 Hi everybody it's Mayor Betsy and I've got my mask on but I'm going to take it down so you can hear me clearer. Thanks for joining us today as we head into this holiday holy weekend. I'm joined today by my friend and the CEO of DFW airport Sean Donahue. Sean welcome. Mayor great to be here thank you very much. Thank you for coming in and Sean has his mask too but he opted to hold it for the time being. We want you to know we want you to wear them when you go out of your house. I went to the drugstore last night and wore mine and a lot of people had their mask on. So Fort Worth as you know owns part of the airport along with the city of Dallas so we're going to talk a little bit about the impact of COVID-19 on the airport because it's a huge economic engine for us about 40 billion. It is. About 40 billion on our local economy and many of you work there or working jobs connected but first I want to do our daily briefing on the numbers and where we stand. Today Tarrant County has 637 positive cases 20 fatalities and 61 recovered cases and Fort Worth has 254 cases eight fatalities and 19 recovered. That's 22 new positive cases just last night alone. My thoughts and prayers go out to those who lost loved ones. This is never easy report to give but you have to know so that you can continue to stay at home and stay safe. So before we do the airport update airport I want to remind you since Monday we've seen 152 new cases in Fort Worth alum but the good news is that slower than some communities and that means our social distancing and stay at home is having an impact. This weekend will be particularly difficult because it is Passover weekend and Easter weekend the whole list of days for our Christians. I really hate not being with my family. I have a brand new grandson that I've only seen two or three times and I would love to have him with me for Easter but we're going to stay home and we're going to ask you to too. It's never easy but it'll make it better for everyone particularly for those you love. So Sean with the update out of the way let's talk a little bit about the airport. It is a 40 billion plus impact. How many people actually work at the airport or have jobs directed to connect it with the airport? Sure well we're fortunate to have 2,000 employees that work for DFW airport and there's approximately 65,000 people that work at various parts of the airport and then there's about a quarter of a million people who have jobs one way or the other associated with DFW airport. That's a lot of people in this region it really is. We had a board meeting today and the board met virtually it was interesting we probably had the board's 12 members now like 12 yeah and then we had probably 60 or 70 people on the phone call. It was a big, well not a Zoom meeting but it was a big conference call essentially and you gave us an update on the impact of COVID-19. Would you share that with our viewers kind of where it's you're thinking about the airport where it's going? Well as many of you know aviation is one of the most impacted industries from COVID-19 and for the most part people have stopped traveling and I would say that is a good thing as we practice everything we can do to contain this virus but to give you an example Mayor at this day last year we would have had about 200,000 customers going through DFW airport and today we'll probably have about 20,000. Wow that's a huge change. It is and you know as you know and you've been really driving this change at DFW airport over the last five years we've been very focused on growing the international presence of the airport and effectively international traffic has stopped and again just as a data point typically we would have 10,000 people arriving on international flights every day. Today we will have about 300. That's phenomenal. That's a huge change. Talk a little bit too about the financial impact because that has a huge bearing on the region as a whole. I know that you have committed to not weigh off employees. Right right and what we're really focused on doing Mayor is we are going to see a significant decline in our revenues and airlines pay us to use the airport and obviously customers when they park or they buy something at the airport they pay us and over the last six months of this year we're going to see approximately 200 million dollars less in revenues to the airport but we're fortunate and again I thank you and the rest of the board. We have one of the strongest balance sheets of any U.S. airport. We will withstand this and at the same time we're trying to support as many of our business partners as possible and we've taken a lot of steps and again the board approved many of those actions this morning to help all of our business partners during this time. And we had a big announcement several months ago about a potential new terminal. You might want to talk a little bit about where you think that might be. Sure about a year ago you joined me on stage and we announced with American Airlines the plan for the sixth terminal at DFW airport terminal F and obviously given the unpredictability and not knowing when traveling we'll come back to previous levels. We believe the prudent step is to pause that work when American Airlines is ready we'll sit back down at the table with them and we'll determine what is the best timing of construction and what is the right size of the terminal. Good and I know you don't have a crystal ball but you went through 9-11 Sean was with Virgin Australia you know you were with United for 9-11. So you've seen it so and you saw a lot of changes and all of us saw a lot of changes that's TSA security. Would you make any predictions that you're going to see or not see changes to airport operations? Well it's a great question and I would say this as someone in aviation for 35 years I never thought I'd see a greater impact than 9-11 and this is a far far larger impact than 9-11 on aviation but I would encourage everyone to focus on what the recovery looks like and there will be a recovery. Travel is a wonderful wonderful thing for connecting people. It's it creates a spirit of community like Fort Worth and it will come back but we don't know when it will come back but we're going to be ready for it and we want DFW airport to be a leader in that. And it will come back we live in a global world and so many of us you have children who don't live here. I have my children are all here I guess we're homebodies but they want to see their families and I loved the line this morning that you just said travel creates a sense of community and it really does. And I you know three of our five kids live up in the northeast and my wife and I are desperate to see them so we can't wait to travel starts again so we can see them. I think everybody will be anxious to see that. You guys need to know though that DFW really is in a very good position. If you had to be involved with an airport this is the one to be involved with. Excellent position we found it years ago by good crew and we've held to those so I'm pleased with where it's going and Sean's an incredible leader. Thank you thank you for everything you're doing. You're welcome thanks for being with us to Sean we appreciate that. So tonight the hard part of this virus is not behind us yet folks but it's not doom and gloom this is a season and a weekend of hope that we should all rally behind we should understand we're going to get through it and we're going to be good things coming out of it. You may not can see it now but you'll cross that bridge and we will see a light at the end of the bridge. So I always close Sean by saying y'all stay safe y'all stay healthy and y'all stay home.