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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 2: Somebody at least your car and your wife are on
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Speaker 2: my side.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly I'm on your side too, Jays. Anyhow, Jay Ratliffe,
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Speaker 1: apparently you had to file a lawsuit for Southwest Airlines
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Speaker 1: to provide the military leave for their pilots.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very un Southwest Airlines like to be honest,
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Speaker 2: because of course every airline has a specific number of
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Speaker 2: days they give their their pilots and employees that have
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Speaker 2: military service, and Southwest Airlines actually had to be taken
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Speaker 2: to court by some pilots trying to get more days
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Speaker 2: as far as military paid time or paid or military
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Speaker 2: leave of absence, and there was a class action lawsuit
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Speaker 2: that was brought by some of the pilots and the
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Speaker 2: ruling came in that Southwest is a great now to
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Speaker 2: provide up to ten days of short term military leave
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Speaker 2: and pay up about almost nineteen million dollars in compensation
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Speaker 2: to twenty eight one hundred former employees who who weren't
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Speaker 2: able to you know, get a leave with pay where
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Speaker 2: they could end up serving their country. So it still
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Speaker 2: has to be approved by the government or by the courts.
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Speaker 2: And Brian, what we're hoping is if being the landmark decision.
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Speaker 2: It is that obviously that type of an arrangement would
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Speaker 2: kind of seep through to the other airlines where we
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Speaker 2: would see that. I would like to see more, but
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Speaker 2: at least having that as a basis, I think is
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Speaker 2: a good starting point. And look, a lot of this
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Speaker 2: is negotiated in the contracts as well, because when the
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Speaker 2: pilot union and the airlines are bouncing back and forth
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Speaker 2: as far as the compensation and benefit levels for their
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Speaker 2: contract they're negotiating. I am certain that this is a
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Speaker 2: component of that deal. Now I don't know that for sure,
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Speaker 2: but I've seen these these arrangements and they cover everything,
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Speaker 2: and I can't believe that those deals would be hammered
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Speaker 2: out absent of a provision that would apply to some
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Speaker 2: sort of military leave for the employees when it was.
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Speaker 1: Needed fair enough. Well, well, that loss you may have precedent,
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Speaker 1: as you say, going on FAA pualizing airlines who failed
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Speaker 1: to reduce flight operations during the shutdown as ordered. Well,
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Speaker 1: what's this, Jay Ratt left.
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Speaker 2: Well, they sent letters out this week to airlines saying, look,
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Speaker 2: we told you at forty airports that we needed you
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Speaker 2: to reduce the number of flights to a specific level,
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Speaker 2: and the Federal Aviation Administration has looked into it, Brian.
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Speaker 2: They found that not every airline did what they were
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Speaker 2: supposed to. So the letters that went out this this
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Speaker 2: week have shocker exactly. So right now, the FA says, look,
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Speaker 2: they sent the airlines that they are looking at a
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Speaker 2: letter saying you have thirty days to provide evidence in
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Speaker 2: essence you did what you did or we're supposed to
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Speaker 2: do complying with our orders violators. They are indicating risk
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Speaker 2: fines up to seventy five thousand dollars per flight that
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Speaker 2: was operated over that threshold, and they on to say, quote,
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Speaker 2: if we do not hear from you within that specified time,
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Speaker 2: our report will be processed without the benefit of your statement.
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Speaker 2: So I like the fact that the FAA is looking
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Speaker 2: at coming down hard. Now here's what's going to happen.
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Speaker 2: They'll find a number of airlines that had a whole
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Speaker 2: bunch of flights that probably were above that threshold, and
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Speaker 2: the FAA will propose a very hefty and I think
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Speaker 2: well deserved fine. We will then later see that that
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Speaker 2: fine was negotiated down by these same airlines with a
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Speaker 2: deal with the government that probably says if we don't
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Speaker 2: do it again. Blah blah blah. You know we have
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Speaker 2: to pay a fraction of that fine. Rare? Is it,
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Speaker 2: if ever, that the proposed fines from the Federal Aviation
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Speaker 2: Administration actually are imposed on the airlines. They're always negotiated
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Speaker 2: down And it just drives me crazy because I'm thinking,
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Speaker 2: what's the incentive here for airlines to do what they're
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Speaker 2: supposed to if they know that they can skirt the rules,
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Speaker 2: get away with it, and pay a fraction of a
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Speaker 2: fine that might be coming their way.
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Speaker 1: All right, simple enough, easily stay. That's what we get
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Speaker 1: from my Heart Media Aviation expert Jay Ratliffe coming up.
