government protect your european partners by forcing passengers to connect in frankfurt munich, paris amsterdam london onto aircraft up with of the tons of khmer french can british airways, virgin atlantic. >> let me start. this is not protectionism. this is about enforcing trade policy what our nation stands for in the united states which is where competition is free of distortion particularly subsidized distortion. this distortion distortion is off the scale orders of magnitude subsidization far beyond anything that i have ever seen in my career. this is a significant issue to us us to our employees fled to the us airline industry we fly over 5000 flights a day. we fly either directly or through star alliance in competition with the golf carriers everyday. if you take the entire network of all three golf carriers there are only three destinations not served by a member of our alliance. this is a competitive situation command we are more than happy to and do each of us complete -- compete globally are ready, willing, and able, and able to compete globally, but you cannot compete against the national

protect your european partners by forcing passengers to connect in frankfurt, munich paris amsterdam command london? >> let me start, this is not protectionism. this is about enforcing trade policy. this is about what our nation stands for in the united states, which is fair competition free of distortion, particularly subsidized distortion. this distortion is off the scale. orders of magnitude subsidization far beyond anything that i have ever seen in my career. this is a significant issue to us to our employees, to the us airline industry does it affect our foreign partners? of course but we compete on a global scale. we fly united alone over 500 flights a day to 365 destinations on six continents. we fly either directly or through alliance a competition with carriers every single day. you take the entire network and there are only three destinations not served by a member of star alliance. this is a competitive situation and we are more than happy to and each of us american delta, united we compete globally and are ready and able to complete globally. you cannot compete against a number of the s