Lisa Abramowicz

Do you see that on track, the same type of price increases, and are consumers okay with it?

Are they absorbing it?

How much do you see staff wage increases also playing into this?

The idea that a lot of the people who work for United are also saying, OK, well, things are going up.

We want to pay increase.

Scott, I love saying that you're my favorite economist to speak to because you do have this real-time view of the economy.

And right now what you're saying is kind of flying in the face of the weakness and some of the worries that we're hearing, whether it's from the government shutdown that's going to cause disruptions or whether it's the employment picture that people are increasingly worried about.

How do you square those two things, this reacceleration that you're talking about, with the weakness that policymakers seem to be so worried about?

Scott Kirby, thank you so much for your time.

I really appreciate it.

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