WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:08.160 Weather time Brokening Day, We're gonna survive. I'm confident sa 2 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:10.640 by the rain anyway. Showers become possible after two pm 3 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:12.960 acord to channel nine, and it'll be a high of 4 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:17.280 fifty eight showers overnight with mostly cloudy skies, otherwise in 5 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:20.079 the lower forty eight. Tomorrow morning showers followed by partly 6 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:22.839 cloudy skies in a highest seventy three. Fifty seven overnight 7 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:26.320 with some clouds and some rain is predicted for Saturday. 8 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:30.879 Lots on Sunday. Saturday's high seventy seven thirty eight degrees. 9 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:32.799 Time for traffic from the UC. 10 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:33.679 Help Traffhics Center. 11 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:36.679 For National Doctor's Day Sunday, we honor the u SEE 12 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:40.039 Health physicians who are leading breakthroughs from better Tomorrow's learn 13 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:43.200 more at UC health dot com. South Bend seventy five 14 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:46.600 break flights through Wachland northbound seventy five. You can add 15 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:49.920 an extra five between Donaldson and downtown. That's an improvement. 16 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:53.439 Southbound two seventy five continues slow at the Lawrence Park 17 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:56.520 Ramp down to the Carroll Croper Bridge, Chucking Ram On 18 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:57.320 fifty five KR. 19 00:00:57.439 --> 00:00:58.719 See the talk station. 20 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:03.119 Hey thirty coming with a thirty one pick above Kercity 21 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.319 Talk station always made a better day because this is 22 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:08.799 the time of week we get the opportunity and the 23 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:12.599 privilege and pleasure of talking with iHeartMedia aviation expert Jay 24 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:14.200 rattlif Jay, welcome back, my friend. 25 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:15.239 Great heaving you on today. 26 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:17.760 We get to talk on opening day as well. That 27 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:19.319 makes it a double nice thing. 28 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:20.159 It really is. 29 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:23.359 Are you gonna be in are you You're not at 30 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:24.519 the Southern Command so you're in town? 31 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:25.760 Are you going to the game by any fans or 32 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:26.079 the prey? 33 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:27.280 We are not. 34 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:29.319 And I've gone to a couple of opening days and 35 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:33.040 it's it's just been incredible. But this year now that 36 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:35.719 but you know, we've got the Atlanta Brave season tickets, 37 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:38.599 so we will be going to that opener next weekend. 38 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:43.159 But no, we're in Cincinnati and joining this wonderful weather 39 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:46.439 that we have here. But I'm excited. I mean, I 40 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.519 work with Boston radio stations and Cleveland radio stations and 41 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:51.519 they both say to me, Jay, you don't understand what 42 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:54.000 you've got that manager. They took our young team and 43 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:55.840 took us to the World Series. You guys have our 44 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:58.319 young team and it's not going to be like the 45 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:01.359 Reds of old and of course I want to believe that, 46 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:04.239 but you know we swallop and feel like Charlie Brown 47 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:07.120 with Lucy holding the football, and you just don't know. 48 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:09.439 That's a good parallel right there. 49 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:12.000 Oh, it's a perfect analogy for all of us that 50 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:15.960 follow and plead for the Reds to win anytime this century. 51 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:17.560 Yeah, it's like the one moment in time, you know, 52 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:19.400 we have they haven't played a game yet, we can 53 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.520 think about the idea and the concept of the Reds 54 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:24.240 getting a pennant, right, you know, it's like making it 55 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:27.039 all the way so and that that quite often is 56 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:30.319 a fleeting hope. Anyhow, fingers crossed with the Reds this 57 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.439 year and flip, we got a whole bunch of topics 58 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:36.719 today which I dearly love. Jay ratlifts and I commented 59 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:38.639 out loud earlier it's like every time I talk to you, 60 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:41.680 I've got this sort of running checklist reasons to fly 61 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:44.319 and reasons not to fly. Number one on the list 62 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:47.719 reason not to fly taking off from a taxiway. 63 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:53.639 Oh my gosh, this one defies my ability to understand. 64 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:59.919 I know you have a highly trained well, I mean 65 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:01.520 that's what they're. 66 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:03.400 Supposed to be right, could be an equity higher. 