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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Aviation issues and have a couple of yucks and some fun.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, my friend, it's always great heaving on the show.
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  Speaker 1: My pleasure to be here, my friend. Good morning, Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: A topic number one. I embrace this all day long.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking about was in a doctor's office, wit
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  Speaker 1: in the waiting room, and some clowns sitting in the
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  Speaker 1: corner had her cell phone blasting. I mean you could
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  Speaker 1: hear it down the hall just looking at I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: watching some YouTube video, some promo anyway. Just absolutely rude.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's just downright rude. Well, United Airlines stepping
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  Speaker 1: up to the plate and dealing with things like this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in fact, they have changed their carriage of contract.
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  Speaker 2: That's the legal terms. Since the airline tickets to reservation,
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  Speaker 2: that's a legal contract between us and the airline. United
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  Speaker 2: change their legal wording saying look, if we have passengers
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  Speaker 2: that have these electronic devices that they failed to use
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  Speaker 2: their airphones or headphones, yeah we'll kick them off the flight.
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  Speaker 2: We could ban them from flying United Airlines. So it's
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  Speaker 2: really the first step by me your airline to say, look,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to act like this and be this
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  Speaker 2: inconsiderate to people you're sitting butt to butt, cheek the
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  Speaker 2: cheek next to then we won't have you and you
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  Speaker 2: could be removed from the plane. Now, if somebody's doing
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  Speaker 2: it during the course of the flight, they'll be reminded
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  Speaker 2: by a flight attendant that they need to change what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing, and if they don't when they land, they're
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  Speaker 2: not getting on their connecting flight and they may not
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  Speaker 2: be allowed to fly United Airlines ever again. Because once
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  Speaker 2: you start disregarding, disobeying, ignoring the instructions of a uniform
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  Speaker 2: crew member, that is in essence of felony, and you're
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  Speaker 2: preventing them from doing the jobs that they need to do.
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  Speaker 2: From a safety related standpoint, it's just stupid to do it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, there's and I don't, Brian, I've never understood it.
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  Speaker 2: And I look at people when they're doing that, and
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  Speaker 2: they look at me, and I guess I just don't
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  Speaker 2: have the you know, the forward nature to say, we're
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  Speaker 2: not all interested in what you're listening to talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Is there any you know? But you know, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I just look at them thinking that maybe they've got
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  Speaker 2: some civility within them, and they'll realize, Oh, I guess
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  Speaker 2: you know, having my phone at volume twenty nine and
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  Speaker 2: people for seventeen rows can hear what I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: is a bit u man, you know, But you just
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  Speaker 2: don't know the way people are these days. You just
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean to be a cynic Brian, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: just common courtesy these days. I'm surprised when I get
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  Speaker 2: the kind of courteous behavior I would like to see.
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  Speaker 2: The other stuff doesn't surprise me. I tell Sherry that
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  Speaker 2: all the time when we go out and we have
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  Speaker 2: to endure something at a store somewhere, and I said, well, sadly,
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  Speaker 2: that's the kind of behavior we've come to expect these.
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  Speaker 1: Days, isn't it the truth? It's like common sense. It
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  Speaker 1: isn't common anymore, that courtesy we used to count on
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  Speaker 1: all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I just did all right, But thank you, thank you
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  Speaker 2: United for doing I mean, normally they're not the ones
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  Speaker 2: leading the charge on stuff like this, so I'm thrilled
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  Speaker 2: to see it.
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  Speaker 1: All right. And yet again a week doesn't go bob,
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  Speaker 1: we only have planes running into each other one during taxing.
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  Speaker 1: We have yet another one. Spirit Airlines. A bit of
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  Speaker 1: a bad luck trend going on here, Jay.
