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Speaker 2: All Right, the media MN a trade that just won't
Speaker 2: go away. Warner Brothers Discovery says an amended takeover offer
Speaker 2: from Paramounts Guidance is inferior to its deal with Netflix
Speaker 2: and urges shareholders not to tender their shares. I don't
Speaker 2: know what's going on here, people, but our next guest
Speaker 2: does Keith wrong, Anathan. She is the media analyst for
Speaker 2: Bloomberg Intelligence here. Actually, Keith, I thought we'd have something
Speaker 2: done by now. I mean, these offers are pretty clear.
Speaker 2: The value seemed kind of similar to me.
Speaker 3: What do you think's going on here?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So this time what Warner Brothers is saying, in addition
Speaker 5: to the fact that the offer is actually inadequate, this
Speaker 5: is what they said the very first time when they
Speaker 5: rejected this thirty dollars bid from paramount You know, they
Speaker 5: obviously wanted the personal guarantee from Larry Ellison, which they got.
Speaker 5: They wanted, you know, paramount to raise its termination fee
Speaker 5: to five point eight billion to match Netflix that also
Speaker 5: they got. But now they're saying that they actually really
Speaker 5: do need, you know, a sweetened bid, So they cite
Speaker 5: a number there. They say that if they had to
Speaker 5: terminate their agreement with Netflix, they will also incur you know,
Speaker 5: obviously they have to pay the termination fee, plus there's
Speaker 5: going to be significant financing costs, so all of that
Speaker 5: comes out about one dollars one dollar and eighty cents,
Speaker 5: close to one seventy nine or one eighty a share,
Speaker 5: So they obviously need to be compensated for that. So
Speaker 5: basically I think, you know, they do need a sweetened offer.
Speaker 5: And the big thing that they highlight this time around
Speaker 5: is the amount of debt, so they actually call this
Speaker 5: a leveraged buyout, probably the biggest one in the history
Speaker 5: of M and A, and so say that, you know,
Speaker 5: it just presents too many risks and too many uncertainties
Speaker 5: and is definitely inferior to the Netflix offer.
Speaker 6: Right, the conclusion that it has drawn and what it's
Speaker 6: recommending to shareholders remains the same, which is go with Netflix's.
Speaker 6: The Netflix bid having said that, what does it mean
Speaker 6: that Warner Brothers Discovery wrote this letter to shareholders? Do
Speaker 6: we get the sense that shareholders are tendering shares to
Speaker 6: the paramount?
Speaker 5: Not so from what we've heard. You know, when it
Speaker 5: was last reported Scarlett, about five hundred thousand shares were
Speaker 5: tendered at that thirty dollars price. Remember we have about
Speaker 5: two point six billion, so we're really very very long
Speaker 5: ways off. So you know, I think shareholders definitely expect
Speaker 5: the price to go up. They do, you know, think
Speaker 5: that there is going to be a bidding war. The
Speaker 5: number out there on the street is that David Zaslav
Speaker 5: is looking for thirty four dollars, as you know, the
Speaker 5: final offer which he will sign this his company away
Speaker 5: to Paramount. I'm not sure whether you know Paramount is
Speaker 5: actually going to raise their offer, but that that is
Speaker 5: really the number that he's looking for. And we know him.
Speaker 5: He's he's really a master craftsman when it comes to
Speaker 5: to getting the best deal for his company. So again
Speaker 5: it's it's a way and watch.
Speaker 2: We used to call that the final final offer. This
Speaker 2: is our final final We're not we're not getting any.
Speaker 6: So final that we need to say twice.
Speaker 3: Exactly, Githy.
Speaker 7: We have not heard really too much from Netflix, have we.
Speaker 5: So all on Netflix said today Paul was after you know,
Speaker 5: Warner Brothers Discovery put out that letter, was you know,
Speaker 5: they said, yes, we continue to you know, work with
Speaker 5: Warner Brothers. We filed, we're working with the anti trust authorities,
Speaker 5: you know, we're working with the regulators, and we hope
Speaker 5: to get you know, the deal down. So everything kind
Speaker 5: of proceeding as expected from from the Netflix management team.
Speaker 6: You mentioned thirty four dollars a share is what David
Speaker 6: Zaslov is really eyeing. Is there any reason to think
Speaker 6: Netflix will raise its offer.
