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| We’ve seen great success in our structural cost program, which is on track to deliver $150 million to $200 million savings by the end of 2024 |
| We are excited by the growth these enhancements have delivered so far and are expected to deliver as part of our multi-year journey in evolving our TrueBlue program and closing the gap to our peers |
| And also as the summer went on and as the airlines and the FAA kind of built sort of ways of working to do with these issues, we saw better performance overall as well |
| These changes will drive continued improvement in our New York performance in 2024 and beyond |
| That being said, we have seen an acceleration in corporate booking since Labor Day, an encouraging sign that recovery and business travel is picking back up after notably dropping off through the summer |
| And so that will continue to deliver meaningful value given the A220 provides a 20% unit cost benefit compared to the E190 |
| And then you wrap that with loyalty and just with travel products creating that leisure ecosystem, over time, we expect it to produce some nice results |
| We also continue to make strides in our ongoing fleet modernization program as we benefit our E190 fleet with the margin accretive fuel efficient A220s |
| We have the product offering that covers an array of customers who want different things from a more basic unbundled product to a premium product and then our strength as we see it growing sort of the premium sector |
| Finally, we remain pleased with the strength in our loyalty program, as active members have grown nearly 10% year-over-year, and member engagement has more than doubled across all customer levels following the launch of our redesigned TrueBlue program earlier this year |
| Also some very strong performance there |
| Transatlantic also continues to deliver strong results as we continue to ramp |
| So we’re very pleased with the strength that we are seeing in the premium sector moving forward |
| We are really pleased with how well premium continues to hold up, and we would expect those trends to continue into the fourth quarter |
| A large footprint in the slot constrained New York market is a key competitive advantage |
| While margins in New York have not recovered from their pre-pandemic levels as quickly as the rest of the network, we’re encouraged by the continual progress we are seeing in the market |
| We’re not there yet, but we’re I think, making really good progress |
| We’re also driving long-term structural improvements in our profitability from JetBlue travel products, where we have seen a 30% year-over-year increase in commission revenues for hotels and cars year-to-date |
| And then I’m pleased with the structural cost program progress |
| Finally, we continue to deliver steady progress I should say on controllable cost execution this quarter |
| We are also seeing strength in even more space with revenue growing double digits in Q3 year-over-year on roughly equivalent load factors |
| We’ve got a network over the long term that should perform very well in these leisure markets and a product that also perform as well |
| So feel good about how we’re progressing on the corporate side, but still feel it’s largely in steady state, and we’ll just grow sort of with the economy going forward |
| I am confident we have the right foundation in place to navigate the current challenges and work towards improving margins and driving profitable growth |
| The 10% slot relief obviously provides us meaningful runway to redeploy capacity to more margin accretive opportunities |
| All of our A321 neo deliveries for the foreseeable future will be in the Mint configuration, which we believe will allow us to continue to grow our strong premium leisure offerings |
| We continue to see strength in Mint, even with our Mint capacity up 19% year-over-year |
| We are confident in our strategy and believe these actions, coupled with the strategic initiatives we have in place, are creating a strong foundation positioning us to drive profitable growth, return margins to historical levels, and deliver long-term value to our owners and all of our stakeholders |
| Additionally, the A220 is 20% more efficient compared to the E190 on a unit cost basis, which will be a long-term benefit to our cost structure as we transition out of the E190s |
| Co-brand card spend has increased double digits year-to-date and we expect to reach record contributions from our Barclays Co-brand portfolio this year as engagement grows |
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| We continued to experience greater than expected operational disruption during the quarter due to unusual September weather, far worse than we’ve historically seen, coupled with unprecedented ATC restrictions |
| As Robin mentioned, we delivered a third quarter loss per share of $0.39 as we faced unprecedented levels of weather and ATC-related disruptions and rising fuel prices |
| Turning to revenues, third quarter revenues decreased 8.2% year-over-year and were impacted by the challenging operational backdrop as well as softer than expected off peak and close in leisure demand in September |
| We planned and prepared for several challenges in the quarter, including the winddown of the Northeast Alliance, air traffic control delays, and shifts in post-COVID customer demand |
| So clearly, it’s been a challenging environment as we’ve seen demand sort of transition out of the domestic space in the third quarter on a year-over-year basis while at the same time, a lot of capacity was coming in from the industry |
| However, weather-related disruptions were significantly greater than expected, and increases in jet fuel costs also weighed on results |
| We’re just in a more challenging environment right now as we navigate through this quarter into next year with some of these external headwinds facing us around engines and excess capacity in some of the leisure markets |
| The New York recovery has been slower than we anticipated |
| But I think that the message for 2024 is going to be capacity constraints because of the engine issues and the delivery delays we have |
| We have reduced our Q4 capacity and markets will yield remain pressured |
| For the fourth quarter, we expect revenues to be down 6.5% to 10.5% year-over-year |
| The severity of ATC constraints was also worse than previous summers based on airborne holding, diversions, taxi time, and cancellations seen throughout the industry due to ATC |
| The Q1 2024 capacity cut is driven by aircraft availability constraints |
| Where we’ve been reallocating capacity out of and have seen, I think, the most acute demand challenges have been in some of the shorter-haul markets in some of the business markets |
| This includes two points of headwinds from the challenging operational disruptions we have faced this summer and the proactive investments we made to more quickly recover from these challenges |
| These issues are also driving an elevated number of engine changes, and despite introducing a number of self-help measures over the last 18 months, we expect our 2024 capacity plans and cost outlook to be meaningfully impacted |
| We have no concerns there, but it’s a bit, I’d say, temporarily pressured by industry capacity, which should, I’d say, absorb over time |
| However, as Robin and Joanna mentioned, the waiver was announced shortly before the start of Q4, so many of the costs associated with that fine were already fixed, resulting in an incremental three-point headwind to our fourth quarter CASM-ex fuel |
| So largely, the engines and the delivery delays |
| Given the increase in unscheduled GTF-related downtime, coupled with the aircraft delivery delays and aircraft retirements, we are planning capacity in the first quarter of 2024 to be slightly down on a year-over-year basis |
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