Scott Kirby
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So it really is creating value for all of our customers, all the way from basic economy to winning much higher market share and the brand loyal customers.
Really is a great resilient strategy when times are difficult, but a lot of upside as the economy recovers here in 4Q.
Well, as we've talked about before, Lisa, the airline industries are a pretty good real-time indicator of the economy.
And we saw for much of the first half of the year economic stress and ticket prices were lower as a result of that.
But as we got into the third quarter, bookings at least for future travel, the economy started to pick up, bookings started to pick up.
And as we finished the quarter, we've set records each of the last several weeks on
Most corporate revenue that we've ever booked in a single week and a number of records, particularly in business travel, really kind of strong across the board, though.
Internationals come back stronger.
The period has extended.
Premium is obviously stronger than main cabin.
But really, we've seen improvement, you know, as we've moved through the third quarter, kind of across the board on revenue streams with the biggest strength in the corporate segment.
Well, our business is about 80% U.S.
point of sale, but we have and we saw a drop in international traffic earlier in the year.
It's not quite back to last year's levels, but it has recovered and it's close to last year's level.
So we did see a dip, but even that has come back and we think that's on the trend to getting back to normal pretty soon.
Well, we've been growing in absolute growth, actually faster, I think, than any airline in the world has ever grown for several years in a row.
And that's worked really well for United, and that's been successful.
So we really haven't much changed our capacity.
We tweak it here and there.