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Bottom line. we've heard companies using disaster like hurricanes and earthquakes for missing financial targets. but the sequester? delta is saying the government cuts are cutting into sales. dave says the airline should be pointing fingers at the out of sight air fares. delta says there's less money coming in because hoff the sequester. you disagrow with that? >> look, i think there's a couple of big waves hitting in the fails of the airline business. one of the interesting things, let's get off the table this, load factor, the percentage of seats is up. so the idea this is wipe ought passeng...

Use. i want him to succeed personally, spiritually and professionally. it's important to say what neighboring is suggesting to young kids who follow him as a hero is wrong. they shouldn't do it. >> you a good golf summer. >> i love to golf. >> do you ever take a mulligan? >> many mulligans. >> now we know. don't play with the father. you may not like it but airlines do. they call it a load factor but when you hear how much they charge you for it, you're going to call -- i know the father's here, a lot of you no whati'm t factor. at home would absolutely not have taken a zip line in the jungle....

Are wide bodied aircraft to 757s during the '90s, early 2000. the 757s' maximum range is about 4000 miles. seven hundred sixty-seven, considerably more than that. as i say, it's cheaptory fly the 757s. you pay your pilots less, you have less be a cab -- less of a cabin crew. it's being driven by economics. bill: i see. what would the passenger think about this if they're onboard one of these? >> if you miss your connections, in this day, with 90 percent plus load factor, you may not be able to reconnect to your flight, particularly during holiday periods, for a couple of days. it is a real inc...

U.s. carriers go back into the red, how long can someone like air asia stay profitable? >> well, i think in your preamble you kind of answered it. we are experiencing high load factors and income has been strong. crises such as these actually aid us because they really differentiate us from the other carriers as we are much more efficient. it's tough but we've been able to grow in the first quarter as you just read out. and i think the solution to this is having a better load factor and better ancillary income. >> the people you're attracting obviously are low-cost flyers because they don't ha...

Is that we can click on a plane and it will say how high it is and where it's going. here it will tell you what flight it is. what's the number it is. that's how i know that that's, you know, the klm flight. so you can go on there and then go on to flight stats or flight where and it will tell you what it's doing, where it's going. i'm telling you, there's not a seat on any one of those planes empty. >> everyone is relocating. >> just stuck. half the planes leave today should left. most of those planes would have been full anyway. now you have three days. >> this is what richard was telling us...