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iHeartMedia Aviation. Next for Jay Ratt left Jay, Welcome back to the morning
show. My friends always read wonderful having you on the show. Any pleasant,
good morning. Have we gotten over CrowdStrike yet? Let's see. Delta's
kind of been the one we've been watching of late, and yesterday they had
a decent day. I think yesterday they Delta only canceled I think it was
what fifty four flights, which was not bad. They had twelve hundred and
thirty eight that were delayed, but that's okay. It's the cancelations. It's
a big number. But fran Delta is kind of known as the carrier that
is known around the world as the one that has the best completion factor.
They cancel fewer flights than anyone. I remember a time when Delta went one
hundred consecutive days without a single flight cancelation anywhere on the planet. Wow.
And this past weekend they had five thousand in a week. Can you imagine
having more cancelations in a two or three day period of time, then you
have the entire year. That's how bad it was for Delta and other airlines.
It started with the low cost carriers for some reason, on Thursday evening
after six and then come Friday, morning, we had Delta United Americans just
grounded for a period of time until they were able to get things back up
and running. Delta's transition was slowed because they were having issues with their crew
scheduling program as I understand it, and the communication between the systems wasn't as
rapid as it needed to be. They were doing some things manually. It
was an absolute mess. Now you know. The one airline that was zero
affected, which Southwest. No kidding, because let me tell you why.
They computers are thirty four years old, so they're so old they didn't need
the updates. So they were the only ones. Like, yeah, what
you think of us now? So I mean it's using Apple or something like
that, didn't use crowdst Oh no, no, no, they got their
final quarter floppy ins drive still working. I tell you frequently. The seven
forty seven still receive upgrades in the cockpit using floppy discs. Oh that's hard
to believe. Well, on some that's exactly the case, so you know,
but they're used for cargo and those are beautiful airplanes, but they're gas
guzzlers, four big engines, and that's why around the world, for the
most part, they've been taken out of passenger service. Like here in the
US, you still have several carriers that are flying them around the world from
a passenger standpoint, but no, sadly those have been relegated for the most
part of cargo aircraft. And just what a beautiful airplane it is. They
still using a vacuum tubes in there. Hurry, crank pedal. Yeah,
it's something, but I say, for a lot of people that I've talked
to, it's the favorite aircraft to fly, no doubt. Anyhow, it's
just a shocking illustration to me. Moving aside from you know it obviously it
impacted airlines, but so many businesses around the world were impacted by this one
single company and one single upgrade to this one single cybersecurity system. It just
freaks the hell out of me considering, you know, the other implications,
like if something else were to crash, something that we all use and you
know, like cryptocurrency or something, what happens there was a glitch on that,
how do you possibly you can't buy anything, You couldn't fly a plane
over the weekend because of this. It's just blah. Computer. It is
a reminder of that when things go wrong, even in a little way.
Our life can be impacted in a big way. And you know, we
talk about stocks all the time, and one of the things you do is
you diversify. You never have too much one in one security and when you
have too much dependence on a certain thing, which for us is automation and
computer and you know, as we're moving more towards the artificial intelligence and going
deeper in that regard, it's there's some very concerning things as you go down
that road, because if they do backfire, if they do shut down,
if they're out for whatever period of time, if they're hacked, or something
like this just happens where you had mistakes that were made. Yeah, it's
something. And you talk about the hundreds of thousands of passengers, not only
from Delta but other airlines around the country where people for three and four days
that were desperately trying. We still have some people now at airports that are
trying to get there, and the ones that have gotten a hold of me,
I've told them, look, the best option is to give the ancient
alternatives. If you're trying to get to Orlando, tell them, look,
Daytona Beach is okay, Tampa's okay, Saint Bete's okay, I'll go to
Jacksonville as long as I can rent a cart my expense to get there.
And you always make sure there's one available, trying to give them options because
the idea of every plane nearly being filled already because of the busy summer travel
season, and then you have a flight cancels at one hundred and three people,
we're you gonna put them. I mean, there's just no place to
put them. It's almost six thousand flights too. That's just an or delta
you've got. I mean again, are the number one airline and completion factor,
and that's why a lot of people, including me, making my carrier
of choice because I can count on getting I'm always going to try to catch
you first flight out in the day because your chances of that being on time
are far greater than a flight later in the day that may come after a
day of weather delays that sad lay are going to catch up on that three
or four or five pm flight. So all right, well, we'll bring
Jay Ratliffe back. In the next segment, we'll talk about Katman Dude,
an Apaul plane crash, American Airlines flight attendants reporting a deal among other topics
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quick, Jay, And I don't know if you know anything about our military
defense or nor Rad or anything. I don't know if you saw it right
before Biden's speech last night, there were two Russian TU ninety five bear bombers
along with two Chinese H six bombers found off the coast of Alaska. We
had to scramble our jets and intercept them to keep them from coming into our
airspace or something like that. That just scary in and of itself. But
you know the fact that the Chinese and the Russians apparently coordinating bomber runs near
the coast of Alaska, that's freaky. And knowing we're going to do absolutely
nothing about it. I mean, if you if you have certain people in
that in that Oval office, those types of things tend to not happen.
