WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:05.320 Here is your channel on first warning weather forecasts. Scattered 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:09.359 showers storms included up until midday. They don't be mostly 3 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:11.640 Sunday with a high eighty overnight low sixty four is 4 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:15.359 from clouds eighty six with sunny skies tomorrow and overnight 5 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:18.480 low sixty eight with a few clouds seventy two degrees. 6 00:00:18.559 --> 00:00:22.039 Right now, it's time for a traffic update from the 7 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:23.480 UC down tramps in the center. 8 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:27.079 Right now, over one hundred thouyeh are waiting and hoping 9 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:30.320 for an organ transplant to save their life. Sign up 10 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:33.280 to be an organ donor or explore living donations and 11 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:36.640 u see health dot com slayers transplant. He spend two 12 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:40.479 seventy five Bruisan cleared the accident at Moustella left lanes 13 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:44.640 open again. Traffic looking for months much better from seven 14 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:47.920 to forty seven. Elsewhere highway traffic and pretty good shape 15 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:50.719 with no means time delays. It all shot ingram on 16 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:52.560 fifty five krs the talk. 17 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:58.600 Station eight thirty fifty five KRCD talk station. It being 18 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:01.159 Thursday is the time of week I certainly look forward to. 19 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:05.400 It's a discussion with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliffe. Welcome, back, 20 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:08.680 my friend. Love having you on the show. Good morning. 21 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:11.680 If I sound bummed, it's because the stock markets closed today, 22 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:13.239 so I'm kind of lost. 23 00:01:13.519 --> 00:01:17.000 June teenth and a happy Juneteenth. All those folks out 24 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:20.719 there that are celebrating the very important holiday can't discount 25 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:23.840 the importance of it. Flipping over aviation is I want 26 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:27.680 to start with the Air India plane crash. Obviously that 27 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:30.200 this story broke last week when we were talking, and 28 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:33.319 the timing couldn't have been better in light of the tragedy. 29 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:36.000 Of course, we had very little information at the time, 30 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:39.519 a lot of speculation, and I've seen swirling speculation since then. 31 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:43.879 Have we learned anything specifically about the cause, the nature 32 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:47.040 of the crash, or anything else along those lines, Jay Ratliff. 33 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:50.000 We have a little bit more of brand, not much. 34 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:52.879 The good news is both black boxes have been recorded. 35 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:57.480 The we've been recovered the cockpit voice recorder is was 36 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:59.879 the last one that they found. This was one that 37 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:03.959 if it's not been damaged by the fire, the heat, 38 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:07.680 the magnetic tapes that make up the black box, they're 39 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.479 going to be able to hear the pilot's conversations back 40 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:13.039 and forth. They're going to hear the alarms in the cockpit, 41 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:16.319 they're going to hear the discussions on trying to solve 42 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:19.080 the problem at hand. The first black box they found 43 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:21.039 was the flight data recorder. That's going to give them 44 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:24.719 all the instrument readings, all the headings when things were changed, 45 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:28.400 what was operational, what was malfunctioning. Those black boxes are 46 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:30.520 going to be critical given the fact that we don't 47 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:33.080 have sadly the flight crew to interview to talk to 48 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:36.080 that type of thing with everybody but one soul on 49 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:40.199 board perishing, so that's important. The other thing that they 50 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:44.039 were able to determine is apparently the RAM, the RAM 51 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:47.520 air turbine was deployed. This is a little propeller thing 52 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:50.800 that is designed on these aircraft that if there's a 53 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:55.199 power loss, it drops down in this propeller speed that 54 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:58.520 turns it almost the speed of sound, and it provides 55 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:02.280 some basic electrical power to the flight deck. So that 56 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:07.879 issue it is in essence, yeah, it was. It was 57 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:11.400 deployed and from some of the pictures, apparently it was down. 58 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:15.319 Now that's a critical piece of data because if we're 59 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:19.479 interpreting that right, that would mean that they were experiencing 60 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:22.400 some sort of a power issue and that would make 61 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:24.439 sense from the standpoint that you and I remember we're 62 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:26.919 talking about, why in the world was the landing gear down? Yeah, 63 