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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Although I will give you plugs. He runs a company
(00:02):
called day Trade Fun where he can teach you how
to trade stocks. I turn my car on yesterday. I mean,
I'm in the towers of Kenwood Building and I have
this little sat NAV map and it shows up right
next to my radio setting and I'm sitting there and
the little bubble that points up it's a day Trade
Fun on it. I'm like, what, how did that pop up?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So like the officers are right there on the seventh floor.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, but of all the offices in the building. I mean,
I heart media didn't show up or none of the
other It's just like it was channeling you Jay rat List.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Hey, your your car knows what's important. I know. Look, look,
my students had a good December. I think I made
thirty two or thirty three thousand dollars flipping stocks last month,
and in a spare time effort, so that that that's
just a reminder that you know, when you slow down, yeah,
flip a few stocks, and you know, fund your retirement.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm going to get another earfull for my wife, who
has been just pleading with me to take you up
on your advice and do the class.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Somebody at least your car and your wife are on
my side.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
That's exactly I'm on your side too, Jays. Anyhow, Jay Ratliffe,
apparently you had to file a lawsuit for Southwest Airlines
to provide the military leave for their pilots.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, it's very un Southwest Airlines like to be honest,
because of course every airline has a specific number of
days they give their their pilots and employees that have
military service, and Southwest Airlines actually had to be taken
to court by some pilots trying to get more days
(01:36):
as far as military paid time or paid or military
leave of absence, and there was a class action lawsuit
that was brought by some of the pilots and the
ruling came in that Southwest is a great now to
provide up to ten days of short term military leave
and pay up about almost nineteen million dollars in compensation
(01:56):
to twenty eight one hundred former employees who who weren't
able to you know, get a leave with pay where
they could end up serving their country. So it still
has to be approved by the government or by the courts.
And Brian, what we're hoping is if being the landmark decision.
It is that obviously that type of an arrangement would
(02:20):
kind of seep through to the other airlines where we
would see that. I would like to see more, but
at least having that as a basis, I think is
a good starting point. And look, a lot of this
is negotiated in the contracts as well, because when the
pilot union and the airlines are bouncing back and forth
as far as the compensation and benefit levels for their
(02:40):
contract they're negotiating. I am certain that this is a
component of that deal. Now I don't know that for sure,
but I've seen these these arrangements and they cover everything,
and I can't believe that those deals would be hammered
out absent of a provision that would apply to some
sort of military leave for the employees when it was.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Needed fair enough. Well, well, that loss you may have precedent,
as you say, going on FAA pualizing airlines who failed
to reduce flight operations during the shutdown as ordered. Well,
what's this, Jay Ratt left.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, they sent letters out this week to airlines saying, look,
we told you at forty airports that we needed you
to reduce the number of flights to a specific level,
and the Federal Aviation Administration has looked into it, Brian.
They found that not every airline did what they were
supposed to. So the letters that went out this this
week have shocker exactly. So right now, the FA says, look,
(03:41):
they sent the airlines that they are looking at a
letter saying you have thirty days to provide evidence in
essence you did what you did or we're supposed to
do complying with our orders violators. They are indicating risk
fines up to seventy five thousand dollars per flight that
was operated over that threshold, and they on to say, quote,
if we do not hear from you within that specified time,
(04:03):
our report will be processed without the benefit of your statement.
So I like the fact that the FAA is looking
at coming down hard. Now here's what's going to happen.
They'll find a number of airlines that had a whole
bunch of flights that probably were above that threshold, and
the FAA will propose a very hefty and I think
well deserved fine. We will then later see that that
(04:23):
fine was negotiated down by these same airlines with a
deal with the government that probably says if we don't
do it again. Blah blah blah. You know we have
to pay a fraction of that fine. Rare? Is it,
if ever, that the proposed fines from the Federal Aviation
Administration actually are imposed on the airlines. They're always negotiated
(04:44):
down And it just drives me crazy because I'm thinking,
what's the incentive here for airlines to do what they're
supposed to if they know that they can skirt the rules,
get away with it, and pay a fraction of a
fine that might be coming their way.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
All right, simple enough, easily stay. That's what we get
from my Heart Media Aviation expert Jay Ratliffe coming up.
That does not fly. If you have Parkinson's real ID
and the TSA new travel record, we'll talk with that.
