NPR.

This is the indicator from Planned of Money.

I'm Adrian Ma.

And I'm Paddy Hirsch.

This summer should be boom time for US Airlines.

Americans are straining at the leash to get back into the air.

Mask free if they feel like it.

The TSA says passenger volume is almost back to pre-pandemic levels and analysts say demand

could go even higher than that over the next few months.

But there's a catch.

Are you like a baseball game because you are always full of catches?

Oh.

I'm a cricket at myself.

The thing is that while we're shaping up to have huge demand for airline travel this

year, we're also potentially facing some supply issues, supply of air crew, of air routes,

of air fuel, and maybe most important of all, of airline pilots.

Can you fly this plane and land it?

Surely you can be serious.

I am serious and don't call me Shirley.

That is airplane.

Love that movie so much.

Things aren't as bad as they are in that movie, of course, but it's still pretty bad.

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