And what we've seen in the course of this shutdown is a far greater majority of those controllers that I thought were going to stay are now retiring. So it makes my problem more difficult. It's more challenging. But We are going to get the Academy fully operational to get as many controllers into the airspace as possible. to make up that differential. Yes, thank you. Kind of the opposite. The President's also talked about penalizing some of these air traffic controllers who took sick time. (15:02–15:09)
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