Plus get a hub delay with Jay Ratliffe in the
future segments. We've got a couple coming your way. Take
thirty five right now. If you have KRCD Talk station
(05:17):
fifty fifty five k Talk station. Have you ever been
in the cockpit before? Jay Rayless, He's iHeart Media Aviation Expert.
He joins fifty five CARC Morning Show for a few
segments every Thursday at this time. Real quick here I said,
it wasn't gonna throw your curve ball. But well, I
couldn't recall since you mentioned Southwest before, if we had
(05:38):
talked about this. They're now charging what they call plus
size passengers for them to have to buy a second
seat because I guess they're spilling over into the next seat.
So is that something that's going to be a trend
into the future or Southwest going to be a loaner
on this, because I have heard, I mean, in my
life a lot of people complain about the spillover effect
(06:00):
when they're stuck on an airplane, and it can be
problematic for travelers, as.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I might imagine. Yeah, what's happened is if you know,
for decades, if you were of the size of passenger
that would require two seats, the airlines would charge you
for both seats. Sometimes they might charge you for one
hundred and fifty percent or things of this nature, and
it really just depends the airline to airline. Now, Southwest
(06:25):
had a policy that in essence that if you were
a person that had to buy a second seat, that
there was a way that you could within a period
of time if the flight wasn't full or if there
were so many empty seats on board the flight that
you could actually request some sort of a partial refund
as far as because you know, it's it would be
(06:47):
bad if they charged you double and you get on
there and there's twelve people on the plane and you
know you've got all that you've got to road to yourself.
So they have changed some of that policy so that,
you know, in essence, makes it harder for people to
uh get that partial that that part port part of
partial refund back and you know, it's a departure from
(07:10):
what they have done before and they're making it a
little bit more difficult for people that require that second seat. So, uh,
this this policy is is kicked in and I think
it's next month, first of the year, and they've been
talking about it through the through the year with it
coming up. But you know, Brian, the seats are getting
smaller and the roads are getting more packed as far
as close together, and it makes it more and more
(07:32):
difficult for any person really to have a difficult time
being comfortable. And it's a it's a challenge and I've
had to tell people many times over the years at
the airport that you know, given the fact that the
seats are getting smaller, and you know, if you're a
larger bone person, is how I would normally phrase it,
that the only way you're going to be comfortable is
if you purchase that second seat. Now, for people that
(07:55):
have traveled a lot, that's certainly nothing that's really news
to them because they were recognize Okay, I've had to
do that before. And again the policy on how it's
how it's handled varies from airline to airline, but you
know it's at least Southwest is giving you the opportunity
to get a part of that second you know seat
money back, right, depending on how many seats are available
(08:17):
once the door has closed. But again you've got a
very tight window to request that, otherwise it becomes one
of these My favorite thing are the mail in rebates,
where we will overcharge you and then if you think
about it, you can send it in and we will
give your money back, knowing a good portion of that
population will not do it. I hate mail in rebase.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, out with you on that. Have they revamped the
evacuation time? We've talked about that before. But you know, people,
without question, statistically and I can just rely on that,
have gotten much much larger over the past decade or
two or three. But the ability to get the people
off of the plane, that's a little red flag for
me because I know it's a little more difficult to
(08:58):
evacuate a plane that's filled with maybe plus size folks
rather than you know, wights of people.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well, the requirement is still ninety seconds. We have to
get everybody off the plane with half the ex's blocked,
and the FAA does tests from time to time to
make sure that we are maintaining that speed because if not,
then there's a problem, you have too many seats, or
you've just you've got to do something. So, you know,
(09:25):
shocker that every single time the fa has done this test,
we've been able to hit that ninety second evacuation mark.
Now you have to take a step into it and
kind of look a little closer to see that none
of the people that are used in the FAA approved
tests to make sure we hit that ninety seconds no
children of any kind, no service animals of any kind,
(09:48):
no elderly passengers of any kind. So when you start
looking at the types of passengers that are used to
make sure we hit the ninety seconds, it's not really
reflective of the traveling public. So there's been a lot
of people in Washington, d C. Who said, wait a minute,
time out here, we can't use this as the metric
if that's not the kind of people that fly.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
On a normal basis.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
So we need to have elderly, We need to have
people that are that have some sort of of a
physical disability, it would slow them down. We need children
traveling by themselves, you know, we need all of these
different components to really see if it's reflective of what
the actual emergency evacuation time would be. And Brian time
after time, the FAA is either play the crickets or
(10:32):
the last track. It's one of the two because they're
just they're just not moving in that direction. Because if
they did, and this really shows how much power the
airline industry has, then you've got to do two things.