67 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.599 Well, let's hope you're in the cockpit of a commercial 68 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:10.719 airliner and you're in Orlando. It's nine thirty in the morning, 69 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:12.240 so it's not night. You don't have the sun in 70 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:15.520 your eye at sunrise, and you turn onto a taxiway 71 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:18.039 and you actually start a roll to take off and 72 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:20.919 it takes an alert air traffic controller, thank you very much, 73 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:23.599 that shut them down and fast to keep them from 74 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:24.159 taking off. 75 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:27.599 Now understand that a taxiway would. 76 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:29.000 Be like you and I going down a one lade 77 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:33.639 road versus an interstate that has four lanes, And how 78 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:34.199 you could. 79 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:36.319 Mistake that for that? 80 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:40.560 I just it just it just boggles my mind because 81 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:43.919 as often as these men and women fly and you 82 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:47.159 pull out on taxiway, you're obviously on that one lade road. 83 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:51.000 You're obviously not on a runway. It's not anywhere near us. 84 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:53.599 I mean, it's at least three to four times wider 85 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:56.080 than the taxiway, doesn't. 86 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:58.919 It Also isn't it also illuminated with different colored lights 87 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:00.840 being a taxiway, night signs. 88 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:03.280 That tell you, the big signs that tell you turn here. Yeah, 89 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:06.240 I mean they're out there as well as far as 90 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:10.840 as everything is just labeled out there, and I can 91 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:12.759 only think back and it's been like twenty five years 92 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:14.199 ago that we had something on the West Coast. I 93 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:17.040 don't know if it was China Airlines, China Eastern, somebody 94 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:20.839 that did take off from a taxiway and they were 95 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:23.240 able to do it successfully. There were no injuries and 96 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:26.839 nobody got hurt, no aircraft damage or anything like that. 97 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:29.920 But you know, the taxiways are the things at the airport. 98 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:32.560 When we're moving around the airport, we're coming up on 99 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:36.480 an active runway, we request permission to cross the runway 100 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.040 from air traffic control if you're on the ground or 101 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:41.279 if you're in an aircraft. Now, if you're in a taxiway, 102 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:43.920 it's a little bit different, meaning that if you've got 103 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:46.079 somebody rolling down a taxiway, you could have a piece 104 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.879 of ground equipment out there, you could have people working 105 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:51.199 on the runway, you could have another aircraft that's positioning 106 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:55.199 going where it's supposed to. But the Southwest Airline Slights 107 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:58.439 was stopped from taking off. They were turned to the 108 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:00.680 gate as they needed to, The pilots were replaced as 109 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.480 they should have been, and there's an ongoing investigation. I've 110 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:06.680 got students that work in the airline industry and some 111 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:09.160 of them for Southwest that are captains, and they're like, Jay, 112 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.399 I just I don't understand this one. I just do not, 113 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:15.920 because I always trying to figure out, Okay, what could 114 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:18.519 have led to this kind of a mistake right taking place? 115 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:24.079 And the first thing I thought of was that, no, 116 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:27.160 not That might have been a later thought, But my 117 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:29.680 first thought, tragically was the Common Air crash. 118 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.519 In Lexington, because one of the contributing. 119 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:35.839 Factors of that aircraft disaster when that crew lined up 120 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:38.879 on the wrong shorter runway and took off didn't have 121 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.240 enough room in the plane crash was they were talking 122 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:46.720 about things that didn't pertain to the operation of the aircraft. Generally, 123 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:50.519 Vace administration has a very clear sterile cockpit rule and 124 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:52.399 that says from the time you push back from the 125 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:54.680 gate until you're at an altitude of ten thousand feet, 126 00:05:55.120 --> 00:06:00.439 every single thing that's discussed is only regarding the aircraft fashion. 127 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:04.199 I like that that's the rule, but they didn't. That 128 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:05.720 was one of the things that didn't happen on the 129 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:08.040 Common Air flight. They were talking about everything, but and 130 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.480 they those distractions cost live. So one of the things 131 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:13.759 I'll look at here was what was a conversation going 132 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:17.800 and did that lead to some sort of distraction that 133 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:19.920 caused this crew to make a mistake. But Brent, I 134 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.639 just it's beyond my ability to comprehend this. I've seen 135 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:25.639 crews try to land on taxiways like at night it's 136 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:28.800 brightly lit, and I kind of get that, as far 137 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:31.839 as sometimes initially you would line up for the wrong thing, 138 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:33.959 but to take off from one in the middle of 139 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:37.519 the morning, No, this one I've never seen before. 