David Neeleman
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Well, we're up to over 50 airplanes.
We're kind of growing every... We get an airplane about every three weeks.
We have on firm order about 90 Airbus A220s with an option to go to 120.
So it's just doing the same thing that we're doing.
We're flying...
About 87% of our routes, we have no nonstop competition.
So it's a perfect airplane size.
We have first class.
We have extra legroom seats.
And this international expansion is going to be great for us because Saturdays are a little bit of a down day for air travel.
But being able to take those airplanes and fly to Cancun and to Punta Cana and to Montego Bay, Jamaica, is going to be a real great asset for us.
Well, you know, it's along the same lines of what we've done.
I always say never start an airline just for the heck of it.
You have to start it with a reason.
And when I looked at the U.S.
market, 125 cities had lost more than 25% of their air service over the last 10 years.
So...
The big airlines were forcing people to all their hubs.
And cities like Charleston, South Carolina, Huntsville, Alabama, vibrant, growing cities, you basically had to get on a plane and fly to a hub.
And so we're just taking people and bypassing hubs and going nonstop.