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🗓️ 24 May 2022
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0:20.8 | It's Rico Daily, I'm Adam Clark Estes. |
0:23.8 | Lately, flying in or out of Florida has been a mess. |
0:27.6 | You can see the crowd right here waiting in line at TSA. |
0:35.2 | I recently went to Florida, I did a little winter vacation down there, and we were very sad to |
0:40.9 | have to leave the pool and go to the airport where we sat for one hour, and then another, and then |
0:45.9 | another, as our flight got delayed and delayed. Rebekah High a while, Rico reporter, what's going on? |
0:52.4 | There are a few reasons why this is happening. Mainly, there are a lot of storms, there's been |
0:57.6 | a shortage of airline workers, which has been exacerbated by the pandemic. You know, adding more |
1:03.1 | chaos into everything is the fact that fuel costs are really, really expensive right now, so |
1:08.5 | that's making flying even more miserable. But in Florida, there's also this other problem, |
1:14.0 | which is fascinating. Light schedules are being messed up because of spaceships. |
1:19.2 | Spaceships? Yeah, so you've probably been hearing about the rise of the commercial space industry, |
1:24.2 | all these launches taking place, more billionaires just launching themselves, or their test |
1:29.5 | rockets into space for funzies, but those launches actually have to happen somewhere, and a lot of time, |
1:35.0 | those launches are actually happening in Florida, and that takes up a lot of air space, which airplanes |
1:40.6 | also need. So you recently wrote about this for Rico, and one of your sources compared flying in |
1:47.5 | Florida on the day of a space launch to a bag of potatoes. Yes, that was John Tillioca's. He's |
1:54.4 | the vice president of operations and customer service at Tampa International Airport. He |
2:00.3 | basically compared one of these days to putting 10 pounds of potatoes in a five pound bag. |
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