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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I love this time of week because we get the
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  Speaker 1: benefit of iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Rattliff, moving away from
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  Speaker 1: politics in most cases. Jay, I love having you on
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  Speaker 1: the show Man. Welcome back to the Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, pleasing, good morning, and.
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  Speaker 1: A nice hour. We'll be helping out folks that need
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  Speaker 1: In the first half of the hour, we get to
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  Speaker 1: talk aviation issues and crazy things going on. I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: this was number one on the list because I printed
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  Speaker 1: the article out. It's like, oh my god, yep. We
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  Speaker 1: live in the world with drones and how often do
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  Speaker 1: airlines run into drones while attempting to land?
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  Speaker 2: Jay, It's not as common as I thought it would
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  Speaker 2: be when all of this stuff started, So that's the
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  Speaker 2: good news. But we have seen an increasing number of
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  Speaker 2: pilots reporting drones in their area. But you know, drones
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  Speaker 2: are supposed to be flying four hundred feet in lower
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  Speaker 2: and they've got very strict rules that are assigned by
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  Speaker 2: the Federal Aviationdmnistration. But apparently we had a San Francisco
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  Speaker 2: bound United flight that was coming in Brian. They were
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  Speaker 2: at three thousand feet when they apparently collided with a drum.
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  Speaker 2: Now you've got a drone operating around a commercial airport,
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  Speaker 2: which is not a good idea or allowed. Then you
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  Speaker 2: had the situation of it. It was at three thousand feet.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll find out drones have to be registered or
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  Speaker 2: are to be registered with the FAA, And one of
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  Speaker 2: the things will happen is if they can recover any
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  Speaker 2: of what might have been left of that drone and
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  Speaker 2: they're able to determine the owner, that individual is going
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  Speaker 2: to be in a great deal of trouble because obviously
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  Speaker 2: they were not abiding by the rules that dictate the
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  Speaker 2: use of those drones.
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  Speaker 1: Awfully high, that's not that's not some like you can
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  Speaker 1: buy off Amazon kind of height, is it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, some of the new drones can get some pretty
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  Speaker 2: good altitude to them. It's a lot like having a
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  Speaker 2: car that goes one hundred and forty that you're only
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be driving.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe no, yeah, I get that. I was just thinking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is this sort of like a commercial grade
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  Speaker 1: drone or maybe maybe you can buy a drone that
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  Speaker 1: goes that high from Amazon ilands you can't.
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  Speaker 2: You could underserve and circumstances because from our commercial application,
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  Speaker 2: there's times that something like that might be required military
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  Speaker 2: at the bottom. Yeah, absolutely, and I suspect that there's
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  Speaker 2: some other things that they can be as well. But
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  Speaker 2: most of the drone activity, when you look at what
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  Speaker 2: it's being used for, they do a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: pipeline inspections and a lot of the field types of things.
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  Speaker 2: Those observations and things can be done as long as
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  Speaker 2: the drone is you know, maintained that does it go
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  Speaker 2: over that maximum ceiling of the four hundred feet And
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  Speaker 2: when our home in Georgia, we had the drone kind
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  Speaker 2: of fly over and take some pictures and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So, but again, four hundred feets the maximum
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  Speaker 2: these things could be and those are nowhere near airports
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  Speaker 2: where they would come into in the problem. So it's
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  Speaker 2: one thing for us to be worried about a bird strike,
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  Speaker 2: but when you're talking about a drone, and some of
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  Speaker 2: these drones, you know, forty fifty sixty pounds they can be,
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  Speaker 2: it is a very very dangerous situation when you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about anything things being around a commercial airport right where
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  Speaker 2: they could obviously occupy the same space as and approaching
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  Speaker 2: or an aircraft taking off. And you and I've discussed
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  Speaker 2: repeatedly the most critical time of flight for anybody is
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  Speaker 2: the takeoff in the land. Again, when you're at three
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  Speaker 2: thousand feet in descending, you're in the process of wrapping
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  Speaker 2: things up and I mean you're on final approach.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you've talked about bird strikes before, and this
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  Speaker 1: can bring down aircraft. And I know they they check
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  Speaker 1: aircraft engine and test them by throwing giant like frozen
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  Speaker 1: turkeys or something into them. But are they testing drones
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  Speaker 1: flying in them? Because that's the first thing across my mind.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, what if a drone flew
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  Speaker 1: into a jet engine? It can't just pop that thing
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  Speaker 1: out the back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it was Actually it might have been
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  Speaker 2: Sinclair in Dayton that they their aviation department did a
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  Speaker 2: study showing what the impact of a drone on an
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  Speaker 2: aircraft ring would be. And it was dramatic video from
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  Speaker 2: whatever called. This was several years ago, but they were showing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just the dangers of you know, even a
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  Speaker 2: little a lighter drone impacting an aircraft that might be
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  Speaker 2: going at you know, one hundred and eighty miles an
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  Speaker 2: hour as it's coming into land and you know, having
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  Speaker 2: a situation where some serious damage can occur. So it's possible,
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  Speaker 2: and then of course there's always the unpleasant conversation of
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  Speaker 2: drones being used for terrorist activities.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's where I was going, Jay, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen these the whole concept of drone swarms. While
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  Speaker 1: it may be fortuitous that a bird flew into a
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  Speaker 1: jet engine, you can't train a bird to fly into
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  Speaker 1: a jet engine, at least I think will be complicated.
