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IHeartMedia Aviation Expert Jay Ratliff 7/10/2026 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Hey thirty two.
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  Speaker 2: If any have Karsity Talk stations, thank god it's Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: It is that time of week we get the benefit
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  Speaker 2: and the joy of the presence of iHeartMedia aviation expert
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  Speaker 2: Jay Ratliffe, Jay, welcome back, my friend. Really appreciate you
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  Speaker 2: being on the show every Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun.
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  Speaker 3: Blas the good morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's today.
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  Speaker 3: I look forward to from the moment we hang up
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  Speaker 3: each Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: So you're great. I appreciate you, man, I really do.
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  Speaker 2: Fuel prices continue to fall. Airfares are not dropping their prices,
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  Speaker 2: although I have to I say that since it's your
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  Speaker 2: first topic recognizing since we're back at full on war
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  Speaker 2: and Trump has now recognized that we never really did
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  Speaker 2: have a ceasefire, I'm not sure if the fuel prices
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  Speaker 2: are going to continue to drop. We'll all wait and
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  Speaker 2: see about that. But I guess much like the barrel
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  Speaker 2: of oil drops precipitously and we have to wait for
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  Speaker 2: some long protracted period of time for the gasoline prices
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  Speaker 2: to go out. But seemingly the gasoline prices go up
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  Speaker 2: immediately after the barrel of oil goes up. So what's
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  Speaker 2: the story on airline fuel?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, the airlines are always quick to say that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the fuel pricers are going up, we have
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  Speaker 3: to a us and as a result, they passed those
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  Speaker 3: things quickly onto us. And we look back at the
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  Speaker 3: fuel prices from the last numbers that we had, and
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  Speaker 3: we learned that airlines spent six billion dollars in May
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  Speaker 3: for fuel. That's up eighty four percent from a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: So airlines can say, yes, the prices may be dropping
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  Speaker 3: a bit as the hostilities are kind of doing this
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  Speaker 3: or that, but they're saying, look, we can't count on that.
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  Speaker 3: So what we have to do is plan accordingly. And
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  Speaker 3: they're reluctant, Brian, but they've got to keep the fares
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  Speaker 3: high because that's what they're going to pay, and they
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  Speaker 3: can't do the up and down kind of things. Plus,
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  Speaker 3: the head of Delta Airlines that Bastion made it clear
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  Speaker 3: when he was asked, hey, the fuel price is going
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  Speaker 3: to be dropping in fares be dropping, and his initial
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  Speaker 3: response was no, We're going to keep fares as the
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  Speaker 3: demand allows. In other words, no, we're going to keep
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  Speaker 3: the fares as high for as long as we can.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not surprised and I appreciate that the candor
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  Speaker 3: from at Bastion. But it just goes to show that
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  Speaker 3: airlines will look for any reason they can to race fares,
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  Speaker 3: and they will be reluctant, if at all, to ever
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  Speaker 3: bring those down. I remember when fuel surcharges became a thing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we have to charge extra for fuel because
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  Speaker 3: of this, and when fuel prices plummeted and airlines were asked, okay,
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  Speaker 3: are those fuel surcharges going to go away? Crickets, and
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  Speaker 3: it's it's the same sort of thing. Until the demand
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  Speaker 3: for travel demands a change in their approach. They're going
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  Speaker 3: to keep fairs exactly where they're at, which is why
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  Speaker 3: it's incredibly important for all of us. As I've said
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  Speaker 3: time and time and time and time again, buy those
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  Speaker 3: tickets as far in advance as you can, because airlines
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  Speaker 3: are going to continue to change the landscape. And even
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  Speaker 3: Delta airlines they're taking their basic economy approach where you
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  Speaker 3: can buy the cheapest fare with no seat assignment, no
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  Speaker 3: fre complyer miles all this, Brian. They're applying that now
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  Speaker 3: to some of their discounted first class seats. So oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: where you can like share I fly all the time
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  Speaker 3: A discounted, non refundable first class ticket. But now would
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  Speaker 3: we do that? They're saying, you make that reservation, but
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  Speaker 3: we're not going to sign your seat until you get there.