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:30.719 because typically as the airplane takes off within fifty feet, 64 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:33.439 they rotate, they come off the ground the and the 65 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:37.199 gear is immediately retracted because then it becomes more of 66 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:41.439 an aerodynamic aircraft, easier to take off. All that, although 67 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:44.680 the fact if it was down doesn't mean that it 68 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.400 would cause the airplane to crash, But if there was 69 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:51.319 a hydraulic problem where they had engine power issues, you 70 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.840 would not have the power required to retract the gear, 71 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:58.120 So that might explain the fact that the crew was 72 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:01.719 fighting some sort of a lack of power issues. So 73 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:05.400 right now, that's kind of some of the leading thoughts, 74 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:08.800 And of course the investigation. Normally about a week to 75 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:13.120 ten days after the black boxes are received, the investigated 76 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:16.680 bodies will provide some sort of an initial update letting 77 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:19.480 us know if the black boxes had any information, are 78 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:21.800 they still going to be good to look at, And 79 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.480 then about thirty days after we get another update, and 80 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:27.639 then typically nothing until the final report eight to twelve 81 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:31.519 months out. So with seventy nine airlines around the world 82 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:35.160 using these Boeing Dreamliners a nearly twelve hundred of them 83 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:38.920 flying around. If there's any sort of a mechanical concern, 84 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:41.399 we need to find out what it is as quickly 85 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:44.519 as we can, because you know you've got that. But 86 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:46.759 you know, this isn't like a Boeing Max issue. This 87 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:49.439 is not a new airplane that just rolled out with 88 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:52.800 a lot of new upgrades and software packages. This is 89 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:56.399 an airplane that's been flown five million times, more than 90 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:59.720 a billion passengers over the last fourteen fifteen years with 91 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:04.600 no serious issues like this. So it's a completely different 92 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:07.839 than what we had before. But you know, obviously some 93 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:09.879 big concerns and we got to find out what happened. 94 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:13.240 Well, I have to ask, maybe it sounds like a 95 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:17.639 stupid question to you, but if there was an electrical problem, 96 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:23.639 and would that cause both engines to shut down completely? 97 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:27.199 I mean that interconnected, that a complete electrical outage would 98 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:28.639 prevent the engines from operating. 99 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.959 You're talking about two independently operating systems. That's kind of 100 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:35.800 what I was hoping failure. It's like a trillion to 101 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:41.240 one possibility. The only reason typically that you'd have a 102 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:43.879 dual engine failure would be if a you had a 103 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:47.680 bird ingestion, which apparently did not happen, even though some 104 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:50.920 people are still leaning to that like we did with 105 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:53.439 the miracle on the Huston. But you know, one of 106 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:55.879 the things you and I talked about last Thursday was 107 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:58.680 when I first saw that video of the aircraft, there 108 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:02.240 was no signs of aircraft to stress. There wasn't any 109 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:05.079 smoke coming out of the engines, no sparks, no flames, 110 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:08.680 the things you would typically see if there was an 111 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:12.279 ingestion of any kind that would cause the aircraft engine 112 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:15.439 to start to malfunction. The engines apparently had you know, 113 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:17.759 no smoke or anything like that. And the other thing 114 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:19.879 would be fuel contamination if you had water in the 115 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:23.920 fuel or something like that that has happened before, that 116 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:28.879 would cause the engines to not operate. But most of 117 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:30.639 the time you wouldn't be able to take off, you 118 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:31.279 wouldn't have the. 119 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:31.920 Power to do right. 