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GAYLORD — Local motorists experienced a noticeable jump in gas prices this week, but the same thing happened across the country as oil pushed the $100-per-barrel mark over violence in Libya.
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The reaction, however, was already felt across the globe, driving prices up.
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In Gaylord, regular unleaded jumped 16 cents, to $3.39 a gallon on Thursday, and at least two stations were selling regular at $3.45 on Friday. Regular unleaded averaged $3.35 for Michigan on Friday, according to AAA.
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Elsewhere, prices averaged $3.60 in California and $3.44 in New York. The cheapest gas was in Wyoming, at $2.99, according to AP. On Wednesday, oil for April delivery climbed as high as $103.41 a barrel before settling at $97.28.
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Mark Griffin, president of the Michigan Petroleum Association and Michigan Association of Convenience Stores, said a barrel of oil was selling in the mid-$80 range just 10 days ago. He added that as crude costs go up so must retail prices.
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Responding to rumors of $4 or $5 gas by summer, Griffin cited prices in 2008, when oil reached $147 per barrel and caused retail prices to hit $4.48 a gallon.
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Libya is the 15th largest exporter of crude, accounting for 2 percent of global daily output. The country is currently in a revolution, split between anti-government protesters and forces loyal to the nation’s leader, Moammar Gadhafi.
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Oil and gas prices are expected to be elevated as Libya’s future remains uncertain, according to Michael Lynch, president of Strategic Energy & Economic Research. He added Libya is reliant on oil revenues and will maintain oil operations.
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What's in a name? Plenty to San Franciscans, who want the actor and other celebrities to stop calling their city "San Fran."
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SAN FRANCISCO: PR firm Bospar has a message for Neil Patrick Harris: Stop calling San Francisco "San Fran."
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The reasoning? The term "San Fran" drives locals nuts. And Bospar, a San Francisco-based boutique PR firm, has developed an entire campaign based on the pet peeve, called #SaySanFrancisco. The goal: educate people about the firm’s home.
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Bospar principal Curtis Sparrer penned an open letter to Harris on Monday calling him out for promoting an upcoming event at SF Sketchfest by tweeting, "Looking forward to it, San Fran."
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In the letter, Sparrer explained to the actor why he should always call the city by its proper, full name.
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The agency principal acknowledged that the campaign is "not a universal big deal, in the grand theme of things," but for Bospar, the campaign is emotional, symbolic, and strategic. And for San Francisco residents, the push is important.
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"We would love to see San Francisco given the dignity we believe it deserves, just like we believe all people should get the dignity and respect they deserve by calling them the names they want to be called," he said. "I am hoping that resonates with [Harris] and his people. I am waiting by the phone. Neil Patrick Harris, give me a call or a tweet!"
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The campaign was inspired by data from Bospar’s second annual San Francisco Naming Day Survey, which celebrates the city’s naming on January 30, 1847. It found that the majority of Americans (67%) who live outside of California prefer to call San Francisco by its proper name. However, a much higher percentage also use locally unpopular alternatives, including "San Fran" (28%) and "Frisco" (13%), as well as nostalgic nicknames like "Golden Gate City" and "City by the Bay" (15% each).
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Propeller Insights surveyed more than 1,500 residents of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.K. in early 2019 and U.S. residents a year earlier.
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When the city was named by then-Mayor Washington Allon Bartlett, he believed it would be good for business to take on the name of the well-known San Francisco Bay.
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"Keeping San Francisco ‘San Francisco’ has been the city’s branding challenge since inception," said Sparrer. "Educating people about it not only alleviates a pet peeve on our side, but also shows our approach to PR. We teamed up with Propeller Insight to do a perception study about what people within the city and outside the city thought was acceptable and why they did it."
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Bospar posted a link to the open letter to Harris on its Facebook and Twitter pages.
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Local outlets such as the San Francisco Chronicle have covered the campaign and study results. Sparrer added that he has already received calls from brands interested in working with the firm due to the effort.
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"If [Harris] responds, everyone will know," said Sparrer. "I will be doing somersaults in the street."
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Allegiant Air is a small, ultra-low-cost carrier based in Las Vegas, that happens to be one of the country's most profitable airlines. But, according to federal aviation records and interviews with pilots, mechanics and industry experts, it may also be the most dangerous.
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The airline flew 12 million passengers last year on its 99 planes to 120 destinations from California to Florida. But it has had persistent problems since at least the summer of 2015 when it experienced a rash of mid-air breakdowns, including five on a single day. It was not a fluke.
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Public documents show an alarming number of aborted takeoffs, cabin pressure loss, emergency descents and unscheduled landings. Yet for the most part, Allegiant's difficulties have managed to stay under the radar of the flying public.
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It's entirely possible that you have never heard of Allegiant or flown on one of its planes. But if you shop for the cheapest ticket, live near cities like Pittsburgh or Cincinnati that are underserved by major airlines or you rely on regional airports, then you probably recognize the company's colors and logo.
