What we've also done is controllers can retire after 25 years of service. And again, these are the best, these are the best equipped controllers that we have. And so I've offered them a 20% upfront bonus of their salary to get them to stay on the job. not retire. And so hopefully we're going to have a lot of those controllers stay on the job. And as we bring more controllers on, we're going to deal with this 3,000 controller shortage. (09:33–09:41)
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