Thank you for putting an exclamation point on the subtle point I was making,
Jay Ratler. All right, let's go over to Catman do what the hell?
Only one survivor and what an amazing thing that anybody could survive. Yeah,
this was a flight out of Catman dou and it was a napollion airline,
SAA Airlines, and it was a regional jet. It was a CRJ
Bombardier two hundred series. It's the fifty passenger jet that we came to know
under COMMA air. It's taking off because this particular aircraft, it was taken
out of passenger service and they were taking it to another location for some maintenance
work to be done. So on this flight you had nineteen total souls on
board, You had fifteen technicians, you had two extra crew members, and
you had two family members that were traveling along, so nineteen altogether. And
the video from the airport's just terrific. It takes off and it doesn't get
much altitude at all before it banks to one side and slams into the ground.
Of course, fully fueled up in flames, it goes and amazingly the
captain survives. Now the family as of the last report I saw of what
everyone on board this airplane, which again I guess you can consider mostly company
employees or contractors. They're trying to find out what the maintenance issue was on
this aircraft they were going to fix, and it was serious enough that it
should have been fixed before takeoff, So a lot of questions right now,
and sadly no answers. And you know, Nepoll's not known for its exemplary
safety record an so, yeah, and that's one of the reasons. If
you're flying to different parts of the world where you're kind of thinking, I
don't know any of these airlines, go to the State Department's website and they
have lists of airlines that we should consider avoiding. That's all this airline was
on there. But it's always good when you're traveling because those advisories from the
State Department can really come out or come in handy. Now they'll tell us
which parts of the world we should avoid or which one have a heightened risk
where we need to be aware. And so for a lot of people that
like to take some of those exotic trips, and you know sharing I've been
on several of them, one of the things you do as your homework is
to find out if the airline you're flying you need to look out for.
So, because when we were in China for two weeks, one of the
airlines was Lucky Air and I can promise you I checked out Lucky Air in
China before we got anywhere near it. I imagine that's just tempting fate in
China. Well, Lunky Air sound advice in terms of to my listeners that
the State Department has a list of things to avoid in terms of airlines.
That's uh oh, yes, that's solid information right there, Thank you,
Jay. And you know, it reminds me that what Lenyard skinnered crash.
I mean they knew the plane had needed had problems, and yet they got
on anyway and flew it. I mean, is this crash directly related to
the problems that this plane was going to be treated for or do We don't
know yet. We don't know it's way because it may have been another mechanical
issue, could have been pilot air It could have been a lot of different
things that might have taken place, and it could have been in the speed
suggests not but one of the things to look at it was there any contaminations
in the fuel. I mean, if water gets in the fuel, it
can it can cause the engines to stop working. But the way this thing
banked and fell, it looked like some thing more than that, because then
the aircraft turns into a glider and the pilots have to find it what limited
altitude the rat a way to get that airplane on the ground safely. Here
the crew didn't have any time at all, it would appear from what happened.
And there's lots of times that we have mechanical issues on aircraft that are
deferable. They're not considered a no goo situation where yeah, we've got this
situation, it's not something that's going to be directly tied into the actual operation
of the aircraft, and we can defer it till this aircraft gets to the
next maintenance. Of that way, we don't have to cancel the flight.
So if you see an airplane, it's a lot like when people look out
the window and they see what appears to be duct tape on the wings.
It's not. It's the high speed aviation tape. And what happens is sometimes
one of the many thousands and thousands of rivets we have that are on the
aircraft, maybe a couple of them come off and there might be a slight,
you know, a flap issue where you've got with the caling engine or
something that is kind of bouncing back and forth. We slapped that high speed
tape on there by the mechanics then until it gets to the next maintenance facility
that's taken off. In those those rivets are replaced or installed. So a
lot of times you see that, you're thinking, oh my gosh. You
know, they take the engine nown and it's a deferbile item. It's something
that's very well controlled and the pilots and the mechanics in the airlines make sure
that everything is safe as it needs to be, so you don't panic.
