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I love Thursdays, you know what, because every Thursday at
this time get to talk with I heard media abas
next Wert Jay Ratlift Jay, welcome back to the program,
my friend. Always enjoy our conversations. How you doing today, then, well,
please good morning to you. Glad to hear it. Everything
okay down in the Southern Command. I know you're not
there right now. I just want to make sure your
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situation's okay down south.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
The pictures that we received from the people that we're
working on the house seem to indicate everything's back to normal,
which is good.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
And Lord Willing.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
A week from tomorrow we'll head down to some warmer weather.
I got to get my Harley to a warmer climate.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Old, yeah, that's true. It is almost the cool is
the pores you used to have.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
But still I like my convertible party.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
If you will, cars can be placed.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
You know that that was a cool, cool car.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, I got a newer one, so it's I'm in
a better place, thanks the guy that tried to kill me.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You know, make lemonade out a.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Lemon Oh good lord, yes, anyhow real quick here I
saw that the This is hilarious. The Boeing striking Boeing
workers were in Seattle on Tuesday and Senate candidate Marie
or Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat out of Washington, got
booed after dissing Trump housing shortage. She blamed the housing
shortage on Donald Trump, and everybody erupted in booze and
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they were some of the union members were interviewed and
they said, we weren't booming Donald Trump, we were booing
her for trying to shift the blame.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Well, you know, it's it's typical politicians. They they instead
of trying to excitsu what you're positives, talking about what
you can do, what you can what you can do,
it has to be well, I'm not Donald Trump. And
these individuals seem to forget that Donald Trump was president
for four years, so he has a track record. We
know what he did or didn't do, and we know
what's happened not happened in the last three and a
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half four years. So the only thing they can really do,
because they can't brag about what's happened, far from an
accomplishment standpoint, is to at every possible venue bring this
stuff up. And I'm glad there was some pushback, and
I wish you would happen all the time, because it's
just they just don't understand that, I'm sorry, we're not
buying your crap, We're not listening to what you say
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and without checking that it's absolutely right. Now, does Donald Trump,
you know, exaggerate some things? Absolutely does, and I'm glad
when he's called the task on that as well.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
But you know, the bottom line.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Is that these days everything's videoed, so when that kind
of moment happens, it's it's there for us all to enjoy.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Isn't That's the truth?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And you think by now more politicians would make wake
up to the fact that they are going to be
fact checked and there is. There are recordings of literally
everything they've said over the past ten plus years, so
you better be consistent, not lie. So anyhow, it's an
interesting time we live in, and not that that's a great.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
A Vice President, Brian, you can change your pos is
on absolutely every single thing that you've said and expect
people to believe you really mean.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
It this time.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
And I'm sorry, I'm not that gullible, neither of I Eddie,
I love the police, that's right, saying no, I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Sure as he does.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay, let's talk about another strike front of your airlines.
Pilots voting to strike if necessary. That sounds like there's
a caveat there. What's the story on this one?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Well, it's ninety nine percent to strike vote, is what
they did. But you know a lot of times when
you have this type of situation where you're trying to
hammer out a contract, eventually the flight attendants, the mechanics,
the pilots, whoever might happen to be are going to
take a strike vote, and the purpose is to show
a were unified and beat us into public message, hoping
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that that kind of helped pushes the ball down the
field a little bit more. And I've had people reaching
out to me saying, Jay, I love Frontier and I
do as well. Should I be worried? I'm like no,
because I'm not, because there's still plenty of time for
things to get worked out, hammered out in the deal
that can be reached I know that a lot of times,
if it's a Southwest employee group that has had this
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kind of situation happen before, you know, people freak out.
American Airlines had the same sort of thing. You've seen
different airline employees go this route, and each and every
time the strike did not take place. Now, I'm not
saying that's a guarantee it won't happen, but I am
saying that on a worry scale of one to ten,
I might be at about a three because I'm very
sure that this is going to get worked out. It
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would not prevent me from booking a future Frontier airline's flight,
you know, at all. Now, obviously get the trip cancelation
insurances you would normally get to protect yourself. But you know,
for me, that type of thing is not going to
cause me to change my travel plans at all.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Well, and you know, just observing and you look at
the auto workers and the other people going on strike,
it seems to me that labor has an upper hand.
I don't want to say for a change, but I
don't recall this many strikes going on and during my lifetime.