You have to sell only a certain number of seats
to make sure in this revenue and there is the
bottom line. Drives me crazy. Don't tell me safety is
(10:53):
are number one priority.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's revenue and apparently don't fly if you have park
Sen's a sort of a thumbnail schedule this one and
tell him about it.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah, this was a Turkish Airlines flight. There was a
man and his son and the man is a correspondent
for BBC and he is flying from London to Issembul, Turkey,
and they go and they're on their way back and
as they check in at the gate, the man with
Parkinson's is exhibiting some of the tremors and the agent
(11:25):
looked at him and said, do you have a doctor's
note that says it's okay for you to fly and
that doctor's note has to be issued to you within
the last ten days. And the man said, no, I
mean I have Parkinson's, And the agent said, and the
agent was correct, it's on our website that if you
have Parkinson's you need to have that doctor's in essence permission,
(11:50):
that letter that you could show us. Now, he said,
on time out here, I flew here on you guys,
and nobody in London said anything, and he kept saying,
it's you know, it's Parkinson's, I mean what it's And
I don't understand, Obrien, because I don't know if any
other airline that has this as a posted policy. But
they would not let him fly, so we had to
(12:11):
wait another day, came back to London on another carrier,
and of course this has gone viral. Turkish Airlines, to
my last check, had not yet responded, but it's it's
on their website. It's there. It's a matter of policy
for the airlines. So it it just what what if
somebody has cancer they needed what have got this? I mean,
(12:31):
where would it end if if that was the case.
And the thing is that the gate you or a
ticket counter, you're you're trying to make sure that nobody
with a medical condition, maybe somebod who's nine and a
half months pregnant, gets on a plane, because that could
create a problem where you now have a medical emergency
in flight where you have to make a diverse, diverted landing,
which could put the passenger at risk. It's going to
(12:52):
cost the airline money and it's going to be an
inconvenience to the passengers, kind of in that order. So
if you spot something that could be a potential problem,
the airlines have these safety checks where agents are trained.
Don't let that person who appears to be inebriated on
board the airplane, or somebody who's picking a fight with
another passenger or whatever it might happen to be, so
(13:13):
that you leave the problem in the gate area at
the airport, and it doesn't get on the plane. That's
going to create an in flight problem. Parkinson's is nothing
that's going to create an in flight problem of any kind.
So that's why none of this makes sense.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Doesn't make any sense to me either. One more segment
with Jay Ratlift coming up. We're going to find out
about the real ID fee and apparently the TSA's got
a new record to talk about crow about that means profits?
I bet more with Jay Rattlift right up for these
brief words fifty five five ter CD talk station talking
aviation issues with aviation expert at Jay Rattliffe TSA Real
(13:49):
ID I saw this from coming. Apparently getting a real
ID is probably a good idea unless you got an
extra what forty bucks laying around?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, forty five if it would be. And what's happened
is the real ID where we had to have. The
TSA approved driver's license took effect in early May, and
about ninety five percent of us have the new updated
approved TSA type driver's license that allow us to travel
using that as our identification. But there's still five percent
(14:20):
of the population that does not have that. They still
have a valid driver's license, but Brian has not yet
been upgraded to that real ID, a newer version, and
the TSA has since May tried to work with all
those passengers that have been flying with the non approved identification.
But what they're saying is as of February first, that's changing,
(14:40):
and they're really trying to encourage people to get the
new driver's license and just you know, less hassle when
you get to the airport. But what they're saying is
if you're gonna be traveling after February first, and you're
going to be using your current but not you know,
upgraded driver's license, you will be charged forty five dollars
to a essence use that you have to go online
(15:01):
to TSA dot gov, fill out the form application whatever,
pay the forty five dollars, and that's for every pass
and you're eighteen years of age and older. That's for
a ten day period of time. So that means if
you're heading out to Grandmall's on the West Coast and
you're gonna be there two weeks, you get to pay
that twice. Now, the thing that is going to be
(15:21):
super inconvenient here is if your family of six, you know,
shows up at the airport, You get in line, you're
ready to go, and they say, I'm sorry, we have
to have you step out of line, go online, fill
out the form, pay the forty five bucks per person,
get back in line, and then hopefully you'll make your flight.
