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Speaker 2: AY twenty nine fifty five Krsite talks station Happy Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 2: even extra happy every week because this time we get
Speaker 2: iHeartMedia Aviation expert Jay rat Up on the program talking
Speaker 2: aviation issues and often the stock market issues. To welcome
Speaker 2: back to Jay. I always love having you on the show,
Speaker 2: my friend.
Speaker 4: Good morning to you.
Speaker 2: Well, there's no details on this, and I found this.
Speaker 2: I was going through preparing for the show this morning,
Speaker 2: and anytime I see an aviation article of well, unusual one, anyway,
Speaker 2: I always printed out to talk to you about it.
Speaker 2: There was there was speaking of unusual described as an
Speaker 2: unusual odor.
Speaker 1: You saw this one too.
Speaker 2: The Quantis flight left Sydney, Australia on Wednesday and expected
Speaker 2: to head on over to Wellington, New Zealand. Apparently I
Speaker 2: had to turn around because well, an unusual odor was
Speaker 2: on the plane. I guess one flight attendant fell ill
Speaker 2: as a consequence. But that's about all we know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we've had situations before. Where have there been
Speaker 4: shall we describe a new odors that might have might
Speaker 4: be coming into the aircraft. It might be from a
Speaker 4: mechanical situations that's feeding something into the cockpit air that
Speaker 4: is causing some discomfort and in some cases worse than that.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it can come from other sources that you know
Speaker 4: are more unpleasant, but they don't tend to have that impact.
Speaker 4: Would be like a laboratory that's having some issues. But yeah,
Speaker 4: and they're going to err on the side of caution
Speaker 4: each time because when they start having that take place,
Speaker 4: you're worried about other passengers. But again, and I hate
Speaker 4: to always have to say this, but you know it
Speaker 4: from a legal standpoint, when they're made aware of something
Speaker 4: that could be a potential problem, you are then measured
Speaker 4: by your response to that situation that you know could
Speaker 4: be an issue for your passengers. How did you respond
Speaker 4: you were aware something was going on, what did you
Speaker 4: do next? And you know that's one of the other
Speaker 4: reasons that from the laws side of things, you want
Speaker 4: to do everything you can to show that you are
Speaker 4: responding to the event as it's taking place, and that's
Speaker 4: why they are on the side of caution and normally
Speaker 4: try to get that aircraft from the ground as soon
Speaker 4: as they can to make sure that whoever's been impacted
Speaker 4: can be treated, and also to make sure that they
Speaker 4: can remove the passengers from the cabin before anybody else
Speaker 4: starts to show any sort of reaction to the conditions.
Speaker 2: Well, fair enough, that's just you know, we've had other
Speaker 2: articles involving odors where we can trace it directly to
Speaker 2: the source. Pretty comical and yet embarrassing for some. But
Speaker 2: since the odor was it was not identified. I just
Speaker 2: thought it was rather weird. But that is not to
Speaker 2: tell people.
Speaker 4: Bran. I've had to tell people over the years at
Speaker 4: the gate area that they couldn't fly because they smelled
Speaker 4: like they hadn't taken a bath in three years. Okay,
Speaker 4: that's a that's a delicate conversation, that's what that's when
Speaker 4: my agents call me, Jay, we need you out the
Speaker 4: gate area and they go, okay, what's going on now?
Speaker 4: You know, you'll pull them off to the side and
Speaker 4: you and you just as delicately as you can explain
Speaker 4: that you know. And I always used to say, you know,
Speaker 4: these seats are smaller than they've ever been. It's so unfair,
Speaker 4: and you're on top of everybody, and you know this
Speaker 4: and that, and unfortunately, when you're in that kind of environment,
Speaker 4: some of the odors that you know, that are given
Speaker 4: off sometimes in affect are the passengers. And it's not
Speaker 4: an easy one to have because like telling somebody they're
Speaker 4: too big to fit into a single seat and they
Speaker 4: need to buy two.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but you see.
Speaker 2: Demonstrably, you can prove it by trying to fit them
Speaker 2: into single seat.
