Speaker 1: Day first one to one forecast in an air quality
Speaker 1: alert until midnight. We have a Heat Advisor starts at
Speaker 1: noon and lasts until eight pm.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: Today is going to go up to ninety five, feeling
Speaker 1: like one hundred with the heat index isolated evening storms,
Speaker 1: muggy overnight seventy one for the low ninety eight with
Speaker 1: the heat index of one oh three tomorrow and a
Speaker 1: slight chance of showers and storms. Clouds of showers and
Speaker 1: storms possible over nineteen seventy two low and a mostly
Speaker 1: foty Saturday with likely showers eighty three. A bit of
Speaker 1: reprieve there from the intense heat at seventy five. Now
Speaker 1: time for chuck with traffic from the UC Health Tramphing Center.
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Speaker 3: Southbound seventy one continues to run over a twenty five
Speaker 3: minute delay from above Fields Eirdle until your pasts the
Speaker 3: lateral northbound fourth seventy one. You can add an extra
Speaker 3: ten into town. Northbound seventy five close into a fifteen
Speaker 3: minute delay out of Florin into the cut in southbound
Speaker 3: seventy five breaklights continue in and autam Ackman, Chuck King
Speaker 3: bram On fifty five KR and C meet talk station.
Speaker 1: Hey, thirty fifty five KERRCD talk station. And being Thursday,
Speaker 1: it's time for that meaning that discussion that all usually
Speaker 1: kind of funny and fun opportunity to close out a
Speaker 1: Thursday in a very positive note. Welcome back, my dear friend,
Speaker 1: Aurheart media aviation expert Jay Ratliff. Good to have you on.
Speaker 4: I'll try to keep it fun and light and happy
Speaker 4: and all those things.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk with start with one on on your list,
Speaker 1: and just to remind your buckle up when you're not
Speaker 1: when you're not going to the bathroom or otherwise have
Speaker 1: a reason to stand up on an airplane. See, there
Speaker 1: was a United Airlines flight they had to divert over
Speaker 1: to Memphis because turbulence caused some injuries on the flight
Speaker 1: from Cancun, Mexico to Chicago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they had one hundred and seventy two passengers on board,
Speaker 4: seven crew members can kun to Chicago. But when they
Speaker 4: encountered the severe turbulence and I'm told at the time
Speaker 4: the seat belt sign was illuminated. The turbulence was so
Speaker 4: severe that seven people had to be taken to the
Speaker 4: hospital once the plane landed an emergency landing in Houston,
Speaker 4: excuse me, in Memphis. But of course, you know, I'm
Speaker 4: sure most of those injuries were probably the flight attendants
Speaker 4: because there are always the last ones to be seated.
Speaker 4: They've got a lot of work to do as they
Speaker 4: kind of close out the cabin service or when they've
Speaker 4: got a you know, because if they're in the middle
Speaker 4: of something, serving drinks or what have you, and they've
Speaker 4: got the carts out and the captain says, hey, you know,
Speaker 4: we've got some turbulence coming or what have you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Or if not, you know, they're still trying to put
Speaker 4: things together and things go flying. So anytime you encounter
Speaker 4: severe turbulence, we can't really determine it in advance, and
Speaker 4: that's really unfortunate. But it's the reason you and I
Speaker 4: talk about all the time about keeping your seatbelt fastened
Speaker 4: about you when you fly, because that will protect you
Speaker 4: in that kind of situation. Turbulence isn't dangerous by itself.
Speaker 4: There are times when the turbulence can be so severe
Speaker 4: that the crew can temporarily lose control of the aircraft.
Speaker 2: But normally when you're at.
Speaker 4: Altitude, they'll regain that control quickly and it's just a
Speaker 4: matter of you know, clear air and then you're okay,
Speaker 4: and crew to crew will will report areas of turbulence
Speaker 4: to air traffic control so they can try to wrap
Speaker 4: people around those affected areas. But yeah, we just don't
Speaker 4: know about it, which is why it comes on sudden.
Speaker 4: It's unexpected, it's frightening. It freaks people out. Food goes flying,
Speaker 4: and people alight go flying if they don't have their
Speaker 4: seabelts a past.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's nothing like the end on a plane with
Speaker 1: a big turbaument for the plane just feels like it's
Speaker 1: dropped half a mile in a second. It's like, holy cow.
Speaker 4: Like the floor opened up and you fell through it.
Speaker 4: That's exactly it. Yep, with any luck, you've got a
Speaker 4: mouthful of.
