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Old 10-30-2013 | 01:05 PM
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Mark Powers always has some classic quotes

Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President
For sure, we had some headwinds next year. I mean, absolutely, we are committed to paying pilot peer wages, and there is no doubt that we are lagging that. We are on -- in process of ongoing conversations with our pilot groups on that particular topic, probably not -- it's probably premature, really, to talk kind of where our thinking is right now on the pilot pay. That's probably a conversation we better -- it's best to have with our pilot first than on an earnings call. But for sure, that will be a source of headwind next year. And the whole Mint thing is on -- other than seats and some of the training and product, I'm not viewing that as -- candidly, it's not in my top 5 of headwinds as I think about next year. I would caution just a little bit of -- in the interest of disclosure, our benefits this year have been really, really, if you will, very, very good in terms of claims and whatnot. The -- our people department converted us wisely to a new plan. I don't know the dynamics of deductibles and where people are filing. We may see a bit of an increase on benefits in the fourth quarter of this year, but beyond that, I'm not really expecting anything else.
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