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iHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff -- 2/12/26 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Hey twenty nine on a Thursday. It's that time I
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  Speaker 1: always look forward to this time. I heard media aviation
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  Speaker 1: expert Jay Ratliff joins the program go through aviation issues,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got a big one to talk about right
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  Speaker 1: out of the gate. Welcome back, Jay Ratlift my friends.
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  Speaker 1: Pleasure having you on Pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning brand.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't use any curse words on the morning show, Jay, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I know I don't have for worrying you about that,
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  Speaker 1: but things might fall off the rails. You probably weren't
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  Speaker 1: listening to my last guest anyhow.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think you have to worry too much
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  Speaker 2: with that. I got done with news Max and jumped
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  Speaker 2: on this call tweaks as that could. So normally I
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  Speaker 2: like to tune in ahead of time so I know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm walking into. So my apologies I didn't get Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's aokay, brother. I just so listeners who were hearing
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  Speaker 1: the phone call probably understand what I'm talking about. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with El Paso Airport closure. FA announces all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden that they're going to close the airport
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  Speaker 1: ten days airspace shut down, but then within a fairly
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  Speaker 1: short period of time there after they said, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're opening it back up. It's nothing to here. We
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  Speaker 1: just shot down a party balloon. Jay Rattliffe, was that overreaction?
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  Speaker 1: I guess they weren't able to identify what it was.
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  Speaker 1: Widely reported that they thought it might have been a drone,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps a drug cartel drone flying around in the airspace.
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  Speaker 1: But I understand maybe shutting the airspace down out of
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  Speaker 1: an abundance of caution, you know, like at Reagan Airport
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  Speaker 1: where a helicopter flew into an airplane. We don't want
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  Speaker 1: that to happen. But saying right out front without all
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  Speaker 1: the information that it's a ten day air closure, Jay,
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  Speaker 1: your reaction.
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  Speaker 2: To this, Well, I got news at the airport was closed,
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  Speaker 2: that they had the airspace closure at ten miles ten
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  Speaker 2: nautical miles seventeen eighteen thousand feet and under, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought okay, And then I saw it was for ten days.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, wait a bit time out here. I
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  Speaker 2: see airport closures all the time, temporarily for you know,
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  Speaker 2: if there's been an accident, if there's runway construction, if
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  Speaker 2: there is you know, a power outage, something that's impacting
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  Speaker 2: it to stay from the onset it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: ten ten days made zero sense. So you start looking
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  Speaker 2: into it, and yeah, I heard the fact that a
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  Speaker 2: party balloon was responsible. Then we had reports, No no, no,
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  Speaker 2: it was laser tests at a nearby military installation. No no, no,
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  Speaker 2: it was a cartel drones in the area. This time,
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  Speaker 2: we mean it. It was one thing after another that
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  Speaker 2: we were hearing all this stuff, and other than the
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  Speaker 2: attacks of nine to eleven, this was unprecedented as far
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  Speaker 2: as the closure of an airspace. And again that ten
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  Speaker 2: day period of time just kept messing with my mind.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we're hearing that there was a lack
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  Speaker 2: of communication, which I can certainly believe between government agencies,
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  Speaker 2: and it left the elected officials in the area that
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  Speaker 2: were being asked what was going on clueless. But you
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  Speaker 2: also had airlines that had planes preparing to land in
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  Speaker 2: El Paso being told no, you can't land here. And
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  Speaker 2: of course the airline was like, what do you mean
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  Speaker 2: the airport's closed, and they said, yeah, for ten days,
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  Speaker 2: And to make sure everybody was paying attention, they put
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  Speaker 2: in there, look this not only is this airspace closed,
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  Speaker 2: but we have authorized the use of deadly force. Oh
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  Speaker 2: my now now that's like whoa. So that means means
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  Speaker 2: no general aviation aircraft. You didn't have any cargo airplanes flying,
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  Speaker 2: you had no commercial activity. And Brian, if you had
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  Speaker 2: a MedFlight to you know, care flight, medical transport, they
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  Speaker 2: couldn't play either. So if you had a critical transplant
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  Speaker 2: organ that you're trying to get from one place to another,
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  Speaker 2: it's by grounds because you're not flying. So you had
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  Speaker 2: and of course you're in Texas, so the next nearest
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  Speaker 2: airports light, you know, two hundred miles away for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of passengers, plus and because everything's big in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: So one of the problems, of course is you know
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  Speaker 2: you've got these people getting ready go on vacation they've
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  Speaker 2: been planning for because February's big cruise month. You got
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  Speaker 2: these people traveling for business that you know, fly in,
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  Speaker 2: fly out, and you've got all of this disruption of
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  Speaker 2: playing one hundred and seventy flights a day with six
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  Speaker 2: different airlines. All of it just kind of up in question.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, well, if we told what the official exploment is,
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  Speaker 2: we may never get the full picture here. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: if there is drone activity concern and it's along the border.