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  Speaker 1: You could intentionally fly a swarm of drones into an aircraft.
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  Speaker 2: You could, absolutely, you could agorry about it is and
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  Speaker 2: you know, as technology just continues to make our lives
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  Speaker 2: easier in a lot of ways, on the flip side,
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  Speaker 2: it makes it from a security standpoint far more of
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  Speaker 2: a concern because you now have a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: places that have you know, restricted or no fly zones
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  Speaker 2: for you know, anything around certain airports other than what
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  Speaker 2: is authorized traffic. And you've got you've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of bright you've got fuel farms, you've got so many
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  Speaker 2: other things that are areas of concern near airports that obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're always concerned about the likelihood or possibility
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  Speaker 2: is a better word of something where those drones are
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  Speaker 2: there for reasons other than just observation, taking pictures, those
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  Speaker 2: kinds of things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's accidentally flying into a no fly zone, intentional
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  Speaker 1: flying into no fly zone. Last time I checked, it's
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  Speaker 1: no fly zone. People tend to break the law. If
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  Speaker 1: they want to break the law, do harm to humanity,
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  Speaker 1: like terrorist organization. Thanks Jay, one of the reasons I'll
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  Speaker 1: be freaking out of a flying eight thirty six right now.
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  Speaker 1: We'll bring it back. We'll talk about Boeing doing well.
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  Speaker 1: Been in a cockpit before it, Hey forty on a
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  Speaker 1: Thursday if you have kcdcalk Station Bryan time with Flyheart
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  Speaker 1: Media aviation expert Jay Ratliffe. Jay Ratliffe, I, Boeing actually
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  Speaker 1: had a great first quarter report. I always think about
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  Speaker 1: boe I think about the disaster that was the Max
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  Speaker 1: software upgrade, the fact that they've got like nine jillion
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  Speaker 1: planes that they need to build for the long term
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  Speaker 1: orders that the turnaround time, the production problems, the using
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  Speaker 1: of equipment from the back room that was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: not be used. I mean, you've painted a pretty gloomy
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  Speaker 1: picture over the years of Boeing, and yet they still
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  Speaker 1: doing well apparently well, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, they've been limping along the last couple of years
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  Speaker 2: because they've had restrictions as far as how fast they
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  Speaker 2: can build certain airplanes by the FAA, making sure that
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  Speaker 2: they have addressed a lot of the issues that we've
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  Speaker 2: been forced to talk about over the last several years.
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  Speaker 2: And we got the report card as far as the
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  Speaker 2: first quarter deliveries, and that's when aircraft manufacturers get paid.