Maybe I'm just haven't been observing when and where they
have gone.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
If there's somebody that observes most of what's going on around.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Them, it's you, my friend.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
So and that would be an accurate term because I
think of late that that's kind of been been the case.
And you know, I'm an old, you know, management kind
of guy, so union and I used to beat heads
all the time. But you know, with me trading stocks
and seeing that some of these companies that were very
well ran for decades gets a new team of management,
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they end up driving it into the ground, they end
up going bankrupt, and then all of a sudden, the
employees are being forced to accept a reduced benefit package
because of the idiots that did that. Right, I mean
to me that that's criminal, and that's what I become
a union guy from the standpoint of Look, men and
women work their whole lives for you professionally, and now
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you're telling them sorry, that's exactly it. And that to
me is why, you know, I'd love to see more
give and take as far as the employee groups and
things of this nature. Yes, sharing in the good times,
but also bearing the brunt when times are bad, which
is kind of making me thinking, how far are these
boeing employees going to push it.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Good point.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
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iHeartMedia Aviation Expert moving over to another near miss. We've
talked about near misses of late and well you point
out it's not statistically significant, it still scares a living
hell out. I mean, it's two planes that crash into
each other.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Jay.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah, Well, the headlines are saying near miss, but the
appropriate term to use is runway incursion, and that's what
a lot of these are.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
And this is what happened in San Diego.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
You have a Southwest flight that's on the ground that's
given permission to taxi across an active runway, and at
the same time, you've got a Southwest to parting flight
at the end of the same runway by another air
traffic controller that's given permission to take off, start rolling
and go. So it wasn't long before the Southwest flight
that was rolling down the runway was told to cancel
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their takeoff and they did. Now long before they got
to the end of the runway where the other Southwest
jet was coming across, so there was a great deal
of distance between the two. So when you say runway incursions,
nobody's going to click on that article. But if you
put near miss, you've got everybody looking at it. But
the Federal Aviation Administration announced this week that they're going
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to open a what's called a runway incursion audit. They're
going to be looking at the incursion risk at the
forty five busiest airports because obviously we have a problem,
and of course the government when they see a problem,
the best way to determine what it is is they're
going to have an audit. They're going to study it
for a while, and then hopefully after that they'll come
up with some possible ideas that can eventually be implemented.
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And it's going to be the typical slow process. But
you know, the head of the FA saying, actually, the
number of these incursions are down, which they are, but
it doesn't mean that, you know, with social media being
what it is, before the aircraft has stopped rolling, it's
already become a viral story and obviously it's gonna you know,
go to the top when we were talking about airplanes,
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and we've had some out of Syracuse and others that's
been captured on video of two aircraft that were very
close to each other, and certainly that makes the matter
even scarier for this And sadly, Brian comes down most
of the time to employee error as far as human error.
So that's one of the things that you have to
look at is are we understaffed at these airports? Are
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they getting the adequate rest and training and all the
things that we need to have And we'll have to
wait and see. Now, I will say, and you know,
the FAA number of years ago lowered the standards of
their air traffic controllers where in essence to increase diversity,
bring everybody in that they could And that's good to
a point. But the problem is if it lowers the
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competency level of the work being done, then that becomes
an issue. So we'll have to wait and see. And
if that is a consideration, let's hope that they've got
the courage to be transparent enough to say, you know,
maybe that wasn't the right thing to do.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, don't hold your breath on that. No, No, in
air traffic controls like the peace of God. I do
get the concept, but I don't know about the current
You know, how the software works or how tracking works,
but it just seems to me. I mean, it's twenty
twenty four. Everything is so automated. We've got so many
different detectors and sensors and everything that this could even happen,
or that you have to rely on exclusively a human
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element to make sure these things don't happen, these collisions.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I don't know. It just seems like are they behind
the times?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Perhaps?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Is there a better way?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah, the FAA seems to get whatever money falls off
the table to crumbs. And when I look at it,
recognizing as you and I've talked so many times over
the years, that the aviation industry is an important part
of that economic engine that powers our country, the last
thing you want to do is give.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
It scraps, right.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
You want to make sure it should get the investment
dollars it needs. But sadly, many times when it becomes
a government project, they're late, they're over budget, and all
the other stuff that goes along with it, which really
defeats the purpose. And that's sad too. A ton of
money is going into commercial aviation. It's there, but sometimes
when you look at all the areas it's being spent,
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you know, Yes, we want airports to be upgraded, we
want them to be modernized, but some of these the
equipment side of things from a technology standpoint, especially on
runway incursions, to me, should be a priority.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well, going back to the unions, I am thinking about
the dock workers that's struck most recently, and they demanded
that they use no modern automated automation technology. And because