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  Speaker 2: Is it going to happen to another airport down the
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  Speaker 2: road is along that border as well?
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  Speaker 1: Well? In Europe? Yeah, I mean it dealt with us.
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  Speaker 2: In Europe, we've talked about the fact that, and we
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  Speaker 2: had the London Heathrow Airport that was impacted for a
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  Speaker 2: number of days because of excessive drone activity, and airlines said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we're not gonna be flying in there because we don't
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  Speaker 2: have that. And the question I'm asked all the time
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  Speaker 2: is is the you know, Jay, why are we that
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  Speaker 2: worried about drones? And I said, well, the birds can
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  Speaker 2: bring an airplane down, thank you, Ja. Certainly a thirty
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  Speaker 2: forty pound fifty pounds drone can do that, plus not
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  Speaker 2: only you know, flying into the engines, but impacting the
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  Speaker 2: aircraft in such way that the avionicses are impacted and
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  Speaker 2: affected and adversely so And then of course, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you've got a critical moment of flight. You've got an
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  Speaker 2: aircraft fully fueled, preparing to take off or in the
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  Speaker 2: process of or you've got an aircraft that's on its
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  Speaker 2: final approach, preparing to land. And with those critical moments
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  Speaker 2: of flight, you don't have the benefit of increased altitude
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  Speaker 2: to work a problem that might be created by an
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  Speaker 2: impact with a piece of debris. So as a result,
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  Speaker 2: it just makes it even more of a dangerous situation.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see where this goes. But you know, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: I'm more confused now than I was before. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the only explanation we've not heard is it's another run
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  Speaker 2: as well. So you never know what. Let's throw that
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  Speaker 2: one out there because you know, maybe twenty years from
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  Speaker 2: now that we said, yeah, you remember in LPAs so
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  Speaker 2: what we were told it was really aliens at LANT.
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  Speaker 2: You just never know on stuff like this, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: see where it goes.
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  Speaker 1: That gives me some comfort. If you don't know the answer,
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  Speaker 1: then that may feel good because I certainly don't know
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  Speaker 1: the answer. But real quick, before we take a break here,
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  Speaker 1: Jay rowlif In so far as the hierarchy of control
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  Speaker 1: over closing airspace, I guess it's the FAA who makes
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  Speaker 1: that final call. Do they have exclusive authority to shut
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  Speaker 1: down airspace or does that belong in some other letter agents?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah they do. Ben Sliney was the fa director that's
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  Speaker 2: on the attack to nine to eleven, made the call
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  Speaker 2: to ground every airplane within ninety minutes now, and he
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  Speaker 2: didn't act it on his own. It was his first
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  Speaker 2: day on the job in that position. But in this case,
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  Speaker 2: it sounds as though from the people I'm talking to,
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  Speaker 2: that the FAA was told to do so by somebody
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  Speaker 2: in the Department of Homeland Security. I think now that
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  Speaker 2: that's not been confirmed, certainly not been anything that is
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  Speaker 2: a kind of a prevalent thought process, But it was
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  Speaker 2: as though they were told to do it and did so,
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  Speaker 2: because again, this is not normal for the FAA. The
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  Speaker 2: FAI close airspace frequently, they do it daily in some regards,
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  Speaker 2: but never for this much of an extended period of time,
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  Speaker 2: which makes me think they were told to do it,
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  Speaker 2: and then it quickly kind of blew up and we
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  Speaker 2: went from there.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll part company to bring it back after
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  Speaker 1: the break, and we'll talk about wheels falling off. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about don't get on an airline to Tokyo if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to Nicaragua and Cuba has run out of fuel.
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  Speaker 1: More with iheartbadaviation expert Jay Ratliff right up for these
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  Speaker 1: brief words. Ever been in a cockpit before? Jay Ratlift
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  Speaker 1: has He's our iheartmediavia is extpert, and we have the
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  Speaker 1: pleasure of here from Jay every Thursday the beginning at
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  Speaker 1: a thirty. And for those who are listening on Trust
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  Speaker 1: YOUAL Radio, isn't it good you have an AM radio?
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  Speaker 1: Because all morning we've been having server problems, Jay, and
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  Speaker 1: the stream audio isn't working, and I'm getting text after
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  Speaker 1: text after text and notice after notice after notice, and
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  Speaker 1: we know about it. We got an engineer trying to
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  Speaker 1: sort it out. But if you're trying to listen to
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  Speaker 1: me on the IHEARTMEDIAPP right now, you're not hearing what
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  Speaker 1: I'm having to say. Jay Ratliff back to the list.
