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SR: Ten 330s five next year and five the year after. Some of those will be on our leisure routes and some on business routes. We have up to 25 787s coming, whenever they come. ATN: How is traffic these days? Is business travel rebounding? SR: Obviously, there was a very big slow down last year, particularly on the North Atlantic. We reacted to that quite quickly. We have been quite fortunate. We anticipated some of that, so we stopped growing, which is pretty unusual for us. We did all that in the first half of last year and got all that out of the way reasonably successfully. We had staff leave the business, but those people who left, left with very good grace and we have already started rehiring. We paralleled that with this aircraft order. We got a good deal from Airbus and we ran a very good engine competition which Rolls (Royce) won. We have done a lot of work reinvigorating all of our brand values and principles just to keep people really energized inside the company. We also rol

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