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  Speaker 2: When they can turn the aircraft over to the airline,
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  Speaker 2: that's when they get paid. So there's obviously an incentive
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  Speaker 2: to do so. Airbus delivered, let's see, in the first quarter,
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and fourteen aircraft in that first quarter, air
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  Speaker 2: less than what they tend to do. Airbus does. Boeing though,
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and forty three aircraft in that same quarter,
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  Speaker 2: So you had Boeing delivering one hundred and forty three
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  Speaker 2: airplanes to airbuses one hundred and fourteen, and it's an
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  Speaker 2: indicator of the trend that's going right now. Airbus is
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  Speaker 2: having a lot of problems because even though they've got
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  Speaker 2: a backlog of eighty seven hundred airplanes that are ordered
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  Speaker 2: that need to be built, a lot of their supply
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  Speaker 2: side has really been impacted and slowed down considerably because
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  Speaker 2: of them not being able to get everything that they
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  Speaker 2: need to build their aircraft. Now, Boeing's got sixty six
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  Speaker 2: hundred airplanes that's on their back order, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: Airbus has a lot more. But you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the bottom line is that one of the other issues
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  Speaker 2: Airbus has is they love the Pratt and Whitney engines
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  Speaker 2: the power plants on these aircraft. They should be using
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  Speaker 2: ge engines, of course, and those Pratt and Whitney engines,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of them are having some problems. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: I think there's five hundred or so that are grounded
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  Speaker 2: around the country, around the world rather as they try
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  Speaker 2: to work out these engine issues and get them fixed,
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  Speaker 2: and that's slowed down air Bus as well. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: Spirit Airlines has a good number of their airplanes with
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  Speaker 2: those Pratt and Whitney engines that they can't use and
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  Speaker 2: they've been parked one of the you know, the additional
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  Speaker 2: issues that Spirits had of late going on. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so certainly some good news for Boeing, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it's a trend. I think they're pointing in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: So as long as they get out of their own
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  Speaker 2: way and don't do something stupid. Yeah, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think I think this can continue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't, don't. Don't get parts out of the broken
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  Speaker 1: parts ben to put on a plea functioning air frint.
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  Speaker 2: Please please, and do it in such a way that
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  Speaker 2: everybody knows you're doing that. It wasn't like they were like,
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  Speaker 2: go do this. I mean a lot of people were
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  Speaker 2: aware of what was taking place, which is just the
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  Speaker 2: arrogance of it all.
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  Speaker 1: It was part of the process to go get broken
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  Speaker 1: parts and put them on new airplanes. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: keep bringing it up. And so it's it's like not
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  Speaker 1: letting the world know that you upgraded the software that
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  Speaker 1: will impact how the flame fly plane flies. That happened, Yep,
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  Speaker 1: it did and people die.
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  Speaker 2: Just not tell the fire.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah all right, it's moving over to Southwest Airline. And
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  Speaker 1: I think this is great. I saw a picture of
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  Speaker 1: this airplane and man, that's something to be proud of.
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  Speaker 1: And no, it's not related to Donald Trump. It's just
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  Speaker 1: America being a celebrating two hundred and fifty years, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And to repaint an airplane, you know, it's one thing
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  Speaker 2: to slap a decal on the side, you know, beak,
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  Speaker 2: you know whatever and throw it up there. No no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: They wanted Independence one celebrating the birth of this country,
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  Speaker 2: our two hundred and fiftieth birthday, to mean something so
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  Speaker 2: nose to tail. They repainted that entire airplane. And you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about something that could take you know, thousands of
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  Speaker 2: thousands of gallons of paint. It weighs quite a bit,
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  Speaker 2: which means this aircraft is going to cost more to operate.
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  Speaker 2: But Southwest didn't care, and this has been rolled out
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  Speaker 2: or will soon be rolled out where they actually have
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  Speaker 2: two aircraft, Liberty one and I think in the Independence
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  Speaker 2: one that are part of the Southwest fleet that'll be
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  Speaker 2: flying around. You know this, he's all over the country
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  Speaker 2: and it is so cool to see. It is that
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  Speaker 2: kind of celebration, and it's a beautiful airplane. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this absolutely is incredible to see. So you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're scheduled on a Southwest flight and you see it
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  Speaker 2: taxing in and it looks a little different than others,
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  Speaker 2: it won't take you long to figure it out because
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  Speaker 2: it is a beautiful stars and stripes aircraft. We the
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  Speaker 2: people on the side, it just again it's the video
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  Speaker 2: of them rolling it out and painting it. Those two
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  Speaker 2: are just incredible to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you can go wherever you get your videos
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  Speaker 1: and just serve Southwest Airlines Independence one paint and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you'll find the paint process out gorgeous. It is. Now,
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  Speaker 1: is this something that maybe one of us might find
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  Speaker 1: ourselves flying on or are they only using it for
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  Speaker 1: advertising or just celebratory purposes.