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  Speaker 1: Got more wheels falling off? Is this becoming a more
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  Speaker 1: common occurrence? Or is just because we have the Internet
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  Speaker 1: that we learn about times when well airplane wheels fall off?
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  Speaker 2: Jay, Well, we've had this happen. We had a Delta
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  Speaker 2: flight that was behind an aircraft that was taxing and
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  Speaker 2: it turned onto the runway and one of the tires
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  Speaker 2: kept rolling forward.
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  Speaker 1: And wow.
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  Speaker 2: But when you're talking about this British Airways flight, we've
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  Speaker 2: got a picture of it coming off. So when it
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  Speaker 2: goes viral, becomes a story, big story. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people like to talk about. So you know what
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  Speaker 2: happened here was a British Airways flight leaving Las Vegas
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  Speaker 2: that rotates, in other words, that lifts off the ground,
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  Speaker 2: is coming up the three landing gears, the nosewheel and
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  Speaker 2: the two gears, the main ones underneath the wing rotate
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  Speaker 2: in and close up in. One of the mules falls off. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you and I are tooling down seventy five and
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  Speaker 2: one of our four tires come off, yeah we're toast.
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  Speaker 2: But this is something where the main landing gear is
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  Speaker 2: the two that you have on this airbus have six
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  Speaker 2: tires on each two two and two on each side.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got, in essence, twelve tires under that main
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  Speaker 2: landing gear. So that means you have eleven tires still good.
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  Speaker 2: So one of the twelve fell off. I'm more concerned
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  Speaker 2: about where that two hundred and fifty pound tire is
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  Speaker 2: going to land than I am the aircraft itself, because
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  Speaker 2: that's going through a roof of car. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: kill somebody, but it's them. Fortunately it's okay though, so
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  Speaker 2: we're not too worried about that. But you know, in
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  Speaker 2: this situation, it worked out okay. Thankfully. There was no,
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  Speaker 2: no injuries of any kind of crew was alerted and
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  Speaker 2: the flight continued landed, you know, as usual. Now, they
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  Speaker 2: probably had some fire trucks standing by simply as a precaution.
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  Speaker 2: Is they tend to just in case something's needed, if
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  Speaker 2: there's a little bit of sparks or something that happens.
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  Speaker 2: But ran. The bottom line is, you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say a non event, because the
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  Speaker 2: people flying these airplanes, as you and I've talked about
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times, they're military, former military, and these
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  Speaker 2: men and women too. Yeah, eleven out of twelve were good.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I've seen them land airplanes with
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  Speaker 2: no landing gears because they can't get them all down
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  Speaker 2: and they have to foam the runway down and they
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  Speaker 2: land and passengers say, you know, it was loud, but
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  Speaker 2: wasn't that bad up of the landing. So that's why
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  Speaker 2: I have total confidence when I step on board an
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  Speaker 2: aircraft with regards to the people that are upfront taking
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  Speaker 2: good care of me.
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  Speaker 1: Not that bad of landing, except for the fact you've
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  Speaker 1: got to go change your shorts once you deboord a deplane.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, well, you know, you walk away from it You're okay.
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  Speaker 1: Right, amen. Brother. Cuba obviously struggling economically, and they have
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  Speaker 1: been now for decades, got a bigger struggle now. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: according to your notes, they have a fuel shortage and
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  Speaker 1: airlines that are having to cancel flights into Cuba.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. President Trump has in essence kind of impacted the
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  Speaker 2: ability for Cuba get oil. So as a result, you've
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  Speaker 2: seen the country saying we're in the process of running out,
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  Speaker 2: and then they got to the point where they said,
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to be able to fuel airlines that
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  Speaker 2: come into our airport. So as a result, airlines are
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  Speaker 2: now needing to adjust. You have Air Canada this week
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  Speaker 2: that said until we're able to refuel there, we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to be flying in there. We're going to suspend
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  Speaker 2: our operations. You have airlines like some of the Russian
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  Speaker 2: carriers come in say we're going to continue operations until
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  Speaker 2: we get our passengers out. We're not bringing anybody in
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  Speaker 2: until that situations resolved. You have US carriers that are
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  Speaker 2: still flying in but with some modifications. Because normally what
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  Speaker 2: happens if you're flying from Atlanta to Cuba and back,
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  Speaker 2: you'll fuel in Atlanta, you'll fuel in Cuban and just
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  Speaker 2: carry as much fuel as you need. But now the
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  Speaker 2: airlines have to overfuel where they have enough fuel to
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  Speaker 2: fly there and fly back, and sometimes that's impacting their loads.
