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Speaker 2: It's aake thirty one. It's Thursday. It's time.
Speaker 1: Always look for this particular time of the week and
Speaker 1: day because we get to talk to iHeart me the
Speaker 1: eighty AH extpert Jay or left Jay, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the program, our friends.
Speaker 2: Always a pleasure having you on.
Speaker 4: It is a pleasure to be here. And a belated
Speaker 4: happy birthday to Honor Flight. Yesterday was the twentieth anniversary.
Speaker 4: They've taken three hundred thousand veterans to Washington, d C.
Speaker 4: At no expense to see their memorials. It was started
Speaker 4: by a team here in Ohio.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now they've got Honor Flight one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 4: cities across the country and they are doing an incredible job.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had one yesterday that went up to d C.
Speaker 4: Took I think eighty eighty some veterans. Yeah, eight that
Speaker 4: was it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and most all of them Vietnam veterans. I think
Speaker 1: they are eighty of them that were Vietnam veterans. The
Speaker 1: rest from North Korea. And you know, God bless the
Speaker 1: folks that showed up at CVG last night. I was
Speaker 1: kind of bummed I didn't get a call in a
Speaker 1: sort of a recap of the welcome home celebration, which
Speaker 1: is always an emotional thing. It's such such a great,
Speaker 1: great opportunity to see some patriotism, which we don't get
Speaker 1: enough of it these.
Speaker 4: Days, and from kids, you know, and in older adults
Speaker 4: as well, and it's great to see the kids out there.
Speaker 4: And most of the time they have cards and notes
Speaker 4: and letters that were put together by kids, colors, coloring
Speaker 4: and different types of things that'll be putting the welcome
Speaker 4: home packs for these veterans. But yeah, just a phenomenal
Speaker 4: organization is Look, if anybody is interested, it's on or flight.
Speaker 4: Tristate dot org is the site to go to if
Speaker 4: you want to throw a couple bucks at them or
Speaker 4: just kind of follow the great work that they're doing
Speaker 4: because it's it's incredible and happy birthday to an incredible
Speaker 4: organization that turned twenty as of yesterday.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought it up. And if you want
Speaker 1: to be a guard I was actually had the blessing
Speaker 1: and benefit of being a guardian on two separate honor
Speaker 1: flights and just just an amazing opportunity. There's a wait
Speaker 1: list for that though, I'm always pleased to see, so
Speaker 1: get on it and wait around maybe a few years
Speaker 1: before you can be there as a guardian, but it
Speaker 1: is well worth the effort real quick. Here, we've been
Speaker 1: in we've been down this river before, and I know
Speaker 1: you don't mind a curveball or two thrown at you.
Speaker 5: But absolutely what thursday of that? A curveball?
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: But I saw the headline this morning and I got
Speaker 1: another chuckle out of it because you and I have
Speaker 1: talked about this before, and sadly it was a Navy technician.
Speaker 1: US Navy technician been charged with making a false bomb threat.
Speaker 1: I mean he made an outright false bomb threat on
Speaker 1: this flight that was getting ready to take off to
Speaker 1: Hawaii from San Diego.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, you know when you're joke king and you say, hey,
Speaker 4: the guy next to me, he's got a bomb.
Speaker 5: You know, flight attends don't go ha ha and go no.
Speaker 5: We've got a protocol that's followed.
Speaker 4: So what ends up taking place is, yeah, the airplane
Speaker 4: goes back to the It doesn't go back to the airport.
Speaker 4: We take it to a remote location in case there
Speaker 4: is a possible bomb threat. And they've got their protocol
Speaker 4: where passengers are removed, the rescreened, they're questioned, the airplane
Speaker 4: is searched, and it's just an absolute debacle when it
Speaker 4: comes to what happens to people on the on the
Speaker 4: airplane because somebody's joke.
Speaker 5: It's like when somebody wants to.
Speaker 4: Be funny by renaming their hot spot on their phone,
Speaker 4: like Jehad terrorist or something. So when somebody's on a
Speaker 4: plane and they're looking at some of the hot spots
Speaker 4: around them, they see that.
Speaker 5: It's like uh.
Speaker 4: And of course once they bring it up to the
Speaker 4: flight attendant, who notifies the captain, right, it's very clear
Speaker 4: what's going to happen at that point in time.
Speaker 5: And it's not like we have a choice.
Speaker 4: We have to follow that protocol and it will be
Speaker 4: done every single time. And that's why when I had
Speaker 4: people that would fly it and they would show up
Speaker 4: in a group and they'd be like, hey, you know,
Speaker 4: when you screen my bag and see these bombs, don't worry.
Speaker 5: It's like, what okay, time out. Now, you and your
Speaker 5: entire group stand off to.
Speaker 4: The side until the police get here and they're like, well,
Speaker 4: what did I do?
Speaker 5: It's like, well, you're an idiot.