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  Speaker 3: You're only going to get a reduced freaking flyer a
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  Speaker 3: number of miles. You're not going to be granted access
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  Speaker 3: to the first class lounge. So airlindes are constantly doing
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  Speaker 3: what they feel like they can do that's in their
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  Speaker 3: best interest and customer service.
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  Speaker 2: After thought, well, I suppose if you want to fly,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to deal with the airlines and their rules
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  Speaker 2: and their prices. Otherwise, get behind the wheel and drive there.
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  Speaker 2: It may not even be an.
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  Speaker 1: Option into their music. Absolutely got it. Don't go away.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna continue to find out about well windows seats
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  Speaker 2: that aren't and also Southwest having a good time with
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  Speaker 2: people who do it always drives me crazy. That and
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot more. Jay rat Lift, don't go away.
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  Speaker 1: You ever been in a cockpit before?
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  Speaker 2: Hey thirty nine, I fIF you have FAIRCD talk station
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  Speaker 2: of course, referring to iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay ratlif It
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  Speaker 2: joins us every Thursday for a few segments Talk Aviation
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  Speaker 2: ex FEUs, including this just had to be a mistake,
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  Speaker 2: didn't it. United Airlines sold a seat and he gives
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  Speaker 2: a photograph of it that was within the article that is,
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  Speaker 2: there is no window there, So how could it be
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  Speaker 2: marketed as a window seat?
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  Speaker 3: That is a great question, and that is the reason
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  Speaker 3: it has initially gone to court because you have people
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  Speaker 3: that buy a window seat, which is considered a premium seat,
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  Speaker 3: which gives the airlines the right to charge us more
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  Speaker 3: if that's what they choose to do.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And what happens is airlines sometimes will decide to put
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  Speaker 3: in more premium coach seats, or they'll adjust the interior
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  Speaker 3: configuration just a bit where the airline seats. Instead of
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  Speaker 3: like it was when the aircraft was first delivered, they're
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  Speaker 3: now offset a bit where seats are moved back forward,
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  Speaker 3: what have you. And instead of having a window directly
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  Speaker 3: to your left or right, you've got.
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  Speaker 1: A piece of a window tween.
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  Speaker 3: Well if that yeah, between you know the one before
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  Speaker 3: you and on behind. Yes. So there were people that
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  Speaker 3: were flying Delta, United and others that we're paying for
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  Speaker 3: this window seat. And for some people it's because they're
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  Speaker 3: just claustrophobic, they need or scared to death to fly,
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  Speaker 3: so they just want to look out the window, have
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  Speaker 3: something to distract them so that they can endure it
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  Speaker 3: until they get to their destination. They sit down on
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  Speaker 3: that airplane, they're find like, wait a minute, this is
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  Speaker 3: a wall. I pay for a window seat. And that's
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  Speaker 3: where the lawsuit came into play because you had people
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  Speaker 3: with United that said, look, you can't sell me a
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  Speaker 3: window seat and flop my butt down in a seat
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  Speaker 3: that doesn't have a window, and the airlines boat Delta
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  Speaker 3: in United said no, no, no, a window seat doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: you're necessarily a guarantee. Brian, the arrogance of these airlines
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  Speaker 3: drive me absolutely out of my mind. But they said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're simply pying the seat that's you know,
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  Speaker 3: furthest away from the aisle, that's sort looking at it.
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  Speaker 3: It's stupid. So what happened was it went to court.
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  Speaker 3: United's like this should be tossed out, this is there's
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  Speaker 3: no basis there, and the ruling came back said, oh
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  Speaker 3: yeah there is. So it's going to proceed and United
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  Speaker 3: is gonna have to go to court. Delta is also
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  Speaker 3: being sued as well from people that have the exact
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  Speaker 3: same issue. There but it comes you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: it's as though, and this isn't true, but it's as
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  Speaker 3: though executives get into a room and say, how can
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  Speaker 3: we make it even more miserable for people. Let's just
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  Speaker 3: see how bad we can make it before they finally
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  Speaker 3: stop coming.