Speaker 4: But some people that maybe have a body yodor that
Speaker 4: they are have grown accustomed to over the days, weeks, months,
Speaker 4: they don't smell anything. But you know, it's like pigpin
Speaker 4: on Charlie Brown. Everybody goes flying, you know, get out
Speaker 4: of the way.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's talk like visuals.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I know anyhow, we have laser strikes. This
Speaker 2: is This is when some idiot has a laser pointer
Speaker 2: and he's pointing it at the cockpit of an airplane
Speaker 2: is flying by. Is that Is that what we're talking
Speaker 2: about in the story.
Speaker 4: It is it. And a lot of people are thinking,
Speaker 4: come on, Jay, are they even that powerful? Yes, they are.
Speaker 4: They almost look like a lightsaber. And I have no
Speaker 4: clue because I don't think this way, Thank god, I
Speaker 4: don't think this way. Why anybody in their backyard grilling
Speaker 4: that hamburgers late and I sees an airplane flying overgone,
Speaker 4: you know, I wonder if I could actually point this
Speaker 4: laser up there and kind of paint this aircraft as
Speaker 4: it flies over. Well, the problem is that when that
Speaker 4: laser hits the ceiling of the cockpit, there's such a
Speaker 4: bright light that immediately is thrown into the face of
Speaker 4: the flight crew. They are momentarily distractive. Now keep in
Speaker 4: mind they'ret a critical time of flight. They're on normally
Speaker 4: on takeoff or landing, most time landing as they're coming
Speaker 4: in low, and the last thing you want to do
Speaker 4: is distract the pilots. Now, we've had some pilots that
Speaker 4: have actually incurred eye damage because of this, some have
Speaker 4: been forced to stop flying because of it. And I
Speaker 4: think from what I remember from that report Brian in Boston,
Speaker 4: this was we've had more than eight thousand of these
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 1: Eight thousand.
Speaker 4: Yes. Now here's the issue. If you and I are
Speaker 4: flying we get blasted with one of these things, we
Speaker 4: notify air traffic control, who tries to tell us, as
Speaker 4: we're flying three hundred and eleven knots or something, where
Speaker 4: did it come from? When you're looking out the window
Speaker 4: in the back, you can't. I mean your long pass
Speaker 4: where it rights. And all you can do at that
Speaker 4: point is to give the law enforcement people an approximate location.
Speaker 4: And they hardly ever catch these people unless somebody on
Speaker 4: the ground notices it and calls it nine to one
Speaker 4: one to report it and thank you for everyone who does.
Speaker 4: But these idiots, I don't think they understand, at least
Speaker 4: I hope they don't, that they're placing the lives of
Speaker 4: everybody on that aircraft at risk when they do that
Speaker 4: kind of crap, and the idea that it continues and
Speaker 4: continues and continues, and some of these numbers have escalated
Speaker 4: big time over the years. I mean, we got to
Speaker 4: catch them so we can start making examples out of people,
Speaker 4: because I mean, throw them in jail, do something that's
Speaker 4: the message that this kind of activity is absolutely well
Speaker 4: dangerous in your endangering the lives of many people, and
Speaker 4: it's totally.
Speaker 1: Unacceptable, unacceptable.
Speaker 2: I would also say extraordinarily anxiety inducing, because that laser
Speaker 2: might just not be some punk idiot on the ground
Speaker 2: trying to have fun, but it may be very well
Speaker 2: be attacked to a high powered rifle or some other
Speaker 2: form of rocket launcher or something that's got a laser
Speaker 2: focus on it. I mean that would be the first
Speaker 2: thing that went through my mind. I'm target im being.
Speaker 4: Targeted, yeah, and some surface air missiles on its way.