Speaker 5: Netflix needs to raise its offer, Scarlett, only if Paramount
Speaker 5: comes back with a sweetened bid, And we do think
Speaker 5: that they actually will raise their offer. They really believe
Speaker 5: even though the you know, the market price reaction obviously
Speaker 5: has been very negative to this whole Netflix deal, just
Speaker 5: kind of given that it really kind of complicates a
Speaker 5: very clean narrative. I think Netflix really believes that they're
Speaker 5: doing this, you know, in the long in the long
Speaker 5: they're playing the long game here. You know, this is
Speaker 5: a great collection of assets. Again, it's not just the
Speaker 5: cost of doing the deal. It's the cost of not
Speaker 5: doing the deal, and they obviously do not want to
Speaker 5: strengthen their competitors. They believe this is a great collection
Speaker 5: of assets that gives them, you know, tremendous value over many,
Speaker 5: many years to come. So I absolutely think they will
Speaker 5: raise the price, but the first move has to be
Speaker 5: from Paramount.
Speaker 2: GITHA part of the Warner Brothers discovery plan before this
Speaker 2: offer was it was to spin out their cable networks.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what Compcast did several days ago, spinning
Speaker 2: out its cable networks. The company new companies called Versant
Speaker 2: Media vs NT. That thing is traded off about twenty
Speaker 2: just in the last few days. Man, what does that
Speaker 2: tell you about the cable network business and maybe how
Speaker 2: it might affect these bids.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's really bleak. And so this actually strengthens
Speaker 5: the case for Paramount. This is exactly what they were saying.
Speaker 5: They were saying, let's buy this whole thing, because you
Speaker 5: don't know where this, you know, the global networks business
Speaker 5: and the TV networks is going to actually trade and
Speaker 5: here we go. Versun is actually just proving their point.
Speaker 5: So does not really bode well for Warner Brothers. But
Speaker 5: again I think still Warner Brothers will continue to have
Speaker 5: to have the upper hand because again they can argue
Speaker 5: that their cable networks, again a slightly different business, much
Speaker 5: larger in scale compared to the version properties, has an
Speaker 5: international footprint. But again the writing is on the wall, Paula.
Speaker 5: As you've said many times, I mean that the TV
Speaker 5: network business is bleeding, not a slow death anymore. This
Speaker 5: is really happening fast and furious.
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Speaker 2: Nvidia CEO Jensen Wang says the artificial intelligence industry always
Speaker 2: needs more energy. On the sidelines of the annual Consumer
Speaker 2: Tech Events, cees Jensen Wang and Siemens CEO roll On
Speaker 2: Bush spoke exclusively with Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow on their AI partnership.
Speaker 4: From Hopper to Blackwell, we increased energy efficiency by tenx.
Speaker 4: From Blackwell to Reuben, we increased energy efficiency again by tenx.
Speaker 4: And that translates directly to our customers revenues because in
Speaker 4: the case of ANAI factory, whatever factory size you have,
Speaker 4: you're limited by the power.
Speaker 7: All Right.
Speaker 3: That was Jensen Wang.
Speaker 2: He is head of Nvidia and Siemens COO role On Bush,
Speaker 2: speaking exclusively with Bloomberg's ed La Low of the AI
Speaker 2: Partnership AD at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: Let's get the latest reporting from Vegas. Caroline Hydroids is
Speaker 2: she's out there. She's the b Tech co anchor for
Speaker 2: a Bloomberg News. Caroline, it just seems like, you know,
Speaker 2: you're listening to mister Wog, mister Bush. The need for
Speaker 2: AI and the spending on AI shows no real signs
Speaker 2: of slowing yet.
Speaker 3: Is that the vibe you're getting out there?
Speaker 8: That is very much the vibe we're getting. We heard
Speaker 8: from Lisa Su yesterday as well, CEO of AMD, saying
Speaker 8: in the next few years, you're going to have to
Speaker 8: one hundred x the amount of compute that we currently have.
Speaker 8: Has stock still falling today, I might add, and so
Speaker 8: many people may be factoring in this extraordinary scale, which
Speaker 8: we'd likely to see the compute needs still ramp up.
Speaker 8: And it's having a marked effect on certain companies stocks
Speaker 8: like I'm sure you were covering yesterday and into today
Speaker 8: sand Disc. It is up one thousand percent from its
Speaker 8: lows back in April, but it's almost fifty in the
Speaker 8: first few trading days of the year. This is all
Speaker 8: about a shortage in memory, memory storage. We are seeing
Speaker 8: still the fact that we're worrying about energy, as Jentsen says,
Speaker 8: we're worrying about memory as you're seeing, impacting.