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  Speaker 2: Backlous Let's see what we can get away with it,
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  Speaker 2: or well, ministry of truth. You know, war is peace
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  Speaker 2: pieces war, A window seat is Yeah, that's a window seat.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's no window sucking up. It's our definition.
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  Speaker 3: It is so. And that's why when these surveys on
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  Speaker 3: the customer service of airlines around the world the rankings
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  Speaker 3: come out, people are amazed that no US carrier made
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  Speaker 3: the top twenty in the world. We should be leading
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  Speaker 3: the world in everything. We're not. We don't even make
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  Speaker 3: the top twenty on customer service because they suck at it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we also have an air traffic controller systems using
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  Speaker 2: five and a quarter floppy drive, so there's that set
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  Speaker 2: as well. It's not just the business side of it,
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  Speaker 2: it's the government side of it as well. Southwest Airlines
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  Speaker 2: having a go at people who do something that drives
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  Speaker 2: me crazy, Jay, this is great.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they put out a tweet saying, just because,
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  Speaker 3: just because you spring out of your seat in essence
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  Speaker 3: one point or zero point zer zero one seconds after
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  Speaker 3: the seat belt sign goes off, you're not getting off
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  Speaker 3: the plane earlier. But there were a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: who responded to that slap in the face saying, time
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  Speaker 3: out here. I just need to stand up because I've
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  Speaker 3: been in that cramp seat for three hours. Okay, I
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  Speaker 3: want to stand up. And there's some people in the
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  Speaker 3: middle seat says, look, I've been between these two buzzards
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  Speaker 3: the whole time. I'm out of here, and you've got
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  Speaker 3: the person in the in the window seat saying, look,
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  Speaker 3: I'm clusterphobic. I mean, I just need to stand it.
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  Speaker 3: And that's all they say that they're wanting to do.
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  Speaker 3: It's not to bolt down the door. Even though you
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  Speaker 3: do have the idiots that when a plane gets somewhere,
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  Speaker 3: they're in road thirty eight and they're going to try
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  Speaker 3: to fly up the aisle before stands up to get
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  Speaker 3: off the plane earlier, maybe to catch it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they're connecting flight in de Boyne, Iowa. Now they're just
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  Speaker 3: trying to get off the plane faster. So well, guess
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  Speaker 3: what you can pay for a seat up there, and
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  Speaker 3: you can get off the plane faster. But the pushback
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  Speaker 3: was significant, and it really makes you wonder why Southwest
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  Speaker 3: would go down this road where they would insult a
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  Speaker 3: bit some of they're paying passengers who are simply just
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  Speaker 3: trying to stand up and stretch their legs.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there was a viral video of this just absolutely
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  Speaker 2: rude woman. She was in the back of the plane
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  Speaker 2: and everybody's standing in the aisle getting ready for the
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  Speaker 2: for the door of the plane to open up and
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  Speaker 2: let people off. No one's going anywhere, and yet she's
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  Speaker 2: trying to move through the crowd and she's saying, let
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  Speaker 2: me through, let me through. That all look at her like,
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  Speaker 2: what are you out of your mind? No one's leaving
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  Speaker 2: the plane, yet you're not going anywhere. So maybe it's
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  Speaker 2: on the heels of that because that went really viral.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's always been a pet peeve of flight
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  Speaker 3: attendants and crew members and as far as this kind
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  Speaker 3: of behavior, because look, there's this there's this desire obsession
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  Speaker 3: what have you for people to board the airplane as
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  Speaker 3: soon as they can, even if they have no bags,
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  Speaker 3: And that makes no sense to me when Sharry and
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  Speaker 3: I fly if we have no bags, we're sitting back,
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  Speaker 3: relaxing somewhere in the gate area, and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: we'll be one of the last ones to board, grab
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  Speaker 3: our seats and off we go. The idea and I
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  Speaker 3: like sitting in the aisle seat. We sit kind of
