No, that's a great, that's a great question. So, you know, we've had this problem for 10 years, but The school that trains air traffic controllers in Oklahoma City shut down and didn't ramp up fast enough during the COVID years. 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. (04:53–05:03)
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Asserts that the air traffic controller training school in Oklahoma City was closed and slow to reopen during COVID.
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