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  Speaker 2: We're seeing I think Southwest Airlines has some flights where
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  Speaker 2: they're taking no one in and then airlifting people out.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously this is a situation that's requiring a great
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  Speaker 2: deal of adjustments on the part of airlines, and we're
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  Speaker 2: seeing exactly that. So uh that that's going to continue,
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  Speaker 2: sadly for some time and hopefully it'll get worked out.
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  Speaker 2: But Cuba's kind of caught in the middle of this
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  Speaker 2: political situation and the passengers obviously, and the and the
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  Speaker 2: freight and the cargo and all the other things that
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  Speaker 2: are impacted here, are you know, causing kind of increased
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  Speaker 2: economic hardship.
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  Speaker 1: Well, certainly understand that, and obviously that maybe by design
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  Speaker 1: that I'm just kind of curious what is the domestic demand,
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  Speaker 1: at least in so far as to travel to Cuba.
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine it. All. We got high.
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  Speaker 2: Look, we American Airlines flights out of Miami quite a few.
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  Speaker 2: You've got the flights out of Atlanta really got yeah,
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, it's it's it's surprising the number of people
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  Speaker 2: that still bounce back and forth there. And as a result,
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  Speaker 2: anytime you have disruption of the air service, as we've
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  Speaker 2: been saying, you have the problems that we're looking at
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  Speaker 2: right now. So you just hope it gets resolved quickly,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, it's like that o'l passive situation. When
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  Speaker 2: you have airport issues, it impacts everybody who wants to fly,
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  Speaker 2: and it impacts you know, business people, people going on
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  Speaker 2: vacation and other kinds of things. And you know, for
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  Speaker 2: some of the people, they've been planning this thing for
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  Speaker 2: years and now they're been told at the last minute
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  Speaker 2: and sorry, we can't because of the situation that's ongoing.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, coming up in the battle for Boeing
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  Speaker 1: versus Airbus, who wins and which of them has the
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  Speaker 1: most leg room? Couple of topics with Jay plus don't
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  Speaker 1: get on a plane to Tokyo if that's not where
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  Speaker 1: you're going. Continue with Jay after these brief words. It
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  Speaker 1: is a fifty to fifty five pair CD talk station.
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  Speaker 1: Happy or right, Ae, Jay ratlef or I Heart Media
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  Speaker 1: Aviation Expert. One more segment. I see you have a
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  Speaker 1: battle of Boeing versus Airbus in terms of the number
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  Speaker 1: of airplanes sold and how well the businesses are doing.
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  Speaker 1: And we can maybe shoehorn that into the survey of
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  Speaker 1: which airlines have the most leg rooms. Maybe, But they
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  Speaker 1: can be configured differently, which the Boeing or the Airbus,
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  Speaker 1: depending on which plane you buy. Any airline can configure
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  Speaker 1: the seating room differently, right, It depends on the airline
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  Speaker 1: they can.
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  Speaker 2: It can be the whatever they want because you're buying it,
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  Speaker 2: and if you want to configure it to have instead
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  Speaker 2: of one hundred and fifty seats, you know, seven, you
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  Speaker 2: can do it. You're not going to make any money
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  Speaker 2: that way, but you certainly can. But yeah, we had
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  Speaker 2: last year something Brian that hadn't happened in ten years,
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  Speaker 2: and that is that Boeing actually delivered more airplanes than
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  Speaker 2: did air Bus. You had a situation where it was
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  Speaker 2: they had eleven hundred and seventy three airplanes that Boeing
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  Speaker 2: delivered last year Airbus eight hundred and eighty nine. So
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  Speaker 2: last year was a first in quite a while. So
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  Speaker 2: Boeing is coming back. But in January Boeing took one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and three orders for airplanes. Airbus took fifty Oh wow, yep,
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  Speaker 2: so it's yeah, so plus I think it was last
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  Speaker 2: month Airbus delivered fifteen airplanes to customers and Boeing forty six.
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  Speaker 2: The Boeing Max continues to be a great air craft
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  Speaker 2: from a sales standpoint, and it's Boweing's on the way back,
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  Speaker 2: and I tell you it's exciting to see. And you
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  Speaker 2: just hope this kind of momentum continues. And you know
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  Speaker 2: they've replaced the CEOs, some things were changed, and boy,
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  Speaker 2: the Boeing's doing a lot of things, right. You just
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  Speaker 2: you want it to continue.
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  Speaker 1: You wanted to. They have a way of perhaps not
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  Speaker 1: continuing down a proper path, as you've demonstrated many times
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  Speaker 1: over the years we've been talking, Jay.