so they can maintain their union member numbers. You know,
we can't have modern technology to make things more efficient, right, Oh,
we lose members. So and maybe there's a component of
that going in there.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
It could be you just never know.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
And the airline industry itself has always been one that
the more technology they can bring in, the fewer people
that they can employ and have like and the FAA
is doing the exact same thing. If it's a matter
of making things safer with it increasing the automation side
of things, then we owe it to the people that
travel every day, the two million plus of us that
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do to make sure things are as safe as we
can make them. Human air is going to happen, and
all we can do is hope to reduce the likelihood,
not obviously eliminated, because even technology can fail us from
time to time. So you've got that fine balance. But
we are, thank god, enjoying the safest air ever of
commercial jet travel that we've ever seen ever in the
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history of this company a country. You've got to go
back to February of two thousand and nine to the
last major situation that we had with the Colgan Air
crash in Buffalo that was also Pilot Air, and a
lot of changes happened after the result of that crash
that killed fifty people in all. So it's not an
accident that between now and then we've had this kind
of safety, because it takes a lot of hard work
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by a lot of dedicated people to make it happen.
But sadly, you can also get into that state where
you start to get a little laxed, a little complacent,
and that's when mistakes can happen. And that's what we're
really trying hard here to avoid because sometimes that complacency
can lead to some dangerous decisions.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, no question about it, don't mind. I want to
hold you over. We'll either go really really extra long,
and I get the hairy eyeball from Joe. That way,
I don't want to give short drift to the next story,
which will be a funny one plus our hub delay report.
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to day sixty two for the high overnight down of
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Speaker 3 (13:38):
Tomorrow overnight lot forty with clear skies.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And for the Bearcats game, it's going to be a
beautiful day Sonny in seventy two thirty eight degrees.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Right now, time for final traffic Chuck.
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strange and weird and guys, can't you put it down
and leave it alone until the flight's over?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Jay? Well, can I talk about the pilot that got
locked out?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Wanted to make sure that's the direction we were head of.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Brother locked the first a officer outsidue of the cockpit.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
What the hell happened?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
They had a disagreement of some kind. This is a
Sri Lankan airline flight, ten hour flight and something happened
as far as a disagreement between the captain and first officer,
and the first officer were left to go to the lavatory.
And the protocol has it now internationally It used to
be just here in the United States. So it's now
internationally that a member of the flight attendants the normally
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the lead flight attendant will come in and stay in
the cockpit, so the door is shut and secured, and
you always have two members on the flight deck at
all times.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
When the pilot comes back.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Then the flight attendant leaves and the other pilot's in there,
so you always have a minimum of two people there
on the flight.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Deck, which makes sense today if you don't mind me interjecting,
Because the copilot, let's say, leaves, goes to the lavatory,
and then the pilot has a heart attack or or
a medical incident, somebody's got to be in there with
them to open the door for somebody else to come
in and rescue them.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
This is true, but we've also had sad situations where
it's been locked and the pilot has flown the airplane
and into a mountain and delivery.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Right, And that's right.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
It was the It was the German Wings flight, and
that was one of the things that brought about the
change where people said maybe we should do things like
they do in the United States. Hello, thank you about
time for that. But here what happened was the first
officer leaves and as the door kind of pulls back,
the captain pulls.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Up and shuts it and locks it.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Well, now the captain's in the cockpit by himself flying
the airplane, and the flight attendant can't get in to
where she's supposed to be. Now you can imagine the
concern a on the crew members and especially on the
people up front of the airplane that are noticing somebody
just got locked out and.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
They're not opening the door.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Now you talk about something that could set off panic
on that airplane as people wonder what in the world's
about to happen next.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Well, finally, after a period.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Of time, the flight attendants, using the intercom system into
the cockpit, we're finally able to get this captain to
finally open up the door. The flight continues to where
it's going in lands, and the captain has put on
administrative leave as they try to determine exactly what cause this.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
And regardless of.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
The reason, you can't deviate from the safety protocol that's
in place, because in essence, you're putting the lives of
other people at risk for the very reason you said,
if there's a medical situation that happens, or if at
that moment there was a mechanical situation that would require
all hands on deck, both pilots, Well, because of your
stupid actions, you don't have a full complement of crew
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members on the flight deck to deal with whatever problem
might be coming up. So yeah, for all the obvious reasons,
this never should have happened.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
And yeah, the.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Pilot will probably be allowed to fly back, but after
a great deal of training.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
And I'm sure a big old posted.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Note is a filey. You bet you on that one.
