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Speaker 1: Get a little bit of late star but better late
Speaker 1: than never with I Media bas expert Jay Ratliff. Welcome back,
Speaker 1: my dear friend, Jay. It's always a pleasure to have
Speaker 1: you on the morning show.
Speaker 3: Pleasan good morning.
Speaker 1: Let's start out of order because I want to give
Speaker 1: a little more time to the first story about the
Speaker 1: passenger shaming. Let's just jump to one that made the
Speaker 1: stack as stupid this week Air India passengers stopping up
Speaker 1: the toilets on the airplane. What the hell, Brian, I've.
Speaker 3: Said this before, I'll say it again. You'll never hear
Speaker 3: me make that arrogant claim of well, I've seen it
Speaker 3: all because fails to recognize people can still come up
Speaker 3: with ways to surprise us. And this stems from a
Speaker 3: fourteen hour scheduled flight from Chicago to Delhi when eight
Speaker 3: of the twelve lavatories and yes, I said eight of
Speaker 3: the twelve stopped working because passengers had flushed clothing down
Speaker 3: the lavatories. Now, I remember a number of years ago
Speaker 3: with Gilbert and Narley, with our friend Gary Burbank, he
Speaker 3: called one of the airlines panic that he he was
Speaker 3: in trouble with the law because he flushed a foreign
Speaker 3: objects down the toilet. It was a chicklet made in Mexico,
Speaker 3: and he thought for sure he'd broken some sort of
Speaker 3: FAA rule because there is a sign in the lavatory
Speaker 3: saying no foreign objects in the lavatories. I guess we
Speaker 3: need to expand that. My attorney friends to clothing is
Speaker 3: not allowed down the I just well, you know, we
Speaker 3: went around the industry since October of eighty one. I've
Speaker 3: never heard of a story where the clothing caused the
Speaker 3: laboratory to stop working. Certainly not at eight of the
Speaker 3: twelve Okay, the.
Speaker 1: Flight and see now that was my point because I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you about that. This sounds like, you know,
Speaker 1: it was a concerted effort. It was an intentional thing
Speaker 1: to sabotage the toilets for some reason.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's sabotaged, Brian, or if it's
Speaker 3: a thing that I'm just oblivious to. But they were
Speaker 3: five hours into the fourteen hour flight and they turned
Speaker 3: around and came all the way back to Chicago. Because
Speaker 3: anytime we're on a flight where you don't have an
Speaker 3: appropriate number of lavatories that are operational, you're not to
Speaker 3: operate the flight. So at that point in time, it
Speaker 3: was it's quicker to go back and land than it
Speaker 3: is to go forward in land. And to think that
Speaker 3: it wasn't a mechanical situation with the laboratories, which happens
Speaker 3: from time to time, but it was the fact that
Speaker 3: people were flushing clothing down the last When the story
Speaker 3: hit my my desk, I thought, okay, this is you know,
Speaker 3: somebody's having fun with something, because this isn't a real thing.
Speaker 3: And I saw report after report after report after report,
Speaker 3: and yeah, because I'm always very guarded on anything you
Speaker 3: and I talk about, I want to make sure that
Speaker 3: I've got all the facts, and this one just blew
Speaker 3: me away. But yeah, eight of twelve lavatories on the
Speaker 3: Boeing Triple seven inoperative because of clothing that people had flushed.
Speaker 2: Down the lavage.
Speaker 1: Again, it made the stack as stupid earlier this week, Well,
Speaker 1: pause and bring day ratlif back talker. Is it actionable
Speaker 1: to passenger shame plus a lot more. I'll be right
Speaker 1: back after these brief words.