Speaker 4: Some Sung stock as well.
Speaker 8: We had a Somesung executive on the network yesterday saying, Nook,
Speaker 8: we're going to have to see a high con prices
Speaker 8: because supply is just so tight. And yet still people
Speaker 8: question whether we're in some sort of bubble. But all
Speaker 8: I'm hearing is the infrastructure just needs to get ever
Speaker 8: bigger and we kind of need to get on board
Speaker 8: with that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, speaking of memory chip makers, Micron the biggest US
Speaker 6: memory chip maker, jumping two hundred and forty percent last
Speaker 6: year and up about ten percent yesterday. So interesting example
Speaker 6: of that. So Caroline the Consumer Electronics show, Paul and
Speaker 6: I were reminiscing how once upon a time it met
Speaker 6: big screen TVs and other gadgets that you know, companies
Speaker 6: dreamt up but consumers may or may not want to
Speaker 6: sign on for. Is that still what's happening at the
Speaker 6: cees or has it turned into a high level discussion
Speaker 6: on chips and AI.
Speaker 8: I think they're managing to walk both sides. We're still
Speaker 8: seeing those big unveils and discussions coming from in video
Speaker 8: CEO from AMDCO, from Quilcom CEO. They're talking about what's
Speaker 8: inside these electronics or what's inside the compute that is
Speaker 8: needed to foster these electronics. But then you have Samsung,
Speaker 8: which is very much on the AI train with its chips,
Speaker 8: but also unveiling the latest, greatest Samsung frame or the
Speaker 8: latest TV that has you can see all around the
Speaker 8: curvature of it, or the fact that they are still
Speaker 8: trying to think about how your home is going to
Speaker 8: be connected, how your television is discussing, discussing with your
Speaker 8: oven as to whether or not the food is cooked,
Speaker 8: and you get in between messaging between the two. I
Speaker 8: mean there are companies that still continue to unveil. They're
Speaker 8: also the ludicrous. I mean there's lollipops that play music
Speaker 8: as you eat them, There's little toys, everything that seems
Speaker 8: to be about AI and about companionship is something that
Speaker 8: just seems to involve some sort of cuddly toy that
Speaker 8: talks to you. But apparently cute is the way in
Speaker 8: which we're going to go forward. But there are the
Speaker 8: vacuum cleaners, there's the massoles chairs. It's still very much
Speaker 8: has this idea of pushing the innovation forward. And the
Speaker 8: main thing, guys, I cannot walk without seeing a humanoid
Speaker 8: robot or some sort. So we're gonna have some big
Speaker 8: interviews a little bit later. We got Boston Robotics, for example,
Speaker 8: coming on the show, and that's really Boston Dynamics in fact,
Speaker 8: which has a huge new unveil of its latest humanoid.
Speaker 3: Stay with us. More from Bloomberg Intelligence coming up.
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Speaker 6: Well, there have been lots of big games in the
Speaker 6: lead up to the Super Bowl, and of course there
Speaker 6: will continue to be as we head in that direction.
Speaker 6: So let's bring in Brian Eggers. He covers everything for us,
Speaker 6: from the gaming companies to the lodging companies to the
Speaker 6: cruise ship companies. See your gaming and lodging analysts here
Speaker 6: at Bloomberg Intelligence. And Brian, you and your team have
Speaker 6: done some work and how Draft Kings is positioning itself
Speaker 6: for the NFL playoffs.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so, DraftKings and Fandel, among other things, recently rolled
Speaker 9: out these prediction market apps which are separate from their
Speaker 9: sports books.
Speaker 7: And this is really to.
Speaker 9: Coldpeep our head on against call She and Robinhood and
Speaker 9: other of these financial firms that offer these event contracts
Speaker 9: in a number of states.
Speaker 7: How big is it?
Speaker 3: I'm hearing more and more about this prediction market market.
Speaker 3: How big is this that?
Speaker 7: I mean, this is potentially really large.