So this is something you absolutely want to make sure
of after February first. If you've got a valid passport
(15:45):
and you don't have the real ID driver's license, no problem,
use your valid passport for your identification. That's fine. In fact,
the TSA shows at TSA dot gov all the approved
different ident things you can use for identification when you fly.
But Brian, a number of people that are flying with
their the old driver's license is at a point where
(16:06):
it's really an inconvenience for the TSA to keep doing
what they've been doing, and it really makes the May
deadline a bit silly if you're still allowing people to fly.
So the TSA is saying, look, as of February first,
this is what we're going to be doing. Initially it
was going to be an eighteen dollars charge, but in
typical government fashion, it went up to forty five and
who knows, may go up even higher than that. So
(16:27):
the bottom line is, get that new driver's license. Get
it out of the way so you don't have to
worry about it, because I tell you a lot of
people are going to show up the airport and not
know that needs to be done in advance.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well, perhaps it's forty five dollars because it will represent
enough money that people will relent and go to the
DMV and get the new license.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh yeah, you've got a family of four and you've
got to pay that four times. They're all at eighteen years.
I mean that you know, in some brate you might
be having airfares that are cheaper than that when you
look at the total prices. So the bottom line is
that it just knowing about it ahead of time means
you're not going to have that headache when you get
to the airport. We have plenty of time between now
(17:05):
in the first of February to fix whatever issue it is.
So what we're trying to do is avoid headaches for
people that might be flying, because when you get to
the airport, you have enough stuff going on without worrying
about getting out of line and filling out some aggravating
online form where you hope the internet connection is going
to allow all it to go through pretty.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Quick, right, got it?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
A new record set. I'll Thanksgiving is the biggest travel
I suppose time of year. Is that what I read correctly?
But apparently that is true whether or not I read
it correctly or not.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Oh no, you're right, and we talk about it. That's
the busiest travel week of the year. Typically, the Sunday
after Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day. The Wednesday before
Thanksgiving is the second busiest travel day. And true to form,
TSA told us this week that we set a new
record last Sunday, the Sunday after Thanksgiving. We had three
point one million plus people that were screened for travel
(17:59):
that day that break the old record, So we had
more people flying on Sunday than we've ever had before. Sadly,
it was also a day of a lot of storms
across the country that delayed twelve four hundred and I
think thirteen flights. It was so bad that some of
those people didn't get home until Monday or Tuesday because
the flights were so full. So if you travel on Sunday,
(18:21):
congratulations you were part of a record. And I'm sorry
some of you had the issues you did because you
had to earn it because so many people were delayed
on Sunday. We almost made it through that busy travel week. Well,
had a super bad weather, Brian, but it nailed us
right as we were finishing things up, and sadly on
the busiest travel day we've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Horshoes in Handgernade. It's close enough. And finally, hubbed blade.
What's the looking like out there for travel today?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Jay? The South is going to be going to be
the problem children of the day, Brian. We've got Houston
and Dallas is going to be seeing some weather delays.
Atlanta minimal now but getting worse as the day progresses.
So if you're flying anywhere south through any of those
hubs on Delta, United or American or Southwest, you're going
to see some significant delays. Just be prepared for that.