It's it's not duct tape. I promise high speed aviation tape. Well,
i'd say a rose just go and you'll see tons of pictures of this stuff
with people freaking out they look out the window. I just say a Rose
Blane in the name would still smell sweet. I still say it's a duct
tape. Anyway, moving on, I can call it that. It's not
a lot more expensive than duct tape, I imagine. So let's move to
the Southwest airplane. I thank god this one didn't crash into the ocean to
one hundred and fifty feet. Brian, We've talked about Southwest four different times
on them. Yeah, we had the flight out of Honolulu, took off,
got to a thousand feet and then all of a sudden started to send
to four hundred feet before they corrected the altitude and decided to come back to
land in Honolulu. Then we had a flight into Omaha that was supposed to
be at three thousand feet nine miles out, they were buzzing a neighborhood at
twelve thirty in the morning at five hundred feet. Then there was another situation.
Then we had this one going into Tampa, which the aircraft I think
was supposed to be at two thousand feet or so and they were at one
hundred and seventy like fifty three meters or something off the ground, dangerously low.
And you have time after time after time where even with all the technology
that's at the disposal of this highly trained crew, we've had multiple situations that,
for whatever the reason, the aircraft, yes they're boeing, but they're
on final approach into some of these airports are taking off and there's a very
serious altitude issue, and I can't begin to explain or try to understand what's
causing it. Because airlines in the cockpit, you've got so many redundant type
things that you can look at, one of them being the pilots who are
going to know when you're one hundred and eighty feet off the ground when you're
many miles from the airport. That's just it shouldn't be happening, but you
can used to it. And the FAA has opened up a safety audit to
try to find out exactly what's going on here, and they need to because
this is unbelievably scary. Yeah, I'd have to change my shorts after I
got off a flight to front dropped down one hundred and fifty feet. When
it happened to Honolulu, I thought, okay, they came back because they
said there was quote weather issues. I don't know. I thought, prabby,
it might have been something happened in the cockpit, whe a mistake was
made, whatever. But to have one after another after another after another,
no, that in that short period of time. You know, I used
to think, Okay, maybe it was a training thing that's changed or something,
but no, you've got too much technology in that cockpit. And these
are I mean, these are professionals. These are a lot of these individuals
as we've talked about former military podcasts, and those folks are trained to the
hilt. Believe you me, they know what they're doing. And then some
so to have this happen like this just defies my ability to understand what's taking
place. Well, if you don't get it, I certainly wouldn't. Anyway,
it sounds like what could be good news. American Airline flight attendants are
pretty reportedly reaching a deal. Yeah, it looks like they've been able to
reach a deal finally with management. And they need to because right we've talked
about how these flight attendants make like twenty seven thousand dollars a year when they
initially begin so low. In fact, in the state of Massachusetts, they
actually qualify for food stamps even though they're working full time, which is crazy.
But I'm glad to see it because the flight attendants certainly need this,
and I'll be anxious to see the details in the new contract because the old
one did not have them getting paid when the flights are boarding and deplaning,
and obviously I'm hoping that changes because they're there in a safety mode, taking
care of us in case there's an evacuation, which the one we talked about
happened when they had a computer that overheated and they had to evacuate at the
gate. The idea that somebody's getting paid as almost a first responder. That's
how I look at them in that situation is again, just shouldn't be happening.
I agree with you all day long. You thoroughly convinced me the value
of the flight attendance, question about it. And finally I guess, as
we always do, let's close out on Hubblaye. How's it looking out there
for air traveled Jay? Righttlift. I wanted it'd be a good news day.
I really wanted to get to end on some good news. I can't.
I mean, in essence, draw a line from Houston straight up to
Philadelphia, and anything east of that is a mess. You've got Houston,
we're gonna have Atlanta, we're gonna have Charlotte, we're gonna have Philadelphia,
Washington, d C. New York later in the day. It's yeah,
if you're headed west, you're gonna be in a pretty good shape. But
unless your airplane's being routed through some of these affected areas, you know,
you may go be going to California. Say, do you have no weather
issue? Yeah, but if that plane's being rounded through Charlotte, you might
have some issues. So just make sure the airlines have a way to get
a hold of you. Get to the airport again at least two hours before
departure has been walking in the door, and it'll better your chances if things
go a little bit awry, that you'll have plenty of time to get it
worked out. Sound advice as always from my heart. Mediaba's next for Jay
ryle Loft. I always enjoy having you on the program. Jay, I'm
already looking forward to next Thursday and always best to health you in your better
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