We've also hired 2,000 new air traffic controllers. Now once they get out of the academy, it does take them time to train up and in the facilities. But This is the fastest that we have hired air traffic controllers in the history of the FAA. So what I want you to think about is if you get a brand new computer with no software but you deploy 1995 software in your computer, your brand new hardware of a computer is going to operate like it's from 1995. (02:56–03:03)
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