140 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:42.120 All right, well, coming up, don't forget your passport. Eight 141 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:45.120 thirty six just above cares DE talk station and they'll go. 142 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:47.720 Away, be right back, fifty five KRC. 143 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.800 Over it in day showers impossible after two pm. That 144 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:55.240 word possible, and I'm going to say they're not happening. 145 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:58.680 High on fifty eight today, overnight little forty eight with 146 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:01.639 some showers, seventy three tow with morning showers and cloudy 147 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:04.079 sky's after we got Claudia every night down at fifty seven, 148 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:06.199 and maybe some rain on Saturday as well. I have 149 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:10.399 seventy seven right now, thirty six degrees in traffic tart. 150 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:14.360 From the UCL Tramphing Center. For National Doctor's Day, we 151 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:17.920 honor you see Health physicians who are leading breakthroughs for 152 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:20.920 better Tomorrow's learn more at u see health dot com. 153 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:22.399 Stap found seventy. 154 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:24.439 Five slows for an extra three to four through walkland 155 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:28.639 sing for North found seventy five Buttermilk into Downtown roads 156 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:31.279 are now closed around the Finlay Market to get ready 157 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:34.600 for the parade. The next big time check will be 158 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:38.040 at eleven fifteen when the parade route closed US down. 159 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:41.639 Chuck Ingram on fifty five KR scene the talk station. 160 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:47.920 Keep your Stupid Mouth Shut at eight forty fifty u 161 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:52.560 KS talks Day did I had an international listener. My 162 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:55.120 friend Keith, who listens locally, was in Tokyo last week. 163 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:56.839 He let me know he was listening to the program 164 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:59.480 in Tokyo and his iHeartMedia app Jay and he just 165 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:01.279 let me know. You said they would landed in Dallas 166 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:04.079 Fort Worth on their way home. Pilot had to abort 167 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:06.279 the landing of the last mon because the plane turned 168 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:09.519 into their runway. He said there was the pilot of 169 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.839 the plane was not happy, so Dallas Fort Worth on 170 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:14.639 that one. I didn't see anything in the in the 171 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:16.839 news on that, but seems. 172 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:19.920 It's a runway incursion. They happen every day, oh com news. 173 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:22.439 And all it does is really tick off the crew 174 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:24.519 because then they have to power up, go back around 175 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:26.680 to get in line and then land. And of course 176 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:29.040 if you're making a tight connection, thank you very much. 177 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:32.000 Now you've got ten or fifteen, maybe twenty minutes actly 178 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:34.960 tacked onto that, which just takes you off even further. 179 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:36.919 But everybody needs to be safe. 180 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:40.200 So not unusual is the operative point here. So that 181 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:43.240 happens every day. Okay, all right, sadly it does. I 182 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:46.320 don't like it, don't minimize it. But yeah, well at 183 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:49.159 least he got out of the situation. Okay, Yeah, don't 184 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:52.120 forget your password passport? You think a pilot would like 185 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:55.200 have that as a first order of business, Jay, Most 186 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:56.039 pilots have it in. 187 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:58.519 Their go bags, so they never it's their airline ID 188 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:02.279 and their passport at their international crew members. And I 189 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:04.879 mean we had a United flight on its way from 190 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:08.799 Los Angeles to Shanghai. United Airlines takes off there into 191 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:11.519 the flight when woops is to determined, one of the 192 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:16.279 pilots forgot the passport, so they divert over to San Francisco, 193 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:19.399 laying the passengers dplane, they have to have another crew 194 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:22.879 member who is properly documented to get on the plane 195 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.200 and off they go, and it's like a fourteen hour flight. 