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Speaker 1: That does not fly. If you have Parkinson's real ID
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Speaker 1: and the TSA new travel record, we'll talk with that.
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Speaker 1: Plus get a hub delay with Jay Ratliffe in the
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Speaker 1: future segments. We've got a couple coming your way. Take
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Speaker 1: thirty five right now. If you have KRCD Talk station
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Speaker 1: in the cockpit before? Jay Rayless, He's iHeart Media Aviation Expert.
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Speaker 1: He joins fifty five CARC Morning Show for a few
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Speaker 1: segments every Thursday at this time. Real quick here I said,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna throw your curve ball. But well, I
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Speaker 1: couldn't recall since you mentioned Southwest before, if we had
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Speaker 1: talked about this. They're now charging what they call plus
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Speaker 1: size passengers for them to have to buy a second
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Speaker 1: seat because I guess they're spilling over into the next seat.
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Speaker 1: So is that something that's going to be a trend
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Speaker 1: into the future or Southwest going to be a loaner
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Speaker 1: on this, because I have heard, I mean, in my
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Speaker 1: life a lot of people complain about the spillover effect
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Speaker 1: when they're stuck on an airplane, and it can be
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Speaker 1: problematic for travelers, as.
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Speaker 2: I might imagine. Yeah, what's happened is if you know,
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Speaker 2: for decades, if you were of the size of passenger
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Speaker 2: that would require two seats, the airlines would charge you
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Speaker 2: for both seats. Sometimes they might charge you for one
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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty percent or things of this nature, and
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Speaker 2: it really just depends the airline to airline. Now, Southwest
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Speaker 2: had a policy that in essence that if you were
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Speaker 2: a person that had to buy a second seat, that
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Speaker 2: there was a way that you could within a period
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Speaker 2: of time if the flight wasn't full or if there
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Speaker 2: were so many empty seats on board the flight that
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Speaker 2: you could actually request some sort of a partial refund
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Speaker 2: as far as because you know, it's it would be
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Speaker 2: bad if they charged you double and you get on
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Speaker 2: there and there's twelve people on the plane and you
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Speaker 2: know you've got all that you've got to road to yourself.
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Speaker 2: So they have changed some of that policy so that,
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Speaker 2: you know, in essence, makes it harder for people to
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Speaker 2: uh get that partial that that part port part of
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Speaker 2: partial refund back and you know, it's a departure from
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Speaker 2: what they have done before and they're making it a
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Speaker 2: little bit more difficult for people that require that second seat. So, uh,
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Speaker 2: this this policy is is kicked in and I think
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Speaker 2: it's next month, first of the year, and they've been
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Speaker 2: talking about it through the through the year with it
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Speaker 2: coming up. But you know, Brian, the seats are getting
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Speaker 2: smaller and the roads are getting more packed as far
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Speaker 2: as close together, and it makes it more and more
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Speaker 2: difficult for any person really to have a difficult time
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Speaker 2: being comfortable. And it's a it's a challenge and I've
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Speaker 2: had to tell people many times over the years at
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Speaker 2: the airport that you know, given the fact that the
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Speaker 2: seats are getting smaller, and you know, if you're a
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Speaker 2: larger bone person, is how I would normally phrase it,
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Speaker 2: that the only way you're going to be comfortable is
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Speaker 2: if you purchase that second seat. Now, for people that
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Speaker 2: have traveled a lot, that's certainly nothing that's really news
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Speaker 2: to them because they were recognize Okay, I've had to
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Speaker 2: do that before. And again the policy on how it's
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Speaker 2: how it's handled varies from airline to airline, but you
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Speaker 2: know it's at least Southwest is giving you the opportunity
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Speaker 2: to get a part of that second you know seat
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Speaker 2: money back, right, depending on how many seats are available
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Speaker 2: once the door has closed. But again you've got a
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Speaker 2: very tight window to request that, otherwise it becomes one
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Speaker 2: of these My favorite thing are the mail in rebates,
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Speaker 2: where we will overcharge you and then if you think
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Speaker 2: about it, you can send it in and we will
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Speaker 2: give your money back, knowing a good portion of that
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Speaker 2: population will not do it. I hate mail in rebase.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, out with you on that. Have they revamped the
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Speaker 1: evacuation time? We've talked about that before. But you know, people,
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Speaker 1: without question, statistically and I can just rely on that,
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Speaker 1: have gotten much much larger over the past decade or
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Speaker 1: two or three. But the ability to get the people
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Speaker 1: off of the plane, that's a little red flag for
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Speaker 1: me because I know it's a little more difficult to
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Speaker 1: evacuate a plane that's filled with maybe plus size folks
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Speaker 1: rather than you know, wights of people.
