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

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Speaker 1: Detalk station. It is a very happy Thursday, as it
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Speaker 1: always is at this time because we get to talk
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Speaker 1: to unless he's on vacation like last week or out.
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Speaker 1: I heart media aviation expert Jay Roratliff. Welcome back, my friend.
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Speaker 1: You know I love talking with you.
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Speaker 2: Man. You take one vacation in a blue moon and
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Speaker 2: somebody's smacking your chop. It's could be back. I can't reck.
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Speaker 1: I don't think we had anybody filling in for this
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Speaker 1: segment in the last week's show, so you sort of
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Speaker 1: leave me to my own devices, and I'd much rather
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Speaker 1: have a guest on. And I love our conversations because
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Speaker 1: again they typically are light. But let's start with one
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Speaker 1: that's not so light. Oh my god, we're all gonna die.
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Speaker 1: According to the US Travel Association president, a guy named
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Speaker 1: Joff Freeman, who said US Travel Association, this is costing
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Speaker 1: US one billion dollars in counter week. Travel is avation longer,
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Speaker 1: tsa line, flight delays, airports, reducing flights, entire control covers
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Speaker 1: going dark longer. This drags on the worst cascade. The
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Speaker 1: damage will be for local communities, for small businesses, and
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Speaker 1: for the country. His groups, US economy lost one or
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Speaker 1: losing one billion dollars per week because of those issues.
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Speaker 1: Yet Willie Wallace, a director in general airline lobby group
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Speaker 1: the International Air Transportations Association, said no, there's been no
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Speaker 1: significant disruption. There has been no stop in the recruitment
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Speaker 1: of new air traffic controllers. There were no significant impacts
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Speaker 1: to date. So who's right on this one? Jay?
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Speaker 3: I'm assuming the former did not vote for Donald Trump's
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Speaker 3: just going out there on a limb. But the last
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Speaker 3: few days I've had several TV and radio interviews where
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Speaker 3: people are freaking out over the fact that the Burbank
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Speaker 3: Airport had no air traffic controllers and we had to
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Speaker 3: pivot and have another air traffic control center take care
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Speaker 3: of the arrivals and departures at that airport. It's as
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Speaker 3: though this guy is falling. It happened in Nashville where
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Speaker 3: we had a shortage. So and of course I've got
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Speaker 3: my referee shirt on the whistle and I'm blowing a
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Speaker 3: time out trying to get these people to stop so
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Speaker 3: I can tell them that in the last nine months, Brian,
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Speaker 3: that's happened a thousand times, right.
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Speaker 1: Well, and didn't Burbank close a bunch of times in
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Speaker 1: events of this as well, because.
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Speaker 3: It does, it does, and we've got redundancies, we've got
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Speaker 3: cistens in place, procedures in place, and it's like, wait
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Speaker 3: a minute, if this is such a big time issue,
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Speaker 3: now where were you the other thousand times it happened
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Speaker 3: in just the last nine months. So it's an obvious
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Speaker 3: to me and not surprisingly moved by people that are
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Speaker 3: trying to push back on the administration saying that you know,
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Speaker 3: this is endangering the lives of everybody who flies and
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Speaker 3: it's a horrific time to fly, and all this is
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Speaker 3: taking place, and I'm saying, no, it's being brought upon
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Speaker 3: because we have a shortage of bear traffic controllers, period,
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Speaker 3: and that's why all of those thousand occurrences took place,
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Speaker 3: and that's why it's happening now. Now it's a little
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Speaker 3: bit different now, And Brian, I can certainly understand you
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Speaker 3: have a lot of men and women who are going
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Speaker 3: to get a partial paycheck on Tuesday the fourteenth, and
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Speaker 3: then two weeks after that on the twenty there and
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Speaker 3: to get hit no paycheck, and these air traffic controllers
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Speaker 3: are being asked to show up to work and their
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Speaker 3: pay is to be delayed, and some of them are saying,
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Speaker 3: and I know this to be the case. I've got
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Speaker 3: bills to pay, I've got to put food on the table,
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Speaker 3: and I don't have six weeks of income saved up.
