Sean Duffy: “1% of those flights are to Israel and the other 1% is his…”

“I think airlines do well when they plan for the worst and hope for the best. So that's what I think is happening there. And again, United also said we're going to cut back flights by 3%. Well, 1% of those flights are to Israel and the other 1% is his work with the Department of Transportation to reduce flights in Chicago. United and American were overbooking all these flights. They couldn't fly them. And so we are systematically rolling those back. So there's really no impact on how many flights we're going to have.” (09:06–09:20)

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