All right, as we always do, we'll close out with
hub delays. How's it looking out there for air travel?
Is useful day?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I think Salt Lake City is it? As far as
from a ubstandpoint. A lot of the weather is minimal
at points this morning we did have some de icing
delays because of the frost that was on some of
the aircraft because we're already the next season already. And yeah,
other than that, Salt Lake City, so it's going to
be a beautiful day to fly real quick.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Here are the airports back in operation post hurricane?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
They are Yeah, in fact, we were we were seeing
that last weekend. Quick. Well, they're they're revenue centers.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah, you know, to crank that bad boy up as
quickly as you can, and you have people that need
to get into and out of those affected areas. Clearly
and again, airlines think when it comes to customer service.
But I continue to give them high marchs on this
type of situation because they handle it well before, during,
and after.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Jay Ratliff always enjoyed our conversations. My friend, hope you
have a wonderful weekend. I'll look forward to our conversation
next Thursday, my friend, take care of much great day.
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Time of the wedding, Channel nine says, get sunny skies
to day with the highest sixty two clear of a
night down to thirty seven. The sunny day tomorrow with
the high sixty eight clear overnight dropping to forty and
a great day for the UC Bearcats game with sunny
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for traffic Chuck.
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I love Thursdays, you know what, because every Thursday at
this time get to talk with I heard media abas
next Wert Jay Ratlift Jay, welcome back to the program,
my friend. Always enjoy our conversations. How you doing today, then, well,
please good morning to you. Glad to hear it. Everything
okay down in the Southern Command. I know you're not
there right now. I just want to make sure your
(01:33):
situation's okay down south.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
The pictures that we received from the people that we're
working on the house seem to indicate everything's back to normal,
which is good.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
And Lord Willing.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
A week from tomorrow we'll head down to some warmer weather.
I got to get my Harley to a warmer climate.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Old, yeah, that's true. It is almost the cool is
the pores you used to have.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
But still I like my convertible party.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
If you will, cars can be placed.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
You know that that was a cool, cool car.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, I got a newer one, so it's I'm in
a better place, thanks the guy that tried to kill me.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You know, make lemonade out a.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Lemon Oh good lord, yes, anyhow real quick here I
saw that the This is hilarious. The Boeing striking Boeing
workers were in Seattle on Tuesday and Senate candidate Marie
or Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat out of Washington, got
booed after dissing Trump housing shortage. She blamed the housing
shortage on Donald Trump, and everybody erupted in booze and
(02:31):
they were some of the union members were interviewed and
they said, we weren't booming Donald Trump, we were booing
her for trying to shift the blame.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Well, you know, it's it's typical politicians. They they instead
of trying to excitsu what you're positives, talking about what
you can do, what you can what you can do,
it has to be well, I'm not Donald Trump. And
these individuals seem to forget that Donald Trump was president
for four years, so he has a track record. We
know what he did or didn't do, and we know
what's happened not happened in the last three and a
(03:01):
half four years. So the only thing they can really do,
because they can't brag about what's happened, far from an
accomplishment standpoint, is to at every possible venue bring this
stuff up. And I'm glad there was some pushback, and
I wish you would happen all the time, because it's
just they just don't understand that, I'm sorry, we're not
buying your crap, We're not listening to what you say
(03:23):
and without checking that it's absolutely right. Now, does Donald Trump,
you know, exaggerate some things? Absolutely does, and I'm glad
when he's called the task on that as well.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
But you know, the bottom line.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Is that these days everything's videoed, so when that kind
of moment happens, it's it's there for us all to enjoy.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Isn't That's the truth?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And you think by now more politicians would make wake
up to the fact that they are going to be
fact checked and there is. There are recordings of literally
everything they've said over the past ten plus years, so
you better be consistent, not lie. So anyhow, it's an
interesting time we live in, and not that that's a great.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
A Vice President, Brian, you can change your pos is
on absolutely every single thing that you've said and expect
people to believe you really mean.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
It this time.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
And I'm sorry, I'm not that gullible, neither of I Eddie,
I love the police, that's right, saying no, I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Sure as he does.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay, let's talk about another strike front of your airlines.