Speaker 2: I mean, because.
Speaker 5: You just don't do stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Well, Brian, I understand a lot of people that are
Speaker 4: nervous to fly the way they try to to, you know,
Speaker 4: compensate is just humor. They want something funny to take
Speaker 4: their mind off of how scared they are. But there's
Speaker 4: different ways.
Speaker 5: To do it.
Speaker 1: Nothing funny about that. But then the reaction, and you
Speaker 1: know this is required, That required the Police Maritime Tactical
Speaker 1: Team K nineteen, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, along with
Speaker 1: the San Diego Fire Department, and multiple federal agencies showing
Speaker 1: up of the scene to sert the aircraft. Think of
Speaker 1: them being taken away from their valuable law enforcement obligations
Speaker 1: and going after something that doesn't exist. I mean, the
Speaker 1: chaos that you create by doing this. It just really
Speaker 1: angers me, especially that a US Navy technician would be
Speaker 1: the one of the idiot who should know better that
Speaker 1: it would cause all this.
Speaker 4: And you're pulling those resources from other places that can
Speaker 4: be and now they can't immediately respond for a real threat.
Speaker 4: So you're putting other lives potentially at risk as well
Speaker 4: by something that you're just exactly it's stupid. It's absolutely stupid,
Speaker 4: and it happens far too often.
Speaker 1: Don't be that per eight thirty six will continue with
Speaker 1: Jay Ratliff straphangers on airplanes. That's one of the subjects
Speaker 1: we're talking about coming up next. Stick around you right back.
Speaker 5: Keep your stupid mouth shut.
Speaker 2: Fifty five KRC.
Speaker 1: Jay Ratliff has He's our heart, media aviation expert and
Speaker 1: a pilot. Jay forty right now, if you've got a
Speaker 1: tiercecy talk station, I can't believe this story. You've got
Speaker 1: here standing airline seats. I suppose if you're standing, they're
Speaker 1: not really a seat. But this is like the concept
Speaker 1: of a straphanger on a subway.
Speaker 2: Jay. People are gonna like his no kidding, I don't
Speaker 2: like the sound of it.
Speaker 5: Well, it actually came out in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 4: It was at a some sort of conference in Hamburg, Germany,
Speaker 4: where this skyrider seat was unveiled. It was considered a
Speaker 4: lightweight alternative to the typical airline seat by having it
Speaker 4: elevated slightly to a nearly standing position for people that
Speaker 4: were flying now. To me, when I first saw it,
Speaker 4: I thought, okay, this is a joke. But the seat
Speaker 4: look cramped, They looked uncomfortable, and I really questioned how
Speaker 4: fast you could exit an airplane if you had everybody
Speaker 4: in one of these things. But you know, apparently these
Speaker 4: seats have gained approval in Europe and a few low
Speaker 4: cost carriers are going to be using them by next year.
Speaker 4: Now airlines love them because the seats are lighter, so
Speaker 4: less fuel and surprise, they can crab more seats onto
Speaker 4: those airplanes, more people, more revenue. Who cares if you're comfortable.
Speaker 4: Apparently it's going to be targeted for flights two hours
Speaker 4: and less. And I'm telling you, anybody, a person of
Speaker 4: any kind of size, Brant, I don't see how. And
Speaker 4: the other thing is, I've got to see the aircraft,
Speaker 4: see the schematics as far as the seating configuration.
Speaker 5: But you know, now, if somebody.
Speaker 4: In the window seat needs to use the laboratory, you know,
Speaker 4: you're just moving knees in.
Speaker 5: They kind of screwed out. That's not happening here.
Speaker 4: Everybody's going to the aisle if the person on the
Speaker 4: on the window seat has to get out and use
Speaker 4: the laboratory.
Speaker 1: So it's that much that it's that narrow between the
Speaker 1: standing sea and appears Okay, look.
Speaker 5: I've well said.
Speaker 4: All I've done is I've looked at maybe twenty or
Speaker 4: thirty different variations of how these could be used in
Speaker 4: an airplane, and you know, and in a lot of
Speaker 4: places around the world comforts up secondary. I mean, we're
Speaker 4: spoiled as Americans because we know what we like and
Speaker 4: we've got our personal space, which you know, you go
Speaker 4: to a Disney in Tokyo or something, you're not going
Speaker 4: to enjoy your personal space because it's just that's how
Speaker 4: it is. You got to some third world countries and
Speaker 4: I mean people just cram it and they don't think
Speaker 4: anything rude of it.
Speaker 5: It's just that that culture.
Speaker 4: So the idea of being crammed into an airplane like
Speaker 4: this is something that for a lot of people. You know,
Speaker 4: this is how we travel in some other ways. It's
Speaker 4: not a big deal for us here in the States.
Speaker 4: We look at it like, oh, there's absolutely no way.