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  Speaker 2: Spirit by a break, they're selling their planes. They're trying to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just concentrate on the most profitable routes. That
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  Speaker 2: it's not a skeleton crew, but it's getting there. And
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  Speaker 2: they've got this this airplane that's in the process of
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  Speaker 2: de icing at Newark, and this Singapore Airlines super jumbo
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  Speaker 2: jet is being pushed out for taxi and boom runs
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  Speaker 2: right into it. This wasn't a glancing blow. They plowed
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  Speaker 2: into this, ramming the vertical stabilizer, the part that sticks
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  Speaker 2: up in the back. That Singapore Airlines flight was preparing
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  Speaker 2: for a nineteen hour flight, so all the people, all
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  Speaker 2: the luggage has to come off of both planes. But
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't long ago that we had a Delta Airlines
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  Speaker 2: flight ram into a Spirit Airlines flight. Again on the ground,
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  Speaker 2: no serious injuries, just damage to the aircraft. But it's like, Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: do we need to paint our airplanes a different color?
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  Speaker 2: We seem to be attracting all these planes and Brian,
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  Speaker 2: when you've got a team of people around an aircraft
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  Speaker 2: as it's being pushed out, there is the row z
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  Speaker 2: ow zero chance. If everybody's doing their job, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to stop the progression. They're gonna say, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: things aren't lined up here, and they're gonna make the
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  Speaker 2: necessary adjustments. At Northwest Airlines, anytime we had aircraft damage
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  Speaker 2: like this that was so easily preventable, it was clear
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  Speaker 2: that not only one, but several people weren't doing their job.
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  Speaker 2: And now you've got an aircraft people canceled, the multiple
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  Speaker 2: flights at aircraft was supposed to run that day canceled.
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  Speaker 2: You've got now just a big billboard until it gets fixed,
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  Speaker 2: sitting there by maintenance crews. And it typically happens in
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  Speaker 2: a place other than your maintenance hub, which makes it
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  Speaker 2: even harder to fix. And it's it's just absolutely annoying.
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  Speaker 2: But once again, yeah, spirit gets dinged by another aircraft
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  Speaker 2: and caused all kinds of problems.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and just sort of something of what you said.
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  Speaker 1: I find it impossible to believe given the expense and
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  Speaker 1: hassle that is associated with this happening, and all of
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  Speaker 1: the people around the two giant aircraft could ever run
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  Speaker 1: into each other at.
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  Speaker 2: A slow speed for something. For some airlines, it's caused
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  Speaker 2: to lose your job. So there's not an intent for
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  Speaker 2: the people on the ground to say, hey, look, you
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  Speaker 2: know I've got to really be on my toes here.
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  Speaker 2: But it's like everything else. Once you get laxed, you
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  Speaker 2: get a little sloppy, and mistakes can happen. It happens
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  Speaker 2: all the time. I don't care if you're trading stocks,
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  Speaker 2: or you're pushing an airplane back, if you get distracted,
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  Speaker 2: or you just kind of it's another day at the
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  Speaker 2: office and you just assume everything's going to go, is
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  Speaker 2: supposed to go. You quickly find out that's not the case,
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  Speaker 2: and things can really blow up in your face. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking there's no rear view mirror in the cockpit,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I have a backup camera in my car.
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  Speaker 1: This comes standard. Do you think there be a backup
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  Speaker 1: camera in the airplane to show what's surrounding you?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe one of those loud bills, you know. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: scooter at Kroger right exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll bring Jay back. We got quite a few
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  Speaker 1: dolls in letting complaints about a new boarding policy and
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  Speaker 1: a fourteen hour flight to know are those among the
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  Speaker 1: topics with Iheartbabe aviation expert Jay Ratlift, don't go away.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be right back.
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  Speaker 1: the segment and I love having them on the program.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you do as much as I do. Somebody's
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  Speaker 1: always complaining about something, and now we have a new
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  Speaker 1: boarding policy at Southwest Airlines. Why the complaints, Jay?
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  Speaker 2: People think if they complain enough, Brian, Southwest will change
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  Speaker 2: their business model. These are people that liked the open seating.
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  Speaker 2: They like the ability to get on and maybe with
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  Speaker 2: a wheelchair to get on whatever might happen to be.