120 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:35.800 So that's also kind of a well it's a theory, 121 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:38.519 but and really, right now, that's all we have is 122 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:41.319 a bunch of theories to try to explain this. Because 123 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:44.240 this is the worst disaster we've had in two decades, 124 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:48.240 and to have an airplane just fall out of the 125 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:52.480 sky like that is horrific and it's also something that 126 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:55.800 typically doesn't happen. And that's why the investigators are going 127 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:59.560 to be you know, the Indian officials are going to 128 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:03.079 be charge the National Transportation Safety Board and Boeing is 129 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:05.879 going to be there to assist, and those investigators are 130 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:07.639 going to try to do, like we say all the time, 131 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.279 honor the lives of those that were lost by finding 132 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.600 out what happened, and Brian, I'm confident they will and 133 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:16.120 we'll learn from it make aviation safer as a result. 134 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:20.199 But right now there's no clear cut indication of what 135 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:25.560 caused those engines to simply not provide the thrust that's 136 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:27.360 required to get that airplane off the ground. 137 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.519 Hopefully were revealed by the black boxes. Will continue with 138 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:32.639 Jay Rattleff after these brief words, if you can stick 139 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:37.480 around fifty five the talk station open. Aye is a 140 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:41.920 financial abomination. I heart media aviation expert. Yeah, Jay, I 141 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:44.319 was just thinking about you. Normally I get some email 142 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:46.920 from you after our conversation telling me how much money 143 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:49.480 you made during our conversation trade and stocks and your 144 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:52.519 stock method. Yeah, daytrade fund dot com, but not today. 145 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:55.240 I know. Let's get ready to start off with that. 146 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:57.439 It's like, wait a second, you already got that. 147 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:00.720 Same But I'm sure to say TGI I am because 148 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.360 you know our group, my students. I love Mondays because 149 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:06.000 you can't trade stocks on the weekend. But yeah, I 150 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:07.759 don't think TG I am is going to be a 151 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:09.959 phrase it's going to catch on to too easily. 152 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:13.120 You can sell them at daytrade fund dot com. 153 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.680 You gotta yeah, I mean, but nobody's gonna love Mondays 154 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:19.279 other than than those of us who use the market languages. 155 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:23.560 Amen, brother, real quick here. You may have said this already. 156 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:25.839 I know you said. The investigation of the Air India 157 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:28.639 plash crashes, it's going to be a year before they 158 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:31.759 reach final conclusions or something. How long do you think 159 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:34.240 it's going to be before the general public has an 160 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:38.320 understanding of what the black boxes suggest that the conversations 161 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:41.759 are reporting on, you know, various components or information that's 162 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:42.840 on those black boxes. 163 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:46.399 I'm thinking within the next week. I'm hoping before you 164 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:49.559 and I talk again next Thursday, there will be some 165 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:52.559 sort of of an announcement because they've had the black 166 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.399 boxes for several days and the first question is are 167 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:58.519 we going to be able to use these for answers, 168 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:00.639 and I think that's something that they're going to come 169 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:02.799 out with in the next few days and say, hey, 170 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:06.720 the good news is they're not damaged past the point 171 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:09.600 of us being able to retrieve the data that we need, 172 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:11.679 and that's certainly going to be good news. And of 173 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:13.799 course the next question is going to be what are 174 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:16.159 you finding out? And they may or may not give 175 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:22.519 an indication of what the investigation is beginning to uncover. 176 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:26.440 And that's the reason that the National Transfertation Safety for 177 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.399 I call them an all star team here in the 178 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.600 United States. They're so good at what they do, Briant 179 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:34.279 that they allow the evidence to dictate the course of 180 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:37.480 the investigation. None of the investigative teams is going to 181 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:40.159 go into this thinking, well, this is what we think happened, 182 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:43.840 and let's look for evidence to support that they've learned. 183 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.159 Because of how good they are, we're going to allow 184 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:49.399 the evidence to dictate what we look at and look 185 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:51.720 for the sequence of events that could have led to 186 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:55.000 this type of tragedy taking place. And you know, when 187 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:59.080 you have so much video that captures this horrific event, 188 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:02.240 it's a the mindset of so many people around the world, 189 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:05.039 and you know, we want answers and we want him now, 190 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:06.919 but that takes. 