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Speaker 3: I do have a secondary job. I can go do that.
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Speaker 3: I'll get paid right now for so I'm gonna call
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Speaker 3: in sick even though I don't want to, and I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna go work where I know I'm gonna get paid
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Speaker 3: so I've got the money to survive on because that's
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Speaker 3: what I'm forced to do. So I'm certainly not gonna
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Speaker 3: fault the men and women if that's the route they've
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Speaker 3: got to go to. The air traffic controllers, they're already overworked,
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Speaker 3: they're being forced into overtime, they're morale is down, they're
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Speaker 3: using equipment that is just beyond archaic. So there's a
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Speaker 3: lot of things right there that I do understand.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: I wish they wouldn't do it because that puts a
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Speaker 3: strain on the people that they're working with. But when
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Speaker 3: it comes down to should I be there for my
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Speaker 3: teammates that I'm working with, or do I need to
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Speaker 3: make sure I've got food on the table for my kids.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I know which way that's going to go
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Speaker 3: each and every time. So the bottom line is we're
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Speaker 3: six weeks away from the busiest travel week of the year.
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Speaker 3: We've got to get this resolved now so that we
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Speaker 3: don't get into November and start having an issue with
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Speaker 3: uh oh, having this type of a scenario take place
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Speaker 3: when it's the busiest travel time, that's when we will
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Speaker 3: have a problem.
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Speaker 1: We'll continue with iHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff, including a
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Speaker 1: common or two on West Jet figuring out yet another
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Speaker 1: way to anger its passengers eight thirty five Right now
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Speaker 1: fifty five kr C Detalk station See eight thirty seven
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Speaker 1: Expert Jay Ratliff definitely has. We are fortunate to have
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Speaker 1: them every week on the fifty five CARSCEN Morning show
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Speaker 1: beginning at a thirty through the end of the program.
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Speaker 1: And let's pivot over to cigarettes smuggling. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: the Russians are shutting down airspace. It's the Chinese Communist
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Speaker 1: Party with a drone strike. Oh, maybe it isn't. Maybe
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Speaker 1: it's people who don't want to pay taxes on cigarettes.
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Speaker 1: This is kind of crazy. Jay I saw the reporting
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Speaker 1: on this when it first came out, A cigarette delay.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm trying to figure out what delay code
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Speaker 3: we could have used with this. But he had an
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Speaker 3: airport Lithuania shut down because of the fact that it
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Speaker 3: was unsafe for aircraft to approach the airport because they
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Speaker 3: had I think it was twenty five balloons, large ones
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Speaker 3: that had been lifted off that were in essence carrying
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Speaker 3: cigarettes that were being smuggled, and it affected about thirty
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Speaker 3: some flights that were coming in. They said thousands of
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Speaker 3: passengers were impacted by this because the fact that they
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Speaker 3: had so many balloons in that airspace that represented a
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Speaker 3: problem for approaching aircraft. And it's you know, I think
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Speaker 3: the only other bizarre kind of story would be like
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Speaker 3: if you went back a gazillion years ago to the
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Speaker 3: man that put a bunch of balloons, healing balloons onto
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Speaker 3: his lunch chair and lifted himself up. I remember that
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Speaker 3: and up and up, Brian, I think he got up
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Speaker 3: to like fifteen thousand feet.
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Speaker 2: I'm crazy in a lawn chair.
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Speaker 1: Did he have a big did he have an air
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Speaker 1: rifle with him to shoot the balloon?
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Speaker 2: The time? Way that way he could come down.
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Speaker 3: His wife's on the radio tell him to come down.
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Speaker 2: And look.
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Speaker 3: I was a skydiver for a bunch of years, but
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Speaker 3: I'm not a big fan of heights. So the thought
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Speaker 3: is going up in a lawn chair to any altitude
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Speaker 3: like that, I mean, I'm sorry, that's just crazy. But yes,
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Speaker 3: the cigarette smuggling balloon situation that shut down an airport
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Speaker 3: is certainly one of the reasons I'll never tell you that,
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Speaker 3: you know, I've seen it all because you never underestimate
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Speaker 3: people in what they're capable of doing.
