Ed Bastian
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There have always been walls.
There has always been in politics.
When we look at the world today, we know the one thing that really does unite the world is when you can actually travel and see and experience and get to know people.
And you bring the countries physically together.
closer together.
So yes, it's not going to be a straight line up.
In this business, we know there's a lot of turbulence in the sky, not just in the business model sometimes, but when we actually do physically get connected back together and the world start to become a closer place, that's where real opportunity sits.
It continues to be at the top end.
It continues to be in business.
We're seeing double-digit growth in business at the start of the year.
We had our largest weekly sales in our history just last week, up double digits over the same week a year ago.
So if this demand set continues, we're going to have a great year.
Well, we've been experiencing that for the last handful of years, and it's a problem where no good deed goes unpunished.
You build something great, and everybody wants to be in there, and it doesn't feel as exclusive any longer.
We've been working through that for the last several years.
American Express is our close partner on that.
American Express is building lounges.
We're building new lounges.
We've got the Delta One lounges that are coming.
We're going to continue to build more supply and more capacity to take care of all of our great customers.