Speaker 2: Food at the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it results usually in people folding their hands
Speaker 1: in prayer after the whole thing is over with, because
Speaker 1: Lord knows. Is it now? Is this something that is
Speaker 1: becoming a more common phenomenon? I would think air conditions
Speaker 1: or air conditions, and you know, they has always been
Speaker 1: turbulence there always will be, Is it just because it's
Speaker 1: more widely reported that it seems like it's happening more
Speaker 1: and more or more people just not bothering the buckle
Speaker 1: or seat belts, which results in injuries.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, if you listen to our friends on
Speaker 4: the other side, they'll tell us that the climate change
Speaker 4: is bringing about all of these issues of turbulence. However,
Speaker 4: when facts are introduced to the conversation, you can go
Speaker 4: back and look at several reports of some very serious
Speaker 4: turbulent issues going all the way back to the global cooling.
Speaker 2: Crisis of the seventies.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's I would say that there are
Speaker 4: parts of the of the planet that we do have
Speaker 4: it's some increased turbulent reports, but I think a lot
Speaker 4: of that has to do with more flights in the
Speaker 4: air now than we've ever had, and because when you
Speaker 4: have more flights, there's more opportunities. And I think that
Speaker 4: when you factor that end, that pretty much explains why
Speaker 4: we have the increase. But in all these reports of
Speaker 4: climate change as the culprit, they failed to realize when
Speaker 4: you do a comparison the number of flights in the
Speaker 4: air now versus what we've.
Speaker 1: Had in the past, what in a stude observation. The
Speaker 1: global population has gotten billion, has risen by billions. More
Speaker 1: people have access to and can afford airline travel. Contrast
Speaker 1: that with the way it used to be back in
Speaker 1: the sixties when it was sort of that jet set
Speaker 1: elite kind of thing where everybody wore a suit and
Speaker 1: tied again on a plane. It was expensive and the
Speaker 1: amenities were much better and the food was much better.
Speaker 1: So it's opened up a whole lot of people to
Speaker 1: travel and more people are doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But you know, when you look at it, eighty percent
Speaker 4: of the world's population, they tell us, has never flown.
Speaker 1: How about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean look at the numbers, and you look
Speaker 4: at all the you know, the third world countries, and
Speaker 4: a lot of people that you know, they live where
Speaker 4: they're at, they don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a substantial number of billions right there.
Speaker 4: That number is probably eight or nine years old, but
Speaker 4: they significantly higher number than a lot of people realize.
Speaker 1: A fair enough let's pausible. Bringing back to talk about
Speaker 1: United Airlines flight attendants on strike, we have furious passengers
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Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: We'll see a high of ninety five with a one
Speaker 1: hundred degree heat index. Isolated evening storms are possible. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get a few clouds over night, muggy in seventy
Speaker 1: one is what they're saying. Ninety eight with a heat
Speaker 1: index of one oh three tomorrow with a slight chance
Speaker 1: of showers and storms. Closely clouds over night seventy two
Speaker 1: love more showers and storms possible, and then they say
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Speaker 1: Right now, it's time for traffic.
Speaker 3: From the UCLF Traffic Center at the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute,
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Speaker 3: here in Cincinnati. Setbound seventy five is getting heavier out
Speaker 3: of Sharonville through the Lochland Split, close to a twenty
Speaker 3: minute delay. Sethbound seventy one getting better. It's closer to
Speaker 3: a ten minute delay now between Peiffer and the lateral
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Speaker 3: into town. Chuck Ingram on fifty five Kroc the talk station.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been in the cockpit before? Jay Rallivas,
Speaker 1: he's a heart media aviation expert going to the program
Speaker 1: every Thursday at eight third. We get a couple of
Speaker 1: segments with them at least, and that's what we're going
Speaker 1: to segment number two. I guess the United Airlines slight
Speaker 1: attendants have voted to go on strike.
Speaker 2: They have.
Speaker 4: In fact, it's been out twenty years or so since
Speaker 4: they've had to kind of go this route. But they're
Speaker 4: saying that they've been trying for a number of years
Speaker 4: to get a new contract, they've not seen any measurable progress.
Speaker 4: So the union representing the flight attendants took a vote
Speaker 4: to strike, and they came back with a ninety nine
Speaker 4: point nine percent whoa to do so if needed. So
Speaker 4: that shows the the unity that the union certainly wants
Speaker 4: to move forward with. And you know, we've seen a
Speaker 4: lot of flight attendant groups have taken this step voting
Speaker 4: to strike, but normally agreements are reached long before any
Speaker 4: strike takes place, and I suspect that's going to be
Speaker 4: the case here. So a worst case scenario thirty day
Speaker 4: cooling off period and then they could have the opportunity
Speaker 4: for a strike. Now I'm almost certain if they did,
Speaker 4: the Biden administration would step in immediately and say.