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Speaker 1: Ever, no doubt about it. And I guess it's kind
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Speaker 1: of funny. That was an extraordinarily low budget smuggling effort,
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Speaker 1: considering they just used helium balloons. If they had gotten
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Speaker 1: an actual drone, they probably would have been far more
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Speaker 1: successful getting the cigarettes to the location they wanted to
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Speaker 1: send them to.
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Speaker 3: That's kind of hard to control where a balloon goes
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Speaker 3: to something, I know, yeah, and where they're going to
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Speaker 3: land and such. So I guess it's a crapshoot which way.
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Speaker 2: Things are going to go. But you know, who knows.
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Speaker 3: You probably laugh at the people that were doing it
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Speaker 3: because they may not have had well, they had enough
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Speaker 3: intelligence to get the thing's airborne. I got to give
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Speaker 3: them credit for that.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and you're how many? I hate to put you
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Speaker 1: on the spot, but I know how would you are?
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Speaker 1: You don't have to say it.
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Speaker 2: Let me a curve ball.
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Speaker 1: How many decades have you been in the aviation business field, expertise,
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Speaker 1: knowledge and that kind of thing. How long have you
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Speaker 1: been following closely aviation?
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Speaker 3: Well, I started working in nineteen eighty.
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Speaker 2: One, in October.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so I've been as I've been associated with the
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Speaker 3: airline industry going back to just after deregulation took place
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Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy eight.
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Speaker 1: On planes, in planes, in management, and variety of different roles.
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Speaker 1: You've seen it all, So I guess that's the predicate
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Speaker 1: for my question.
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Speaker 2: Not all, but yeah, Well, like.
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Speaker 1: Cigarette smuggling balloons say down airports, every day is a
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Speaker 1: new day with that caveat, I see yet another are
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Speaker 1: headline drunk New Jersey's sisters arrested after meltdown for being
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Speaker 1: kicked off Frontier Airlines flight and attacking a worker. And
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Speaker 1: this is all on body camera footage. Now, this is
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Speaker 1: one among a seemingly endless number of incidents like this
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Speaker 1: where people get out of hand, they start getting all
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Speaker 1: punchy and fighty and belligerent and they get chucked off
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Speaker 1: of an airline. Is it just the internet and pervasive
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Speaker 1: ubiquitous nature of cell phone cameras that we are aware
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Speaker 1: of this, or this a newer phenomenon. Is this becoming
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Speaker 1: far more frequent because people getting kind of disrespectful of
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Speaker 1: authority figures and really not have any sense of ethics
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Speaker 1: and morality. That is a common problem across the board
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Speaker 1: that appears to be growing. I'm just wondering, in so
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Speaker 1: far as airline incidents, is it a growing phenomena.
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Speaker 3: I think to a certain degree it is, but it's not.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we were dealing with it back in the eighties,
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Speaker 3: right in the nineties, because we would always have individuals
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Speaker 3: that had a disrespect for authority, didn't want to be
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Speaker 3: told what to do, and different types of things where
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Speaker 3: they were just absolute, very difficult people to work with.
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Speaker 3: And sadly, sometimes that took place when the aircraft was airborne.
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Speaker 3: A lot of times it was alcohol involved, and you
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Speaker 3: had a lot of situations that required us to kind of,
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Speaker 3: you know, pivot with regards to what was going on
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Speaker 3: with the aircraft, the operations or.
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Speaker 2: Things of this nature.