Speaker 4: But I tell you what if airlines can find a
Speaker 4: way to put more people onto those silver revenue, I
Speaker 4: mean and I both know they're going to do it, Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 4: And they're going to be forced to you because they're
Speaker 4: going to say.
Speaker 5: The cause of fuels going up, and we have to
Speaker 5: do this. It's not our fault.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, right, Well I'm flying blind on how they look.
Speaker 1: Are you actually supporting your own weight on your legs?
Speaker 1: Because I'm thinking about folks, maybe if a knee pain
Speaker 1: or folks that aren't capable of standing for two hours?
Speaker 2: Does it take any weight off of you?
Speaker 5: It does? It? Does it?
Speaker 4: It kind of looks like, you know, one of the
Speaker 4: things I first saw was the King Cobra. I thought,
Speaker 4: you know, when that stand up roller coaster where you
Speaker 4: had kind of the thing that came.
Speaker 5: Between the legs where you get rest a little bit.
Speaker 4: This is a kind of a slight variation of that,
Speaker 4: but a little bit more where both your feet could.
Speaker 5: Be off the floor if you want it.
Speaker 4: Okay, But Brian, they're just I mean, they're just really
Speaker 4: crammed in there and the sky if you want to
Speaker 4: google the image, it's a skyrider seat and it's a
Speaker 4: sky rider too, I believe it is. And they are
Speaker 4: there's nothing that screams comfort on this all. And you know,
Speaker 4: they've got to be safe because they have to meet
Speaker 4: aviation protocol for regards to you know, withstanding crashes and
Speaker 4: those kinds of things where they meet a certain tolerance
Speaker 4: as far as strength, So they're not just throwing a
Speaker 4: bunch of lawnchairs in there and saying good luck. But
Speaker 4: it's just, you know, it's it's something totally different from
Speaker 4: what we've seen here in the United States. And when
Speaker 4: you go back to the days when you know, the fifties,
Speaker 4: sixty seventies, when you had plenty of run between rows,
Speaker 4: you people thanked you, you.
Speaker 5: Know, all these kinds of things. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: That's one thing, But these things are I mean, sardines
Speaker 4: having better than I think.
Speaker 5: It's bad.
Speaker 1: Bryan, let's puzzle bring Jaba back for one more. Apparently
Speaker 1: the contagion is spreading now. The Austin Airport's having some
Speaker 1: delay issues. Plus we'll hear about hub delays one more
Speaker 1: with Ihart Media aviation expert Jay rat If it's eight
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Speaker 1: Forty nine if you have KERCD talk station, Happy Friday
Speaker 1: Eve for you. Back to Jay Ratliffe breaking news. You
Speaker 1: heard it here first yesterday from Congressman Warren Davidson's mouth.
Speaker 1: He was going to be a no unless there were
Speaker 1: sizeable cuts in the spending bill, the Big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 1: He and Congressman Massey were the only two no votes.
Speaker 1: So to Steve out there who claimed that Warren Davidson
Speaker 1: was ultimately going to vote yes. Sorry, Steve, you called
Speaker 1: that one wrong, and that confirms what Congressman david said
Speaker 1: he was going to Davidson said he was going to
Speaker 1: do so. Spends too much, increases the debt too much,
Speaker 1: pivoting over the contagion has spread Austin Airport. We had
Speaker 1: problems with an insufficient number of air traffic controllers in Newark.
Speaker 1: We Als said, the system manages. I guess it's gone
Speaker 1: to Austin as well.
Speaker 5: It has.
Speaker 4: In fact, it was a yesterday the Federal ABA's administration
Speaker 4: initiated a ground delay and it kind of hit us
Speaker 4: on and off from noon until about seven thirty yesterday,
Speaker 4: where they had more than one hundred and sixty flights
Speaker 4: that were impacted, and it caused a significant issue because
Speaker 4: of the fact that the air traffic controllers they simply
Speaker 4: didn't have enough. So from a staffing st standpoint, they
Speaker 4: just reduced the flight activity. And Brian, we're going to
Speaker 4: be seeing this across the country because a lot of
Speaker 4: these men and women that are exhausted working over time,
Speaker 4: some that are taking a mental leave of absence for
Speaker 4: forty five days. It's just getting tougher and tougher for
Speaker 4: them to do their job. And when you factor in
Speaker 4: the idea that this antiquated technology is failing them. A
Speaker 4: lot of these individuals simply just don't want to stay
Speaker 4: on the job, and from a retention standpoint, we're really
Speaker 4: suffering here. And that's one of the reasons that I'm
Speaker 4: further excited about President Trump trying to make sure that
Speaker 4: they do everything that they can to upgrade this technology,
Speaker 4: because I'm telling you, weave these men and women some
Speaker 4: fun tools to play with, you know, while they're on
Speaker 4: the job, they're going to it's gonna make it easier
Speaker 4: for them to do their work, and I think that
Speaker 4: the job satisfaction everything else will be a lot higher.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 4: But yeah, Austin was the latest we've had Austin, We've
Speaker 4: had Denver, We've seen it in as well as in Newark, obviously,
Speaker 4: and that's going to be an ongoing discussion for a
Speaker 4: number of years.