(19:06):
Anything through Chicago, the Northeast or out west so far
looks at being pretty good shape.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Well, appreciate the update as always, Jay Ratliff, congratulations on
a banner month trading over there. Thirty grand in a month,
that's not bad. I could live on that.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
That's why I'm trading my students. But you know. The
thing is, though you know we I don't know. I
just corporate America always bothers me, and I'm just glad
I'm not a part of it because this time of year,
when I hear people losing their jobs unexpectedly, it just
takes me off because you know, they look at us
as interchangeable parts, and it just it's bothered me my
(19:38):
whole life. And I just not the time of year
you want to hear somebody losing their job.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
No, you don't have to be a W two employee
and you can still make a decent living. Ask Jay,
I'll tell you about it all day long, Jay Rayleif
until next Thursday, God bless you, sir, you have a wonderful,
wonderful week, and
Although I will give you plugs. He runs a company
(00:02):
called day Trade Fun where he can teach you how
to trade stocks. I turn my car on yesterday. I mean,
I'm in the towers of Kenwood Building and I have
this little sat NAV map and it shows up right
next to my radio setting and I'm sitting there and
the little bubble that points up it's a day Trade
Fun on it. I'm like, what, how did that pop up?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So like the officers are right there on the seventh floor.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, but of all the offices in the building. I mean,
I heart media didn't show up or none of the
other It's just like it was channeling you Jay rat List.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Hey, your your car knows what's important. I know. Look, look,
my students had a good December. I think I made
thirty two or thirty three thousand dollars flipping stocks last month,
and in a spare time effort, so that that that's
just a reminder that you know, when you slow down, yeah,
flip a few stocks, and you know, fund your retirement.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm going to get another earfull for my wife, who
has been just pleading with me to take you up
on your advice and do the class.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Somebody at least your car and your wife are on
my side.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
That's exactly I'm on your side too, Jays. Anyhow, Jay Ratliffe,
apparently you had to file a lawsuit for Southwest Airlines
to provide the military leave for their pilots.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, it's very un Southwest Airlines like to be honest,
because of course every airline has a specific number of
days they give their their pilots and employees that have
military service, and Southwest Airlines actually had to be taken
to court by some pilots trying to get more days
(01:36):
as far as military paid time or paid or military
leave of absence, and there was a class action lawsuit
that was brought by some of the pilots and the
ruling came in that Southwest is a great now to
provide up to ten days of short term military leave
and pay up about almost nineteen million dollars in compensation
(01:56):
to twenty eight one hundred former employees who who weren't
able to you know, get a leave with pay where
they could end up serving their country. So it still
has to be approved by the government or by the courts.
And Brian, what we're hoping is if being the landmark decision.
It is that obviously that type of an arrangement would
(02:20):
kind of seep through to the other airlines where we
would see that. I would like to see more, but
at least having that as a basis, I think is
a good starting point. And look, a lot of this
is negotiated in the contracts as well, because when the
pilot union and the airlines are bouncing back and forth
as far as the compensation and benefit levels for their
(02:40):
contract they're negotiating. I am certain that this is a
component of that deal. Now I don't know that for sure,
but I've seen these these arrangements and they cover everything,
and I can't believe that those deals would be hammered
out absent of a provision that would apply to some
sort of military leave for the employees when it was.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Needed fair enough. Well, well, that loss you may have precedent,
as you say, going on FAA pualizing airlines who failed
to reduce flight operations during the shutdown as ordered. Well,
what's this, Jay Ratt left.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, they sent letters out this week to airlines saying, look,
we told you at forty airports that we needed you
to reduce the number of flights to a specific level,
and the Federal Aviation Administration has looked into it, Brian.
They found that not every airline did what they were
supposed to. So the letters that went out this this
week have shocker exactly. So right now, the FA says, look,
(03:41):
they sent the airlines that they are looking at a
letter saying you have thirty days to provide evidence in
essence you did what you did or we're supposed to
do complying with our orders violators. They are indicating risk
fines up to seventy five thousand dollars per flight that
was operated over that threshold, and they on to say, quote,
if we do not hear from you within that specified time,
(04:03):
our report will be processed without the benefit of your statement.
So I like the fact that the FAA is looking
at coming down hard. Now here's what's going to happen.
They'll find a number of airlines that had a whole
bunch of flights that probably were above that threshold, and
the FAA will propose a very hefty and I think
well deserved fine. We will then later see that that
(04:23):
fine was negotiated down by these same airlines with a
deal with the government that probably says if we don't
do it again. Blah blah blah. You know we have
to pay a fraction of that fine. Rare? Is it,
if ever, that the proposed fines from the Federal Aviation
Administration actually are imposed on the airlines. They're always negotiated
(04:44):
down And it just drives me crazy because I'm thinking,
what's the incentive here for airlines to do what they're
supposed to if they know that they can skirt the rules,
get away with it, and pay a fraction of a
fine that might be coming their way.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
All right, simple enough, easily stay. That's what we get
from my Heart Media Aviation expert Jay Ratliffe coming up.
That does not fly. If you have Parkinson's real ID
and the TSA new travel record, we'll talk with that.
