Airline Behavior & What Did You Say

Dangerous Dave talks about how airline behavior has improved 75% since the pandemic and the reasons why. Plus, what did you say? We use that phrase over 1000 times a year.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the din with dangerous day. A
new report found unruly behavior on airplanes has fallen seventy
five percent in the past three years. The FAA has
only received one four hundred and fifty four reports since January,
compared to almost six thousand in twenty twenty one, still
higher than before COVID. It's much more in line with

(00:21):
what was going on pre pandemic. According to the report,
there's three most likely reasons that were beating each other
up less on planes than we used to. First of all,
no mask mandates. Those mandates caused most flights by far
during the pandemic. By the way, they dropped in twenty
twenty two, incidents fell fifty percent in a single week.
Different people are traveling. The airline slash prices back then

(00:42):
to get people to fly again and led to a
lot of rookie flyers who didn't know the rules, and
there was a lot more vacationers back then and fewer
business travelers and airplanes serving alcohol again, they've not removing
booze from planes would help the problem. If people just
got drunk at the airport then boarded the flight wasted,
they snuck their own bottles and drink as much as
they wanted to. In some cases, it just made things worse. Also,

(01:06):
when you buy the drinks on the plane, you realize
how much they cost and you look at your situation thinking, yeah,
I probably better make it home Monday because I need
to go back to work. Deeper in the two. So,
what's the most common response to you hear when you
say something? Is it yes, no, I don't know, or
what did you say? According to new research, the average
person says what did you say? To somebody else three

(01:27):
times a day, about twenty one times a week, or
ninety one times a month, or about one thousand, ninety
five times per year. Obviously, there's several reasons why we
asked people to repeat themselves hearing issues. We didn't follow
what they said, we weren't listening, or we were buying
time to come up with an answer. A lot of
times I'll say what or pardon me? And I actually
then it registers in my head what they said and

(01:49):
they repeat it and I'll yeah, I heard you the
first time. If they couldn't hear, the average person will
ask to be repeated twice before giving up on understanding
or pretending what we've heard. I know there's situations where
there's a lot of external noise where somebody says something
and they just keep talking and I just smile and nod.
I don't say anything. Of course, I hear what did
you say? Quite a bit. That's when I'm walking out

(02:10):
of the boss's office, talking underneath my breath. Tune in
again for another episode of Deeper in the Den with
dangerous Dave Blight. Here