About 3,000 air traffic controllers short right now. And I've said many times, we can't flip a switch and turn on more controllers. It takes a year and a half to two years for a new controller to be trained up in the Duluth airspace. So it takes time to get our controllers certified in the airspace in which they're going to work. But we have done a number of things. (04:14–04:21)
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Asserts that training a new air traffic controller in the Duluth airspace takes 1.5 to 2 years.
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