Plus get a hub delay with Jay Ratliffe in the
future segments. We've got a couple coming your way. Take
thirty five right now. If you have KRCD Talk station
(05:17):
fifty fifty five k Talk station. Have you ever been
in the cockpit before? Jay Rayless, He's iHeart Media Aviation Expert.
He joins fifty five CARC Morning Show for a few
segments every Thursday at this time. Real quick here I said,
it wasn't gonna throw your curve ball. But well, I
couldn't recall since you mentioned Southwest before, if we had
(05:38):
talked about this. They're now charging what they call plus
size passengers for them to have to buy a second
seat because I guess they're spilling over into the next seat.
So is that something that's going to be a trend
into the future or Southwest going to be a loaner
on this, because I have heard, I mean, in my
life a lot of people complain about the spillover effect
(06:00):
when they're stuck on an airplane, and it can be
problematic for travelers, as.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I might imagine. Yeah, what's happened is if you know,
for decades, if you were of the size of passenger
that would require two seats, the airlines would charge you
for both seats. Sometimes they might charge you for one
hundred and fifty percent or things of this nature, and
it really just depends the airline to airline. Now, Southwest
(06:25):
had a policy that in essence that if you were
a person that had to buy a second seat, that
there was a way that you could within a period
of time if the flight wasn't full or if there
were so many empty seats on board the flight that
you could actually request some sort of a partial refund
as far as because you know, it's it would be
(06:47):
bad if they charged you double and you get on
there and there's twelve people on the plane and you
know you've got all that you've got to road to yourself.
So they have changed some of that policy so that,
you know, in essence, makes it harder for people to
uh get that partial that that part port part of
partial refund back and you know, it's a departure from
(07:10):
what they have done before and they're making it a
little bit more difficult for people that require that second seat. So, uh,
this this policy is is kicked in and I think
it's next month, first of the year, and they've been
talking about it through the through the year with it
coming up. But you know, Brian, the seats are getting
smaller and the roads are getting more packed as far
as close together, and it makes it more and more
(07:32):
difficult for any person really to have a difficult time
being comfortable. And it's a it's a challenge and I've
had to tell people many times over the years at
the airport that you know, given the fact that the
seats are getting smaller, and you know, if you're a
larger bone person, is how I would normally phrase it,
that the only way you're going to be comfortable is
if you purchase that second seat. Now, for people that
(07:55):
have traveled a lot, that's certainly nothing that's really news
to them because they were recognize Okay, I've had to
do that before. And again the policy on how it's
how it's handled varies from airline to airline, but you
know it's at least Southwest is giving you the opportunity
to get a part of that second you know seat
money back, right, depending on how many seats are available
(08:17):
once the door has closed. But again you've got a
very tight window to request that, otherwise it becomes one
of these My favorite thing are the mail in rebates,
where we will overcharge you and then if you think
about it, you can send it in and we will
give your money back, knowing a good portion of that
population will not do it. I hate mail in rebase.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, out with you on that. Have they revamped the
evacuation time? We've talked about that before. But you know, people,
without question, statistically and I can just rely on that,
have gotten much much larger over the past decade or
two or three. But the ability to get the people
off of the plane, that's a little red flag for
me because I know it's a little more difficult to
(08:58):
evacuate a plane that's filled with maybe plus size folks
rather than you know, wights of people.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well, the requirement is still ninety seconds. We have to
get everybody off the plane with half the ex's blocked,
and the FAA does tests from time to time to
make sure that we are maintaining that speed because if not,
then there's a problem, you have too many seats, or
you've just you've got to do something. So, you know,
(09:25):
shocker that every single time the fa has done this test,
we've been able to hit that ninety second evacuation mark.
Now you have to take a step into it and
kind of look a little closer to see that none
of the people that are used in the FAA approved
tests to make sure we hit that ninety seconds no
children of any kind, no service animals of any kind,
(09:48):
no elderly passengers of any kind. So when you start
looking at the types of passengers that are used to
make sure we hit the ninety seconds, it's not really
reflective of the traveling public. So there's been a lot
of people in Washington, d C. Who said, wait a minute,
time out here, we can't use this as the metric
if that's not the kind of people that fly.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
On a normal basis.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
So we need to have elderly, We need to have
people that are that have some sort of of a
physical disability, it would slow them down. We need children
traveling by themselves, you know, we need all of these
different components to really see if it's reflective of what
the actual emergency evacuation time would be. And Brian time
after time, the FAA is either play the crickets or
(10:32):
the last track. It's one of the two because they're
just they're just not moving in that direction. Because if
they did, and this really shows how much power the
airline industry has, then you've got to do two things.