196 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:30.519 So again you would think that that would be something 197 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:32.960 that they would have. But Brian, the most I guess 198 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:37.440 unusual twist of the story is that it happened twice 199 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:39.559 in one week to United. Now, I don't think the 200 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:42.679 other one was that they got airborne. I don't believe 201 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:45.200 I could be wrong there, but it happened twice in 202 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:47.519 a week, so you only had one occasion but a 203 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.240 second And of course my initial thought is, and I've 204 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:53.440 got friends at United. I've been asking about this, don't 205 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:56.399 we check the pilots like we checked the passengers. Don't 206 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:59.919 we make sure that they have proper documentation like passing 207 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:02.399 because a lot of times you just flash your airline 208 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:04.840 ID and boom on you go as far as through 209 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:07.840 the gate area. But I don't know, so I don't 210 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:10.320 know enough about United's procedures. I know what we did 211 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:12.919 at Northwest, but that was a gazillion years ago as 212 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:15.360 far as what the current United procedures are. But I 213 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:17.879 can tell you if the procedures are that they don't 214 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:22.039 check passports. I can guarantee you now that they probably are, 215 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:25.759 especially on those international flights, to make sure that the pilots. 216 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:26.279 Have everything that they need. 217 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:29.840 Well, I guess we've really irked the Canadians off. I 218 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.080 see that the number of flights between Canada and the 219 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.320 United States is down seventy percent. 220 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.639 It's it's you know, I knew it was down, but 221 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:41.519 when you look at the numbers, it's it's unreal. Last 222 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:44.919 March in twenty twenty four, when we're looking at April 223 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:48.080 bookings between Canada and United States, there was one point 224 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:51.200 two million it's that had been booked for travel for 225 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:55.159 April this year, We're looking next month and it's not 226 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:58.120 one point two million, it's two hundred ninety five thousand. 227 00:10:58.480 --> 00:10:58.600 Hum. 228 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:01.399 Now, part of this is a reduction for the demand 229 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:03.799 and travel. The economy slung just a bit, and some 230 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.639 of it as Canadian carriers have cut back in part 231 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:10.120 because they're irritated over politics, and now they're simply saying that, 232 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:13.240 you know, there's just not the demand there. But the 233 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.279 numbers are actually a seventy five point seven percent production 234 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:19.399 in tickets booked year. Every year and that floored me. 235 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:21.879 I knew that it had been down a bit, but right, 236 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:24.840 I didn't think it was down that much. But that's 237 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.080 what the numbers show. So yeah, now people still are going, 238 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:32.240 you know, up to Toronto Boom or Montreal and using 239 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:34.360 that as an international hub and going to Europe in 240 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:36.720 other different places. But when you're talking about point to 241 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:39.320 point travel just between the United States and Canada, yeah, 242 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:40.200 it's down big time. 243 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:41.639 That's amazing to me. 244 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.879 Anyhow, here's a really important topic. And I talked about 245 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.519 that Boeing seven thirty seven Max case. They didn't bother 246 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:52.360 telling pilots about the software changes that ultimately led ultimately 247 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:54.960 led to two plane crashing and multiple loss of lives. 248 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:57.480 They want to withdraw their guilty. 249 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:01.679 Plea, yes this work kind of my blood pressure you 250 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:02.200 gave my friend. 251 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:07.840 Yes they are because finally Boeing, after admitting that day 252 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:10.519 in essence, covered things up from the Department of Transportation, 253 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:13.759 from the FAA, from pilots, from airlines, and from the 254 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:16.360 public about all the deficiencies that were involved in that 255 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:20.120 Boeing Max airplane that crashed, killing more than three hundred 256 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:23.240 and forty people. Boeing struck a plea deal last year 257 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:26.559 that included four hundred and fifty five million dollars in 258 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:30.039 their words to improve safety and compliance over three years 259 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:34.480 of court supervised probation as well as supervision by some independent. 260 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:37.879 Monitor for three years. And it didn't really please the. 261 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:41.480 Victims of the seven thirty seven Max crashes that are 262 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:45.720 that are suing Boeing because this was in their eyes, 263 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:49.000 and I think it's an accurate assessment, Boeing was doing 264 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:51.080 this to keep it out of court. They didn't want 265 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:53.679 to have the court process, all the documents poured out, 266 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:56.360 all this stuff going public to remind everybody of how 267 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:00.879 four years Boeing was hiding the deficiencies from everybody that 268 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.039 was buying their airplane as they were simply trying to 269 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:07.360 mass produce as quickly as