a billion and a half. and yeah, so there was a time where it really looked like we were going to lose everything. we had 50, 60 planes all on the ground and the health clubs all closed, the hotels all closed. and the worst would have been 60,000 people out on the streets. but personally, i was fortunate in that our kids managed to get to the island and our grandkids got to the island. and so although i experienced maybe a couple of months of what people must feel when they re pretty low, and i d never experienced that before my life. do you mean that for the first time in your life you were depressed? yeah, i was certainly, certainly a little depressed. your reputation took a bit of a hit during that early phase in the pandemic because senior members of your team had written to the government saying that they needed hundreds of millions of pounds in a government loan to save the company and save your airline.
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