You have to sell only a certain number of seats
to make sure in this revenue and there is the
bottom line. Drives me crazy. Don't tell me safety is
(10:53):
are number one priority.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It's revenue and apparently don't fly if you have park
Sen's a sort of a thumbnail schedule this one and
tell him about it.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah, this was a Turkish Airlines flight. There was a
man and his son and the man is a correspondent
for BBC and he is flying from London to Issembul, Turkey,
and they go and they're on their way back and
as they check in at the gate, the man with
Parkinson's is exhibiting some of the tremors and the agent
(11:25):
looked at him and said, do you have a doctor's
note that says it's okay for you to fly and
that doctor's note has to be issued to you within
the last ten days. And the man said, no, I
mean I have Parkinson's, And the agent said, and the
agent was correct, it's on our website that if you
have Parkinson's you need to have that doctor's in essence permission,
(11:50):
that letter that you could show us. Now, he said,
on time out here, I flew here on you guys,
and nobody in London said anything, and he kept saying,
it's you know, it's Parkinson's, I mean what it's And
I don't understand, Obrien, because I don't know if any
other airline that has this as a posted policy. But
they would not let him fly, so we had to
(12:11):
wait another day, came back to London on another carrier,
and of course this has gone viral. Turkish Airlines, to
my last check, had not yet responded, but it's it's
on their website. It's there. It's a matter of policy
for the airlines. So it it just what what if
somebody has cancer they needed what have got this? I mean,
(12:31):
where would it end if if that was the case.
And the thing is that the gate you or a
ticket counter, you're you're trying to make sure that nobody
with a medical condition, maybe somebod who's nine and a
half months pregnant, gets on a plane, because that could
create a problem where you now have a medical emergency
in flight where you have to make a diverse, diverted landing,
which could put the passenger at risk. It's going to
(12:52):
cost the airline money and it's going to be an
inconvenience to the passengers, kind of in that order. So
if you spot something that could be a potential problem,
the airlines have these safety checks where agents are trained.
Don't let that person who appears to be inebriated on
board the airplane, or somebody who's picking a fight with
another passenger or whatever it might happen to be, so
(13:13):
that you leave the problem in the gate area at
the airport, and it doesn't get on the plane. That's
going to create an in flight problem. Parkinson's is nothing
that's going to create an in flight problem of any kind.
So that's why none of this makes sense.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Doesn't make any sense to me either. One more segment
with Jay Ratlift coming up. We're going to find out
about the real ID fee and apparently the TSA's got
a new record to talk about crow about that means profits?
I bet more with Jay Rattlift right up for these
brief words fifty five five ter CD talk station talking
aviation issues with aviation expert at Jay Rattliffe TSA Real
(13:49):
ID I saw this from coming. Apparently getting a real
ID is probably a good idea unless you got an
extra what forty bucks laying around?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, forty five if it would be. And what's happened
is the real ID where we had to have. The
TSA approved driver's license took effect in early May, and
about ninety five percent of us have the new updated
approved TSA type driver's license that allow us to travel
using that as our identification. But there's still five percent
(14:20):
of the population that does not have that. They still
have a valid driver's license, but Brian has not yet
been upgraded to that real ID, a newer version, and
the TSA has since May tried to work with all
those passengers that have been flying with the non approved identification.
But what they're saying is as of February first, that's changing,
(14:40):
and they're really trying to encourage people to get the
new driver's license and just you know, less hassle when
you get to the airport. But what they're saying is
if you're gonna be traveling after February first, and you're
going to be using your current but not you know,
upgraded driver's license, you will be charged forty five dollars
to a essence use that you have to go online
(15:01):
to TSA dot gov, fill out the form application whatever,
pay the forty five dollars, and that's for every pass
and you're eighteen years of age and older. That's for
a ten day period of time. So that means if
you're heading out to Grandmall's on the West Coast and
you're gonna be there two weeks, you get to pay
that twice. Now, the thing that is going to be
(15:21):
super inconvenient here is if your family of six, you know,
shows up at the airport, You get in line, you're
ready to go, and they say, I'm sorry, we have
to have you step out of line, go online, fill
out the form, pay the forty five bucks per person,
get back in line, and then hopefully you'll make your flight.