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Speaker 2: Well, the requirement is still ninety seconds. We have to
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Speaker 2: get everybody off the plane with half the ex's blocked,
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Speaker 2: and the FAA does tests from time to time to
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Speaker 2: make sure that we are maintaining that speed because if not,
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Speaker 2: then there's a problem, you have too many seats, or
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Speaker 2: you've just you've got to do something. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: shocker that every single time the fa has done this test,
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Speaker 2: we've been able to hit that ninety second evacuation mark.
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Speaker 2: Now you have to take a step into it and
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Speaker 2: kind of look a little closer to see that none
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Speaker 2: of the people that are used in the FAA approved
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Speaker 2: tests to make sure we hit that ninety seconds no
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Speaker 2: children of any kind, no service animals of any kind,
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Speaker 2: no elderly passengers of any kind. So when you start
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Speaker 2: looking at the types of passengers that are used to
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Speaker 2: make sure we hit the ninety seconds, it's not really
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Speaker 2: reflective of the traveling public. So there's been a lot
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Speaker 2: of people in Washington, d C. Who said, wait a minute,
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Speaker 2: time out here, we can't use this as the metric
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Speaker 2: if that's not the kind of people that fly.
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Speaker 1: On a normal basis.
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Speaker 2: So we need to have elderly, We need to have
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Speaker 2: people that are that have some sort of of a
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Speaker 2: physical disability, it would slow them down. We need children
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Speaker 2: traveling by themselves, you know, we need all of these
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Speaker 2: different components to really see if it's reflective of what
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Speaker 2: the actual emergency evacuation time would be. And Brian time
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Speaker 2: after time, the FAA is either play the crickets or
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Speaker 2: the last track. It's one of the two because they're
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Speaker 2: just they're just not moving in that direction. Because if
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Speaker 2: they did, and this really shows how much power the
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Speaker 2: airline industry has, then you've got to do two things.
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Speaker 2: You have to sell only a certain number of seats
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Speaker 2: to make sure in this revenue and there is the
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Speaker 2: bottom line. Drives me crazy. Don't tell me safety is
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Speaker 2: are number one priority.
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Speaker 1: It's revenue and apparently don't fly if you have park
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Speaker 1: Sen's a sort of a thumbnail schedule this one and
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Speaker 1: tell him about it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a Turkish Airlines flight. There was a
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Speaker 2: man and his son and the man is a correspondent
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Speaker 2: for BBC and he is flying from London to Issembul, Turkey,
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Speaker 2: and they go and they're on their way back and
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Speaker 2: as they check in at the gate, the man with
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Speaker 2: Parkinson's is exhibiting some of the tremors and the agent
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Speaker 2: looked at him and said, do you have a doctor's
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Speaker 2: note that says it's okay for you to fly and
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Speaker 2: that doctor's note has to be issued to you within
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Speaker 2: the last ten days. And the man said, no, I
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Speaker 2: mean I have Parkinson's, And the agent said, and the
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Speaker 2: agent was correct, it's on our website that if you
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Speaker 2: have Parkinson's you need to have that doctor's in essence permission,
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Speaker 2: that letter that you could show us. Now, he said,
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Speaker 2: on time out here, I flew here on you guys,
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Speaker 2: and nobody in London said anything, and he kept saying,
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Speaker 2: it's you know, it's Parkinson's, I mean what it's And
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Speaker 2: I don't understand, Obrien, because I don't know if any
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Speaker 2: other airline that has this as a posted policy. But
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Speaker 2: they would not let him fly, so we had to
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Speaker 2: wait another day, came back to London on another carrier,
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Speaker 2: and of course this has gone viral. Turkish Airlines, to
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Speaker 2: my last check, had not yet responded, but it's it's
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Speaker 2: on their website. It's there. It's a matter of policy
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Speaker 2: for the airlines. So it it just what what if
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Speaker 2: somebody has cancer they needed what have got this? I mean,
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Speaker 2: where would it end if if that was the case.
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Speaker 2: And the thing is that the gate you or a
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Speaker 2: ticket counter, you're you're trying to make sure that nobody
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Speaker 2: with a medical condition, maybe somebod who's nine and a
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Speaker 2: half months pregnant, gets on a plane, because that could
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Speaker 2: create a problem where you now have a medical emergency
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Speaker 2: in flight where you have to make a diverse, diverted landing,
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Speaker 2: which could put the passenger at risk. It's going to
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Speaker 2: cost the airline money and it's going to be an
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Speaker 2: inconvenience to the passengers, kind of in that order. So
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Speaker 2: if you spot something that could be a potential problem,
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Speaker 2: the airlines have these safety checks where agents are trained.