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Speaker 1: work Jay raight Low. So let's resume the conversation and
Speaker 1: this next topic goes back to an incident I think
Speaker 1: that happened in December. Remind my listeners about that, and
Speaker 1: we've got a new development on it, which is well
Speaker 1: a lawsuit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a twenty nine year old. She was flying
Speaker 3: low cost carrier South American carrier Gaull GOL. She boarded
Speaker 3: her flight Brian, she noticed that a child he was
Speaker 3: seated in her window seat. She asked the child, you
Speaker 3: know she could sit there, and he moved. Everything was
Speaker 3: nice and once the passenger sat down, the mom of
Speaker 3: the child approached her saying, hey, is it okay if
Speaker 3: my son sits in your seat? Now, apparently he had
Speaker 3: another seat, another window seat, but he preferred her seat,
Speaker 3: and this traveler polightly refused, saying no, I'm I'm just
Speaker 3: going to sit here. And that's when the moms started
Speaker 3: yelling at her and takes out her phone and starts
Speaker 3: recording her say she was a bad person. Well, this video,
Speaker 3: as most travel videos do, went viral more than two
Speaker 3: million views, and this woman was forced to quit her
Speaker 3: job as a banker. Lived in seclusion at her home
Speaker 3: as a result. And now she's seen the airline and
Speaker 3: the passenger who took the video saying they were trying
Speaker 3: to shame her when all she was trying to do
Speaker 3: was sit in the seat she had paid for. And
Speaker 3: we're seeing so many times I hear from somebody I
Speaker 3: know at least once a week that's on a flight
Speaker 3: where there's normally a family of a bunch that bored
Speaker 3: and they started asking a bunch of people to change
Speaker 3: their seats that they paid for to accommodate them so
Speaker 3: they can all sit together. Now, keep in mind, this
Speaker 3: family could have gotten the seats together, could have paid
Speaker 3: whatever they had for the family to sit together. But
Speaker 3: somehow we're the bad guys when we say no, thank
Speaker 3: you and bright some of these requests are so ridiculous.
Speaker 3: It's like, can I have your aisle seat in row
Speaker 3: eight so you can sit in my middle seat in
Speaker 3: row third?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that's a hard.
Speaker 3: But people are upset when you say no to that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just you know. And sadly, this is
Speaker 3: getting more and more prevalent as the behavior on board
Speaker 3: airplanes continues to spiral. In fact, a term you're going to.
Speaker 3: We've talked about gatelights, the people that try to board
Speaker 3: the flight earlier that they're supposed to. There's a new
Speaker 3: term out there that's called speakers come. These are people
Speaker 3: that are on board an airplane that fail to use
Speaker 3: their earbuds air buds where they have the recording the
Speaker 3: noise just to them, not to everybody else. Right now,
Speaker 3: we've got so many people on planes that, for whatever
Speaker 3: the reason, just play their their electronic device at high
Speaker 3: volumes where it's not only where they can hear it,
Speaker 3: but everybody was in seven rows and light intents are
Speaker 3: trying to tell the people to stop it. But we're
Speaker 3: seeing more and more of that kind of behavior. So
Speaker 3: it's getting to the point where it's just absolutely ridiculous
Speaker 3: to fly. And yeah, I mean speakers come. If you
Speaker 3: hear that, that's what they're talking about.
Speaker 1: I always learn a new term from you. I think
Speaker 1: this has become a common occurrence with you, Jay Ratlers.
Speaker 3: I'm not making these up. It's sad that we have
Speaker 3: behaviors so bad we have to assign names to it,
Speaker 3: but hey, that's what we do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and don't be that person. You know, if you
Speaker 1: were on an airplane, would you want someone playing their
Speaker 1: favorite music, which might you might find offensive or not
Speaker 1: within your liking, sitting next to you, and that is
Speaker 1: just the most inconsiderate thing. Jay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you and I can't comprehend it because I
Speaker 3: know how you were raised. I know, yes, there's no
Speaker 3: way on God's green earth we would do that. But
Speaker 3: the idea that not only do people feel comfortable doing it,
Speaker 3: they take exception when you ask them to please, could
Speaker 3: you turn that down? So you know only four rows
Speaker 3: can hear it instead of seven. It's just yeah, Now,
Speaker 3: there's been times where you have people on board the
Speaker 3: airplane decide to watch porn in the flight, oh my god,
Speaker 3: and say would you please turn that off? Because other
Speaker 3: passengers could find it offensive. So you just have this
Speaker 3: behavior that is just permeating from flights these days that
Speaker 3: you know, yes, the number of irate passengers is down
Speaker 3: compared to years before, but some of this behavior is
Speaker 3: just beyond my ability to comprehend because I don't think
Speaker 3: that way, and thank God I don't think that way
Speaker 3: because it just makes no sense to me.