Speaker 4: It's a concern and it always has been, in fact,
Speaker 4: prior to the attacks to nine to eleven, that was
Speaker 4: our concern that surface air missiles were going to be
Speaker 4: used against commercial aviation because sadly it's getting easier needs
Speaker 4: and easier to acquire that kind of technology. And that
Speaker 4: was way back then. Certainly the case now and the
Speaker 4: aviation industry is you and I have talked about for
Speaker 4: such a long time, Brian is always a target for
Speaker 4: terrorists because the airline industry is an integral part of
Speaker 4: our nation's economy. And when you go or stop the
Speaker 4: movement of the passenger's cargo, me on all the things
Speaker 4: within the airline industry in the twenty six thousand flight
Speaker 4: today commercially or so that we have, it really can
Speaker 4: have an adverse impact on our economy. So that's one
Speaker 4: of the reasons because A gets a lot of press
Speaker 4: coverage and b it impacts our nation's economy. Why aviation
Speaker 4: has been and continua will be target, whether it be
Speaker 4: airports or aircraft.
Speaker 2: And with that recent advisory about the likelihood of a
Speaker 2: terror episode increase soon as is all frightening stuff, Jay
Speaker 2: right left, let's possible bring it back talking about things
Speaker 2: getting weird on a call with Delta Airlines plus the
Speaker 2: real id act and how that could be delayed more
Speaker 2: with Jay right.
Speaker 4: Left, be right back fifty five KRC President Sho.
Speaker 1: Keeps in the system, Jay rightlift.
Speaker 2: I heard be the AVASN expert pivoting over to Delta Airlines.
Speaker 2: What got weird in your word over Delta Airlines today?
Speaker 4: Well, there was a passenger, a man that had a
Speaker 4: problem with his itiner came up. He his wife and
Speaker 4: the small baby are traveling, so he calls Delta reservations
Speaker 4: and of course it takes a while to get through.
Speaker 4: Once the call went through, he noticed that the future
Speaker 4: of his travel plans was in the hands of his
Speaker 4: ex girlfriend. Whoops. Oh yes, now you can try to
Speaker 4: disguise your voice. But the problem is they've got all
Speaker 4: your information on the other side. Well, they pull up
Speaker 4: the reservation, so the guy really doesn't know how it's
Speaker 4: going to go. And then the woman on the other
Speaker 4: end says, so flying first class with the wife and baby,
Speaker 4: huh pretty nice? So, I mean apparently from that point
Speaker 4: it went downhill fast. So he was asked later if
Speaker 4: he gave the agent a five star rating on the survey.
Speaker 4: He said no, he did not, but Brian, what are
Speaker 4: the chants? And of course his wife sitting right next
Speaker 4: to him during this awkward call, wondering what the world's
Speaker 4: going on? But what's the odds of calling somewhere and
Speaker 4: your ex girlfriend, which apparently may not have ended on
Speaker 4: the best of terms, answers the phone, and she's the
Speaker 4: one that's gonna try to save the day for you. Jeez.
Speaker 2: I'm just busily going going over my past relationships and
Speaker 2: trying to remember whether I broke up with them or they.
Speaker 1: Broke up with me.
Speaker 4: So I'm thinking, Okay, guy's got a baby. How recent
Speaker 4: was this girlfriend?
Speaker 1: Well that's another good question, Jack.
Speaker 4: I don't want to think that way, but you.
Speaker 2: Know, it's twenty twenty four. No one would be surprised.
Speaker 2: No one would be surprised.
Speaker 4: Oh good, well they would be in some cases, and
Speaker 4: I'm glad they would be if it were your eye.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we don't know about this guy.
Speaker 2: That is true, all right? Well, the real id act.
Speaker 2: Remind my listeners what that is and why it may
Speaker 2: be delayed again and what that might what the implications
Speaker 2: behind that might be.
Speaker 1: Jay.
Speaker 4: The attacks of nine to eleven take place two thousand
Speaker 4: and five. Congress says we've got to have a way
Speaker 4: that TSA can better identify any fake IDs people are
Speaker 4: trying to use to travel. So we're going to have
Speaker 4: the states have a consistent, uniform looking driver's license that
Speaker 4: will be TSA approved, and everybody has until two thousand
Speaker 4: and eight to get it implemented all the states. Well,
Speaker 4: two thousand and eight approaches and guess what not, everybody's
Speaker 4: got their homework turned in. So I had to delay
Speaker 4: it three more years, and then they have to delay
Speaker 4: it five more years, and then we have the pandemic
Speaker 4: which caused them delay it three more years. And now
Speaker 4: May of twenty twenty five. This you have to have
Speaker 4: your homework turned in stage by the May of next year.