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Speaker 2: Don't let that person who appears to be inebriated on
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Speaker 2: board the airplane, or somebody who's picking a fight with
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Speaker 2: another passenger or whatever it might happen to be, so
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Speaker 2: that you leave the problem in the gate area at
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Speaker 2: the airport, and it doesn't get on the plane. That's
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Speaker 2: going to create an in flight problem. Parkinson's is nothing
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Speaker 2: that's going to create an in flight problem of any kind.
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Speaker 2: So that's why none of this makes sense.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't make any sense to me either. One more segment
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Speaker 1: with Jay Ratlift coming up. We're going to find out
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Speaker 1: about the real ID fee and apparently the TSA's got
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Speaker 1: a new record to talk about crow about that means profits?
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Speaker 1: I bet more with Jay Rattlift right up for these
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Speaker 1: brief words fifty five five ter CD talk station talking
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Speaker 1: aviation issues with aviation expert at Jay Rattliffe TSA Real
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Speaker 1: ID I saw this from coming. Apparently getting a real
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Speaker 1: ID is probably a good idea unless you got an
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Speaker 1: extra what forty bucks laying around?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, forty five if it would be. And what's happened
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Speaker 2: is the real ID where we had to have. The
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Speaker 2: TSA approved driver's license took effect in early May, and
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Speaker 2: about ninety five percent of us have the new updated
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Speaker 2: approved TSA type driver's license that allow us to travel
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Speaker 2: using that as our identification. But there's still five percent
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Speaker 2: of the population that does not have that. They still
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Speaker 2: have a valid driver's license, but Brian has not yet
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Speaker 2: been upgraded to that real ID, a newer version, and
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Speaker 2: the TSA has since May tried to work with all
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Speaker 2: those passengers that have been flying with the non approved identification.
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Speaker 2: But what they're saying is as of February first, that's changing,
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Speaker 2: and they're really trying to encourage people to get the
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Speaker 2: new driver's license and just you know, less hassle when
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Speaker 2: you get to the airport. But what they're saying is
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Speaker 2: if you're gonna be traveling after February first, and you're
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Speaker 2: going to be using your current but not you know,
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Speaker 2: upgraded driver's license, you will be charged forty five dollars
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Speaker 2: to a essence use that you have to go online
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Speaker 2: to TSA dot gov, fill out the form application whatever,
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Speaker 2: pay the forty five dollars, and that's for every pass
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Speaker 2: and you're eighteen years of age and older. That's for
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Speaker 2: a ten day period of time. So that means if
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Speaker 2: you're heading out to Grandmall's on the West Coast and
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Speaker 2: you're gonna be there two weeks, you get to pay
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Speaker 2: that twice. Now, the thing that is going to be
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Speaker 2: super inconvenient here is if your family of six, you know,
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Speaker 2: shows up at the airport, You get in line, you're
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Speaker 2: ready to go, and they say, I'm sorry, we have
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Speaker 2: to have you step out of line, go online, fill
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Speaker 2: out the form, pay the forty five bucks per person,
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Speaker 2: get back in line, and then hopefully you'll make your flight.
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Speaker 2: So this is something you absolutely want to make sure
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Speaker 2: of after February first. If you've got a valid passport
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Speaker 2: and you don't have the real ID driver's license, no problem,
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Speaker 2: use your valid passport for your identification. That's fine. In fact,
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Speaker 2: the TSA shows at TSA dot gov all the approved
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Speaker 2: different ident things you can use for identification when you fly.
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Speaker 2: But Brian, a number of people that are flying with
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Speaker 2: their the old driver's license is at a point where
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Speaker 2: it's really an inconvenience for the TSA to keep doing
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Speaker 2: what they've been doing, and it really makes the May
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Speaker 2: deadline a bit silly if you're still allowing people to fly.
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Speaker 2: So the TSA is saying, look, as of February first,
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Speaker 2: this is what we're going to be doing. Initially it
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Speaker 2: was going to be an eighteen dollars charge, but in
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Speaker 2: typical government fashion, it went up to forty five and
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Speaker 2: who knows, may go up even higher than that. So
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Speaker 2: the bottom line is, get that new driver's license. Get
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Speaker 2: it out of the way so you don't have to
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Speaker 2: worry about it, because I tell you a lot of
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Speaker 2: people are going to show up the airport and not
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Speaker 2: know that needs to be done in advance.
