Scott Kirby
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JetBlue is trying to turn the corner.
Much of the industry's
had challenges, but they have the right strategy, the right vision, and we have a lot of hope for them in the future, and we appreciate the partnership with them.
You know, we have come in pretty hot to start the year.
I think that's indicative of an underlying economy that has more underlying strength, I think, than most appreciate.
We saw that all through last year, see it continuing into this year.
And people getting back to travel, I'm sure that applies in other industries as well.
We're not sure if it'll last for the whole year.
I think our base case probably is that it will.
We haven't built that into our guidance.
We've been more conservative in our guidance.
But if it continues like this, it's going to be a really good year for United Airlines.
You know, the rising tide is lifting all of those boats.
So everything is better across the board, but the best remains international, remains premium, remains business travel.
And, you know, speaking to international, about 80% of the customers on United Airlines international flights are U.S.
citizens.
And we really never saw much slowdown there, even though we did see some, you know, some
slow down from some parts of geography.
Those mostly bottomed out and have started to recover.
But really, we see the most strength in international and premium, but everything is getting better across the board, at least in the first few weeks of January as we come into the new year.