Speaker 9: I don't have numbers in front of me, But the
Speaker 9: key thing is that call She and Robin Hood are
Speaker 9: trying to do this in all fifty states. They're about
Speaker 9: a dozen states that either hold them cease and desist
Speaker 9: because they effectively are engaging in illegal sports betting according
Speaker 9: to the states, or a couple of states have warned DraftKings,
Speaker 9: fandled don't do the same thing.
Speaker 7: If you've got a sports book license.
Speaker 9: So what DraftKings and Fandal did is try to go
Speaker 9: into states with this product where they don't.
Speaker 7: Operate sports books.
Speaker 9: They can do prediction markets on politics or entertainment events
Speaker 9: in any state, but the real issue is with respective sports.
Speaker 7: That's where they limit themselves.
Speaker 6: Let me ask you dumb question, and maybe we don't
Speaker 6: know the answer to this yet. Who is the target
Speaker 6: audience for a sports prediction market versus a sports contract
Speaker 6: and in production market setting versus you know, just a
Speaker 6: regular parlay or simple bet.
Speaker 9: In recourse, the type of person in terms of the
Speaker 9: type of area or territory. Think about the fact that
Speaker 9: you've got mobile sports books in almost thirty states, with
Speaker 9: thirty some odd states Draftings, Fandel and twenty five of
Speaker 9: them other states, big states like Texas and California that
Speaker 9: don't have legal sports books in sports betting, that's a
Speaker 9: logical market for call She and Robin the do go
Speaker 9: in there and say you can do these prediction markets
Speaker 9: and engage in that even though sports betting isn't active
Speaker 9: and legal in the state.
Speaker 7: That's really the big.
Speaker 3: So what would Texas and a Florida say about that?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 7: So, without going through every state.
Speaker 9: There about a dozen states that either specifically told call
Speaker 9: she and poly Market or Robinhood ye see and assist
Speaker 9: on do this. A few others have issued Wetter's warning
Speaker 9: Draftings of Fandel do not offer a sports prediction market
Speaker 9: in a state where you've got a sports bet license.
Speaker 9: So what Fandom and Draftings did is you know, seventeen
Speaker 9: states for Draftings five or Fandel. They're offering this product
Speaker 9: in states where they don't have sports books, and we're
Speaker 9: sports betting isn't quote legal.
Speaker 6: Who regulates the sports markets, So it's confused.
Speaker 9: It's very confusing because the sports books are regulated by
Speaker 9: state gaming regulatory authorities. The prediction markets are regulated by
Speaker 9: the CFTC, so it's state versus federal. And that's been
Speaker 9: the argument of Kolchi that you know, we're a financial
Speaker 9: futures contract, we're not sports betting. We are federally regulated.
Speaker 9: The states have pushed back and said no, this is
Speaker 9: a form of effectively on licened sports betting, and ultimately
Speaker 9: I think this heads to the Supreme Court. That's certainly
Speaker 9: in the view of Eliott Stein or litigation analyst.
Speaker 2: So what are the casino companies say these days? What
Speaker 2: do they say, does that impact their sports book and
Speaker 2: their sports betting?
Speaker 9: And on the margin, to the extent that MGM and
Speaker 9: Caesars have mobile products, it's very possible to look into
Speaker 9: this type of product as well. Again in those states
Speaker 9: where sports beinning isn't legal, so.
Speaker 7: Everyone's going to be think about it.
Speaker 9: And the real other other wrinkle is Texas and California
Speaker 9: once they realize we may not have sports betting. What
Speaker 9: we have effectively sports betters. If you believe that's what
Speaker 9: prediction markets are, we might as well legalize it. And
Speaker 9: so there's a whole bunch of ramifications to this.
Speaker 6: What about Native American tribes in states like California in Connecticut,
Speaker 6: where do they fit it?
Speaker 9: I mean in California, although sports betting isn't legal in California,
Speaker 9: the tribes have themselves challenged and through legally the Whites
Speaker 9: of KAlSi and Robin Hood I don't remember which one.
Speaker 9: So you know to the extent that tribes have opportunities
Speaker 9: to operate sports books, which effectively Florida has the Seminal
Speaker 9: Tribe operating operating hard rock betting site even though draftings
Speaker 9: and or are not involved. So the tribes very much,
Speaker 9: will care to the extent that this is effectively a
Speaker 9: competing product as consumers might perceive it.
Speaker 3: So is betting just going crazy the total dollar not.
Speaker 2: I see kids, high school kids having conversations in detail
Speaker 2: showing a level of expertise which really blows me away.
