point, they're so optimistic about the future, about travel, i can't wait let's bring in right now gary kellyceo of southwest air. gary, you are, as you know, my favorite i make no bones about it i'm sorry, scott kirby, you have a lot of good guys in your industry is the problem. i think all your ceos are good i'm willing to take the opposite view of people who say it was mixed. i think that the actual traveler, the person who is going places is going places in extraordinary fashions against even 2019 comparisons. am i wrong about being so optimistic >> i don't think so at all, and of course you know, we're still muddling through a pandemic, and i think we all just have to be realistic about the risks associated, you know, with na in the future these are very good results. our revenues almost doubled from the first quarter levels, and the bookings for the third quarter look really strong in relative terms, and yeah, we were profitable in the month of june, and we've got a good shot at profitability for the third quarter as a whole, so there is no effect on our demand right now from the delta

southwest airlines ceo gary kelly joins me now. thanks so much for joining me. h you. alix: perspective wise, how much of the uncertainty you are seeing has to do with delta variant? currently, the market is trading as if the delta variant is impacting the business. gary: we are not really seeing any uncertainty at all. we are like everybody else, we are wondering if they will have an impact, but our bookings, we had a really strong second quarter in terms of revenue. it turned out to be much better than we thought 90 days ago. our second quarter revenues were almost double what they were in the first quarter, and our capacity is going to be up in the third quarter another 15% relative to where we were in the second quarter. so revenues will be better in the third quarter than they were in the second, and we are looking at july revenues down only 10% to 15%, whereas the second quarter was down about 32%, so we are continuing to get better and seeing strong bookings and not seeing any impact from the delta variant. alix: it seems like the market is missing somethi

we are going to have gary kelly as often as the case joining us tomorrow. >> now, united receives 7.7on in funds okay there's no doubt in my mind it would file bankruptcy. >> if it hadn't gotten the 7.7 billion. >> the question is that the right amount or not, or do we just look at it as this company is going under what would it have done to national security. we would have had no airlines. >> we'd have a lot of bankrupt airlines they'd be operating through bankruptcy. >> that's the old days, eastern airline, bran i hff. >> people express, 1981. big i look at this, and i say triumph of bipartisanship. this was a bipartisan bailout. when the democrats and republicans actually talk to each other and get something done. >> they moved very fast during the pandemic. >> our country is in better shape. and when we're doing this kind of nonsense we're doing right now. >> on infrastructure >> it pains me >> these companies you've got a screen, every one of those companies would have gone bankrupt if it weren't for bipartisan work. >> and the llarge ss of the bond market >> i'm looking at these

that is the message from gary kelly, a taste from the airlines in america, the southwest airlines ceoene, i'm jonathan ferro, together with taylor riggs. lisa back with us on monday. here is your equity market. on the s&p 500, advancing a three-day winning streak into friday, up 18 this morning. we advanced 0.4%. yields are higher, approaching 1.30%, higher by a basis point or two. a conversation about the euro. do you understand the reaction function of the ecb? i will leave that one open for you to think about. euro-dollar down almost 0.1%. fascinating to hear from the c-suite of the airlines. i've got no idea what the trajectory for policy from this a adminstration at the federal level, at the state level will be to deal with this surge in cases. everyone's got their view on what it should be. no idea what it will be and what this will mean for the airlines, for individuals, and ultimately what happens to international travel. we were told in several days we would find out. it's been more than a week. tom: southwest air has cut to be the official airline of "love island," up 100 62

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