Prices have returned to pre-pandemic levels. So I hope that we are close to the finish line with them. But the deal that we have on the table is a better deal than either the Delta deal or the recently announced American deal. There are a lot of changes that they requested in the contract, and an awful lot of changes that we've agreed to, and it's just taking a little time. It includes significant work rule enhancements. We think our pilots deserve an industry-leading contract, and we have put that deal on the table. We've invested in physical infrastructure like four parallel runways here in Denver, but we couldn't use two of them because there weren't enough air traffic controllers to use the other two runways. But this isn't unique to New York – it's everywhere in the country, and it really is about staffing, and we have to fix that issue. It's a help that the number of flights have been reduced in the New York airspace this summer. Those are airplanes that are scheduled to keep flying around the whole country for the rest of the day. When Denver had that reduction in arrival rates, that doesn't just impact those flights. We are working hard to get the right amount of resources and a bipartisan FAA reauthorization bill to address that issue. They simply don't have the Congressional authorization. Here's everything you need to knowīy the way, it's not the FAA's fault – this is a 20- to 30-year-old issue. National A record number of Americans may fly this summer. That is by far the biggest issue, and the most addressable. Here in Denver, the last two days we woke up to a 30% reduction in the arrival rate for aircraft at the airport because of staffing shortages on clear, blue sky days. We have fewer air traffic controllers today than we had 30 years ago. The secretary of transportation acknowledged that they're short 3,000 controllers. The biggest issue for us and for the industry is air traffic control staffing shortages. But for the most part, if a storm hits Denver and closes the airport for a few hours, we've gotten pretty good at isolating it to just that day and that airport. It's not always possible – especially if there's weather rolling across the entire country, that's where it gets really challenging. What we attempt to do is really isolate the problem to the day and the location where the weather is, and not have it bleed over into the rest of the system. When weather happens, there's nothing you can do. On how United Airlines is trying to contain weather-related delays
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