. >> reporter: aer lingus c.e.o.hen kavanagh keeps an old globe gifted to his predecessor in the 1960s by the president of ireland. >> the first knot being based in ireland and the second knot was the technical range at the time. and his ambition was that ireland would become a gateway point. and 50 years later, we believe we're delivering on that ambition. >> reporter: now, aer lingus wasn't exactly a cash cow as a government service. aer lingus was owned by the irish government up until when? >> 2006. >> reporter: and it lost money in all that time, right? >> yes. well most, most of the time, yes. >> reporter: when i told sophisticated business people that i was doing this story, they said, oh airlines, an industry that always in the end loses money. so are you just in a up phase of what eventually is going to be a down industry? >> there's no doubt that the business is cyclical. and there's no doubt that that industry over many years has had difficulty in returning its cost of capital to shareholders. >> reporter:

if he goes to logan airport in boston, you will see aer lingus drop off 300 people for a tourist visawhen they get back on the plane, there's about 100 of them left. the rest of them are bartenders in boston. let's follow through on all of it. those are jobs americans could use. >> kimberly: they also have a new hotline to report h1b visa violations as well. >> greg: i think this has marginal value. the bigger focuses focusing on the training and education of the native born. the transfer of work to machine machines, if automation does this to human beings, what would become? you have silicon valley billionaires buying up remote cabins, building panic rooms and safe houses. tens of millions of unemployed healthy americans were going to screen for the heads of the people who invented the very products that eliminated their livelihoods. what are you going to do when you have 40, 50, 60 million people who have no function in society. 13,000 jobs. these are routine tasks, temporary jobs. this is going to be nothing in 30 years. we've got a huge issue. >> kimberly: call your contractor. bu