Speaker 2: Kids high school kids, and I don't know, it just
Speaker 2: doesn't feel it's surprising.
Speaker 9: And it also gets very problematic when you have college
Speaker 9: kids college games.
Speaker 7: Yeh, college players.
Speaker 9: So but yeah, there's a big national draw to that
Speaker 9: draw to this, and I think the real I don't
Speaker 9: think draftings of fand will get as affected as some
Speaker 9: might fear in states where they've got a sports book,
Speaker 9: but in states where they can't operate a sports book.
Speaker 9: But Kyll she and Robinhood and Polymarket others are offering
Speaker 9: prediction markets. That's where I think they see risk as
Speaker 9: well as opportunity.
Speaker 6: Brian, what about the sports leagues, the NFL, the NBA,
Speaker 6: the NHL, the MLB. How do they fit into all this?
Speaker 6: I mean, are they're going all in with the prediction markets?
Speaker 7: Well, I think so.
Speaker 9: They're watching obviously with interests. I mean, the major principles
Speaker 9: in terms of where there's heads are state regulators versus
Speaker 9: federal regulators. State's issuing in some cases seas and desist orders.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 9: Ultimately, because there's a lot of ongoing court cases, many
Speaker 9: on appeal, the Supreme Court is the logical destination for
Speaker 9: the legality of this.
Speaker 7: But I mean that's the good reason. Maybe years away,
Speaker 7: depends on the urgency.
Speaker 9: I know Elliott Stein believes that could happen potentially as
Speaker 9: early as twenty twenty six, that there's a decision, but
Speaker 9: we don't know. But ultimately, I think this it needs
Speaker 9: to be qualified and resolved as to who has jurisdiction here.
Speaker 3: It is crazy the amount.
Speaker 2: I mean just a few years ago, I mean, you
Speaker 2: wouldn't even have thought this, But now you get sports
Speaker 2: teams in Vegas.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, yeah, so they I think my way
Speaker 9: to start this is the leading up to the presidential election.
Speaker 9: There was a lot of activity on one and polymarket
Speaker 9: about who we win the election, and that kind of
Speaker 9: kicked off awful water popular interest in this, which means
Speaker 9: that's when they became involved in sports prediction markets actively
Speaker 9: a year ago.
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Speaker 2: Alaska Airline ordering Boeing Company aircraft including one hundred and
Speaker 2: five narrow body seven thirty seven Max ten models and
Speaker 2: five Trip seven eighty seven wide body aircraft. So good
Speaker 2: day for Boeing. This stocks up about eight tens to
Speaker 2: one percent. Stocks up about thirty four percent over the
Speaker 2: trailing twelve months. George Ferguson joins us here senior Aerospace,
Speaker 2: defense and airlines analyts for Bloomberg Intelligence. George A, is
Speaker 2: this this seems like a nice day, a good order
Speaker 2: for Boeing.
Speaker 3: How are they doing out in the marketplace?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's a It was a nice kickoff
Speaker 10: to the year. As far as orders look through, we've
Speaker 10: tracked them through November of last year. We get to
Speaker 10: see December order and deliveries from Boeing or Airbus. But
Speaker 10: through November of last year, Boeing was beating Airbus in
Speaker 10: the order game for the year, and so you know,
Speaker 10: we had sort of expected this or there were some
Speaker 10: core customers. I think that we're probably sitting on the
Speaker 10: sideline watching the sea if Boeing was going to get
Speaker 10: its troubles behind it before it placed orders, and so
Speaker 10: we saw a bit of a bounce back last year
Speaker 10: in twenty twenty five. Is Boeing sort of pulled in
Speaker 10: a bunch of those orders. I think if you're an airline,
Speaker 10: you know, and you're sort of fleet planning, when you
Speaker 10: have backlogs that are ten years large for the for
Speaker 10: the most important airplanes, for the narrow bodies, you kind
Speaker 10: of got to be sort of in the order mode,
Speaker 10: you know, every year or so many years, sort of
Speaker 10: tapping up orders to make sure that you have airplane
Speaker 10: is coming regularly as either you're expanding or things leaving
Speaker 10: your fleet. So good to see Alaska do it again.