Speaker 2: Back to work. We're going to get this worked out.
Speaker 4: So on a worry meter of one to ten, I
Speaker 4: might be at a three and a half or four.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's going to be anything that if
Speaker 4: I had a future reservation on United that I would
Speaker 4: be worried about it.
Speaker 2: This before partaking time.
Speaker 1: He can make people work, isn't that, don't they call
Speaker 1: that slavery. I know when Ronald Reagan, when the air
Speaker 1: traffic controllers went on strike, Reagan just fired all of
Speaker 1: them and hired the military to do the job.
Speaker 4: Those are government employees. They said, if you strike, this
Speaker 4: is what I'm going to do. And at that point
Speaker 4: in time, they didn't know that Ronald Reagan was a
Speaker 4: man of his word and he would do exactly what
Speaker 4: he said he was going to do.
Speaker 2: And yeah, a whole bunch of them.
Speaker 4: Found out, Wow, this guy met was serious. But yeah,
Speaker 4: we've had I know it was Clinton that ordered the
Speaker 4: US Airways employees back to work when they went on strike,
Speaker 4: and they apported an emergency board and worked with him
Speaker 4: to get something hammered out. And as pro passenger as
Speaker 4: this administration is for all their problems, they certainly are
Speaker 4: trying to do a good job at that. I suspect
Speaker 4: they would do the same thing. But you know a
Speaker 4: lot of times this is simply just posturing. It's just
Speaker 4: part of the negotiations back and forth between union and management.
Speaker 4: And I suspect the United is going to step forward
Speaker 4: and take care of this because look, they know that
Speaker 4: some slight degree could affect future bookings.
Speaker 2: So they don't want that to be the case.
Speaker 4: So what they're going to do is as much as possible,
Speaker 4: especially now that this strike vote is out there and
Speaker 4: could impact you know, future reservations, They're probably going to
Speaker 4: move a little bit faster to try to get this
Speaker 4: wrapped up.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you sound positive on a positive resolution and
Speaker 1: that they will not go on strike. But I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to.
Speaker 2: Just like, do we get to the next United story.
Speaker 1: To give it a moment. But I had this scenario
Speaker 1: where the Biden administration, which purports to be a big,
Speaker 1: big believer in union and supporter of unions, and of
Speaker 1: course which necessarily means you would support a strike for
Speaker 1: workers merely trying to get a fair wage, that they
Speaker 1: wouldn't force the unions to go back to work. And
Speaker 1: if that scenario were to unfold, I mean, we're talking
Speaker 1: about millions and millions of dollars in losses for the airline,
Speaker 1: right that.
Speaker 4: Could be Yeah, depends on how long it goes and
Speaker 4: things of this nature. But we got to go way
Speaker 4: back since the last time we've had a real work stoppage,
Speaker 4: so to speak.
Speaker 2: But you know, one of the.
Speaker 4: Things that we're looking at as we move forward on
Speaker 4: a lot of this is the idea of the current
Speaker 4: climate right now.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot more stories that are.
Speaker 4: Ongoing about how flight attendants, some of them are homeless.
Speaker 4: You know that we've talked about the American airline employees
Speaker 4: that are based in Massachusetts that are paid twenty seven
Speaker 4: thousand dollars a year when they start, they qualify for
Speaker 4: food stamps. You have flight attendants sleeping in airports in
Speaker 4: between their ships from one day to an act simply
Speaker 4: because they can't afford certain things. It's it's just if
Speaker 4: these were pilots, it would be sixty minute pieces and
Speaker 4: it would be addressed immediately. But for the flight attendants,
Speaker 4: we seem to be okay with it, and it's really
Speaker 4: unfortunate that they're almost an afterthought given the fact that
Speaker 4: they carry such an important role on board an airplane.
Speaker 4: Because yes, the pilots are there to keep us safe,
Speaker 4: and believe me, their training is unbelievable. But when you
Speaker 4: recognize the training flight attendants go through, I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: normally every year they've got to go through the survival
Speaker 4: at sea kind of training where you are in a wavepool,
Speaker 4: pitch dark, you go through everything is though it's realistic,
Speaker 4: and I mean they've got to excel at that because
Speaker 4: they're there to protect us in the event something goes wrong,
Speaker 4: And those are not the people that you should be
Speaker 4: playing the game of Oh, how little can we pay
Speaker 4: them to do their job? Yes, I know that most
Speaker 4: flights go off without a hitch, but we pay them
Speaker 4: for the times when things don't go right and they've.
Speaker 2: Got to save us.