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  Speaker 3: towards the front. I don't get banged by seventy three
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  Speaker 3: bags when they're getting on board everything. No, I prefer
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  Speaker 3: just relax, take it easy, get on that plane at
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  Speaker 3: the last possible moment. And that's my preference. Now. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: if you carry on bag, you're worried about that bag
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  Speaker 3: being near you. I totally get while you want to
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  Speaker 3: get on the airplane sooner than later. But there's just
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  Speaker 3: this Black Friday mentality that says you're not going to
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  Speaker 3: get on before I get on, And it's like why,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what's the thought process behind that when it
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  Speaker 3: really doesn't matter. We're all kind of getting there at
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  Speaker 3: the same time.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent point. Try to keep that in mind. Yeah, Black
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  Speaker 2: Eight fifty on a Friday, Even a happy one to you,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Thomas wrapping up another segment on aviation with iHeartMedia
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  Speaker 2: aviation expert Jay Ratliffe Collisions. I saw the one about
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  Speaker 2: the fireworks collision. I guess you know, when you're around
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  Speaker 2: Independence Day of the two and fiftyth anniversary of the
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  Speaker 2: of this great country of ours, I can envision how
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  Speaker 2: that might happen. I'm kind of curious how it might
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  Speaker 2: reach the area of where airplanes are flying around, but
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  Speaker 2: also silver orbs. Let's first address the fireworks issue. How
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  Speaker 2: did this come about? And did they ever catch anybody?
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  Speaker 3: They did not from the last report I saw, Brian,
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  Speaker 3: this was a Delta flight final approach into Chicago's Midway Airport.
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  Speaker 3: When the crew called the notified air traffic control that
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  Speaker 3: they had a firework that had gone off underneath them.
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  Speaker 3: They said they not only heard it, they felt it
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  Speaker 3: and feared it may have impacted the aircraft. The fascinating
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  Speaker 3: part about this to a lot of people is listening
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  Speaker 3: to the tone of the pilots as they're reporting it
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  Speaker 3: to the air traffic control. It sounds like you and
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  Speaker 3: I just casual conversation, just kind of FYI, that's what happened.
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  Speaker 3: No issue yet, we're going to land and they did
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  Speaker 3: out asps without any problem at all. They will report it,
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  Speaker 3: They report it to the FAA, who will investigate with
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  Speaker 3: the local authorities. But you're never going to see who
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  Speaker 3: lit the fuse on it. The aircraft will is it
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  Speaker 3: a critical moment of flight? It was at a lower
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  Speaker 3: altitude as they were coming in to Chicago. And in
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  Speaker 3: the thirty four years i've been doing this bright I
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: don't ever remember a time where we've had an aircraft
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: impacted by a firework. The most time the restricted airspace.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: You don't have people doing it close to airports, those
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: kinds of things, and even the FAA considers this an
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: exceedingly rare occurrence. We've had situations where they've gotten close.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: We've had we've had rockets and things that the Lexington
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: has a Lexington Attuck has a rocket association, and they
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: were sometimes launching them a little close to the Lexington
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Airport and the FAA kind of had say, you know,
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: can we kind of moved those out of the way
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: a bit, and they did, but there wasn't anything that
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: got close. But it was a precaution. But this one
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: apparently struck the aircraft, but I don't know any damage.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: I obviously nothing happened to the aircraft to such a
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: critical extent that the crew was unable to control the
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: airplane or fly it. But yeah, I mean to now,
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: I've been on a flight before, coming on a fourth
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: of July, coming back from Boston. We're sharing I could
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: watch fireworks on the ground as we were flying altitude there,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: and it was it was super cool to see from above.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to be and flying over them. So
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: that's to imp back the aircraft.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Amen to that? All right? What's with the silver object? Jay?
