Speaker 1: Happy to report. Channel nine is saying rain will be
Speaker 1: entering the area. Will it impact flights. We're going to
Speaker 1: find out that next but in the meantime, here's your forecast.
Speaker 1: Thouty with isolated showers in highest seventy five today, over
Speaker 1: night do own of sixty seven with widespread rain. We've
Speaker 1: got a few storms along with soaking rain. Tomorrow a
Speaker 1: high seventy three overnight isolated showers and sixty three. Finally
Speaker 1: for Saturday, chance the shower shows up after eight in
Speaker 1: the morning, it'll go up to seventy six at sixty
Speaker 1: six degrees right now in time for traffic.
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Speaker 2: accident Westboud two seventy five and seventy one, but they're
Speaker 2: over on the shoulder, so no delay to get by
Speaker 2: southbound seventy one. Delayed times have dropped under the fifteen
Speaker 2: minute mark between two seventy five and the lateral southbound
Speaker 2: seventy five continues slowed through Lockmack suck Ingram on fifty
Speaker 2: five krs The Talks Station.
Speaker 1: Hey, thirty one fifty five KRC de Talk Station, ain't
Speaker 1: very happy Friday. You made extra special because he's back.
Speaker 1: I heard media aviation expert Jay Ratliffe, Jay, welcome back,
Speaker 1: my friend. Condolences on your loss. I hope you're struggling
Speaker 1: through okay with the loss of your father. It's why
Speaker 1: you weren't on last week. I missed talking with you,
Speaker 1: but I certainly understood the reason for the absence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, it was it was quick. As you
Speaker 3: know I've shared with you, he's it was going through
Speaker 3: dementia and he had for several years. And you know,
Speaker 3: three weeks ago he's up walking around mobile, he's talking
Speaker 3: conversational memory issues obviously, and then the last three weeks
Speaker 3: things just progressed to the point that rapidly, next thing
Speaker 3: you know, he's he's gone. And it happened last Tuesday
Speaker 3: morning at five point fifty five. But my sister, my mom,
Speaker 3: and I were all there, and you know, for me
Speaker 3: it was the first time i'd lost a parent and
Speaker 3: it uncharted waters. But you know, as I've told you,
Speaker 3: my dad taught me three main things love a family,
Speaker 3: love of country, and love of baseball. I mean, those
Speaker 3: are the three things with him that I'll always take
Speaker 3: with me. But so many memories and I'll never say
Speaker 3: why did it happen? Because look, I had him for
Speaker 3: sixty one years. Yes, he and mom have been married
Speaker 3: for sixty two and yeah, so the family's gone through
Speaker 3: some adjustments, but a lot of prayers and we can
Speaker 3: feel them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad because I obviously let my
Speaker 1: listening audience know so they could include you and their prayers.
Speaker 3: And I appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1: Happy to do it, my friend. I know what it's
Speaker 1: like to lose a father and under the same or
Speaker 1: comparable circumstances. Just that my dad decay and decline went
Speaker 1: over a period of much longer time in terms of
Speaker 1: his deterioration. So anyway, moving over, and.
Speaker 3: You were there for me, and believe me, I'll forever
Speaker 3: be appreciate it of that. Brother.
Speaker 1: Hey, friends, man, friends, what it's all about?
Speaker 3: All right? You dared me, you tried.
Speaker 2: Can you try me?
Speaker 3: If you need something, it's done, you go.
Speaker 1: That's a two way street, my friend. Absolutely, I always
Speaker 1: I tend to throw you a curveball, and on the
Speaker 1: heels of that discussion, let me let me before we
Speaker 1: get into your list of topics which are maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit headier. Researchers at the University of Cambridge, Professor
Speaker 1: Rob Miller, Cambridge's Whittle Laboratory released a suggestion and for
Speaker 1: the purposes of dealing with climate change, in an effort
Speaker 1: to get the aviation industry to get the net zero
Speaker 1: carbon emissions by twenty fifty, slow the planes down. He suggested,
Speaker 1: if you slow the flight speeds down by fifteen percent,
Speaker 1: which would add almost a full hour to every single flight,
Speaker 1: you would save fuel. You would slash fuel burned by
Speaker 1: five to seven percent. I don't think that's a good
Speaker 1: return on investment. I just want to get your reaction
Speaker 1: to slower.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a lot like if I drove slower to
Speaker 3: Savannah than I do. We could say fuel yeah, but
Speaker 3: I'm flying. So you know if obviously if you throttle
Speaker 3: back a bit, you you can save a little bit
Speaker 3: of money there. But you know, you look at I
Speaker 3: think the airline industry, by most estimates, contributes like four
Speaker 3: percent something along those lines of you know, of carbon
Speaker 3: emissions so but the thing is that their target and
Speaker 3: as as such, they're always there. People are always coming
Speaker 3: up with these crazy things. And you know, the Amsterdam
Speaker 3: Airport was talking about reducing the number of flights this
Speaker 3: year to combat the climate change, and you had airlines
Speaker 3: being told that you're going to have to monitor start
Speaker 3: monitoring your contrails so that you can we can help
Speaker 3: determine what's going on and and and there's no science
Speaker 3: behind that. So how the world are you supposed to
Speaker 3: monitor and report? I mean, it's just lunacy. And you
Speaker 3: have all of these individuals and I'm assuming well meaning,
Speaker 3: although I think some it's it's money motivated that are
Speaker 3: coming out with all of us garbage that it just
Speaker 3: you know, look, I love the idea that we have
Speaker 3: sustainable aviation fuel. If we can take you know, vegetable
Speaker 3: oil and other kinds things that we can reproduce easily
Speaker 3: and replace aviation fuel with what's being used on that's great.