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Speaker 1: Well, perhaps it's forty five dollars because it will represent
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Speaker 1: enough money that people will relent and go to the
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Speaker 1: DMV and get the new license.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you've got a family of four and you've
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Speaker 2: got to pay that four times. They're all at eighteen years.
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Speaker 2: I mean that you know, in some brate you might
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Speaker 2: be having airfares that are cheaper than that when you
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Speaker 2: look at the total prices. So the bottom line is
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Speaker 2: that it just knowing about it ahead of time means
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Speaker 2: you're not going to have that headache when you get
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Speaker 2: to the airport. We have plenty of time between now
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Speaker 2: in the first of February to fix whatever issue it is.
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Speaker 2: So what we're trying to do is avoid headaches for
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Speaker 2: people that might be flying, because when you get to
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Speaker 2: the airport, you have enough stuff going on without worrying
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Speaker 2: about getting out of line and filling out some aggravating
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Speaker 2: online form where you hope the internet connection is going
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Speaker 2: to allow all it to go through pretty.
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Speaker 1: Quick, right, got it?
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 1: A new record set. I'll Thanksgiving is the biggest travel
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Speaker 1: I suppose time of year. Is that what I read correctly?
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Speaker 1: But apparently that is true whether or not I read
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Speaker 1: it correctly or not.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, you're right, and we talk about it. That's
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Speaker 2: the busiest travel week of the year. Typically, the Sunday
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Speaker 2: after Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day. The Wednesday before
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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving is the second busiest travel day. And true to form,
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Speaker 2: TSA told us this week that we set a new
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Speaker 2: record last Sunday, the Sunday after Thanksgiving. We had three
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Speaker 2: point one million plus people that were screened for travel
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Speaker 2: that day that break the old record, So we had
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Speaker 2: more people flying on Sunday than we've ever had before. Sadly,
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Speaker 2: it was also a day of a lot of storms
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Speaker 2: across the country that delayed twelve four hundred and I
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Speaker 2: think thirteen flights. It was so bad that some of
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Speaker 2: those people didn't get home until Monday or Tuesday because
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Speaker 2: the flights were so full. So if you travel on Sunday,
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Speaker 2: congratulations you were part of a record. And I'm sorry
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Speaker 2: some of you had the issues you did because you
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Speaker 2: had to earn it because so many people were delayed
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Speaker 2: on Sunday. We almost made it through that busy travel week. Well,
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Speaker 2: had a super bad weather, Brian, but it nailed us
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Speaker 2: right as we were finishing things up, and sadly on
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Speaker 2: the busiest travel day we've ever seen.
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Speaker 1: Horshoes in Handgernade. It's close enough. And finally, hubbed blade.
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Speaker 1: What's the looking like out there for travel today?
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Speaker 2: Jay? The South is going to be going to be
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Speaker 2: the problem children of the day, Brian. We've got Houston
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Speaker 2: and Dallas is going to be seeing some weather delays.
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Speaker 2: Atlanta minimal now but getting worse as the day progresses.
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Speaker 2: So if you're flying anywhere south through any of those
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Speaker 2: hubs on Delta, United or American or Southwest, you're going
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Speaker 2: to see some significant delays. Just be prepared for that.
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Speaker 2: Anything through Chicago, the Northeast or out west so far
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Speaker 2: looks at being pretty good shape.
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Speaker 1: Well, appreciate the update as always, Jay Ratliff, congratulations on
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Speaker 1: a banner month trading over there. Thirty grand in a month,
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Speaker 1: that's not bad. I could live on that.
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Speaker 2: That's why I'm trading my students. But you know. The
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Speaker 2: thing is, though you know we I don't know. I
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Speaker 2: just corporate America always bothers me, and I'm just glad
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Speaker 2: I'm not a part of it because this time of year,
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Speaker 2: when I hear people losing their jobs unexpectedly, it just
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Speaker 2: takes me off because you know, they look at us
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Speaker 2: as interchangeable parts, and it just it's bothered me my
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Speaker 2: whole life. And I just not the time of year
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Speaker 2: you want to hear somebody losing their job.
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Speaker 1: No, you don't have to be a W two employee
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Speaker 1: and you can still make a decent living. Ask Jay,
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you about it all day long, Jay Rayleif
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Speaker 1: until next Thursday, God bless you, sir, you have a wonderful,
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Speaker 1: wonderful week, and