Speaker 4: But now the TSA is saying, I think we're going
Speaker 4: to need to push it back to twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 4: It's not everybody, Brian, it's what you act like. It
Speaker 4: has to do with aviation security or something. You sound alarmed.
Speaker 4: What's the big deal, right? I mean, it just it.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't understand why you can't say this
Speaker 4: is the deadline everybody. Now, if you didn't have it,
Speaker 4: if you still had an active asport, you could use that.
Speaker 4: There's fourteen I think different acceptable forms of identification on
Speaker 4: the TSA website, and if you fly somewhere and you
Speaker 4: lose your ID, don't panic. Get to the airport early.
Speaker 4: And there are ways that the TSA can verify that
Speaker 4: we are who we say we are. They even use
Speaker 4: social media. There's a lot of things that they'll use.
Speaker 4: You'll have to go through some extra screening, get ready
Speaker 4: for that enhanced pat down. But the point is there's
Speaker 4: ways to work. The TSA is easy to work with
Speaker 4: in a lot of ways as long as you give
Speaker 4: them advanced notice. But the problem with this real ID
Speaker 4: act is it's almost going to be twenty years after
Speaker 4: it was the deadline. But is that a government situation
Speaker 4: or what? It just it blows my mind because I'm
Speaker 4: thinking this is a security related issue and we're okay,
Speaker 4: well the twenty year delay over when it's just well
Speaker 4: nineteen excuse me, don't send me an email. I get
Speaker 4: my math. But the point is it's almost two decades.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that is mind blowing day. I mean, the
Speaker 2: idea inefficiency of government never ceases to amazing. But that
Speaker 2: and I guess the other component of it is, you know,
Speaker 2: if you're talking about the reliability of any given piece
Speaker 2: of identification technology has changed so much that manufacturing a
Speaker 2: genuine in all thing way shapes and forms, complete with
Speaker 2: hologram fake ID is possible, and it is currently being done.
Speaker 2: A lot of people get in touch with our partners
Speaker 2: over in China and have you know, young people who
Speaker 2: looking for a fake ID can have those made and
Speaker 2: sent home to your front door.
Speaker 4: And I'm told I've never seen them that they look identical.
Speaker 1: I've seen them they are look they look dead on jay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And here's the issue. You've got these TSA people
Speaker 4: that already are charged with so many different things, and
Speaker 4: you add that on top of the list. And you know,
Speaker 4: the airports are moving towards facial recognition. That's what they're
Speaker 4: hoping to use around the world. We're already testing it
Speaker 4: a lot of different markets. You'll see the facial recognition
Speaker 4: technology at airport ticket counters. It'll soon be at the checkpoints.
Speaker 4: And the thought is, you and I can walk up
Speaker 4: to a Delta counter. You know, our faces scan within
Speaker 4: three seconds they're starting the process checking our bags. We
Speaker 4: don't have to pull out our ID. We go to
Speaker 4: the TSA checkpoint. Instead of that, they facial recognition boom
Speaker 4: away you go and even at the gate, same sort
Speaker 4: of situation that allows us to then bord our airplane.
Speaker 4: The thought is to make it more seamless as we
Speaker 4: travel now, a lot of people that don't like government
Speaker 4: being too big, too intrusive, or saying uh uh, I
Speaker 4: don't want that, and they're saying, Okay, that's fine. You
Speaker 4: can opt out of all of that and get in
Speaker 4: a lane that is going to be dedicated for people
Speaker 4: that aren't comfortable with facial recognition. But facial recognition is
Speaker 4: already used all over the place. You ever gone to
Speaker 4: a World Series or an All Star Game or the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl? I guarantee you it's all over the place.
Speaker 4: With reguards to security. Ever been in a casino, there's
Speaker 4: so many things that are there that are already being implemented.