191 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:10.799 Time, certainly. Well again, hopefully we'll have something sooner rather 192 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:13.840 than later on that because we are all wildly curious 193 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:17.679 a coffee spill. I mean, it's like the McDonald's case. 194 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:20.120 Woman spills coffee on herself and ends up getting millions 195 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:23.440 of dollars. And we got an airline flight attendants spilling 196 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:26.399 coffee on a passenger and enter a lawsuit. 197 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:29.799 Yeah, this happened two years ago, and typically they have 198 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:30.440 two years to. 199 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:32.519 File the court the lawsuit. 200 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:36.120 And yep, this happened on I think with Scandinavian Airlines 201 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:40.000 or Sitting International Airline where the coffee was spilled, and 202 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:44.600 the woman is suing for ten million dollars for all 203 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:49.000 these things that have happened to her. And the ps 204 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:51.440 to this is the husband is suing for one million 205 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:55.399 dollars because he's lost the services of his wife. Now, Brian, 206 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:58.080 I almost stopped reading at that point because I didn't 207 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:01.279 want to know much more past at but yeah, he 208 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:06.080 is also doing for a million dollars for those reasons. 209 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:10.600 Yeah, well, I'm guessing it landed in her lap. 210 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:17.480 It did, and uh, she had she'd have some surgery 211 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.679 and some other things. And you know the thought was 212 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:22.240 that it was too and look, we all kind of chuckled, 213 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:26.120 not chuckle, chuckle, but you know when the McDonald's lawsuit 214 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:28.000 came out. But you know, we see where that went. 215 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:30.559 So you never know where this is gonna gonna go. 216 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:34.440 But I don't like drinking coffee on an airline because 217 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:39.759 the water lines on the aircraft are not cleaned. And 218 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:45.159 when you look at the making photos of these, yeah, bloods, 219 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:48.320 its just no. Bring it on to yourself, please leave, leave, 220 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:53.720 leave now. You don't see the flight of standing around 221 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:57.759 sipping on coffee or drinking the water for a reason. 222 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:00.600 And if you're not eating your bread, but you want 223 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.720 to google some of these images, you can. But I'm 224 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:06.399 I do not cherry, and I will bring our coffee 225 00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:10.519 on board because I will not. I'm sorry, I will 226 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:12.360 not well that. 227 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:16.519 You know valuable information. I do appreciate you passing along, 228 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:19.919 but Lord Almighty, that has just got me completely grossed out. 229 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:22.799 Give a zero for timing. I my apologies. 230 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:26.480 No, no, listen, man, I made a comment about hotel 231 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.120 rooms and how I'll never use a hotel room coffee maker, 232 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:32.200 because I've seen online videos about perverts and weirdos out 233 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:34.799 there and the kind of thing they do generally speaking 234 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:36.559 in hotel rooms. You know, you don't want to hear 235 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:41.000 about it. It grosses you out, but it's valuable information. Nonetheless, 236 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:42.039 pause will. 237 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:46.480 Bring you the criminal minds of you know, black lights. Yeah, 238 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:47.960 see all kinds of things you would want to say. 239 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:51.759 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll frick Jack Ratliff back for one more. 240 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:54.639 We promise not to go back down that road. Eight 241 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:57.039 forty five ify five cares at the talk station fifty 242 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:59.919 five KRC dot com more time the channel. I will 243 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:03.159 scattered storms up until midday that it'll be mostly sunny 244 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:05.240 in a high of eighty, few clouds in a low 245 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:07.799 sixty four overnight sunny and a high of eighty six 246 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:11.039 tomorrow overnight a few clouds in a low of sixty eight, 247 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:13.519 closing out at seventy three degrees. 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Jay Ratlift, 262 00:13:58.559 --> 00:13:59.440 who was going through. 