Q Right. Wow. All right. So as you're building this business up, Something happens, which I have to imagine had a massive impact on your business, which was the Airline Deregulation Act in 1978, which, which I guess the result of that was it would increase, it did increase competition and it did lower costs, deregulated the airline industry. How did that affect your business?
A Uh, well, it had a major effect. So in 1977, a year before deregulation, we bought our first brand new plane, brand new, seven, three, seven, from Boeing, and we leased it to a, a British airline called Britannia Airways, which was the largest charter airline in Europe. So we, we already reached the level of activity where we could buy a seven and a half million dollar brand new plane. It accelerated the fleet, uh, Uh, in the late seventies, early eighties. And that really gave our company a tremendous amount of tailwind. And just as a side note, we were very, very prudent with our money. I mean, when we started international lease finance, I remember our salary was 600 dollars a month. And maybe three or four years later, it was still like a thousand dollars a month. So we were not very extravagant. Yeah. And also, it's a very volatile industry. You have several years of positive growth and profitability.
AI assessment note: “well, it had a major effect... gave our company a tremendous amount of tailwind.”