and paychecks to plus up their force and their ability to take more money from us rather than actually fixing the inefficiencies in their antiquated systems. brian: 51% of the audits last year went after taxpayers who made less than $75,000. unless they have to change their doctor and all of a sudden i m pretty sure the average american is going to feel the scrutiny of the irs in a way they are not prepared for, nor do we have the accounting firms to fight for us and must turbotax is going to help us out. it s always good to see you. guess what? don t make plans for friday night, you re going to be hosting tucker, 8:00 eastern time. that s what i hear. brian: you can t get out of it. thanks so much for joining us, we look forward to seeing you. meanwhile democrats in the senate just voted to raise taxes for everyday americans as we just told you, also doubling the size of the irs. the biden administration claimed
to know that they are all owned by banks now. and in the rail industry, it s directly from the taxpayer and get the government want ours to take words terms and conditions in another pay cut so we can subsidise the private operators profits and when the grant williams review of the great british railways project, they kept all the failures of privatisation, the fragmentation because that s extract the profits. we bring the railway back together so that we can invest in the railway. but no they know better, they decided to keep the profit in they decided to keep the profit in the fragmentation which were the key inefficiencies are within our industry. inefficiencies are within our indust . ., ., , ., industry. one of the arguments made durin: industry. one of the arguments made during the pandemic industry. one of the arguments made during the pandemic is industry. one of the arguments made during the pandemic is you industry. one of the arguments made during the pandemic is you c
inefficiencies and internal processes. will: i hear you say both. there is not enough pilots. you mentioned you re in the process of hiring. i don t know it is unique to southwest. i saw it on american yesterday. what is the inefficiency, what does that mean, inefficiencies connecting pilots to flights? well, you know, we are seeing shortages on manpower, across the macro environment for the u.s. and southwest is definitely feeling but for us pilots we ve always been the most productive in the world at southwest. we still are but the problem is, is that inefficiently using the pilots, spending our time dead heading around the country. going to where we re not planning on going. it is causing fatigue. it is causing many other issues. it is causing those delays. it is causing those cancellations. will: captain, why is that unique right now? why did it happen? that sounds like if there is inefficiency in the system of assigning pilots that could have shown up a year ago.
in real time. within 48 hours, if not you re stuck with the ticket. i find myself hopping between flights finding one that isn t canceled. seats are dropping. seats are coming. then that flight cancels. it s a mess. the airlines are trying to determine which pilots need to be where. there are restrictions how long they fly versus how long they can rest. when you talked to captain casey murphy, a pilot himself, president of southwest airlines, you did a great talk but unclear in his description how the airlines are falling short. here is what he said. it is going to be a challenging summer across the industry. we re having problems connecting pilots to airplanes, southwest. so we are hiring and that is going to go alleviate the issue to some degree but a lot is internal inefficiencies and internal processes. we re seeing shortages on manpower across the macro environment of the u.s. and
carley: we were talking about gas prices and average price $383 per round-trip ticket, 34% increase from 2019. and we talk about the airline industry, gas prices are such a huge top of the conversation. yeah, it is definitely a pretty major headwind for us. you know, in today s world, especially the airlines, operational efficiency and operational success is the key to financial success. when we are talking about inefficiencies that i was just mentioning and how southwest is connecting pilots to airplanes, you know, that adds money and it also adds inefficiency with a very high fuel prices just breeds more inefficiency. carley: there is so much inefficiency when it comes to the airline industry these days. casey, thank you for joining us.