Before there were paved roads or railroads or airplanes or the Internet, there was the Mississippi running down to New Orleans.

What we're really doing is running a modern airline with classic airplanes. Our maintenance efforts have to go well above and beyond what an airline with new airplanes has to do. It's quite a challenge.

With billions of dollars sunk into the soil in southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, ... it's kind of too late. We're there, and we're staying there.

The obvious question to ask is, who is going to rebuild it?

There's absolutely no chance that New Orleans will go the way of Galveston. There's too much money invested there.

There's absolutely no chance that New Orleans will go the way of Galveston, ... There's too much money invested there.