--are required to have it.
What other industries—I might ask you a question to respond to your question—allow consumer moneys to be used to pay for operating expenses? When you buy a pair of shoes, you get your pair of shoes. You don't give the supplier the money three months ahead and expect them to deliver it down the road. You want to receive your services there and then.
The airline industry is an industry where the services are not provided until a long time, in a lot of cases, after the money has been received. That's our cause for concern. If you look at the recent history of the two carriers that have failed, they both used consumer moneys that were intended for something else as advance payments and they generated that by seat sales, quite openly in the face of everybody. And we knew what they were doing with that money.
That's why I'm suggesting that there needs to be a precedent set here that there must be some minimum financial criteria in place so that doesn't happen again. It drags down the whole industry, and the bigger players too. It drags everybody down because those carriers come in, they lower the prices, and everybody has to match.