263 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:04.200 An airport, was selected for secondary screening, so they pulled 264 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:06.399 him off to the side. He took his shoes off, 265 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.720 went through all of his luggage item by item by item, 266 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:13.240 and then did the enhanced pat down and then took 267 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:16.519 him to another room, did another pat down, and he's like, look, 268 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:20.200 I'm all for security, but this is ridiculous. He cooperated, 269 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:23.120 he went along with it fine, but he just didn't 270 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.279 understand why. You know, he was the one being he said, 271 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:30.360 singled out and it's a random thing. At the security checkpoint. 272 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:31.840 One of the things that they do to add an 273 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.600 extra layer of security is to introduce a random element 274 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:38.679 to the screening. Every so often a passengers pulled out 275 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:43.120 for that additional screening, and there's a purpose for it, 276 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:47.159 and when it happens to Terry Bradshaw becomes a viral moment. 277 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:51.159 Yeah. Well, and you know, as is so often the case, 278 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:55.639 Not that I'm racially profiling or anything, but you know, 279 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.159 the people that they randomly select quite often the other 280 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:02.159 like eighty nine year old women in wheelchairs and stuff 281 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:03.879 like that. It's like, are you serious You're gonna pull 282 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:06.200 something like that out and subjected to a body cavity search. 283 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:08.200 Does she look like a terrorist? Does she look like 284 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:10.159 someone who represents a danger to society? 285 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:13.799 I mean no, But but Brian, I will say this, 286 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:16.000 there's a lot of times the elderly are used to 287 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:17.240 smuggle things through. 288 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:19.639 By other people. 289 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:24.440 So many times we're not worried about them, We're worried 290 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:27.279 about you know, especially some that may maybe from a 291 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:28.080 memory standpoint. 292 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.279 Yeah, okay, I get that point. I'm glad you made it, 293 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:34.399 because you know, it's easy to you know, dupe the 294 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:36.519 senior population that tend to be far more trust thing. 295 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:39.440 And of course you could handle me like a kilo 296 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:41.720 of cocaine or stuff another purse or something like that 297 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:43.519 they might not even be aware that they've got it. 298 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:46.159 All right, all right, fair enough, exactly, all right. Now, 299 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:50.080 Skytracks apparently looking into the airlines the best in the world. 300 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:53.360 Who should we be flying with? According to Skytracks, Jay. 301 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:58.200 Well, let's see Cutter Caman's first, Singapore second, Tata Pacific third. 302 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:01.960 And if you're interested in a see where the you know, 303 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:05.919 the top US airline came in in the top twenty, Well, scroll, baby, scroll, 304 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:08.919 because you're not going to find it. Someone go one 305 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:13.080 to twenty. Nobody's there from the US. Is that a shocker? No, 306 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:16.840 Skytracks is one of They're called the oscars of the 307 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.720 rankings because they're the ones that they do. It's such 308 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:24.279 a comprehensive. They look at customer service, maintenance, the age 309 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:25.960 of fleet, there's so many things that. 310 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:30.559 They look at. The water lines, Jay, the plan that. 311 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:34.519 I wish they would delta came in twenty second and 312 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:39.960 the next US carrier was United at fifty first word, yeah, 313 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:45.519 we should be embarrassed. But airlines do not care about service, period. 314 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:49.200 They care about profits, and they treat us like crap, 315 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:51.600 and we keep coming back. And as I say all 316 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:55.679 the time, there is zero incentive for an airline to 317 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:58.519 change how they treat us because we keep coming back, 318 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:01.200 we keep building up the airplanes, they keep making a 319 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:03.919 billion dollars a year, whatever it happens to be. You 320 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:08.880 see Delta and American and I believe United, who have 321 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:12.319 changed their upgrade procedures. I'm getting so many emails from 322 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:15.119 people of Delta saying, Jay, I'm a freaking flyer. I 323 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:18.799 normally can upgrade from coach to first class. I'm now 324 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:22.319 boarding flights being told I can't be putting first and 325 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:26.519 there's five empty seats in first class because now Delta 326 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:28.799 and others are like, well, you either need to burn 327 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:32.759 miles or pay for that seat. They're ticking off their 328 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:36.880 frequent flyers and they do not care. And that's the 329 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:39.240 reason that when you take a lot of these customer 330 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:44.039 service rankings, that there's no US airline that ever ever 331 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:48.480 makes the top twenty from the world standpoint, which you know, 332 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:50.119 we should be in the top ten, we should be 333 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:52.079 dominating some of these things, and we never are. 334 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:54.799 I couldn't agree more but your service. But let me 335 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:57.559 ask you this. Your airlines in the business are making money. 