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We were delighted to join this week with Scott Kirby, the CEO of United Airlines. The impact of the pandemic upon the airline industry has been \u201cdevastating,\u201d the worst in its history. Luckily, bipartisan broad-based support for the industry \u2013 contained in the CARES Act and the December $900 B emergency measure \u2013 has preserved this critical infrastructure. Variants are a stark threat: \u201cWe\u2019re giving the virus a large playing field upon which to mutate, for variants to become more deadly, more transmissible, or to evade vaccines.\u201d United is actively working with partners to develop vaccine passports: passports are \u201cthe key not just to reopening borders and travel, but to reopening segments of the economy that have been closed.\u201d \u201cIt is the right thing to do to make vaccines mandatory\u201d though United has not yet taken that step. 1,000 passengers who refused masks have been banned from flying on United. Immediately after the January 6 violent insurrection against the Capitol, United took several \u201ctactical steps\u201d in its flights in and out of Washington. Decarbonization remains a personal passion. United has joined the world\u2019s largest \u201cair capture and carbon sequestration\u201d project and led the industry in biofuels.\xa0\n\nScott Kirby became the CEO of United Airlines in May of 2020. From 2016-2020, he was United\u2019s President.