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Allegiant has some of the lowest fares, the least frills and the oldest fleet in the business. Right now, nearly 30 percent of its planes are antiquated, gas-guzzling McDonnell-Douglas MD-80s, almost all of them purchased second-hand from foreign airlines. It also has more than its share of angry, traumatized passengers willing to share their experiences.
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Dan Mannheim: People are screaming. The stewardess are running up and down the aisles.
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Chris: And then the smoke started pouring in out of all the vents you know, started filling the cabin up with smoke.
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Shanyl: All I kept thinking was, "Thank God we're on the ground."
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"I have encouraged my family, my friends and myself not to fly on Allegiant."
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For the past seven months, we have been scrutinizing 'service difficulty reports' filed by Allegiant with the FAA. They are official, self-reported records of problems experienced by their aircraft. What we found raised some disturbing questions about the performance of their fleet. Between January 1st, 2016 and the end of last October, we found more than 100 serious mechanical incidents, including mid-air engine failures, smoke and fumes in the cabin, rapid descents, flight control malfunctions, hydraulic leaks and aborted takeoffs.
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We shared the reports with John Goglia who has more than 40 years of experience in the aviation industry, including nine years as a presidential appointee to the National Transportation Safety Board. Now retired, Goglia remains a respected figure in the aviation industry and occasionally testifies as an expert witness on safety issues.
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John Goglia: There's another one, engine fire.
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We wanted to know what he thought of Allegiant's 60 unscheduled landings and 46 in-flight emergencies.
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Steve Kroft: I mean, is that common for an airline of this size?
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John Goglia: Very, very high for an airline of this size. I hate to make comparisons-- but we've seen that before in airlines that are no longer with us that had experienced a number of accidents and killed a bunch of people. I don't wanna repeat that. So I try to push on Allegiant to-- to-- clean up their operation.
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Steve Kroft: What do those reports say about Allegiant?
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John Goglia: Well, just the service difficulty reports say that-- somebody's not paying attention.
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Steve Kroft: You're a former member of the NTSB. Would you fly on an Allegiant plane?
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John Goglia: I have encouraged my family, my friends and myself not to fly on Allegiant.
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"All of us at Allegiant are proud of our strong safety record, as noted in the most current, comprehensive FAA audit. Safety is at the forefront of our minds and the core of our operations."
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But John Goglia and other aviation experts we talked to aren't so sure. They believe Allegiant's problems come from the confluence of its aggressive business model and a safety culture they find to be lagging. The business strategy which has produced 60 straight quarters of profits, occasionally with margins approaching 30 percent, requires the airline to keep costs down and "push the metal" -- keep the planes flying as often as possible. But Allegiant's aged fleet of MD-80s, which it is phasing out and is responsible for most of its problems, require a lot of maintenance and reliable parts are hard to come by.
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Steve Kroft: Is there anything that separates the maintenance systems at Allegiant from the ones at the larger carriers?
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John Goglia: Well, the first and most obvious piece is the lack of infrastructure. They don't have the number of mechanics. And we've seen some problems with the contractors that they've used. We're seeing problems that require-- feet on the ground, people looking at the airplanes when they're being worked on so that these problems are caught during maintenance and not caught by the f-- crew as-- as a surprise and emergency.
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We found numerous planes with the same recurring issues and others returned to service before they were ready. Like Allegiant Flight 533 last July, which was delayed in Cincinnati on its flight to Las Vegas.
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Mercedes Weller and Dan Mannheim, who says he paid $80 for his roundtrip ticket to Vegas, remember the pilot's announcement as they pushed away from the gate three hours behind schedule.
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Mercedes Weller: He came on and he said, "The mechanics have been working on this right engine. We apologize for that. We'll get you up in the air as soon as possible." As we started taxiing, everything was going okay. And then it's, like, as soon as the wheels came up, the engine blew.
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Passenger Video: Here we go, we're taking off. Say blastoff! Oh [expletive].
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Mercedes Weller: The force of it was so hard that it-- it popped open the cockpit doors. And there was smoke in the cabin and fire coming out of that engine. And I just remember thinking that I would never see my daughter again.
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Weller and Mannheim said the plane had to circle at a low altitude on one engine for about 25 minutes while the airport ground crews cleared debris from the runway for an emergency landing.
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Dan Mannheim: Everyone turned their phones back on. And I called my family. And-- I pretty much tellin' 'em goodbyes.
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Steve Kroft: You thought this was it?
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Mercedes Weller: I text my husband. And I said "If something happens, just know that I've been very happy. And I love you."
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The plane eventually landed safely back in Cincinnati. For their trouble, Allegiant offered to re-book Mercedes and Dan the next day and gave everyone a $150 voucher.
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But that was not the only problem Allegiant's small fleet encountered last July. There were nine other Allegiant planes that also had to make unscheduled landings during that month. Four of those planes had engine problems, two reported fumes in the cabin, four had instrument or flight control problems. And that's not all.