336 00:17:57.599 --> 00:17:59.680 So are the top twenty on the list. They're in 337 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:01.960 the bus some making money. That's how they exist as 338 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:06.079 a transporting people via aircraft. So how is it that 339 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:10.119 their business model allows them to provide such wonderful By contrast, 340 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:14.559 customer service and a flight experience when we dealt or 341 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:15.200 cant here. 342 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:18.759 It's their focus. And when you have people that fly 343 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:23.000 international airlines many times for the first time, I get 344 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:26.599 emails from people around the country. Jay, Oh my gosh, 345 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:29.920 I'd sitting and coach and I had more room, the 346 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:32.279 food was good, that people are actually nice to me. 347 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:35.279 It was a totally different experience. It's like they've been 348 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:38.240 transported back forty years in time here in the United States. 349 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:39.319 Yeah, good time. 350 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:42.640 When you were you felt appreciated. But you know, these days, 351 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:45.880 it's not it's a cattle call, it's Black Friday. It's 352 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:49.319 they shove you on the airplane load factors. You know, 353 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:52.039 thirty years ago, forty fifty percent of the airplane was full. 354 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:54.759 Now that's eighty to ninety five percent of the plane's full. 355 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.319 You've got people trying to carry on more bags than ever, 356 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:00.319 and they swing them in the aisle to making out 357 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.160 two or three passengers at a time. And it's it's 358 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:05.920 so frustrating that some people say, Jay, I just don't 359 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:08.880 want to fly anymore because of the hassle. We'll take 360 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:10.279 extra time and we'll drive. 361 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:11.039 Yeah, that'll be. 362 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.960 Not as safe to drive. Then we'll share and I 363 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:16.799 do a lot more driving than flying. We're tired of it. 364 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:20.440 We instead of flying back and forth to Savannah, while 365 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:22.519 we also carry a lot of stuff back and forth 366 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:25.400 for some reason still, but you know, we load up 367 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:27.640 the truck and away we go. H And I don't 368 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:30.480 miss the flying because of the hassles that we have. 369 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:35.559 And you know airlines be at Delta United, whoever. The 370 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:38.359 focus on customer service has just never been there. And 371 00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:42.119 if it was, it was decades ago. And when I 372 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:44.039 look at them now talking about how you know they 373 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:46.240 want to provide the best service public, No, they don't. 374 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:49.920 It's a profit oriented business. I understand that. And they're 375 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:51.640 going to treat us anyway that they feel like. 376 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:55.000 Fair enough, as we always end. Let's talk about hub delay. 377 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:56.920 Is a good day to fly out there, Jay Ratliffe. 378 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:00.000 You know Chicago's going to have some weather issues this morning, 379 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.920 Atlanta this evening. Other than those two major hubs, which 380 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:07.000 represents I don't know, seventy percent of the traffic that's 381 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:10.000 going to be going through the airports today. It's going 382 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:11.839 to be a pretty good day to fly across the country. 383 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:13.799 But obviously if you're going to be going through either 384 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:16.200 of those two hubs, get to the airport early just 385 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:18.599 in case there are any problems with your high Tenori 386 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:21.440 gives them, the agents a chance to address any problems 387 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:23.319 and in stick them well in advance. 388 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:26.519 I always enjoy our discussions, Jay Rattlff. Look for next 389 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:29.640 Thursday with another round of the Aviation Report with our 390 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:33.759 iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay Ratliffe. 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