So this is something you absolutely want to make sure
of after February first. If you've got a valid passport
(15:45):
and you don't have the real ID driver's license, no problem,
use your valid passport for your identification. That's fine. In fact,
the TSA shows at TSA dot gov all the approved
different ident things you can use for identification when you fly.
But Brian, a number of people that are flying with
their the old driver's license is at a point where
(16:06):
it's really an inconvenience for the TSA to keep doing
what they've been doing, and it really makes the May
deadline a bit silly if you're still allowing people to fly.
So the TSA is saying, look, as of February first,
this is what we're going to be doing. Initially it
was going to be an eighteen dollars charge, but in
typical government fashion, it went up to forty five and
who knows, may go up even higher than that. So
(16:27):
the bottom line is, get that new driver's license. Get
it out of the way so you don't have to
worry about it, because I tell you a lot of
people are going to show up the airport and not
know that needs to be done in advance.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well, perhaps it's forty five dollars because it will represent
enough money that people will relent and go to the
DMV and get the new license.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Oh yeah, you've got a family of four and you've
got to pay that four times. They're all at eighteen years.
I mean that you know, in some brate you might
be having airfares that are cheaper than that when you
look at the total prices. So the bottom line is
that it just knowing about it ahead of time means
you're not going to have that headache when you get
to the airport. We have plenty of time between now
(17:05):
in the first of February to fix whatever issue it is.
So what we're trying to do is avoid headaches for
people that might be flying, because when you get to
the airport, you have enough stuff going on without worrying
about getting out of line and filling out some aggravating
online form where you hope the internet connection is going
to allow all it to go through pretty.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Quick, right, got it?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
A new record set. I'll Thanksgiving is the biggest travel
I suppose time of year. Is that what I read correctly?
But apparently that is true whether or not I read
it correctly or not.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Oh no, you're right, and we talk about it. That's
the busiest travel week of the year. Typically, the Sunday
after Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day. The Wednesday before
Thanksgiving is the second busiest travel day. And true to form,
TSA told us this week that we set a new
record last Sunday, the Sunday after Thanksgiving. We had three
point one million plus people that were screened for travel
(17:59):
that day that break the old record, So we had
more people flying on Sunday than we've ever had before. Sadly,
it was also a day of a lot of storms
across the country that delayed twelve four hundred and I
think thirteen flights. It was so bad that some of
those people didn't get home until Monday or Tuesday because
the flights were so full. So if you travel on Sunday,
(18:21):
congratulations you were part of a record. And I'm sorry
some of you had the issues you did because you
had to earn it because so many people were delayed
on Sunday. We almost made it through that busy travel week. Well,
had a super bad weather, Brian, but it nailed us
right as we were finishing things up, and sadly on
the busiest travel day we've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Horshoes in Handgernade. It's close enough. And finally, hubbed blade.
What's the looking like out there for travel today?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Jay? The South is going to be going to be
the problem children of the day, Brian. We've got Houston
and Dallas is going to be seeing some weather delays.
Atlanta minimal now but getting worse as the day progresses.
So if you're flying anywhere south through any of those
hubs on Delta, United or American or Southwest, you're going
to see some significant delays. Just be prepared for that.
(19:06):
Anything through Chicago, the Northeast or out west so far
looks at being pretty good shape.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Well, appreciate the update as always, Jay Ratliff, congratulations on
a banner month trading over there. Thirty grand in a month,
that's not bad. I could live on that.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
That's why I'm trading my students. But you know. The
thing is, though you know we I don't know. I
just corporate America always bothers me, and I'm just glad
I'm not a part of it because this time of year,
when I hear people losing their jobs unexpectedly, it just
takes me off because you know, they look at us
as interchangeable parts, and it just it's bothered me my
(19:38):
whole life. And I just not the time of year
you want to hear somebody losing their job.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
No, you don't have to be a W two employee
and you can still make a decent living. Ask Jay,
I'll tell you about it all day long, Jay Rayleif
until next Thursday, God bless you, sir, you have a wonderful,
wonderful week, and
Brian Thomas News
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