airline. it could change a lot more than the logo on your boarding pass. both companies already have several hubs around the country. united has hubs in san francisco, los angeles, denver, chicago, and washington dulles. continental has houston, cleveland and newark, new jersey. it's also got subsidiary called continental micronesia in guam. if it goes through the new company would control 53% of air traffic across the pacific and 40% of air traffic across the atlantic. rick is a fren of our shores, ceo and coun fare compare. rick, good to see you. first of all, a lot of betting on whether or not this is going to happen. they've done this dance before. do you think we've got a merger coming. >> gosh, i feel 99% sure. i was just at a meeting with the us airways and they were feeling pretty down about getting aced out. i think they pretty much feel like this deal is going to go down. probably in the next few days. >> okay. a lot of people have said in the past, with respect to airline mergers, that these two sort of make sense.