Pilots voting to strike if necessary. That sounds like there's
a caveat there. What's the story on this one?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Well, it's ninety nine percent to strike vote, is what
they did. But you know a lot of times when
you have this type of situation where you're trying to
hammer out a contract, eventually the flight attendants, the mechanics,
the pilots, whoever might happen to be are going to
take a strike vote, and the purpose is to show
a were unified and beat us into public message, hoping
(04:43):
that that kind of helped pushes the ball down the
field a little bit more. And I've had people reaching
out to me saying, Jay, I love Frontier and I
do as well. Should I be worried? I'm like no,
because I'm not, because there's still plenty of time for
things to get worked out, hammered out in the deal
that can be reached I know that a lot of times,
if it's a Southwest employee group that has had this
(05:05):
kind of situation happen before, you know, people freak out.
American Airlines had the same sort of thing. You've seen
different airline employees go this route, and each and every
time the strike did not take place. Now, I'm not
saying that's a guarantee it won't happen, but I am
saying that on a worry scale of one to ten,
I might be at about a three because I'm very
sure that this is going to get worked out. It
(05:26):
would not prevent me from booking a future Frontier airline's flight,
you know, at all. Now, obviously get the trip cancelation
insurances you would normally get to protect yourself. But you know,
for me, that type of thing is not going to
cause me to change my travel plans at all.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Well, and you know, just observing and you look at
the auto workers and the other people going on strike,
it seems to me that labor has an upper hand.
I don't want to say for a change, but I
don't recall this many strikes going on and during my lifetime.
Maybe I'm just haven't been observing when and where they
have gone.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
If there's somebody that observes most of what's going on around.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Them, it's you, my friend.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
So and that would be an accurate term because I
think of late that that's kind of been been the case.
And you know, I'm an old, you know, management kind
of guy, so union and I used to beat heads
all the time. But you know, with me trading stocks
and seeing that some of these companies that were very
well ran for decades gets a new team of management,
(06:27):
they end up driving it into the ground, they end
up going bankrupt, and then all of a sudden, the
employees are being forced to accept a reduced benefit package
because of the idiots that did that. Right, I mean
to me that that's criminal, and that's what I become
a union guy from the standpoint of Look, men and
women work their whole lives for you professionally, and now
(06:47):
you're telling them sorry, that's exactly it. And that to
me is why, you know, I'd love to see more
give and take as far as the employee groups and
things of this nature. Yes, sharing in the good times,
but also bearing the brunt when times are bad, which
is kind of making me thinking, how far are these
boeing employees going to push it.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Good point.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
We'll continue. iHeartMedia Aviation Expert, Jay Rat. If it's eight
thirty six right now, stay right here at fifty five
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Speaker 3 (07:17):
Fifty five KRC dot com talk station brand that was
at Jay Rat left.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
iHeartMedia Aviation Expert moving over to another near miss. We've
talked about near misses of late and well you point
out it's not statistically significant, it still scares a living
hell out. I mean, it's two planes that crash into
each other.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Jay.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah, Well, the headlines are saying near miss, but the
appropriate term to use is runway incursion, and that's what
a lot of these are.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
And this is what happened in San Diego.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
You have a Southwest flight that's on the ground that's
given permission to taxi across an active runway, and at
the same time, you've got a Southwest to parting flight
at the end of the same runway by another air
traffic controller that's given permission to take off, start rolling
and go. So it wasn't long before the Southwest flight
that was rolling down the runway was told to cancel
(08:11):
their takeoff and they did. Now long before they got
to the end of the runway where the other Southwest
jet was coming across, so there was a great deal
of distance between the two. So when you say runway incursions,
nobody's going to click on that article. But if you
put near miss, you've got everybody looking at it. But
the Federal Aviation Administration announced this week that they're going
(08:31):
to open a what's called a runway incursion audit. They're
going to be looking at the incursion risk at the
forty five busiest airports because obviously we have a problem,
and of course the government when they see a problem,
the best way to determine what it is is they're
going to have an audit. They're going to study it
for a while, and then hopefully after that they'll come
up with some possible ideas that can eventually be implemented.