Speaker 10: We think Boeing a lot of Boeing customers caught up
Speaker 10: last year. This year probably a decent order year as
Speaker 10: well as that catchup continues for Boeing. And this was
Speaker 10: a core customer for Boeing. Alaska has been a core
Speaker 10: Boeing flyer. They recently bought Hawaiian that added a bunch
Speaker 10: of Airbus aircraft to its fleet, not a lot, but
Speaker 10: a bunch of them, a handful of them, actually more
Speaker 10: than a handful of twenties or thirties. And I think
Speaker 10: another indicator that they've kept this Alaska have kept the
Speaker 10: Alaska Airlines as a core customer, and I would see
Speaker 10: them kind of going to a more pure Boeing fleet
Speaker 10: in the future as they ease out some of those
Speaker 10: Airbus aircraft.
Speaker 2: It seems like a big order for Alaska. Is this
Speaker 2: signal any change in strategy or what's going on there?
Speaker 10: Well, I think it's pretty interesting, right Alaska they're seven
Speaker 10: eighty seven dash. They think DASH tens altering when they
Speaker 10: buy them. With the biggest seven eighty seven, they've got
Speaker 10: an order for fi of them. Alaska traditionally had been
Speaker 10: just a narrow body kind of US but really West
Speaker 10: Coast focused airline. Since they bought Hawaiian, they've added international routes.
Speaker 10: Clearly they added Hawaii Hawaii Hawaiian had routes into Asia
Speaker 10: where there's a fair amount of demand for Hawaii. Alaska
Speaker 10: looks to be trying to grow into a global airline.
Speaker 10: They've got European service now too, So this is I
Speaker 10: think a continuation of that push by Alaska to be
Speaker 10: what it wants to be when it grows up. I
Speaker 10: guess which is going to be maybe another one of
Speaker 10: the big, big US full service carricers.
Speaker 2: Is there room, George, do you think for another US
Speaker 2: full service carrier?
Speaker 10: I think if you do it well, there probably is, right.
Speaker 10: I think, look, got you got Southwest coming as well.
Speaker 10: Southwest is adding premium seating. They're already pretty.
Speaker 7: Large in the US.
Speaker 10: They don't have much international, but Southwest is definitely a
Speaker 10: force to be reckoned with. But they're leaving the old
Speaker 10: world where they were very much a pure fleet and
Speaker 10: they could control costs well, going again into the you know,
Speaker 10: sort of premium and making their operations more complex. Alaska
Speaker 10: kind of come in the other way. They already have
Speaker 10: premium now trying to go global. I mean, I think
Speaker 10: going back to Alaska, they've got to figure out what
Speaker 10: they want to be when they grow up, because I
Speaker 10: don't think they can survive just as a largely West
Speaker 10: coast airline. I think Hawaiian was the beginning of that
Speaker 10: expansion strategy, which included long all this, uh, these following
Speaker 10: orders I think reinforced to me that's the direction they're going.
Speaker 10: They're going for a global airline.
Speaker 7: You know it's going to.
Speaker 10: Take a while to get there, but that's what they're
Speaker 10: going for.
Speaker 2: Would regulators ever allow, you know, the combination of all
Speaker 2: Alaskan Southwest for example.
Speaker 10: You know, that's to me, I think anytime you get
Speaker 10: some of the big carriers involved in buying somebody, I
Speaker 10: think it gets difficult.
Speaker 7: I think it's gonna I think it would be hard.
Speaker 7: I think it would be hard.
Speaker 10: I think Alaska I had to look at something maybe
Speaker 10: smaller or you know, Southwest. I think would be difficult
Speaker 10: to do an acquisition, maybe a very small acquisition. But
Speaker 10: if Alaska's getting together with somebody, I think it's kind
Speaker 10: of jet blue and down.
Speaker 2: What do you think here of just in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six air traffic?
Speaker 3: Air travel? How do you think that's going to shape
Speaker 3: up this year?
Speaker 10: Yeah, So we see a lot of additions to premium
Speaker 10: to premium carriers, and we see carriers adding premium seats
Speaker 10: that weren't traditionally premium carriers. So to us, it feels
Speaker 10: like premium could be under a bit of pressure as
Speaker 10: we get into the into the new year or twenty
Speaker 10: twenty six here because it looks like a lot of
Speaker 10: people go in that direction. That's where that's where the
Speaker 10: earnings have been driven lately. Loyalty programs super important. Basic economy.
Speaker 10: World looks like it's starting to right size. Things could
Speaker 10: get better, but it will take a little time.
Speaker 4: I think.
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