possible these deficient aircraft that 270 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:09.639 they knew had problems that they planned on fixing them 271 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:12.919 sometime in the future. Well, now Boeing, under a very 272 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:18.399 friendly Trump administration, has decided, no, we don't want to 273 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:21.279 do that anymore now, Bryant, I don't know if I'm 274 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:23.879 reading the tea leaves here right, but it's as though 275 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:27.879 Boeing is perhaps looking for a sweeter deal under a 276 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:31.759 less restrictive administration. Now I don't know if that's accurate, 277 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:34.000 and please tell me if I'm all wrong here, But 278 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:36.600 you and I talked about how when the Trump administration 279 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:40.440 we knew it was coming, airline stocks went up, yet 280 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:44.519 airlines donating to the Trump Inaugural Fund, Boeing donating to 281 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:46.919 the Trump and Augural Fund, the idea being that, oh, 282 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:48.879 this is going to be like to bide administration. This 283 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:52.080 is going to be a business airline friendly administration and 284 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:54.399 not holding our feet to the fire like we had before, 285 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:58.000 which again I complimented to bide administration repeatedly on that. 286 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:01.440 So am I wrong? Boeing is trying to walk this 287 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:04.879 back because they think it's it's a more friendly environment 288 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:05.480 for them. 289 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:08.320 I just think it puts some more in the spotlight 290 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:10.759 and minds the American public that, look, this is what 291 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:13.799 they did, and they didn't most fundamentally bother telling the 292 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:16.639 pilots what was going to happen with this software upgrade. 293 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:20.360 I think it's an extraordinarily stupid move, but it'll play out. 294 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:22.639 We'll find out ourselves. Let's pause, we're bringing back and 295 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:24.159 one of the things we'll learn to the next segment 296 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:27.120 with Jay Rattliffe don't make bomb jokes eight forty six 297 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:28.320 fifty five k see the. 298 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:31.600 Talk station fifty five KRC. 299 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:35.240 One more time for the weather for opening day and 300 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:37.360 the parade. We got a chance of rain showing up 301 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:40.320 around two pm, but it's just past fifty eight is 302 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:41.679 going to be the high against some showers every night, 303 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.799 dropping a forty eight morning rain tomorrow with party, cloudy 304 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:48.240 skies after seventy three fifty seven overnight with some clowns 305 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:50.440 and highest seventy seven on Saturday, but it comes along 306 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:53.279 with a chance of rain closing out at forty degrees. 307 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:54.200 Time for final traffic. 308 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:57.120 Chuck Ingram from the U see up Tram thing center 309 00:14:57.159 --> 00:14:59.879 from Answerdom Doctor's Day, We honor you see health z 310 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:03.799 who are leading breakthroughs for better Tomorrow's learn more at 311 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:04.919 you see help dot com. 312 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:06.240 South pound seventy five. 313 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:10.240 Slow's a bit out of Lockland northbound between Buttermilk and downtown. 314 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:13.919 I'm seeing some slow traffic westbound two seventy five at Kelogg. 315 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:16.840 I'm looking for a problem on the bridge. Chuck Ingram 316 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:19.440 and fifty five krs the talk station. 317 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:23.279 Hey forty nine coming on with an e fifty fifty 318 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:26.240 five Kercity talk station talking with I heard media aviation 319 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:30.519 expert Jay Ratliff pull host topics this morning and something 320 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:33.039 I think you alluded to last week the Southwest Airlines 321 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:36.080 suggesting they may need some smaller aircraft. I think you 322 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:40.159 were kind of excited about that, I am, because. 323 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:42.679 You know Southwest they fly to seven thirty seven, so 324 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:45.879 that's the only thing they've They did play seven seventeens 325 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:48.240 briefly when they gobbled up air Tram, but it's it 326 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:50.679 they get rid of those. It's a seven thirty seven fleet, 327 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:54.399 has been for fifty seven years. Southwest is saying that 328 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:58.840 there are certain markets that the demand for seven thirty 329 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:01.600 seven just isn't there. Some of these smaller regional airports, 330 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:03.799 it would be great if they had, like a seventy 331 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:06.960 seat aircraft, something that accommodates something closer to one hundred seats, 332 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:09.919 which obviously is not the seven thirty seven. So when 333 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:12.240 the demand is that low, Southwest has to make one 334 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:15.639 of two options choices. Do we continue to operate with 335 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:17.960 