with which you guys negotiated over the last several days with third countries the ability to bring flights in to, you know, to expand the number of places throughout europe and the middle east. why wasn't that done months ago? i mean, you yourself have just said, you knew exactly that this chaos was going to erupt at some point. why would there be the need to negotiate on the fly with these countries if -- couldn't that have been done before? >> i'll take your second question first. i have to tell you, i bristle at saying we bragged, okay? i haven't bragged about anything. i'm trying to give you the straight dope from here, the good and the bad, and that means a lot to me. secondly, it is certainly the case that we have had to add countries and tried to add capacity in places. we did spend months negotiating transit centers to set up as part of our contingency planning in both the gulf and europe. as it turns out, we have been able to produce a throughput