And so it's exacerbated the problem. And so what I've done now is again, the mandatory age of retirement for a controller is 56. Most of them retire at 51, 50 to 53, because they can retire after 25 years of service. What I've done is I've offered them a 20% bonus to stay on. Don't leave the most experienced controllers that we have, a lot of them, I think just patriotic controllers are going to stay on and continue to serve the country. (05:10–05:16)
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