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Speaker 3: It becomes much more of an issue now because with
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Speaker 3: the advent of everybody having the ability or to record
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Speaker 3: what's happening and then post it immediately, where a situation
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Speaker 3: goes viral, not once it hits the mainstream press, but
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Speaker 3: once it hits social media and it's shared around the world,
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Speaker 3: it becomes much more of an issue that people are
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Speaker 3: aware of. And sadly, we're seeing, you know, more and
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Speaker 3: more examples of this front and center, where you've got
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Speaker 3: these individuals that are telling uniform flight attendant they're not
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Speaker 3: going to do what they're being told to do, which
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Speaker 3: is a federal offense, or causing a situation where an
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Speaker 3: aircraft is delayed in departing or creates a diversion, or
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Speaker 3: any of these other things. And Brian, it's when you
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Speaker 3: have individuals that attack passengers, shove flight attendants, rush the cockpit,
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Speaker 3: whatever it might happen to be. These people are clearly
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Speaker 3: in individuals that should not be flying on any US
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Speaker 3: carrier in the country. Sadly, these two individuals from Frontier
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Speaker 3: will be banned for life from flying Frontier, thank you.
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Speaker 3: They should be, but they're free to fly any other carrier.
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Speaker 3: And you and I've talked about this so many tis
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Speaker 3: why are we going to allow knowingly these individuals to
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Speaker 3: fly on other carriers?
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Speaker 2: And there needs to be some.
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Speaker 3: Sort of consequence if you act up, if it's an argument,
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Speaker 3: you're having a bad day, Believe no, I don't want
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Speaker 3: to ban you from flying. But if I shove a
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Speaker 3: flight attendant or I attack a passenger, I should be
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Speaker 3: you know, putting time out fly wise for like three
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Speaker 3: to five years. I don't think that's anything that's outside
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Speaker 3: the the you know, it would be considered extreme here,
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Speaker 3: but airlines won't do it because it costs them money
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Speaker 3: to track it, and that's why they say that they
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Speaker 3: refuse to do it.
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Speaker 1: We got a no fly list, jay ry love if
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Speaker 1: if they can track no fly lists, which obviously are
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Speaker 1: bigger and contain people who don't deserve to be in
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Speaker 1: the no fly list because of errors in government, they
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Speaker 1: can have a list like this. Is this something the
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Speaker 1: FAA could mandate if they chose to do so.
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Speaker 2: Oh they could, they could.
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Speaker 3: The problem is the airlines tell their government what they're
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Speaker 3: going to do instead of the other way around. And
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Speaker 3: we're in a very residential administration friendly environment here where
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Speaker 3: everybody gets along and everybody kind of can push things.
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Speaker 3: And this is not the administration, even though I'm a
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Speaker 3: big fan of the Trump administration what he's doing. They're
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Speaker 3: not going to be held accountable and to be forced
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Speaker 3: to do this type of thing, even though they should.
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Speaker 3: And that's why when I see all these CEOs from
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Speaker 3: airlines talking about how much they care about their passengers
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Speaker 3: and employees, I just want to throw up because I'm thinking,
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Speaker 3: stop it, because you're saying one thing and then doing
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Speaker 3: something completely different. If you really cared about your employees
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Speaker 3: and you really wanted to protect them, you would spend
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Speaker 3: whatever money it took to keep these individuals that have
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Speaker 3: been convicted of these types of actions off of your flight.
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Speaker 3: And if it happened on a Southwest flight, you're making
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Speaker 3: sure they don't fly you on American or Delta or
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Speaker 3: United or South South rus whatever it is. But we're
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Speaker 3: not doing it. During the pandemic, the airlines were asked
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Speaker 3: early on to provide and track information and give it
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Speaker 3: to the government, and they said, well, we don't have
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Speaker 3: the main power to do it, and they said, well,
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Speaker 3: this could help us. Actually prevent the spread of COVID.
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Speaker 3: If we could have this information, I'm sorry we're not
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Speaker 3: going to be able to do it again. The airlines
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Speaker 3: telling the government what they're going to do instead of
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Speaker 3: the other way around.
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Speaker 1: That's amazing. And to your point earlier, I don't care
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Speaker 1: how bad a day you're having. Nothing can justify you
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Speaker 1: assaulting or battering another human being that has no connection
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Speaker 1: with your bad day. Well on more with, We're going
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Speaker 1: to find out how many ways you can anger a customer.