more seats than the market needs at that time of day, 336 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:20.039 or do we pull out of the city most of 337 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:21.679 the time it's going to be the second option. We're 338 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:24.120 going to take that aircraft and crew to another market 339 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:27.159 where our yield or profit or passenger is where it 340 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.759 needs to be. So now Southwest is saying, maybe we 341 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:32.879 need to look at a different sized aircraft. Now that 342 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:36.320 would mean a non Boeing seven thirty seven. It might 343 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:38.799 mean a Bombardier aircraft or Embry air it could be 344 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:42.519 an airbus. Now a lot of times you would look 345 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:45.399 at this saying that's just you know, Southwest being clever 346 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.279 and trying to, you know, negotiate with Boeing. Put a 347 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:50.639 little pressure on them. I don't think. So this is 348 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:53.399 not the Southwest of old. This is now the Southwest 349 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:55.440 that's going to be charging for check bags in May. 350 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:59.320 The Southwest has gone to assigned seats. The Southwest it's 351 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:02.120 going to offer a pre amium seats. The Southwest they've 352 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:04.920 been laying off employees for the first time in their history. 353 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:06.759 I think they're serious and. 354 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:09.799 They could actually look at using smaller airplanes, and I 355 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:13.079 really think they should. There's certainly an operational advantage when 356 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:14.799 you don't have one type of aircraft, when you're talking 357 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:17.039 about ground equipment, training and all the things that go 358 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:20.799 along with having a very consistent fleet. But when you're 359 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.400 talking about making as much money as you can, it's 360 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:25.480 a lot like when we trade stocks, Bryan, there's certain 361 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:27.000 stocks that you can make a lot of money on 362 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:29.720 and some you make less, and you adjust based on 363 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:34.240 that particular opportunity. Right with airlines, it's the same thought process. 364 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:36.480 There's certain cities you make a lot of money if 365 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:38.759 you go in, but you can't do it with larger 366 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:41.640 aircraft than what the demand is for there. So for 367 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:45.319 smaller airports. I hope Southwest goes this route because I 368 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:48.799 think that it would allow regional airports to enjoy the 369 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:52.640 Southwest service and the lower fares instead of perhaps losing 370 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:53.599 that service altogether. 371 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:57.480 Makes sense to me, I understand, and I've understood for 372 00:17:57.519 --> 00:17:59.799 a long time. You don't make bomb jokes at the airports. 373 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:02.039 Got a woman who found that out. 374 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:05.599 Yeah, she's only fifty five. I mean, obviously she doesn't 375 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:08.079 know better, but she's at the airport. She's got three 376 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:10.960 bags and she's consolidating them to two. She's trying to 377 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:13.160 save money. She's talking to the gate agent, and I 378 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:14.680 guess in the course of the back and forth, she 379 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:16.440 made a comment about, well, you know, it's gonna be 380 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:18.480 challenging because of this bomb I've got in my bag. 381 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:22.599 And of course the minute you say those words, everything stops. 382 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:25.759 The police are summoned, you're taking away, they question you, 383 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:28.599 anybody that's with you goes with you, and you're gonna 384 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:31.960 miss your flight, maybe not fly at all. So she 385 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:34.000 kept saying, oh, no, no, no, it's a joke. But Brian, 386 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:36.640 I cannot tell you the number of times that we've 387 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:39.359 had people that, you know, maybe they're nervous. People sometimes 388 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:42.039 say stupid things when they are nervous and they try 389 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:43.720 to joke their way out of it. And there's been 390 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:46.640 so many times that that's happened. I used to tell 391 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:48.960 our boys when they were growing up, I will kill you. 392 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:53.160 I will literally kill them if you use the word bomb. 393 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:55.720 And you know, because kids, how the kids are, Oh, Jay, 394 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:57.599 I didn't you don't want me to say this word. 395 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:00.799 I told them, no, we're not gonna be tomorrow's story, 396 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:04.119 so I just don't do it. In fact, Shery was 397 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:06.880 traveling one time with bath bombs and the TSA asked 398 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:08.799 her what they were. She says, I can't tell you, 399 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:11.119 and the agent says, well, you're gonna have to take. 400 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:12.920 She goes, I can't because my husband said, never use 401 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:14.640