North America

Yeah.

But at some point, there would be an outside force that comes into this area of North Georgia and pays a visit, and the fact that there hasn't been tells me that there's probably not, at least not an advanced technolo- technological race that has any type of access to this region of North America.

Yeah.

Yeah.

AA also get us, like, Japan Airlines, Cathay Airways.

Yes, it is good, but the secret here is the EVA because EVA is the Taiwan-based carriers, and they have, I would not say all of the routes, but at least the North American routes.

You have higher chance to get the business class for a family of two to four, and they have also good chance for you to upgrade to business class from premium economy if you buy a proper cash ticket, and sometimes this is a good deal.

And of course, Capital One is another one that is kind of underrated.

Some other, I think, surprises that I've stumbled across just looking for where do we find award availability.

Again, I'm always about like, what's high yield? Where can we start at the place that's most likely to be successful and not have to pick through 100 million different options? A city in general that I think more people should pay attention to that don't is, you mentioned talking about Philippines Airlines, the importance of also considering Canadian airports, and I think that that is definitely true, and specifically Toronto.

You know, Toronto is serviced by a lot of these Asia-based airlines, and maybe because it's so close to where I am in Chicago, that's kinda one of the first places I'll look to if I need to position is what does Toronto look like? What does Montreal look like? And it is interesting that we can see really big differences in award availability if you also expand your geographic location, not just to the US-based airports, but also the larger North American airports.

And the other thing I was thinking about for folks who are West Coast based or have a reason to position to the West Coast, maybe they have family to visit or they just wanna have that be, you know, a stopover point for them.

And, uh, it's, it's, it's an important, uh, part of our year.

It's a very hard work because we have dozens of meetings in over just a couple days, but it's very efficient because we get to meet with all of, not all, but many of our key relationships here in North America.

And I, I know I have a bias, Steve.

You tease me about it.

This is not, um, a fight.

Okay? So, um, I think Trump will take over Greenland, Iceland, Canada, uh, Mexico, um, Cuba, Venezuela, basically all of, uh, Latin America and North America, and then give it to all his friends.

Okay? Which includes, uh, multinationals, but also includes, um, private individuals and families as well.

Okay? That's num- the second thing he- he's gonna do, okay? Partition, uh, North America.

And the third thing he's gonna do, which is, like, the most strange thing, because you would never expect it from Trump, but this is exactly what Augustus Caesar did.

Okay? When, when Augustus Caesar came to power, his main obsession, his main focus, was to revitalize the Roman religion.

It was meant to strengthen you.

It was meant to turn you into a sword of steel for the coming, uh, mission, okay? And the coming mission is to usher in the end times.

He's pissing off a lot of people in the nature space who probably voted for him.

um so i i think that us birders are kind of in a constant state of just worry and depression um for the u.s right now and just like our only hope is to just kind of keep voting keep getting together um keep donating to the local organizations that don't have funding anymore um um keep e-birding and getting the Cornell scientists the data that they can use um to try and help and you know a population but it's tough all those South American birds that fly through North America and that um breed or winter here go up to Canada like their stopover habitat is at high risk

it's just going back to that word like shit show in it like it's very corrupt out there at the moment for nature for birds for mammals reptiles fish for for humans for social reasons as well it's just it's so challenging Yeah,

it's a mess.

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