(08:52):
And it's going to be the typical slow process. But
you know, the head of the FA saying, actually, the
number of these incursions are down, which they are, but
it doesn't mean that, you know, with social media being
what it is, before the aircraft has stopped rolling, it's
already become a viral story and obviously it's gonna you know,
go to the top when we were talking about airplanes,
(09:12):
and we've had some out of Syracuse and others that's
been captured on video of two aircraft that were very
close to each other, and certainly that makes the matter
even scarier for this And sadly, Brian comes down most
of the time to employee error as far as human error.
So that's one of the things that you have to
look at is are we understaffed at these airports? Are
(09:33):
they getting the adequate rest and training and all the
things that we need to have And we'll have to
wait and see. Now, I will say, and you know,
the FAA number of years ago lowered the standards of
their air traffic controllers where in essence to increase diversity,
bring everybody in that they could And that's good to
a point. But the problem is if it lowers the
(09:56):
competency level of the work being done, then that becomes
an issue. So we'll have to wait and see. And
if that is a consideration, let's hope that they've got
the courage to be transparent enough to say, you know,
maybe that wasn't the right thing to do.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, don't hold your breath on that. No, No, in
air traffic controls like the peace of God. I do
get the concept, but I don't know about the current
You know, how the software works or how tracking works,
but it just seems to me. I mean, it's twenty
twenty four. Everything is so automated. We've got so many
different detectors and sensors and everything that this could even happen,
or that you have to rely on exclusively a human
(10:30):
element to make sure these things don't happen, these collisions.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I don't know. It just seems like are they behind
the times?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Perhaps?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Is there a better way?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah, the FAA seems to get whatever money falls off
the table to crumbs. And when I look at it,
recognizing as you and I've talked so many times over
the years, that the aviation industry is an important part
of that economic engine that powers our country, the last
thing you want to do is give.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
It scraps, right.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
You want to make sure it should get the investment
dollars it needs. But sadly, many times when it becomes
a government project, they're late, they're over budget, and all
the other stuff that goes along with it, which really
defeats the purpose. And that's sad too. A ton of
money is going into commercial aviation. It's there, but sometimes
when you look at all the areas it's being spent,
(11:18):
you know, Yes, we want airports to be upgraded, we
want them to be modernized, but some of these the
equipment side of things from a technology standpoint, especially on
runway incursions, to me, should be a priority.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well, going back to the unions, I am thinking about
the dock workers that's struck most recently, and they demanded
that they use no modern automated automation technology. And because
so they can maintain their union member numbers. You know,
we can't have modern technology to make things more efficient, right, Oh,
we lose members. So and maybe there's a component of
that going in there.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
It could be you just never know.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
And the airline industry itself has always been one that
the more technology they can bring in, the fewer people
that they can employ and have like and the FAA
is doing the exact same thing. If it's a matter
of making things safer with it increasing the automation side
of things, then we owe it to the people that
travel every day, the two million plus of us that
(12:12):
do to make sure things are as safe as we
can make them. Human air is going to happen, and
all we can do is hope to reduce the likelihood,
not obviously eliminated, because even technology can fail us from
time to time. So you've got that fine balance. But
we are, thank god, enjoying the safest air ever of
commercial jet travel that we've ever seen ever in the
(12:32):
history of this company a country. You've got to go
back to February of two thousand and nine to the
last major situation that we had with the Colgan Air
crash in Buffalo that was also Pilot Air, and a
lot of changes happened after the result of that crash
that killed fifty people in all. So it's not an
accident that between now and then we've had this kind
of safety, because it takes a lot of hard work
(12:54):
by a lot of dedicated people to make it happen.
But sadly, you can also get into that state where
you start to get a little laxed, a little complacent,
and that's when mistakes can happen. And that's what we're
really trying hard here to avoid because sometimes that complacency
can lead to some dangerous decisions.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, no question about it, don't mind. I want to
hold you over. We'll either go really really extra long,
and I get the hairy eyeball from Joe. That way,
I don't want to give short drift to the next story,
which will be a funny one plus our hub delay report.