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  Speaker 2: I know the initial flight is scheduled to go from
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  Speaker 2: Dallas slove Field to Philadelphia. They did that on purpose
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  Speaker 2: because they wanted it going to Philadelphia where everything took place.
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  Speaker 2: So other than that, I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: in the general, you know, the general inventory with regards
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  Speaker 2: to just the normal aircraft rotation, because typically you want
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  Speaker 2: that aircraft to be used around the country, so different
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  Speaker 2: different places can see it, not just dedicated to a
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  Speaker 2: single route or two. But you know, I've not seen
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  Speaker 2: the specifics on that. But the way these have worked
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  Speaker 2: in the past that they just fly anywhere that they
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  Speaker 2: happen to be scheduled to fly and people can benefit
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  Speaker 2: from it. But yeah, it's just it's a super cool
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  Speaker 2: looking airplane and hats off to Southwest Well.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, all the huhas, all the airlines once
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  Speaker 1: you ring up southwest and say, you know what, that
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  Speaker 1: will be the perfect plane for honor flight tri state,
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  Speaker 1: So get it over to CVG next time around. Can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I fortunately it's American that works with you know,
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  Speaker 2: the charters with the honor flight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good lord?
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  Speaker 2: Would that be? Would that be a beautiful airplane to
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  Speaker 2: take those honored men and women to DC for the day.
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  Speaker 1: That would make national headlines on top of it, Jay Ratliff,
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  Speaker 1: let's pause, We'll bring it back. Babies on board? Yeap,
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  Speaker 1: having babies on board a plane? And get off the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently two a couple more stories we'll find about hub delays.
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  Speaker 1: Is a good day to travel. Jay'll addressed that topic
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  Speaker 1: as well, So stick around me right back fifty five
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  Speaker 1: see fifty five KARSD Talk Station One more time with
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  Speaker 1: iHeartMedia eighty ation expert Jay Ratlove. We certainly appreciate his
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  Speaker 1: time with the morning show listeners and enjoy these light
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  Speaker 1: commerce sometimes light I like this one. How many months
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  Speaker 1: pregnant was this woman when she got on the airplane? Jay,
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  Speaker 1: Because I know both of mine were born one month early,
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  Speaker 1: surprising my wife and I both but very healthy and
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  Speaker 1: came out done and fully baked. But I don't think
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  Speaker 1: my wife would have been flying around even eight months pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: So was the baby that was born the plane born
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  Speaker 1: of a MoMA that had it prematurely, or did she
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  Speaker 1: get on a plane fully ready to go? Jay?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty close? I think that the reports that I read
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  Speaker 2: indicated the baby arrived two weeks early.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So so you're.
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  Speaker 2: Talking past eight months and the way you go here
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  Speaker 2: so fully baked, Which surprise that one that she would
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  Speaker 2: try to fly in that because a lot of times,
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  Speaker 2: as you and I've discussed, the change in air pressure
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  Speaker 2: can actually trigger sometimes the contractions. But yeah, this is
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  Speaker 2: a flight Atlanta to Portland. They're about this forty five
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  Speaker 2: minutes out. The lady starts to go into labor. Flight
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  Speaker 2: to crew asks for any medical people on board. They
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  Speaker 2: had two, and they, assisted by the flight attendants, assisted
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  Speaker 2: in the delivery of this child that came fast. Once
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  Speaker 2: everything got started before the airplane landed, crew declared an emergency,
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  Speaker 2: so everything get moved out of the way so they
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  Speaker 2: could land as quickly as possible so that the medical
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  Speaker 2: teams could be standing by to assist as needed. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean they were doing everything from borrowing shoelaces from
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  Speaker 2: passengers and other things to take care of business. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, the baby's fine, Mom's fine. I think Sky
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  Speaker 2: would be a really cool name here. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if they've they've done this. But you know, one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that you and I've talked about before,
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  Speaker 2: this is the second in the last you know, six
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  Speaker 2: weeks or so, it's happened. We had the one flight
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  Speaker 2: Jamaica coming into JFK where a baby was born, and
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  Speaker 2: now this one. Delta will obviously celebrate to the fact
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  Speaker 2: mom and baby are doing fine, But I suspect in
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  Speaker 2: the background they're going to be having a conversation with
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  Speaker 2: the Atlanta gate agents saying, look, if we've got women
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  Speaker 2: that are far along in their pregnancy, we've got to
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  Speaker 2: be very careful and whether or not we let them
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  Speaker 2: on an aircraft because had they done so and there's
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  Speaker 2: been a medical emergency where things went wrong, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're thirty you're you know, fifteen twenty minutes away from
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  Speaker 2: getting that airplane on the ground. Who's liable Is it
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  Speaker 2: Delta for allowing them on? Is it for the passenger
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  Speaker 2: who's lying knowing that far along? So yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 2: very delicate obviously topic that you have to have. But
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  Speaker 2: the last thing an airline wants to do is to
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  Speaker 2: place a passenger or the baby in harm's way. And
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  Speaker 2: you can do that if there's a medical situation and
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  Speaker 2: there's nobody there with the proper equipment to respond yet like.