Speaker 4: Sometimes from a security standpoint, we may or may not
Speaker 4: be aware of it. Probably not so to me. I
Speaker 4: don't mind it at all, because if they can, they're
Speaker 4: also trying security where you walk down a corridor and
Speaker 4: you're screened by different machines as you walk through this hallway,
Speaker 4: and you only stop for screening if they've got a question.
Speaker 4: If not, you never break stride from the counter to
Speaker 4: the gate and a way you go. So they're trying
Speaker 4: all kinds of different avenues with advanced technology to try
Speaker 4: to make things easier and faster for us as we travel.
Speaker 4: I love it everything they can do to make it safer, faster,
Speaker 4: more convenient. For the most part, I'm all for. I
Speaker 4: don't mind full body imaging scans. We need them because
Speaker 4: that detects powder and liquid explosives, where the magnetometers only
Speaker 4: used to give us metal if it's scrapped to our bodies.
Speaker 4: So we're making the right kinds of advancements, obviously not
Speaker 4: as fast as I would like, but the facial recognition technology,
Speaker 4: I'm all for.
Speaker 2: It understood and real quick. Here on interested time, I
Speaker 2: have to ask you this, though all types of businesses
Speaker 2: may very well be impacted by the longshorm and strike
Speaker 2: on the East Coast and the Gulf Coast, is that
Speaker 2: going to have an impact on aviation issues at all currently?
Speaker 4: No, But when you're looking at some airlines are going
Speaker 4: to be looking at the possibility of a delay in
Speaker 4: part from a maintenance standpoint. That's the issue now. Right now,
Speaker 4: we're thankfully in the slowest travel time of the year
Speaker 4: in September but we're coming into the next month, the
Speaker 4: holiday travel season. That's Thanksgiving, always the busiest travel week
Speaker 4: of the year, and then of course we've got the
Speaker 4: end of the air traffic middle of December on. If
Speaker 4: this strike goes on for weeks, we could see some
Speaker 4: issues that start to impact flights next year, and we
Speaker 4: don't want that because if parts cannot be delivered, that
Speaker 4: means certain airplanes can't be used. Now, airlines might have
Speaker 4: a few extra aircraft they can substitute into the fleet
Speaker 4: in the aircraft rotation, but you can only do that
Speaker 4: from a flow control standpoint for so long, and then
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, you're gonna have to start canceling flights.
Speaker 4: That means fewer flights in the air, that means higher fares.
Speaker 4: We don't want that, which is one of the reasons
Speaker 4: that we need to get it resolved soon, the same
Speaker 4: reason we want the Boeing strike to be resolved soon.
Speaker 4: Boeing has like forty eight hundred back orders of planes
Speaker 4: and it's causing the airlines to get fewer aircraft, and
Speaker 4: they want more because they want to introduce more airplanes,
Speaker 4: more seats into their schedule, and look, more seats means
Speaker 4: cheaper fares. We want all this stuff to end quickly.
Speaker 4: And I'm sorry that Boeing striking workers. A thirty percent
Speaker 4: increase wasn't enough. They wanted forty percent. You know, when
Speaker 4: they went through this sixteen years ago, Brian Bowing was
Speaker 4: coming off their best year ever in profits, and the
Speaker 4: people that were striking wanted a piece of the pie.
Speaker 4: I get it. Boeing is not coming off their best
Speaker 4: year ever, and you and I both know that. So
Speaker 4: I'm really hoping they can settle this quickly and get
Speaker 4: back to firing on all cylinders. They've got so many
Speaker 4: issues they need to hammer out. The striker has got
Speaker 4: to finish, but if it doesn't, it could start impacting
Speaker 4: us on fares.
Speaker 1: All right, and we'll close out as we always do,
Speaker 1: a real quick hub delay.
Speaker 4: I want a good day of travel. We've got at Minneapolis.
Speaker 4: May give us minor delays. That's it. In honor of
Speaker 4: you today our phone call. Yeah, it's going to be
Speaker 4: a beautiful day to travel.
Speaker 2: A great, great way to end the segment, Jay Rile
Speaker 2: up until next Thursday. Best to health you and your
Speaker 2: better half God bless you, sir. Look forward to next Thursdays,
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