Slate Money - The Up In The Air Edition
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today on Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann devote the whole episode to aviation and discuss:
United Airlines’ new Basic Economy fareTrump’s plan to personally renegotiate Boeing’s Air Force One bidSilicon Valley’s shift from producing ones and zeros to actual stuff, including drones
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.9 | Hello, and welcome to the Up in the Air edition of Slate Money, your guide to the |
| 0:18.4 | business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm joined here in Slate's Brooklyn offices by the regular crew, Kathy O'Neill, |
| 0:30.4 | the author of Weapons of Math Destruction. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello. |
| 0:33.2 | And Jordan Weissman, the slate-pitchiest money box columnist ever. Hello, y'all. And Jordan Weissman, the slate pitchiest money box columnist ever. |
| 0:38.8 | Hello, y'all. |
| 0:40.1 | And Jordan wrote a piece this week, which we're going to talk about in a minute, which was all about airline travel. |
| 0:48.6 | So we're going to have a kind of air-themed episode this week. We're going to talk about how it turns out to be quite |
| 0:59.1 | hard for software companies like Google or even Amazon to put physical objects into the |
| 1:06.4 | air and have them not crash. It's a rather a fun story. We are going to talk about Air Force One, |
| 1:14.2 | which is a slightly antiquated thing which needs to be replaced for how and weather and how much |
| 1:19.3 | it will cost is in the news. But first, Jordan, the one thing we all are obsessing about as the holiday travel season approaches is, are we going to get |
| 1:33.8 | charged to carry on bags as we enter an airplane? Starting in 2017, I think we might. This |
| 1:40.0 | holiday season, we might be safe. But so the news is that United has figured out yet another way |
| 1:45.8 | to slap an irritating fee on its customers, even though that's what they claim that's not |
| 1:51.5 | what they're doing. It's what they're doing. They have debuted a new fair tier called Economy Basic, |
| 1:58.3 | right? Which is basically Ryanair arrives in America. |
| 2:02.1 | Yeah, well, sort of, because Ryanair is dirt cheap, whereas what economy basic is is your |
| 2:07.5 | standard fare, basically, except you don't get to put your bag in the overhead bin. |
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