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  Speaker 2: But I guess demonstrated Yeah, how.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I just have to ask, because it's been
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  Speaker 1: a backlog for a long time, how long will it
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  Speaker 1: take if someone just got done ordering aircraft from Boeing,
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  Speaker 1: how many years is going to before they actually get them?
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  Speaker 2: It could be well, Airbus, it could be three to four,
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  Speaker 2: Boeing two to three. But again keep in mind, collectively
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  Speaker 2: between the two they probably have nineteen thousand airplanes eighteen
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  Speaker 2: nineteen thousand that are backlogged. That number may be off
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  Speaker 2: a bit because I've not researched it recently, but it's
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  Speaker 2: an extensive number. And that's one of the reasons that
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  Speaker 2: if an airline wants to grow quickly, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times what you'll see is they'll buy another airline, like
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  Speaker 2: you know, spirits get a bunch of Airbus aircraft, somebody
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  Speaker 2: make them go, hey we want these boom, they'll just
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  Speaker 2: take those, so, you know, or you consider on a wait.
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  Speaker 2: But these new airplanes, boy, they're they're fuel efficient, they're
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  Speaker 2: incredible aircraft, and they continue to save airlines quite a
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  Speaker 2: bit of money good and you know, that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons that when you look at these things, it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, it makes the newer the aircraft, the more
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  Speaker 2: money you make. And it's going to be interesting to
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  Speaker 2: see if people move along, how many of these aircraft
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  Speaker 2: they can continue to get. And I get excited because
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  Speaker 2: obviously all of those been all that saving is going
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: to be passed on to customers. Right. We hope.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Tongue might have been in your seat when you said
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: that real quick, yeah, mentioned the leg room, since that
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: was a separate line at them. What's your line in
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: the world?
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Do have the most leg room you want to you
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: can look at I think it's Japan Airlines that has
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: the most leg room on an aircraft as far as
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: thirty four inches. We call it pitch the distance betwe
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: between rows. Japan Airlines is thirty four inches, Jet Emirates
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: is thirty four inches. Jet Blue has got the most
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: of any US carrier in coach at thirty two point
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: three inches between rows. Now you go to somebody like
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: the last Airlines of Delta, it's thirty one inches. Spirit
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: good luck there, twenty eight inches your knees are going
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: to be in under your chin. But yeah, it's a
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: lot of times when people fly internationally they email me saying,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Joe's in coach. My gosh, I felt like I was
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: in a business plus class seat because of the fact
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: of just how much extra room I had, And that
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: was very, very nice. But you know, in the United States,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: it's been clear that hey, We're willing to put up
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: with a lot of stuff, and as a result that
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: they continue to decrease that pitch. In fact, American Airlines
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: recently put an act extra row in first class and
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: instead of removing an extra row in coach, they shortened
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: the distance between every single row and coach, so everybody
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: on the plane is paying for that extra row of
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: seats in first class. Thank you very much.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll have to let our listeners are
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: my listeners, go out and figure out, well why a
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: guy going to Nicaragua would buy a plane to Tokyo.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Since we're out of time, but check your airplane and
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: its destination before you get on the plane.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Jay rattles on that great big screen. You know you
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: can look up and.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: See there's that real quick here. How's it looking out
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: there in terms of hub delays for flying.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Today, Uh, we're better shaped today than we have been.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Looking at some possible issues towards the Northeast, I'm hoping
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: they're not going to be until later today. The South
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: may have some issues later in the day as well,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: but I really think the problem marriages are going to
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: be Washington, d C. In Philadelphia, possibly New York again,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: not until later in.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: The day, Congress. I'd rather, Uh, Jay Ratli, thank you
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: so much for tell me that.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I was looking at my rundown and Warren Davidson was
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: on earlier. If I was going to call you a congressman,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: at least it warn't David's going to be a good
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: label to put on you.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Now they would be. Now I would consider that a compliment,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: but I I have little regard for people on both
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: sides of the aisle.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: But then, yeah, thanks, yeay, we'll talk next Thursday. Keep
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: up the great world, con best to health and loved
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: you in your better half folks. Early on the program
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: cost Warren Davidson. He had Governor's house, Jimmy curveall the
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: chef there, who's going to be at the Marty Graft
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: fundraiser on Fat Tuesday in Northern Kentucky. Casey Putsch for
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes anyway, he's running for governor, but
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: didn't make a great case for himself, and then hung up.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Jay Ratliff, it's all fifty five KRC dot com. Thank you,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Sean McMahon. Folks, have a great day, unkleway. Glenn Beeck's
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