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  Speaker 2: So at every opportunity they're complaining at the top of
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  Speaker 2: their lungs about how this isn't working. Failed experiment, you
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  Speaker 2: tried it, We need to go back to what we
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  Speaker 2: did before. And the people that are complaining are a
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  Speaker 2: couple of groups. One the groups that are traveling with families,
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  Speaker 2: where they do not ahead of time when they're making
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  Speaker 2: the reservations pay the extra cost to get seat assignments,
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  Speaker 2: so they're waiting until they get to the airport the
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  Speaker 2: day of departure and here's my family of four, we
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  Speaker 2: need a seat to sign. Well, okay, you didn't pay
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  Speaker 2: to have them done in advance. I've got these seats available,
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  Speaker 2: none of them are together. Enjoy your flight, And of
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  Speaker 2: course the family's just freaking out saying, wait, man, you
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  Speaker 2: can't separate my family. No, we're not separating your family.
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  Speaker 2: You separated your family by not spending the few extra
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  Speaker 2: dollars to get your seat assignments. And of course when
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  Speaker 2: you get on the plane now you're asking other passengers
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  Speaker 2: who paid for the seats they're in to move so
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  Speaker 2: that you can, as somebody that didn't pay for it,
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  Speaker 2: put all your family together, and that's really creating some
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  Speaker 2: onboard problems. And Southwest is saying, look, we're looking into it,
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  Speaker 2: but the bottom line is, of course, pay to have
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  Speaker 2: your family sitting together, and it's a non issue. The
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  Speaker 2: other people that are complaining are those that are boarding
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  Speaker 2: the airplane, and what they're finding is people that are
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  Speaker 2: sitting in the back of the airplane which they board first.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say you're in row twenty three, Brian, when they
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  Speaker 2: get to a road about ten or eleven, I don't
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  Speaker 2: need to carry this in carry bag anymore. They throw
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  Speaker 2: it over Row twelve and then they go back and
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  Speaker 2: sit in their seats and Row twenty three. Well, by
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  Speaker 2: the time the other people board that are actually sitting
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  Speaker 2: in row twelve arrive, all the overhead storage compartments, ah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for taken and of course the only open space. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we got run back here above roke twenty three. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want my bag back there.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get to it. You got to wait till
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  Speaker 1: the entire planes de border before you. Actually, I hate that.
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  Speaker 2: And flight attendants try to police this, and they do
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  Speaker 2: it when there's a first class section pretty good, but
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  Speaker 2: it's it's almost impossible in coach. So Southwest has decided,
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  Speaker 2: and Brian, when I read this, I knew you would
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  Speaker 2: love it as much as me. They've got the the
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  Speaker 2: iron clad way of correcting this behavior where it won't
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  Speaker 2: happen anymore. They've decided they're going to put a sticker
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  Speaker 2: in the overhead compartment saying don't do it, and that
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  Speaker 2: will immediately change the behavior. Everybody behaves, problem solve. I
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  Speaker 2: wonder how many committees it took to come up with
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  Speaker 2: the sticker idea. It's not gonna work. You and I
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  Speaker 2: laugh at that, knowing good luck at that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, we just need to know the law
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  Speaker 1: in the book. They'll just say it's illegal. Yeah, sure,
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  Speaker 1: that'll work, right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you slap a sticker up there saying look,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna find you three thousand dollars if you put
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  Speaker 2: your bag here, now, I like that that might be
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  Speaker 2: something that's going to get somebody's attention.
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  Speaker 1: That worked now, and that worked for me yesterday. I
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  Speaker 1: was going to listen to lunch downtown Loveland. I went
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  Speaker 1: the back way along the river and there was a
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  Speaker 1: giant sign in the road that said do not pass.
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  Speaker 1: The river is elevated above the roadway, and right there
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  Speaker 1: underneath it had said two thousand dollars fine for ignoring this.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm looking down the road going well, the water's
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  Speaker 1: already receded. But you know what kept me from going
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  Speaker 1: around the sign? Two thousand dollars. I know'd be a
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  Speaker 1: cop of around the corner. Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, now, let's not be tomorrow's story. I feel your pain.
