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A wave of reopenings are unleashing opportunities for many people ready to venture outside,

and they're looking to go on vacation. Air lines, cruise lines, and vacation rental companies are

hoping to benefit. But what opportunities exist for investors also hoping to benefit from this pent-up travel demand?

We'll get insights from three Morningstar Equity Analysts in a bonus episode of The Longview.

The Market X-ray podcast looks at investment opportunities and risk that go beyond the market headlines.

Let's begin this leg of the trip with equity analyst

Burkett Hewey, who covers the airline industry. Hi, Burkett. Thanks for coming on. Will you tell

our listeners a little bit about yourself and what is like to be a travel analyst?

Yeah, so my name is Burkett Huey. I am the aerospace defense and U.S. Airlines analyst over at Morningstar.

I've been at the company for about four and a half years.

And I really like covering travel and air travel in particular because it's tangible and it's kind of fun to look up in the sky and see a, you know, a Southwest plane going into

Chicago O'Hare Airport, which Southwest recently expanded to and kind of understand the strategy

behind that. The second summer of the pandemic is ahead. Can you tell us what kind of financial

situations the major airlines are dealing with right now?

Yeah. So the pandemic has really had three stages so far. You know, the first was raise as much cash and cut as

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