Speaker 3: The problem is you can't produce it cheaply enough for
Speaker 3: it to be economically a benefit to the airline industry.
Speaker 3: So the industry is not going to go that route
Speaker 3: unless they're shoved in that direction by the governments of
Speaker 3: the world. And if they do, I guarantee you the
Speaker 3: obvious thing that's going to happen is it's going to
Speaker 3: cost more for fuel. And you know, ticket prices are
Speaker 3: going up thirty, forty fifty percent, and you know, some
Speaker 3: people say, well, that would be worth it to save
Speaker 3: the planet. I'm like, well, if we have some proven
Speaker 3: data that we actually can you know, rely on, I'm
Speaker 3: okay there, But I'm still the guy that remembers global
Speaker 3: cooling in the nineteen seventies and acid rain and all
Speaker 3: these other things that decade after decade after decade made
Speaker 3: me think I'm never going to make it to forty
Speaker 3: years of age. And now now that's exactly what a
Speaker 3: lot of these kids have. And but in their case,
Speaker 3: they have social media that can reinforce the panic. And
Speaker 3: I think that that's really creating some damage among our
Speaker 3: young people that have absolutely no confidence at all that
Speaker 3: they're going to be here at forty and fifty years
Speaker 3: of age because people are telling them the planet's about to,
Speaker 3: you know, cease to exist exactly.
Speaker 1: And don't forget the other evil, nefarious component that not
Speaker 1: only is it on social media, it's being taught in
Speaker 1: the schools. As for the curriculum now, so they are.
Speaker 3: The early age from an early age.
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Speaker 1: According to Channel nine, rain come on our way. We've
Speaker 1: got isolated showers at a seventy five overnight showers arrived
Speaker 1: with widespread rain. Low sixty seven seventy three the high
Speaker 1: on Friday with a few storms along with soaking rain,
Speaker 1: overnight isolated showers sixty three Saturday is going to be
Speaker 1: a chance to rain after eighty am going up to
Speaker 1: seventy six. It's sixty six now time for traffic.
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Speaker 2: Northbound seventy five under ten minute delay. Now out of
Speaker 2: Erlanger into the cut, getting better through Saint Bernard towards
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Speaker 1: Hey forty one if you've have KRCD talk station Brian
Speaker 1: Thomas with iheartbby aviation expert Jay Ratlift. I guess the
Speaker 1: airlines are preparing for yet another big time storm. Can
Speaker 1: see it right there on the radar map.
Speaker 2: Jay.
Speaker 1: I know we do hub delays last, but this kind
Speaker 1: of overlap sum doesn't it.
Speaker 3: It is and that's the big issue obviously for the day.
Speaker 3: And even though airlines are notorious and famous for a
Speaker 3: lack of customer service, I mean, if you get customer service,
Speaker 3: go buy a lottery ticket because you're having a really
Speaker 3: good day. They do a good job though, when it
Speaker 3: comes to taking care of us during irregular operations. Whether
Speaker 3: event happens, so what takes place is they see the
Speaker 3: storm coming, they're going to adjust their flight schedule because
Speaker 3: they want to do a couple of things. They want
Speaker 3: to take care of us and we accommodate us before
Speaker 3: we get to the airport, and they also want to
Speaker 3: make sure that they don't have any airplanes in it
Speaker 3: in a location that has a high wind event, because
Speaker 3: then you have the possibility of damage through debris that
Speaker 3: might hit the aircraft that would cause it to have
Speaker 3: an expensive process as far as well a being out
Speaker 3: of service, but then be of course costing of money
Speaker 3: in the process and inconveniencing a lot of passengers. So
Speaker 3: they make sure those airplanes are staged, are moved out
Speaker 3: of the affected area, so like in Atlanta and other places,
Speaker 3: they'll have minimal presence it's there. Once the storm goes through,
Speaker 3: they bring the airplanes back in. The airport has to
Speaker 3: do a series of inspections to make sure that the
Speaker 3: runways are good, the fuel farms are good, no contaminations
Speaker 3: as far as water or anything like that. There's a
Speaker 3: whole list of things that we have to go through,
Speaker 3: and then once everything checks out, it's restoring operation as
Speaker 3: quickly as possible, and airlines are good about saying, look,
Speaker 3: we've issued a weather waiver, So if you don't want
Speaker 3: to fly this week going to or through Atlanta, you
Speaker 3: want to go next week, next month, that's fine. We'll
Speaker 3: change the reservation absent of a change fee. So fortunately
Speaker 3: it's also September, and you know, we were talking about
Speaker 3: this a month ago. We're talking about tons of headaches
Speaker 3: because every flight's full. Where are you going to put people?