Speaker 1: I am still reeling when you said someone had the
Speaker 1: audacity to watch porn on an air airplane.
Speaker 3: Lord, my irregular occurrence, Oh my god. And you I've
Speaker 3: talked about these flight attendants already not getting the respect
Speaker 3: that they deserve from the people who fly that are
Speaker 3: responsible for protecting incident, emergency and all the things they
Speaker 3: have to do. Just add that on top of it
Speaker 3: where they have to, you know, tell people to try
Speaker 3: to act in something that would be considered a civil
Speaker 3: fashion of some kind. I don't know, I just you know.
Speaker 3: That's why they continue to get my undying gratitude because
Speaker 3: of the crap they have to put up with people
Speaker 3: that fly every day.
Speaker 1: Amazing. Well, it's pause, we'll bring it back. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about Southwest with a new baggage policy and red reductions
Speaker 1: summer capacity for airlines just in time for the summer
Speaker 1: travels season. More with Jay Ratliffe after these brief words.
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Speaker 1: with I heard Mediadas expert j Rat left all right,
Speaker 1: moving over got a new in Southwest Airlines baggage policy.
Speaker 3: Yep, they're you know, bags fly free right well as
Speaker 3: of me I think twenty sixth or twenty eighth, that's
Speaker 3: not going to be the case. Southwest has announced that
Speaker 3: they're going to have to start charging for checked bags,
Speaker 3: and this is after fifty four years of bags fly free. Now,
Speaker 3: if you are a member of their frequent flyer program,
Speaker 3: I believe you're still going to get the two bags
Speaker 3: if you have the credit card for through Southwest, I
Speaker 3: think one bag, but everyone else is going to be
Speaker 3: paying for the further bags. And of course, you know,
Speaker 3: Southwest is seen for years lines their competitors making hundreds
Speaker 3: and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars a year
Speaker 3: in bag faith and they have constantly consistently said.
Speaker 2: No, we're not going to do that.
Speaker 3: Well, the Elliott management group, who came in to try
Speaker 3: to do it hostile takeover here a while back, has
Speaker 3: really forced Southwest into adopting things they had not done before,
Speaker 3: such as a signed seating which is supposed to begin
Speaker 3: sometime next year, premium seats where people can pay for
Speaker 3: more leg room, and now for bags that the passengers
Speaker 3: are going to have to pay for. And we don't
Speaker 3: know yet what the cost is going to be, but
Speaker 3: it is a it's a step that Southwest had to take,
Speaker 3: and pretty much my only surprise is that it took
Speaker 3: so long. I thought they would have done this years
Speaker 3: ago because Southwest used to make money falling out of BED.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was they would make money when everybody
Speaker 3: else was losing money decade after decade. But the problem
Speaker 3: is that right now they've changed their business practice. They
Speaker 3: used to be successful in flying in and out of smaller,
Speaker 3: not regional airports, but smaller airports where they could get
Speaker 3: in and out quickly, limited flight activity, very few, little congestion,
Speaker 3: and they could use that silver revenue tube for five
Speaker 3: segments a day. Well, then they decided, well, we're going
Speaker 3: to go to La Guardia, We're going to fly in
Speaker 3: out of it Atlanta, We're going to do this, this
Speaker 3: and this, and now they're dealing with airports that are
Speaker 3: known for some of their flying delays. And now that
Speaker 3: aircraft can't be used for five segments a day, it's
Speaker 3: three or four, and all of a sudden they start
Speaker 3: making much less in revenue. Well, obviously they're hurting, and
Speaker 3: this is a step that they're going to be taking
Speaker 3: to try to get it back, and of course passengers
Speaker 3: are either understanding or ticked because now they have to
Speaker 3: pay per bags. Well you had fifty four years, come on.