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Speaker 1: West Jet creating a new way to anger its air
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Speaker 1: traffic passengers plus hub delays. Are going to find out
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Speaker 1: how good it is to travel today More with Jay
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Speaker 1: Ratliff after this brief word, these brief words from if
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Speaker 1: any five t CD talk station one more time I
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Speaker 1: heard me the aviation expert Jay Ryloff, intentionally held on
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Speaker 1: the the goofiest and the dumbest for the last Jay,
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Speaker 1: you gave me a heads up on this one yesterday.
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Speaker 1: My reaction is like, you've got to be kidding me.
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Speaker 1: Tell them what west Jet's doing now, Well, they have.
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Speaker 3: They've decided to give passengers the opportunity to take advantage
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Speaker 3: of a premium seating option on their flights.
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Speaker 1: Of course that's first class, right, that's first class premium seating.
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Speaker 3: They kind of, I think, redefined the word premium Brian
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Speaker 3: in essence, if you want to seat the reclines, they're
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Speaker 3: going to.
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Speaker 2: Charge you more.
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Speaker 3: Now, I mean, we we've talked about, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 3: what are we being charges for oxygen? It used to
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Speaker 3: be you could take any seat you wanted, and then
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Speaker 3: they said, you know, people will actually pay money to
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Speaker 3: get their seats assigned in advance. Okay, And then they said,
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Speaker 3: you know, some people prefer window seats over middle seats,
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Speaker 3: so we can start charging it more for that. You know,
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Speaker 3: some people prefer aisle seats, and then they decided let's
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Speaker 3: give them a little bit more leg room, et cetera,
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Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. Now here's how this is going
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Speaker 3: to be sold to the American traveling public. So many people,
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Speaker 3: the airlines will say, are having fights over reclining seats,
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Speaker 3: and it's really creating a customer service problem. So US
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Speaker 3: as the airline, we're going to make sure that we
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Speaker 3: can alleviate those problems. So we will make every seat
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Speaker 3: on the airplane incapable of reclining. We'll have them all
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Speaker 3: at this slight angle and everyone will have the same
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Speaker 3: and nobody can recline it. So that's how we're going
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Speaker 3: to take better care of our customer. Of course, ps
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Speaker 3: in behind closed doors. They can now put an extra
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Speaker 3: two rows on every aircraft so they can make more revenue. Okay,
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Speaker 3: that's the reason they do it. So now they're going
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Speaker 3: to say, we're going to give you some premium seats
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Speaker 3: and un West Jedi, I think it's twelve seats per
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Speaker 3: seven thirty seven that they're going to have this on.
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Speaker 3: You can actually pay for these seats for the ability
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Speaker 3: to recline, and that's going to be an additional service.
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Speaker 3: And it just you know, and you know, congratulations to
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Speaker 3: them for finding another way to squeeze more money out
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Speaker 3: of us. Because from a business standpoint, it's like, you know,
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Speaker 3: we used to check bags and it didn't cost us
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Speaker 3: a penny. Now we have to pay for it. We
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Speaker 3: used to actually be able to carry bags on an airplane.
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Speaker 3: Now we got to pay for it. We actually used
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Speaker 3: to be able to sit in the seat that had
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Speaker 3: a little button that could push his let our seat
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Speaker 3: recline for free.
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Speaker 2: No, now we're gonna have to pay for it.
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Speaker 3: Now you watch what's going to happen here West Jetus
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Speaker 3: go the first airline.
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Speaker 2: Yep, the leader brother, Buckle up and brace for impact.
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Speaker 1: This reminded me of the I think BMW been the
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Speaker 1: first automat auto manufacturer, but it's kind of become a
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Speaker 1: popular thing to equip the cars with all the technology
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Speaker 1: and then charge you to actually activate it.
