I'll give you a 20% upfront cash bonus. And if you don't retire and you stay on the job. And what we've seen in the course of this shutdown is A far greater majority of those controllers that I thought were going to stay are now retiring. So it makes my problem more difficult. It's more challenging. But we are going to get the Academy fully operational to get as many controllers into the airspace as possible to make up that differential. (14:51–14:59)
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