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  Speaker 1: There, brother, no question. All right, let's combine the two
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  Speaker 1: stories involving Iran. First, the fourteen hour flight to nowhere
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  Speaker 1: and is the Iranian situation causing fuel prices to rise.
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  Speaker 1: Irana the Aviation News.
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  Speaker 2: It is fuel prices are going up. Airlines have yet
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  Speaker 2: to really adjust to any significance to their future fairs,
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  Speaker 2: but Brian, that's coming. So if anybody's planning on flying
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  Speaker 2: later this year, summer, fall, over the holidays, even at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the year, and you're kind of on
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  Speaker 2: the fence, my suggestion is locking those fares in as
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  Speaker 2: quickly as you can, because if this situation goes for
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  Speaker 2: any length of time and we do see the fuel
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  Speaker 2: prices start to rise, airlines will be very quick to
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  Speaker 2: adjust their future schedules, jacking the fares up considerably now.
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  Speaker 2: Even if the fuel goes up and then it comes
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  Speaker 2: down three weeks later, they're going to keep the fares
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  Speaker 2: pretty much at the same for the time being. So
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  Speaker 2: we don't like paying airlines more than we should. So
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  Speaker 2: if we can lock the fare in by making the
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  Speaker 2: advanced reservation now, if fares do increase because of the
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  Speaker 2: rising fuel costs, and airlines are always quick to pass
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  Speaker 2: those costs along to us. Once the reservations mate, we're
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  Speaker 2: locked in. We're good to go, and you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about it. So but yeah, far as the
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  Speaker 2: Iran situation, we had American Airlines flight that was leaving
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  Speaker 2: Philadelphia headed over to cutter and it got to about Spain.
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  Speaker 2: This flight left Friday night before anything was going on
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  Speaker 2: in Iran. They get over there and then all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, Brian, they're Spain when the airspace closes because
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  Speaker 2: of all the military operations ongoing. What are you gonna do? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean your alternate airports within that closed airspace. So
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  Speaker 2: they turned around, flew back to Philadelphia and landed. It
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  Speaker 2: was fourteen fifteen hours. It might have been sixteen, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was a long flight, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of people there that maybe had family
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  Speaker 2: where they were going, and it would have been a
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  Speaker 2: very unsettling thing to be, hey, we can't land, airspace
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  Speaker 2: is closed. It may. I don't know exactly how much
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  Speaker 2: they were laid to the passengers on board the aircraft,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm sure the captain tried to do what they
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  Speaker 2: could to say, hey, here's what we know, and this
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  Speaker 2: is what's happening. But to get all the way you know,
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  Speaker 2: to Europe and you're turing coming back. That was the
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  Speaker 2: decision that was made. And you know, what you're doing
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  Speaker 2: is you're protecting passengers, then the aircraft and the flight
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  Speaker 2: crew from any possible harm. And if the airspace is closed,
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  Speaker 2: you're not even allowed to fly in there. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure people complained and everything, but look, if you're
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  Speaker 2: not going to keep if you're going to keep me
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  Speaker 2: out of harm's way, I'm not going to say one
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  Speaker 2: thing other than the words thank you for doing that,
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  Speaker 2: because that's the last place you want to be. Because
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  Speaker 2: right now, we've got hundreds of thousands of people that
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  Speaker 2: are there that have been trying to get out for
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  Speaker 2: the last several days. And we've got Emirates and the
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  Speaker 2: flight to Bay and a couple of other carriers that
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  Speaker 2: are bringing in select flights. They're coming in ferry flights,
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  Speaker 2: meaning empty aircraft for the most part, where they can
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  Speaker 2: airlift people out as safely as they can only when
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  Speaker 2: the conditions warrant. So you've got a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: there that are just scrambling trying to either get to
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  Speaker 2: another country where they can get to another airport that's
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  Speaker 2: open and they can get out of there to somehow
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  Speaker 2: make their way back to America or wherever they're going,
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  Speaker 2: and airlines, of course, you're going to do what they
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  Speaker 2: can as quickly as the conditions are safe enough to
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  Speaker 2: allow the return to something close to normal flight activity
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  Speaker 2: because you have to buy airport. They in Atlanta always
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  Speaker 2: compete with the world's busiest airport, So when you shut
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  Speaker 2: that down for any length of time, yeah, you've got
