We're trying to bring more controllers into the pipeline, into the career path. Our academy is in Oklahoma City and right now we're not paying the instructors at the academy, but The students, they get a stipend to help them live while they go be trained up to be a controller. That stipend runs out in a little over a week. We could lose this tranche of air traffic controllers. So instead of going in the right direction trying to bring more controllers into the system, I'm going to lose them. (04:24–04:33)
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