks.
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Speaker 1: And Brian Ibel, thanks again for that latest survey ranking
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Speaker 1: the most reliable and least reliable airports and airlines. Is
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Speaker 1: CVG on that list there anywhere?
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Speaker 2: No, No, no, no, it's not. But you know, one
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Speaker 2: of the things that they looked at was the on
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Speaker 2: time performance when they looked at you know how different
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Speaker 2: airports do things as far as you know which ones
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Speaker 2: are the best or not. And when we're coming into
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Speaker 2: the airport the travel season with the holidays, one of
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Speaker 2: the things that people ask all the time is Jay,
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Speaker 2: what's the best airports to go through? And when you
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Speaker 2: look look get you know idea as far as Orlando
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Speaker 2: being one of the airports it has one of the
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Speaker 2: better on time performances. That that's a key one to
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Speaker 2: go through a Delta airlines having the best on time
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Speaker 2: performance as far as their on time performance is also
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Speaker 2: something people look at when they're planning their trip, and
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Speaker 2: that's important for a lot of people as they are
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Speaker 2: traveling or planning their upcoming trip, is which airline airport
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Speaker 2: can I count on that I can give me the
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Speaker 2: best chance of being on time. And that's that's one
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Speaker 2: of the reasons that these rankings come out all the time.
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Speaker 2: When you're looking at you know which airports to avoid,
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Speaker 2: which ones to not, And that's why Delta is normally
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Speaker 2: a number one key and you know, even Detroit came
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Speaker 2: in in the top of that list as well, which
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Speaker 2: was kind of surprising to me from a hub standpoint,
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Speaker 2: and then you know, they had other airports that were
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Speaker 2: considered the worst. I thought airports like Philadelphia Newark would
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Speaker 2: be on the don't go there because it's not going
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Speaker 2: to be on it, but they were not. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's but again, I'm always ask which airline is my
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Speaker 2: airline of choice, and Delta is mine not only from
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Speaker 2: the on time performance, but their completion factor is higher
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Speaker 2: than others, and that's why when you're traveling through the holidays,
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Speaker 2: it's you know, I like having that because even if
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Speaker 2: the flight's a little bit delayed, I know that they're
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Speaker 2: going to get the aircraft to its destination more often
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Speaker 2: than not, and certainly more than others because their completion
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Speaker 2: factor is normally in the high eighty percent range, and
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Speaker 2: that's great when you're traveling, especially over the holidays.
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Speaker 1: I tend to agree with this statement because I've been
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Speaker 1: through a lot of meetings at work Jay when I
17:33
Speaker 1: used to work as an in house attorney at Anthem,
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Speaker 1: and of course a lot of meetings in my prior
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Speaker 1: day practicing law. Not as many though the weekly meeting
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Speaker 1: my wife gets. A weekly meeting gets two hours long.
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Speaker 1: She uses that time to do her nails. Paul out
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry I had to say that out loud, but
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Speaker 1: not a whole lot of activity on the call that's
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Speaker 1: really truly important to her area of work nonetheless has
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Speaker 1: an obligation to attend them. So what did Southwest Airline
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Speaker 1: CEO mean when he said to his team meetings are
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Speaker 1: not work.
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Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people were saying, I'm busy, I'm
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Speaker 2: feeling good about what I'm doing because my schedule's full
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Speaker 2: doing these types of things. And Bob Jordan, the head
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Speaker 2: the CEO of Southwest said, wait a minute, meetings aren't
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Speaker 2: leadership meetings. Aren't us doing our work. We need to
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Speaker 2: be out there doing our job, not sitting around having
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Speaker 2: a bunch of especially one on one meetings. He said,
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Speaker 2: that's a waste of time. And he's trying to change
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Speaker 2: the focus of Southwest Airlines where you're trying to make
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Speaker 2: sure that every single individual is doing the most that
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Speaker 2: they can each and every day to try to help
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Speaker 2: that airline advance, especially on the customer service side of things.
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Speaker 2: And he found that a lot of people in his
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Speaker 2: leadership team were busy in meetings instead of doing other
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Speaker 2: things that were far more practical. And I remember the
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Speaker 2: last supervisor I had at Northwest Airlines. He demanded a
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Speaker 2: two hour conference call every Monday morning, excuse me, the
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Speaker 2: busiest day of the week, so we could tell him
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Speaker 2: what was going on. And it was nuts. So you know,
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Speaker 2: some people are so meeting, you know, yes, sess. And
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Speaker 2: I heard somebody, somebody used to work for me, come
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Speaker 2: in and on my Facebook posts. He said, Jade. People that
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Speaker 2: have those like to hear themselves talk. And I think
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Speaker 2: that's probably the case, and it's the perception of being productive.
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Speaker 2: That's what meetings are. Many times you don't need to
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Speaker 2: have them. And I told you about the FA meeting
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Speaker 2: I walked out of in the last segment. We were
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Speaker 2: talking about the same topics that we were a year before,
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Speaker 2: and I walked out. I said, folks, no disrespect, but
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Speaker 2: these are the same talking points we had a year ago.
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Speaker 2: We've not done anything and it's a waste of my
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Speaker 2: time and yours, and I let My boss wasn't too
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Speaker 2: happy when he found out about it. But you know
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Speaker 2: the bottom line is the idea of just having a
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Speaker 2: meeting for meeting's sake, No, And it's kind of a
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Speaker 2: corporate mindset where some of this is changing. You're seeing
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Speaker 2: that the corporations adopt the same thing, and I think
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Speaker 2: that's a great thing.
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Speaker 1: To do, and minds me of a conference call was
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Speaker 1: on with attorneys from all over the fifty states, including Hawaii,
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Speaker 1: on a tobacco litigation call, same thing, rehashing that had
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Speaker 1: been over and over and over and over again. I
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Speaker 1: didn't realize my mute button wasn't on, my speaker phone
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Speaker 1: was on, and I said blah blah blah, and the
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Speaker 1: whole conference I just went silent.
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Speaker 2: Keep your stupid mouth shut.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was my moment, one of the most embarrassing
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Speaker 1: moments I had. But everybody on the call, I assure you,
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Speaker 1: with the exception of that one attorney that prompted my
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah, was very happy that I interjected along
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Speaker 1: those lines. Jay Ratliffe, real quick, hubblays. Any problems out
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Speaker 1: there today, real quick?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of rain unfortunately giving us issues in Chicago,
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Speaker 2: Detroit's gonna have problems, Atlanta, Charlotte, a lot of issues.
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Speaker 2: And if you're traveling over the next couple of weeks,
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Speaker 2: you've not flown in a while. TSA dot Gov great
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Speaker 2: sight to go to to make sure you're aware of
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Speaker 2: any changes that may have taken place since the last
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Speaker 2: time you flow.
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Speaker 1: You'll be back in January, Jay Raytle if I trust,
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Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to it already. God bless you
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Speaker 1: your beautiful wife's share you have a wonderful Christmas and
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Speaker 1: if you're traveling, safe travels. Man appreciate you coming on
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