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  Speaker 2: a ton of people that have been inconvenience that are
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  Speaker 2: obviously scrambling to see what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: All right, coming up one more with Jay Rattler, starting
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  Speaker 1: with play stupid games, win stupid prizes. It's like cursing
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  Speaker 1: on the fifty five KRS Morning show. There will be repercussions.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get with Jay Ratle of one more segment. Plus
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  Speaker 1: we'll find out if it's a good day to travel.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go away fifty five see the talk station. It's
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  Speaker 1: about KCV Talk Station Brian Thomas with iHeartMedia aviation expert
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  Speaker 1: Jay rat Left. Jay Rattleft. You think people get the
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  Speaker 1: memo you don't say bomb anywhere near an air in
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  Speaker 1: an airline, on an airline, or in a terminal. And
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  Speaker 1: it's like there are words out there that have been
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  Speaker 1: pretty much banned from the lexicon stupid, we got another one, Jay.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Joe Trucker. Yeah, that is, that is, that's
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  Speaker 2: the message. And you know, I've been at the airport
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  Speaker 2: when I've had people joke at the ticket counter at
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  Speaker 2: the gate on board and aircraft where they they make
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  Speaker 2: that comment like we've got a group of six or
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  Speaker 2: eight that we're showing up going on vacation. And they
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  Speaker 2: were in their twenties, and you know, the one guy
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  Speaker 2: that has to joke about everything puts his bag up
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  Speaker 2: there and says, now, look when you acturay this and
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  Speaker 2: see the bomb in there, blah blah blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, And then I said, excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: none of you are getting on this flight because we've
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  Speaker 2: got to question you. There's a security protocol we've got
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  Speaker 2: to go through. And yeah, so away they all go.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody goes to where they's planning at that particular time
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  Speaker 2: because of the comments of one per Now I can't
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  Speaker 2: disregard that. I can't say, oh, he was just kidding,
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  Speaker 2: because in the unlikely event that something is accurate with that,
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  Speaker 2: then the airline and I'm being held accountable. So the
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  Speaker 2: airlines have a very clear cut protocol of what happened.
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  Speaker 2: So we had a Jet Blue passenger who's on the
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  Speaker 2: flight preparing to depart, and he makes the comment I
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  Speaker 2: think they were in Fort Lauderdale perhaps, but wherever it
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  Speaker 2: was made the comment about having a bomb, And of
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  Speaker 2: course what happens then is the boarding process stops. You
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  Speaker 2: now have to get him off the aircraft. You have
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  Speaker 2: to get his luggage off the aircraft. Then you have
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  Speaker 2: to get everybody else also off the aircraft, all of
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  Speaker 2: their luggage off the aircraft. And you're talking about everything
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  Speaker 2: being rescreened. You're having the aircraft doing a hard target
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  Speaker 2: search as you go through, making sure nobody left anything behind.
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  Speaker 2: You're looking the lavatories, you're looking in the seatback pockets.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Brian, it is a long process that's all
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  Speaker 2: made possible thanks to the most popular person on the flight,
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  Speaker 2: the one that opened his mouth. Now he's probably never
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  Speaker 2: going to fly Jet Blue again. So you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: something that is a single comment by maybe an incredibly
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  Speaker 2: intelligent person making the most the dumbest comment that can
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  Speaker 2: possibly make it the worst possible time. That now impacts
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  Speaker 2: not everybody on that flight, but people are waiting for
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  Speaker 2: that aircraft at the next down line station to fly
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  Speaker 2: somewhere else. So you've delayed this aircraft throughout the course
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  Speaker 2: of the day, maybe the next two days because of
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  Speaker 2: one person.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable, all right, This next one kind of reminded me
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: of the one of the most, if not the most
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing moments of my life. Always response before a very
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  Speaker 1: big litigation when I was practicing over at Anthem in
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  Speaker 1: the litigation department, was a nationwide case involving like forty
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  Speaker 1: lawyers on a weekly phone call. They're all across the country,
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  Speaker 1: all the way across this all the way to Hawaii,
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  Speaker 1: So forty people trying to get something done on a
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  Speaker 1: phone call, and these things drug on for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of hours, sometimes a little bit frustrating. So the attorney
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  Speaker 1: in Hawaii starts asking, for like the fifteenth time, the
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  Speaker 1: same damn question. We've been over and what do I say?