Speaker 3: September is a slower month, so we've got a little
Speaker 3: bit more leeway here to accommodate people that are impacted.
Speaker 3: The key is to obviously make sure the airlines have
Speaker 3: a way of knowing how to get a hold of you,
Speaker 3: so that if there's any change your itinerary, you're aware
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, find out immediate conditions at the end
Speaker 1: of the segment. In the meantime, apparently United Airlines passengers
Speaker 1: were injured on a plane. Well, what they are do
Speaker 1: an evasive maneuver? What's this one?
Speaker 3: We have a traffic collision avoidance system TACAST that's on
Speaker 3: every aircraft and it's considered kind of a last resort
Speaker 3: type of thing where you have a situation where if
Speaker 3: this TACAST system looks and sees that you've got two
Speaker 3: aircraft that are headed for the same location, the same airspace.
Speaker 3: It will tell one airplane to descend, it will tell
Speaker 3: the other one to pull up. And a lot of
Speaker 3: times when we board airplanes, we hear the crew testing
Speaker 3: this system. You hear the pull up, pull up, that's
Speaker 3: part of the TCAST system and they're just checking it
Speaker 3: because it's part of their pre checklist. Well, we had
Speaker 3: a flight going I believe Newark into San Francisco and
Speaker 3: they're nearing the Oakland air Space out there in San Francisco,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, the both crews are alerted
Speaker 3: and one crew told to ascend, the other two DCEM
Speaker 3: and crews are taught to immediately respond. You don't go, oh,
Speaker 3: where's the plane? What? No, you do exactly what you're
Speaker 3: told immediately because you're running out of time. Well, the
Speaker 3: United flight responded as did the other one, and the
Speaker 3: United flight it was a very forceful as they were
Speaker 3: adhering to the instructions and they had two passengers that
Speaker 3: were injured. Now, what I'm being told is the seat
Speaker 3: belt side was on at the time, so I don't
Speaker 3: know if somebody was up when they shouldn't have been,
Speaker 3: or if their seat belt wasn't on that caused the injury.
Speaker 3: So fortunately no one got seriously injured from what we're told,
Speaker 3: and we're going to learn from this. The Federal Abation
Speaker 3: Administration's going to look into this and figure out, Okay,
Speaker 3: how did these two airplanes get as close as they did.
Speaker 3: I don't have an exact measurement, so I'm not going
Speaker 3: to throw anything out, but anytime that t cast system
Speaker 3: is activated, it's a critical moment. And you know, thankfully
Speaker 3: Cruiser taught what to do when when it.
Speaker 1: Activates, well, it's it's said at a certain distance, what's
Speaker 1: the what is the outer distance that that would activate? How?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, a mile way five hundred feet away?
Speaker 1: When does it go off?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't recall the specifics as far as the
Speaker 3: actual settings on the teacast. So I do know, Brian,
Speaker 3: that it came into being because we used to have
Speaker 3: a series of clear air, good weather plane collisions where
Speaker 3: we would have airplanes that were colliding with each other,
Speaker 3: and we had one over the Grand Canyon a number
Speaker 3: of decades ago that was horrific, and the thought was
Speaker 3: we've got to come up with some technology that can
Speaker 3: aid us in the ability of making sure that these
Speaker 3: aircraft don't encroach into each other's airspace, because occasionally there
Speaker 3: are times when air traffic controllers make mistakes. They're human.
Speaker 3: There's times when pilots make mistakes, because again, you can
Speaker 3: never eliminate that human air from all of that, and sadly,
Speaker 3: what takes place is that sometimes these mistakes happen. And
Speaker 3: if this automation is in place, and it is on
Speaker 3: every commercial aircraft, it's hopefully going to prevent us from
Speaker 3: having an accident that could result in the loss of
Speaker 3: hundreds of lives. And as numerous times and is great
Speaker 3: technology and I'm glad it's something that we can count.