Speaker 5: But we've until.
Speaker 4: We address the issue of air traffic controller shortage, and
Speaker 4: we've talked about it's gonna be years before we can
Speaker 4: do that. Uh, this is going to be something that
Speaker 4: we're going to be dealing with as we continue to
Speaker 4: fly well.
Speaker 1: And something that's taking a number of years off. You
Speaker 1: and I've been talking about this and it's been all
Speaker 1: in all over the news, going back to Newark and
Speaker 1: the failing U systems. I Sell, the CEOs of ten
Speaker 1: Airlines wrote an open letter to members of Congress asking
Speaker 1: them to take bold action to deal with the air
Speaker 1: traffic control system and they point out in the letter
Speaker 1: U air Control air control offers should not be operating
Speaker 1: with corroded copper wiring, floppy disks, and physical strips of
Speaker 1: paper with flight numbers.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, that's the problem, Jay.
Speaker 5: I mean, here we are.
Speaker 4: I mean, we can find a drug dealer on the
Speaker 4: corner of the fifth and Maine using their cell phone.
Speaker 4: But we've got to subject our air traffic controllers of
Speaker 4: this kind of an issue. And it's you know, when
Speaker 4: when Seann Duffy said some of their parts you have
Speaker 4: to go to eBay to find Yeah, people thought it
Speaker 4: was a joke, and no it's not. That's what they
Speaker 4: have to do to find some parts to keep these
Speaker 4: types of this type of equipment moving. And it's really unfortunate,
Speaker 4: but it's the truth. And sadly it's something that you know,
Speaker 4: could you imagine waking up every day knowing you're going
Speaker 4: to go to work with people's lives at stake under
Speaker 4: your control, and you're given these kinds of tools that
Speaker 4: work some of the time but not all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and that are so outdated that they were created before
Speaker 4: you were even born.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: And the other component of this, I thought, with the
Speaker 1: timing was kind of questionable because as you've mentioned, as
Speaker 1: it's been widely reported, this has been a problem for decades.
Speaker 1: They're using nineteen eighties technology. Nobody's ever any administration has
Speaker 1: stepped up to the plate to resolve the problems. Finally
Speaker 1: now being addressed. But after Donald Trump and the administration
Speaker 1: says we're going to tackle the problem, We're going to
Speaker 1: get upgrade to the systems, the CEOs now come out
Speaker 1: and send a letter to Congress saying they need to
Speaker 1: take bold action. I mean, you know, hey, wake up, guys,
Speaker 1: where are you in.
Speaker 4: Well, they've been asking for it, bro Oh okay, but
Speaker 4: it's been falling on deaf ears because no one really
Speaker 4: cared because it worked, and you know it's but look,
Speaker 4: airlines are just as guilty. Southwest Airlines had a Christmas
Speaker 4: melt down a couple of years ago when their computer
Speaker 4: crashed for their crew scheduling that was developed in the
Speaker 4: nineteen nineties technology that they're still using when an airline
Speaker 4: was a third of the size as it was right now.
Speaker 4: So airlines are also guilty of not upgrading their own
Speaker 4: personal stuff as well as they should. But you know,
Speaker 4: we're talking about something that's twenty years outdated versus something
Speaker 4: that's forty to fifty sixty seventy years outdated. So it's
Speaker 4: just ridiculous. It's just beyond that, and the fact that
Speaker 4: we've been able to enjoy the safest air ever of
Speaker 4: commercial jet travel as a testament to just how hard
Speaker 4: working a lot of these people are to keep making
Speaker 4: that stuff work well.
Speaker 1: As we part company, we always went on hub delays.
Speaker 1: So how's it looking out there for air travel this
Speaker 1: way today?
Speaker 4: For all of us hoping we never have a standing
Speaker 4: seat to have, it looks like, Yeah, the Northeast, Brian's
Speaker 4: going to be a mess. We've been talking about Newark,
Speaker 4: the biggest storm system in the country. Whereas it that
Speaker 4: smacdab right over in Newark, Newark, Boston, d C, Philadelphia. Basically,
Speaker 4: if you're headed towards the northeast, make sure the airlines
Speaker 4: have a way to get a hold of you. Show
Speaker 4: up at the airport early because it's going to be
Speaker 4: a slogo if you're headed in that direction.
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure having none of my program there, Jay.
Speaker 1: I'll look forward to next Thursday another edition of the segment,
Speaker 1: and between now and then, best of health to both you.
Speaker 2: And your better have Thank you much, Take care brother.
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