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Speaker 2: So out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so like a heated seat. It's in there, but
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Speaker 1: you got to pay fifty bucks a month or whatever
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Speaker 1: under some performance package to make it work. So my question,
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Speaker 1: insofar as the seats are concerned, you mentioned the button.
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Speaker 1: Are they just going to disable the reclined mechanism so
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Speaker 1: that saves them having to replace the seats so the
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Speaker 1: technologies in there, it's just been blocked out, or are
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Speaker 1: they actually going to change the seats out to be fixed.
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Speaker 2: I don't think they change the seats out.
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Speaker 3: I think that would make it because it would be
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Speaker 3: too expensive. But I'll tell you this, as future airplanes
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Speaker 3: are ordered, you will have airplanes with these seats with
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Speaker 3: the slight recline that there's no way they can be reclined.
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Speaker 3: And of course some people have these knee blocker type
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Speaker 3: devices that you can buy and I'm not advocating you
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Speaker 3: do this, and you can actually put it in the
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Speaker 3: seat in front of you that prevents the seat from reclining.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, the knee blockers or whatever they're called, if
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Speaker 3: flight attendants really get upset at us when we use them,
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Speaker 3: because when somebody tries to recline a seat and can't
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Speaker 3: and it's found out what happened, you know, probably the
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Speaker 3: person before you put them on.
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Speaker 2: They're not you.
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Speaker 3: But right it comes, it becomes it becomes I'm not
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Speaker 3: suggesting you do this, but it's it's Airlines are getting
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Speaker 3: tired of of, you know, some of the stuff that
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Speaker 3: flight attendants have to deal with, and certainly flight attendants
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Speaker 3: are getting tired of being the referee between people that
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Speaker 3: reclient seats, don't recline seats and all this and that,
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Speaker 3: because there's a lot of arguments and a lot of
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Speaker 3: the low cost carriers have aircraft that again, the seats
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Speaker 3: don't recline. They've got a slight recline to them, and
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Speaker 3: they're not super comfortable seats, but you're not in them
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Speaker 3: for an extended period of time, and they're lightweight, and
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Speaker 3: they can also put more seats on the airplane.
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Speaker 2: So that's the case.
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Speaker 3: But when I when I saw that, I thought, oh,
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Speaker 3: you gotta be kidding me. One I thought, why didn't
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Speaker 3: I think of that? Because you know it's something, because
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Speaker 3: it's so ridiculous, Sure we're going.
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Speaker 2: To do it.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of expertors I could use on that
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Speaker 1: was because you're not, say a jerky. You didn't think
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Speaker 1: of that because you would find the concept to be
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Speaker 1: offensive to the consumer. Anyway, You and I are not
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Speaker 1: wired deat way brothers. No we are not. No, we
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Speaker 1: are not as we always Let's talk about hub delays.
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Speaker 1: What's it looking like out there today for travel Jay Ratlift.
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Speaker 3: This entire week has been a mess because especially with
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Speaker 3: some weather that's been coming in off the Northeast. But
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Speaker 3: today is difference, and I'm thrilled to say the mess
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Speaker 3: in the Northeast has gone. Really, if if I was
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Speaker 3: getting paid for delays, it would be it'd be a
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Speaker 3: light day because Seattle is about the only airport hub
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Speaker 3: that's going to be impacted because of weather. Everything else
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Speaker 3: has been pretty well cleared out. Even I think some
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Speaker 3: of the turbulent areas where we could be experienced turbulence
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Speaker 3: have really subsided. So if you pick the day, you
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Speaker 3: get like a triple gold star because it's just going
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Speaker 3: to be an incredible day to fly. You pick the perfect,
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Speaker 3: perfect day to take to this.
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Speaker 2: Guys love it.
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Speaker 1: We get end on a positive note and typically the
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Speaker 1: entire conversation is positive. Jay Ratlift, love having you on
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Speaker 1: the show Man. Look forward to next Thursday with another
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Speaker 1: air traffic or airline report or aviation report, and as always,
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Speaker 1: I hope you and your better half have a wonderful
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Speaker 1: day and week