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  Speaker 1: A breach baby. You know, man, how.
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  Speaker 2: Many things can go wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's why I know that. Why would you get
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  Speaker 1: on a plane that if doctors do not recommend you
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  Speaker 1: fly when you're that far along as my understanding, So
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's the springboard for myment. All right.
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  Speaker 2: I've had to tell individuals over the years when I
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  Speaker 2: was at the airport that we weren't comfortable with them
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  Speaker 2: flying simply because from a health standpoint, we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: make sure they were going to be okay. And given
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  Speaker 2: the fact that the air pressure change can can can
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  Speaker 2: trigger that, Yeah, it's an obvious concern, and the health
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  Speaker 2: of mom in the in the child are first and foremost.
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  Speaker 2: And if it means tell them they can't fly, so
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  Speaker 2: be it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, real quickly, Well, we won't get to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the passenger who refused to hang up the phone before
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  Speaker 1: takeoff in violation of the rules. But we can save
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  Speaker 1: that for another day. I just got to really quick
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  Speaker 1: make a comment because you mentioned the gorgeous paint jobs
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  Speaker 1: Southwest Airlines and you talked about the weight and how
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  Speaker 1: that would impact the fuel efficiency. I just wanted to come,
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  Speaker 1: how many pounds do you think of weight was added
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  Speaker 1: to that plane with all that paint.
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  Speaker 2: It depends on how much you're talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: four or five hundred pounds easy that could be put
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  Speaker 2: onto an aircraft. And when you look at airplanes that
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  Speaker 2: you know, fly for certain carriers and they're like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if we remove two coffee pots or whatever, we can
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  Speaker 2: reduce the weight by six pounds and that'll save us,
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  Speaker 2: you know, twenty eight thousand dollars every year in fuel
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: costs multiplied by nine hundred airplanes. So when they are
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: actually saying, look, we'll bite the bullet and add that
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: much more weight to an aircraft, yeah, I think that
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  Speaker 2: sends the right kind of message, even though they're fighting
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  Speaker 2: rising fuel costs and everything else. It's like, this is
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: the right thing to do, and darn it, we're going
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: to do it.
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  Speaker 1: It is well, let's end up on hub delays. Is
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  Speaker 1: we typically do jay rattle of how's it for travel
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: out there today? Air travel specifically, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We've got some issues that are giving us problems in Dallas,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: in Houston, I think they're going to be minor, along
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: with issues in Atlanta and Charlotte. Boston I think is
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: going to get hammered big time already has with some
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  Speaker 2: significant delays that are going to be with us throughout
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: the course of the day. So, yeah, it's depending on
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: where you're flying. You'll probably get encounter some turbulence. If
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: you're flying east of the Mississippi, just keep your seat
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: belt fastened about you. Not dangerous, just uncomfortable, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Jay ry Lofe, always a distinct pleasure for my hopefully
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  Speaker 1: my listeners. But it certainly is for me to have
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: you on the program as I also do it again
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  Speaker 1: next Thursday, beginning at a thirty. Best of health and
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: love to you and your better half, sir.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Marian, thank you, Halving, thank.
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