That's an excellent question. Thank you very much for it.
If we don't change the way we do business as a government in terms of policy on airports, we're going to lose potential. The reason Seattle has more international flights to either Asia or elsewhere is that the United States has 91 open skies agreements. That includes the countries in the European Union. Canada has five agreements. If you're keeping score, it's 91 to five. I'm not sure if it's a basket ball game or something else, but it's a high score. That's number one.
Number two, on the landing fee issue, the business model for airports in Canada is very different from that in the United States, and it is unique around the world. We're not asking for government subsidies to build capacity in terms of building structures, runways, and buildings, but the airports in the United States are operated by levels of government, and they are highly subsidized.
Canadian airports have invested $9.5 billion of their own money in airports. It's a very, very different business model in the United States as compared with what we have in Canada. If we don't get more air service agreements and we don't deal with the cost structure of airports, we're going to lose a great amount of potential.
It's a short drive from Seattle to Vancouver; it's not that far. And it's not just Seattle. It's as far as Buffalo is from Toronto. And Montreal is competing with our friends in the United States as well.