Speaker 1: On amen to that. I guess we've got some changes
Speaker 1: coming to Southwest Airlines. What are the changes Atlanta?
Speaker 3: They're reducing their service there and they're not saying they're
Speaker 3: laying anybody off, but they said earlier this week the
Speaker 3: issue and apology employees, we've got some upcoming changes. It's
Speaker 3: going to impact some of our employees. We're sorry for
Speaker 3: what's going to happen, but it has to take place.
Speaker 3: And what they're doing is pulling out some of the
Speaker 3: service out of Atlanta, which they're really beefed up a
Speaker 3: lot over the years, and it's going to mean with
Speaker 3: the reduction of service, as many as three hundred employees
Speaker 3: or so that are going to be impacted. Now they're
Speaker 3: not saying that these people are going to be laid off,
Speaker 3: but what they're saying is the pilots, the flight attendant, mechanics,
Speaker 3: customer service people they're going to be impacted, are going
Speaker 3: to have the ability to go to another location if
Speaker 3: there's openings, and there should be. And the thought is
Speaker 3: that if they're not making as much money in that market,
Speaker 3: that is it's so difficult to make a lot of
Speaker 3: profit when you're talking about the Atlanta airport because it's
Speaker 3: dominated by a few main carriers, and unfortunately, as we
Speaker 3: know in Cincinnati, when you have a lack of real competition,
Speaker 3: it really jacks the fares up. And I'm sure Southwest
Speaker 3: is saying, we can take this aircraft and this crew
Speaker 3: to another market and we can make a lot more profit.
Speaker 3: And a lot of times I'll hear from people that'll say, Jay,
Speaker 3: I don't understand why this particular flight was canceled, because
Speaker 3: every time I flowed. It was always full. Well, full
Speaker 3: doesn't mean they made money because if they can only
Speaker 3: charge a certain amount and the yield or profit for
Speaker 3: passengers minimal, you might be making nine hundred dollars on
Speaker 3: a flight or twelve hundred dollars total profit on a flight.
Speaker 3: And if they can take that same aircraft, run it
Speaker 3: in another market, have a seventy percent load factor and
Speaker 3: recognize a profit with that of maybe three thousand dollars,
Speaker 3: it's like, we're going to do that. And there were
Speaker 3: times airlines were really reluctant to do this, but over
Speaker 3: the last several years airlines are like, look, if we're
Speaker 3: not making enough money here, we're going to take that
Speaker 3: airplane and crew somewhere else because we need to do
Speaker 3: that in essence, you know, generate as much revenue for
Speaker 3: our company as we can. And it's surprising to a
Speaker 3: lot of people the profit some of these aircraft make
Speaker 3: on these airplanes, because you know, some of these fares
Speaker 3: out of Cincinnati when you check the Cincinnati website on
Speaker 3: the deal section, some of these fairs are one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty round trip, and that's not the whole plane.
Speaker 3: But obviously there's a number of people on there, and
Speaker 3: airlines can't make money a lot of money or profit
Speaker 3: on those kinds of fairs, which is why we should
Speaker 3: take advantage of a marriage chance.
Speaker 1: We can amen to that, Jay Ryt look and finally
Speaker 1: we will end on hub Layze. I guess Atlanta is
Speaker 1: not a good place to be right now?
Speaker 3: Can I say? Mainly only everything east of the Mississippi.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's pretty much what we're having at this
Speaker 3: point in time. If you were to draw a line
Speaker 3: from Atlanta, actually from the Panhandle of Florida up through Atlanta,
Speaker 3: Charlotte's going to be impacted to a certain degree, and
Speaker 3: we're gonna have issues up in the Philadelphia and the
Speaker 3: and that's going to continue for the next couple of days.
Speaker 3: So if you're flying west, you may think, hey, I've
Speaker 3: got it made, But if your plane is being routed
Speaker 3: through any of these particular areas that are impacted by weather,
Speaker 3: you could see flight cancelations or delays because of the
Speaker 3: fact that your plane's coming through Atlanta or from another
Speaker 3: airport and floored or something that's been impacted. So a
Speaker 3: lot of patients over the next few days.
Speaker 1: To be sure, Jay Ratlift, it is distinct pleasure to
Speaker 1: have you back on the program. I always look forward
Speaker 1: to this segment every week. It's a nice refreshing way
Speaker 1: to end a Friday eve and today, of course no
Speaker 1: different than the norm. God bless you, sir, and again
Speaker 1: condolences on your loss, and I appreciate your friendship and
Speaker 1: best of health and love to both of you, and
Speaker 1: you and your better.
Speaker 3: Half that means the words to me, Brian, Thank you much.
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