One more with Jay Ratliffe. After these brief words, stick
around fifty five KRC the talk station. One more time
(13:32):
for the channel line weather. We got a sunny day
to day sixty two for the high overnight down of
thirty seven clear skies, Sonny in sixty eight.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Tomorrow overnight lot forty with clear skies.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And for the Bearcats game, it's going to be a
beautiful day Sonny in seventy two thirty eight degrees.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Right now, time for final traffic Chuck.
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Eight fifty Friday Eve tomorrow Tech Friday with Dave at
or every Friday at six thirty and wrapping up a
show with one more segment here with I HEARTBEDIA aviation
expert Jay Rattliffe, and we enter the realm of the
strange and weird and guys, can't you put it down
and leave it alone until the flight's over?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Jay? Well, can I talk about the pilot that got
locked out?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Wanted to make sure that's the direction we were head of.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Brother locked the first a officer outsidue of the cockpit.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
What the hell happened?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
They had a disagreement of some kind. This is a
Sri Lankan airline flight, ten hour flight and something happened
as far as a disagreement between the captain and first officer,
and the first officer were left to go to the lavatory.
And the protocol has it now internationally It used to
be just here in the United States. So it's now
internationally that a member of the flight attendants the normally
(15:17):
the lead flight attendant will come in and stay in
the cockpit, so the door is shut and secured, and
you always have two members on the flight deck at
all times.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
When the pilot comes back.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Then the flight attendant leaves and the other pilot's in there,
so you always have a minimum of two people there
on the flight.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Deck, which makes sense today if you don't mind me interjecting,
Because the copilot, let's say, leaves, goes to the lavatory,
and then the pilot has a heart attack or or
a medical incident, somebody's got to be in there with
them to open the door for somebody else to come
in and rescue them.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
This is true, but we've also had sad situations where
it's been locked and the pilot has flown the airplane
and into a mountain and delivery.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Right, And that's right.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
It was the It was the German Wings flight, and
that was one of the things that brought about the
change where people said maybe we should do things like
they do in the United States. Hello, thank you about
time for that. But here what happened was the first
officer leaves and as the door kind of pulls back,
the captain pulls.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Up and shuts it and locks it.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Well, now the captain's in the cockpit by himself flying
the airplane, and the flight attendant can't get in to
where she's supposed to be. Now you can imagine the
concern a on the crew members and especially on the
people up front of the airplane that are noticing somebody
just got locked out and.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
They're not opening the door.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Now you talk about something that could set off panic
on that airplane as people wonder what in the world's
about to happen next.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Well, finally, after a period.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Of time, the flight attendants, using the intercom system into
the cockpit, we're finally able to get this captain to
finally open up the door. The flight continues to where
it's going in lands, and the captain has put on
administrative leave as they try to determine exactly what cause this.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
And regardless of.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
The reason, you can't deviate from the safety protocol that's
in place, because in essence, you're putting the lives of
other people at risk for the very reason you said,
if there's a medical situation that happens, or if at
that moment there was a mechanical situation that would require
all hands on deck, both pilots, Well, because of your
stupid actions, you don't have a full complement of crew
(17:24):
members on the flight deck to deal with whatever problem
might be coming up. So yeah, for all the obvious reasons,
this never should have happened.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
And yeah, the.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Pilot will probably be allowed to fly back, but after
a great deal of training.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
And I'm sure a big old posted.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Note is a filey. You bet you on that one.
All right, as we always do, we'll close out with
hub delays. How's it looking out there for air travel?
Is useful day?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I think Salt Lake City is it? As far as
from a ubstandpoint. A lot of the weather is minimal
at points this morning we did have some de icing
delays because of the frost that was on some of
the aircraft because we're already the next season already. And yeah,
other than that, Salt Lake City, so it's going to
be a beautiful day to fly real quick.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Here are the airports back in operation post hurricane?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
They are Yeah, in fact, we were we were seeing
that last weekend. Quick. Well, they're they're revenue centers.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah, you know, to crank that bad boy up as
quickly as you can, and you have people that need
to get into and out of those affected areas. Clearly
and again, airlines think when it comes to customer service.
But I continue to give them high marchs on this
type of situation because they handle it well before, during,
and after.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Jay Ratliff always enjoyed our conversations. My friend, hope you
have a wonderful weekend. I'll look forward to our conversation
next Thursday, my friend, take care of much great day.
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