Richard A. Simonson - Sabre Corp.
Management
Hey. Yes, John, on Hospitality Solutions, we've got a strong growth. We've talked about that, coming to Airline Solutions, particularly the PBs, and kind of the mix effect. Just a remainder, we had 7% passengers boarded growth in the quarter and on a same-store basis that would have been 4%. We did a cut over Alitalia since the previous year. And remember, American Airlines is included in that growth now. And as I said – called that out before, there is two effects that that have, one at – being the biggest airline in the world with approximately 200 million passengers boarded, they do get a better rate than a 20 million passenger boarded carrier, for instance. So all else equal, of course, they would, on an apples-to-apples basis, have a lower PB rate. So, you have that effect. We've talked about that a lot over the last year plus, so nothing new there. But American Airlines is growing slower than the industry average as well, and that impacts then that – the breakdown of the PB growth rates. But again, strong quarter on the PBs, as we expected; rates, as we expected. Again, then for the earnings in the Airline and Hospitality Solutions, the one thing I pointed out there was, again, we had some negative impact from a slowdown that affected the passengers and we had – or excuse me, in the PSS system and we had a small single-digit-million SLA payment. When it comes to Alitalia, again, I think the announcements this morning and speculation around the fact that Alitalia didn't come to agreement with some of its unions and therefore is expected to be entering a form of bankruptcy and reorganization is what's out in the press. And again, as a matter of policy and accounting, for us, if a carrier enters into a organized restructuring program, which is what this is maybe maybe possibly going. We moved to a cash basis method of revenue recognition until the bankruptcy is resolved. This results in some immediate impact, when that is, I think it is a Q2 – would start in Q2 of – where you reduce the revenues somewhat in the quarter at TN and AS, and when you move to a cash basis from an accrual basis. But remember, in these proceedings – and there's been many of them in the airline industry in the past, so there is a lot of experience in that matter. Key technology providers that are running the systems that keep the revenue going, the passengers flying and the brand viable while they restructure, tend to get paid and those payments comes through a clearing house. So, we'd expect it to proceed that way.