Speaker 3: And the other thing is I like that Amtrak had
Speaker 3: fun with this. They put out a tweet saying, I
Speaker 3: guess we're the only ones where bags go free, so
Speaker 3: come on. So I love it when a business has.
Speaker 1: Fun like that. Yeah, but the Amtrak train will most
Speaker 1: likely be delayed and those always yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is all true. But I'm still going to
Speaker 3: give them credit for having fun. Oh yeah, I'm glad
Speaker 3: Southwest is making the changes they need to make because
Speaker 3: they're a great airline. They have been struggling over a
Speaker 3: lot of different self inflicted issues over the last several years,
Speaker 3: and they're trying to turn things around, and I think
Speaker 3: that they're going to be able to do it. And look,
Speaker 3: this is an airline that the passengers are the employees
Speaker 3: rather At one time, they only had four airplanes in
Speaker 3: the early early days, and for them to make money,
Speaker 3: they had to turn that airplane in ten minutes, that's
Speaker 3: six hundred seconds, and they found a way to make
Speaker 3: it happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, a lot of times they were business travelers and
Speaker 3: a lot of things have changed since those early days.
Speaker 3: But the bottom line is, if anybody can pull this
Speaker 3: turnaround off, it's going to be the people at Southwest.
Speaker 1: Airlines all right, Well, just in time for summer traveling
Speaker 1: vacation season, airlines are reducing summer capacity.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In fact, Delta announced late last week that they are
Speaker 3: reducing their future guidance. They're slashing some of those expectations
Speaker 3: in half. So as a result, they're saying that the
Speaker 3: economy is starting to slow or the future demand for
Speaker 3: travel is slowing, so they, as a result, are going
Speaker 3: to reduce the number of flights during the busy and
Speaker 3: incredibly lucrative summer travel season. A Brian, This scares me
Speaker 3: because if we see Delta and now United and other
Speaker 3: carriers do that where they're reducing the number of seats
Speaker 3: during that busy summer travel season, it means that the
Speaker 3: fares for the remaining seats are going to.
Speaker 1: Go up, up, up, up, up up up.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping that most of the people listen to us
Speaker 3: that li every summer bought their tickets six seven months ago.
Speaker 3: But if you've not yet done it, I would suggest
Speaker 3: quickly doing so, because the fares are only going to
Speaker 3: go up, and you know, grab the trip cancelation insurance
Speaker 3: to protect yourself and make your reservations as quickly as
Speaker 3: you can, because as this trend continues, the fares are
Speaker 3: going to go up, go up, and it's going to
Speaker 3: be considerably more to fly this summer than it was
Speaker 3: last simply because we have a few receipts.
Speaker 1: Sound advice from Jay Ratliff as always, and finally, as
Speaker 1: we always do to part before we part company, Hub
Speaker 1: Delights for today Today.
Speaker 3: Los Angeles has given us issues, some big time issues there.
Speaker 3: If you're flying to and through there, Ryan, the real
Speaker 3: story is going to be later tonight over the next
Speaker 3: couple of days where we're going to storm through the
Speaker 3: central in the eastern part of the United States. If
Speaker 3: you're gonna be flying over the next forty eight hours,
Speaker 3: please make sure the airlines have a way to get
Speaker 3: a hold of you. That way, if your itinerary is impacted,
Speaker 3: they can get a hold of you long before you
Speaker 3: get to the airport. Maybe give you options where you
Speaker 3: can decide, you know, what you would like to have
Speaker 3: if something happens to your flight. But yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be problematic over probably through Sunday, so if you're scheduled
Speaker 3: to fly, just make sure the airlines can get a
Speaker 3: hold of you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jay Rattler for all the information and sound advice.
Speaker 1: I look forward to another segment of this top or
Speaker 1: another segment of our aviation discussion next Thursday, and between
Speaker 1: now and then, best of health you and your better half.
Speaker 3: Imagine the fun that will happen between now and then, brother,
Speaker 3: But I'll.
Speaker 1: Be right, no doubt about it. It's going to be
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