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  Speaker 3: I screamed blah blah blah, and then the call went silent,
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  Speaker 3: and ten seconds later the lead attorney is supposed to
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  Speaker 3: heard the cats Brian, is there's something wrong?
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  Speaker 1: And of course answering, yeah, we've been over this. It's
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  Speaker 1: like I know everybody except for her was really applauding me,
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  Speaker 1: but little embarrassing. And that's kind of what happened here
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  Speaker 1: on the airline.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, United Airlines has a channel nine, and for
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: those using the entertainment system, you can flip to that
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  Speaker 2: specific channel and for a brief amount of time you
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  Speaker 2: can listen to the interaction between the flight crew and
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  Speaker 2: air traffic control. So if you're like an aviation nerd
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: like me or just on who's bored and says, yeah, yeah,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: let me tune in, it's pretty interesting to listen to
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: the back and forth. Well, what happens is shortly after
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  Speaker 2: they are cleared and they're ready to go, that channel's
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  Speaker 2: turned off unless you forget, and this flight crew on
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  Speaker 2: the United Airlines forgot to turn it off. So for
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: the entire flight, anybody tuned into that could hear the
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  Speaker 2: entire conversation of what was going on late day, you know,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: the jokes, the language that you Thank god there was.
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  Speaker 2: Now what surprises me is that somebody, I guess they
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: just thought this is the way it was supposed to be.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: If I'm on that flight, I'm grabbing the flight and saying,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: you better tell those guys to turn channel nine off
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: because it's still on because it's not supposed to be.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Passengers probably thought, oh, this is just you know, United
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: letting us listen. Thank god, nothing was said that could
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: have cost either one of their jobs, because you know,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: every mic is a live mic kind of situation, and
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: we know people well they've gotten in all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: issues with that. But yeah, so I suspect there was
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  Speaker 2: an internal memo to all the pilots reminding them that
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  Speaker 2: this has to be turned off otherwise we could be
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: in some big time trouble. Apparently these guys dodge the bullet.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm telling you that's a scary, scary thought thinking
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: for hours everything you talk about, yeap to not only
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  Speaker 2: the flight attendants who come in and out of the
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: cabin or the flight deck, as well as your fellow pilot, who, Yeah,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: that could.
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  Speaker 1: Have been bad, no doubt about it, and we just
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: did I just did SEC compliance straight in the other day.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Is one of the things is always assume there is
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: a hot mic on never ever curse in the studio period.
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  Speaker 1: End of story. I struggle with compliance on that one
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: as well. Jay Ratli.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Anyway, well, you just put something on my list of
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: things to do today. Thank you.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: And finally, is he uasually closed out with hub delays?
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: How's it looking out there with all the rain in
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: our area? Just wondering.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Detroit's gonna give us issues early and often as
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: the day progresses. Philadelphia, New York getting absolutely slammed, and
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: this is gonna be something that's gonna be with us
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: through the entire day. We can see the weather delays
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: of an hour hour and a half, so as a result,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: if you're going to the airport to travel today, please
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: take some patience, be nice to the people who have
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: no control over the weather, and don't scream at them.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jay Rattler for spending time with me and
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: my listeners always enjoy our conversations. We'll do it again
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  Speaker 1: next Thursday. Have a great week and best of the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: health and love to you and your better half. My friend,