Speaker 1: Amen to that, and I always appreciate your supporting and
Speaker 1: pointing out to my listeners exactly how important those flight
Speaker 1: attendants are. Moving over problems with flight attendants, we go
Speaker 1: from the positive of the negative. What possible benefit can
Speaker 1: anyone think they're going to get by stirring the pot
Speaker 1: of political division by wearing pro Palestinian lapel pins or
Speaker 1: even pro Israel palette pins.
Speaker 2: Why would you do that?
Speaker 1: Why would an airline allow it?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, you and I talked about a month
Speaker 4: and a half ago about Delta Airlines that had an
Speaker 4: employee that was wearing a pro Palestinian pen, and Delta
Speaker 4: Airlines thought, Okay, that's going to rub some passengers the
Speaker 4: wrong way. So we're going to put a policy out
Speaker 4: that says if flight attendants want to wear lapel pen
Speaker 4: they can. The only thing they can wear is.
Speaker 2: The US flag.
Speaker 4: A lot of the Delta flight attends weren't happy with it,
Speaker 4: but they understood it was the uniform dress code and
Speaker 4: that was what they had to do.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 4: United Airlines, they had some of their flight attendants there
Speaker 4: are also wearing pro Palestinian lapel pins, and you have
Speaker 4: customers that are complaining. Unfortunately, United management doesn't care about
Speaker 4: what the passenger says. They said, it's far more important
Speaker 4: Jay's words. But it's far more important for their employees
Speaker 4: to have the freedom to properly express themselves than any
Speaker 4: concern over the passenger.
Speaker 2: So it just but the part of it that bothers
Speaker 2: me the most is, Okay.
Speaker 4: I get that you want to give your employees that
Speaker 4: power to express themselves politically if it need be on
Speaker 4: the job, which most businesses won't allow. But when we
Speaker 4: had the Black Lives Movement a couple of years ago,
Speaker 4: when it was at its peak, a lot of flight
Speaker 4: attendants were wearing BLM support pins, and you had other
Speaker 4: flight attendants that were wearing pro police pins. Those flight
Speaker 4: attendants were told to take those pins on because they
Speaker 4: could be considered insightful. So I guess the freedom to
Speaker 4: you know, express yourself only goes if you're in line
Speaker 4: with what United management thinks is appropriate, you know, if
Speaker 4: it's consistent, and they would allow it both ways, Brian,
Speaker 4: I would just say, okay, if that's what you want
Speaker 4: to do, that's fine. But when you choose and pick,
Speaker 4: pick and choose what you're going to allow and not allow,
Speaker 4: and you line it up with where your political standings.
Speaker 2: Are, way way way wrong.
Speaker 4: And I'm sorry. Employees have a dress code's there's things
Speaker 4: you and I have to abide by, and there's certain
Speaker 4: rules we know. If you're going to be here, this
Speaker 4: is what you got to have to do or not do.
Speaker 4: The idea that you know, men can wear dresses or
Speaker 4: the fingernail polish or whatever it might happen to be,
Speaker 4: and that's going to be okay. Or wear whatever support
Speaker 4: pen you want to wear, even though it may be
Speaker 4: offensive to passengers.
Speaker 2: United says that's okay.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, people can make their choices accordingly, and
Speaker 1: they probably will. You're gonna burn a few bridges doing it.
Speaker 1: And if it's a few, that's you too many as
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned, we keep coming back.
Speaker 4: Remember, we keep coming back, so they treat us like garbage,
Speaker 4: and we keep coming back, so I guess they figure, eh,
Speaker 4: you know this will blow over soon.
Speaker 1: Orenough fair enough. And finally hub delays where we always
Speaker 1: end our segment. How's it to travel today? Other than
Speaker 1: being hotter than the hell out there.
Speaker 4: It's definitely warm for sure. New York and Houston could
Speaker 4: see some minor weather delays thirty to forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Brian, The heat.
Speaker 4: Doesn't really impact us that much unless you're on a
Speaker 4: small regional jet, like when we used to have those
Speaker 4: fifty passenger airplanes. During really hot days, it affects the
Speaker 4: lift of an aircraft, which means you have you need
Speaker 4: more runway to take off, so we would have to
Speaker 4: leave a lot of passengers and bags behind when we
Speaker 4: had this kind of heat. Now, the bigger the aircraft,
Speaker 4: the less that's an issue. So you really don't have
Speaker 4: to worry too much about the heat, other than the
Speaker 4: poor people out on the ramp that are trying to
Speaker 4: work through it.
Speaker 1: H Imagine being a bag and chandler in this heat.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're cooking.
Speaker 1: I imagine they are anyway. Jay. Rather, it's always great
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