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: With all this talk about whatever they call these unidentified
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: aerial phenomenon or whatever, is that what we're talking about
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: here over in New York, YEP.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: It was an aircraft that came in that said, hey,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: we almost got hit by a large object, and the
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: kind of back and forth was, okay, it was at
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: a drone, and they said, look, we're fifteen eight hundred
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: feet over New York and it's a lot larger than
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: a drone. They still don't know what it was, so
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: the investigation continues, and yeah, we've got to see exactly
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: what was taking place here, because we're having more and
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: more drones obviously that are flying, and I have been
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: pleasantly surprised that we've not had more encounters between commercial
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: aircraft and drones that are operated because we have so
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: many of them, millions of them around the world that
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: have been been made. So as a result, I'm pleased
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: in that regard. But when you have something that's so large,
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: that's apparently larger than a typical drone, you got to
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: find out exactly what it is. So I kind of thought,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: I cast out with everybody having cameras on every phone
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: we can, thank you video capabilities, that we would be
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: inundated with all these objects that people say are out there,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: going to see them, but it's like, where are they.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: I'm so disappointed because I thought we would finally have
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: everything we needed.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I figured the headline should have read aircraft in New
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: York nearly collides with Bigfoot.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Same thing, well.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Bigfoots at fifteen thou. I'm not going to say there's
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: not life style because listen hard time.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: If people believe in Bigfoot generally speaking, why not a
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: flying bigfoot, same damn thing from my perspective, Jay, all right,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: let's wrap it up with.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I'm still looking for intelligent life here.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Amen.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: All right, as we typically wrap it up house things
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: looking out for travel today, Jay Rattliff, hub delays.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Philadelphia, Philadelphia delays light maybe a minor thirty minutes or less.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: And other than that, we've got rain across the country,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: but nothing this could impact any major hubs. So all
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: in all, it should be a pretty good day of line.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Keep your seatbelt on. There's certainly gonna be.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Turbulence, no question about that. As always, and Jay Ratliffe,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I will one of the things I'll miss being on
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: vacation very few things, is I won't be able to
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: talk to you next week or the following week. We'll
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: pit the ground running after that. I'll be on vacation
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: next two weeks. I really appreciate you coming on the
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: show and spending some time with us. Jay, I always
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: enjoy it and I wish just for a.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Matter of fact, I'm taking vacation the twenty fourth, but
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I'm coming back on Wednesday, so we can talk on
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: the thirties, all right. I just want you to know
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: I'm arranging my vacation. I'm kidding, but that it is helpful.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: You should have left it that way. I'm always on it.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I'm always on it that you come on anyway, Jay,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: we'll do it in a couple three weeks and between
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: now and then, have a wonderful July and best of
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: health and loved you and your better half, my brother,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Take care, folks.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: You didn't get a chance to listen Congressman Warren Davidson
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: along with the head of the Export Import Bank. That
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: was an interesting conversation, much much different conversation with Congressman
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Davidson the normal, but it's fascinating and really very positive
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: in terms of bringing more business and industry into the
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: United States of America. Peyton's Lemonade Stand what an amazing charity.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Just go to Peyton pa y Tu and Peyton's lemonadestand
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: dot org. This is the ninth annual and it's coming
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: up on July twenty fifth. Buy some lemonade. You'll be
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: supporting an amazing charity helping children have to spend time
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: in the hospital. Get some wonderful resources at charity started
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: by a six year old girl nine years ago and
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: it is blown up more than one hundred stands, starting
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: with a single stand nine years ago. So get the
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: details and help them out over it Peyton's Lemonade Stand
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: dot org and also my conversation there of course with
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Jay Ratliffe. Tomorrow, big show lined up. We've got Tech
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Friday with Dave Hatter, Jack Windsor from the Hot Press Network,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: and a full hour with former Congressman brad Winstrip who's
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: now with the Hudson Organization. Brigham accowns Hudson Institute and
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: we're going to learn about what he's planning on doing there,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: among other along with other topics tomorrow with brad Winstrip. Folks,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: thank you for helping me muddle through today and I
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: hope you stick around. Glenn Beck's coming right up.