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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: The holiday industry is on fire at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest.

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Speaker 2: Remember during the pandemic and they thought flight Center was

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Speaker 2: going to go under. Cornice is gone. We need government funding.

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Speaker 2: They are flying, they're making a lot of money. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they're not doing any favors on the way. Let's be honest,

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Speaker 2: no that I I mean reputations are down a little

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Speaker 2: bit at the moment. They're not the most trusted people

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Speaker 2: going around.

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Speaker 1: What's expensive still?

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Speaker 2: Man? Do you know what makes me really angry? And

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Speaker 2: I know there's tariffs and I know fuel's gone. Ryanair,

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Speaker 2: I mean we don't have Ryan Air in Australia, but

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Speaker 2: how's this Ryanair over in Europe? Yeah, my airline is now.

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Speaker 2: They are giving bonus to staff members for intercepting people

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Speaker 2: with oversized luggage. So if you work at Ryan Air,

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Speaker 2: they're going to give you a dollar fifty one one

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Speaker 2: dollar fifty euro for every passenger you bust with oversized luggage,

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Speaker 2: and you can get up to eighty extra euro a

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Speaker 2: month for all staff members if you can bring in

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Speaker 2: as many as you can so they get center advised

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Speaker 2: if they actually bust more people who are trying to

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Speaker 2: get more luggage and more weight onto the flight.

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Speaker 1: Tell me if this is logical thinking. I don't know

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Speaker 1: anything about weight on airlines, but they obviously have a

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Speaker 1: waste factor that's built in so that if anybody, they're

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Speaker 1: never at capacity in that if anybody decides and they

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Speaker 1: sneak through with lead in their bag, the plane's not

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Speaker 1: going to be able to take off. But I think

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Speaker 1: they'll obviously be able to weigh the plane before it's

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Speaker 1: in the air, so you can tell how much weight

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Speaker 1: is on the plane. So is the idea that we

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Speaker 1: will save more money in fuel with the less weight

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Speaker 1: we have.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think over in Europe they I mean, they

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Speaker 2: enforce it more than anywhere in the world. But your

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Speaker 2: bag needs to be in the right dimensions and it

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Speaker 2: needs to weigh a certain amount, and they are full

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Speaker 2: on whip. You rock up to the airport and they

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Speaker 2: will check every bag that you have. And the funny

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Speaker 2: funny thing is all these television shows that you see

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Speaker 2: on airports, it's always people trying to sneak their bags

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Speaker 2: on carry on so they don't have to check in.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're wearing twenty five jackets. There was a guy

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Speaker 1: next to me the other day when we're checking in,

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Speaker 1: his luggage was way open and they said, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's an extra seventy dollars a kilo. Seventy dollars a

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Speaker 1: kilo of extra luggage. So is that to balance out

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Speaker 1: the cost of the fuel for the heavier plane?

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Speaker 2: I think it is. Yeah, it is that.

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Speaker 1: How works idea.

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Speaker 2: That could be coming to Australia very soon. How's this

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Speaker 2: in Australia. Unbelievable? But Anset is back? What am I

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Speaker 2: with Anset? Absolutely? That's he had his eye to matros

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Speaker 2: there with handset. I mean that was the last ad

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Speaker 2: that we saw on handset. But it is back and

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Speaker 2: they're not flying. There's no planes whip but it is

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Speaker 2: an AI powered travel age and see Anset Airlines. Now

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Speaker 2: I didn't know this, but the guy who started it up, No,

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Speaker 2: the lady that started it up, she's an entrepreneur in Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: She said, I registered the trademark because it ran out.

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Speaker 2: No one's used the Anset trademark for so long, so

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Speaker 2: I thought, you know what, everyone knows the word anset,

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Speaker 2: they can relate to it, So why don't I start

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Speaker 2: up a travel agency Anset Airlines. It's back one. You

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Speaker 2: can book your holidays Anset.

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Speaker 1: When Anset wrapped up, when would that have been, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, twenty years ago it was. It was quite

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Speaker 1: sad because I was sure it was an Australian story,

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Speaker 1: but also the family was at the airport and they

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Speaker 1: had their arms around us. My grandfather founded this and

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Speaker 1: it's been in our family for all these where devastated,

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Speaker 1: so I just assumed the family held onto the rights

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Speaker 1: to Anset, but they weren't actively doing anything.

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Speaker 2: Well, this right and you don't have to keep trademarking

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Speaker 2: because you're never going to use it again. It's so

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Speaker 2: expensive to start up a new airline. There was a

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Speaker 2: guy that I knew. He was an AFL scout whip,

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Speaker 2: so he would fly all around Australia to go and

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Speaker 2: try to find the next new crop of superstar players.

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Speaker 2: So he only flew Handset and I remember at the

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Speaker 2: time him he was saying to me, mate, I have

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Speaker 2: got over a million Handset frequent flyers and I am

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Speaker 2: booking in the family and we're going to do a round.

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Speaker 2: We've never been outside of Australia. We're going to do

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Speaker 2: around the world trip with our frequent flyers and then

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Speaker 2: they went under. How did that? God?

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Speaker 1: He did unfortunately get you know what they keep saying

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Speaker 1: to me. Do I want to fly conders? Do I

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Speaker 1: want to fly those points?

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Speaker 2: Mate? Hold on to him, honey. Another couple of years

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Speaker 2: and we'll get around the world.

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Speaker 1: Not going to speed him yet, we'll be off.

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Speaker 2: Will we go off?

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