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Steve Kroft: Over the course of one weekend in July, Allegiant canceled or rescheduled 11 separate flights leaving Las Vegas, all for mechanical issues.
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Among the most concerned are the people that have to fly the planes. Daniel Wells, a captain for Atlas Air, with 30 years experience, is president of Teamsters Union 1224 which represents pilots from Allegiant and nine other airlines. We wanted to know how unusual it was for a small airline with 99 planes to have 25 engine failures or malfunctions in less than two years.
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Daniel Wells: Well, I-- I don't have all the data in front of me to compare with other airlines. But I can say that those are extraordinarily high numbers.
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Steve Kroft: Outside the norm?
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Daniel Wells: Outside the norm for sure. If I come into a career as an airline pilot now, I will go my entire career, maybe 30 years, and never have an engine failure, ever.
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Steve Kroft: What are Allegiant pilots telling you about their airline?
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Daniel Wells: What I hear from hundreds of conversations with Allegiant pilots, is the management of Allegiant seems to denigrate the pursuit of safety.
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Steve Kroft: Why are we unable to talk to any Allegiant pilots?
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Daniel Wells: Well-- (LAUGH) I think that says volumes about the company. I would love to put up some of the-- Allegiant pilots. But they can't. And they can't because they know that they would be terminated. At the very least, disciplined. And that's just for speaking up about concerns. So I have to speak on their behalf.
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Captain Wells says they have every reason to fear retaliation considering what happened to one of Allegiant's pilots three summers ago.
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On June 8, 2015, this Allegiant MD-80 jet with 141 passengers aboard had just left St. Petersburg, Florida for Hagerstown, Maryland when a flight attendant informed the pilot that there was smoke in the cabin.
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Allegiant 864: This is Allegiant 864, declaring an emergency at this time.
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Concerned about a fire, Captain Jason Kinzer and his co-pilot made a quick decision.
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Allegiant 864: We need to return to St. Pete's. The flight attendants are reporting smoke in the cabin.
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Tower: Allegiant 864. Roger. Cleared back to St. Pete airport.
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Captain Kinzer landed the plane and was met at the end of the runway by fire and rescue trucks that confirmed his concerns.
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Rescue Fire: I'm showing some smoke on your number one engine.
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Allegiant 864: Verify…you're showing smoke on the number one engine?
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Allegiant 864: Uh, Tower ground. Allegiant 864 we're going to be evacuating.
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Unidentified Voice: 864, hold off on your evacuation, please.
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Allegiant 864: Who said to hold off?
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It would take another 22 seconds and prompting from ground control before that voice identified himself as 'Rescue Fire 2'. But, with the clock ticking and confusing radio chatter, Kinzer did what he had been trained to do: he deployed the emergency chutes and evacuated the aircraft, with eight people sustaining mostly minor injuries.
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The incident drew unwanted attention to Allegiant but nothing compared to what followed six weeks later when the airline abruptly fired Kinzer for his actions.
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Daniel Wells: I haven't spoken to a single captain, both Allegiant and otherwise that knows the details, that didn't say, "He absolutely did the right thing. And if I was there, I woulda done exactly the same thing."
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Loretta Alkalay: I've never ever heard of an airline firing a pilot for an emergency evacuation.
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Loretta Alkalay has a lot of experience in things like this. She spent 30 years at the FAA prosecuting enforcement cases in the northeast region. She was particularly annoyed by Allegiant's letter of termination that blamed Kinzer for what it called an "evacuation that was entirely unwarranted" and for not "striving to preserve the company's assets".
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Loretta Alkalay: Yeah, it's really-- it's really outrageous. And-- and that's where the FAA should have stepped in to look at the safety culture because the message to all the other Allegiant pilots is: don't ever have an emergency evacuation if you don't see flames in the cockpit. I mean, that's-- what other message could you get?
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Steve Kroft: Did the FAA investigate?
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Loretta Alkalay: I have been told that they never questioned the-- the pilot.
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We decided to question the FAA.
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Steve Kroft: As far as the FAA is concerned, what's more important: the safety of the passengers or the assets of the airliner?
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John Duncan: Certainly the safety of the passengers is what's always important.
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John Duncan is the executive director of flight standards at the Federal Aviation Administration. He oversees the operations, maintenance and airworthiness of all U.S. carriers.
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Steve Kroft: That doesn't seem to be the values of Allegiant as expressed in this letter of termination. You've seen it, right?
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John Duncan: I've seen the letter, yes. But just that letter, and-- and nothing else, so I don't know the rest of the story in that regard.
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Steve Kroft: So nobody asked you to conduct an investigation so you haven't?
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John Duncan: To my knowledge we haven't been asked to investigate, through a whistleblower complaint, the termination of the captain.
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Steve Kroft: What do you think the FAA should have done?
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Loretta Alkalay: Well, they should have been all over that. I mean, it's outrageous. What kind of safety culture would allow that to happen. I mean, it's just so inimical to safety.
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