Every day we wake up to restrictions in the amount of capacity that we can have, and that bleeds through the rest of the system.īut I think the most important point is safety. By far the biggest issue that we have is the weather and air traffic control delays. I saw the secretary of transportation two weeks ago, and I'll tell you exactly what I said to him, which is we have every motivation to run a reliable operation because that's what's best for our customers, which means that's what's best for our business. On the Biden administration's proposed protections for airline customers But they're never going to go back to the artificial lows of COVID. My guess would be fares are going to grow with inflation in the overall economy as they've historically done. If you go back to pre-pandemic, they're still lower than they were in real terms 10 years ago, and I think we've just returned to normal. Prices have returned to pre-pandemic levels. So I hope that we are close to the finish line with them. But the deal that we have on the table is a better deal than either the Delta deal or the recently announced American deal. There are a lot of changes that they requested in the contract, and an awful lot of changes that we've agreed to, and it's just taking a little time. It includes significant work rule enhancements. We think our pilots deserve an industry-leading contract, and we have put that deal on the table. We've invested in physical infrastructure like four parallel runways here in Denver, but we couldn't use two of them because there weren't enough air traffic controllers to use the other two runways. But this isn't unique to New York – it's everywhere in the country, and it really is about staffing, and we have to fix that issue. It's a help that the number of flights have been reduced in the New York airspace this summer. Those are airplanes that are scheduled to keep flying around the whole country for the rest of the day. When Denver had that reduction in arrival rates, that doesn't just impact those flights. We are working hard to get the right amount of resources and a bipartisan FAA reauthorization bill to address that issue. They simply don't have the Congressional authorization. Here's everything you need to knowīy the way, it's not the FAA's fault – this is a 20- to 30-year-old issue. National A record number of Americans may fly this summer.
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