Portuguese-speaking world

It w- it was really interesting talking to the business community because a lot of people, uh, and then I'm sure a lot of people are saying today, there's gonna be a lot of analysis, of course, in, uh, the, the Portuguese press about this, that this is completely the wrong match.

Uh, y- you had many people say that, uh, "Well, what does the, the Lusophone Latin world have to do with Frankfurt? Uh, this makes no sense.

It's just not the right [laughs] emotional, spiritual, or even business match." On the other side, though, you had a lot of people who were completely against- Uh, Air France, uh, landing this because they said already you have the Vinci Group, uh, of course, the big infrastructure players who control, uh, many of the airports, uh, in, in Portugal and actually in some of the broader Lusophone world as well, saying that this would be, on one side, uh, really almost a sovereignty issue because you would have infrastructure ultimately controlled by Paris, and then you would have an airline controlled by Paris, and that was simply too much.

So you had many people who were very much in favor of also the Lufthansa Group, of course, uh, picking up TAP.

Well, and from Lufthansa's perspective, I mean, Tyler, the last time we spoke on air about aviation, it was on the anniversary of Swiss Air's collapse and rebirth as Swiss, which you were involved with.

And then not to mention, uh, double-digit, uh, gateways into other cities, uh, across Brazil as well.

So this is, you know, even from this side of the world, many eyes on, of course, who is going to be, uh, picking up, uh, the Lusophone flag carrier, you could say.

Well, Tyler, on that note, is there any surprise from your perspective that Lufthansa was the one to get in there and outbid Air France KLM?

KLM?Chris, we've been talking about, uh, this deal for a while now.

We've been canvassing the views of, of people all over Portugal and, and beyond.

It w- it was really interesting talking to the business community because a lot of people, uh, and then I'm sure a lot of people are saying today there's gonna be a lot of analysis, of course, in, uh, the, the Portuguese press about this, that this is completely the wrong match.

Uh, I mean, you had many people say that, uh, "Well, what does the, the Lusophone Latin world have to do with Frankfurt? Uh, this makes no sense.

It's just not the right emotional, spiritual, or even business match." On the other side, though, you had a lot of people who were completely against, uh, Air France, uh, landing this because they said already you have the Vinci Group, uh, of course, the big infrastructure players who control, uh, many of the airports, uh, in, in Portugal and actually in some of the broader Lusophone world as well, saying that this would be, on one side, uh, really almost a sovereignty issue because you would have infrastructure ultimately controlled by Paris, and then you would have an airline controlled by Paris, and that was simply too much.

... you ha- then you get your day back.

Lusophone World this, uh, this week.

So we have not-- We've-- Well, yes.

We've been back and forth to Brazil.

We're coming-- We're flying back, uh, you know, this evening [laughs] after the party." That's, that's Brazil.

That's not all of Brazil, um, but it is certainly a, a, a slice of Brazil where, where we know there's a lot of helicopters, a lot of private aviation.

So that will be our, uh, yeah, the extension of, uh, the Lusophone world, uh, leaving Lisbon.

Super stuff.