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| Really a great all-around effort to achieve $611 million in total revenue for the quarter and a sincere thank you to all our Allegiant team members for making that happen |
| Once in place, these agreements should help unlock meaningful value |
| So I feel pretty good about where we stand there |
| But the demand should be there and we're getting a pretty good unit revenue on a daily basis stuff |
| The 20% upside in utilization |
| That are one-offs, particularly labor costs in the back half of the year that we're having to readjust and get to and we need productivity as well to get back but we very much intend to get back to those numbers and we had a very, very good first half of the year |
| Its performance profile as well will provide us enhanced economic benefits in the coming years |
| Ravi Shanker So I think you guys have done a really good job on the airline side of improving operational reliability and kind of basically getting the service back in the air |
| So we feel good about our chance |
| Our clients have been very, very happy and excited |
| So that will be a nice way to boost the sales in the near term |
| That bodes well for us |
| I think the really good news is that it's been [indiscernible] well received on the food and beverage side and very, very nice crowds and things down there |
| We actually put out an RFP just in the first week of the year and I've been really pleased with the results that came in to finance the MAX aircraft |
| But I would say the [indiscernible] in the second quarter, I would expect op margin that should be the best quarter for us |
| Delivering a 99.8% controllable completion is a key driver in improving financial performance and a stabilized operation provides us the strong foundation necessary for us to improve peak period fleet utilization and better leverage our investments |
| We expect to record an airline operating margin between 8% and 10% on ASM growth of just over 1% in the March quarter |
| The airline recorded an adjusted net income of $165 million for the year, yielding an adjusted airline full year EPS of $8.82 which was slightly ahead of our initial expectations and the airline generated over $500 million in EBITDA, excluding special items during the year |
| We also anticipate that we'll begin retrofitting existing 186-seat A320s with our popular Allegiant extra seating configuration in the second quarter as well as introduce a new to us travel insurance product through our partners at -- goals both should help bolster our already strong but still improving ancillary program |
| Lastly, for 2023, on the heels of a monthly record in September, fixed fee strength continued to ramp in both the fourth quarter and full year set revenue records |
| Further, the full year TRASM of $0.338 was nearly 6% better than any prior year, punctuated by record ancillary performance more than $5 better year-over-year |
| It was still more than 4% better than any fourth quarter before that |
| A strong fourth quarter capped off our first full year revenue figure over $2.5 billion |
| Our ever increasingly loyal customer base is enabling us to further differentiate by showing interest in premium economy products such as Allegiant Extra and buy on board products as well as our third-party hotel and rental car products and now Sun Seeker Resort, Charlotte Harbor which as was noted, opened this past December |
| You have been supporting our passengers [indiscernible] reliable and friendly service and you have run the best airline this year, an industry-leading 99.8% controllable completion factor |
| We also continue to see strong impact from our Always Rewards noncredit card program |
| In addition to the direct compensation we received from the program, our cardholders continued to exhibit strong travel frequency and spend |
| As Maury referenced, this week, a good portion of those nonstop flights will be Super Bowl bound here in Las Vegas where the Allegiant brand stands to gain an unprecedented boost in awareness from the more than 100 million U.S |
| This was achieved thanks to our continued distinctive ability to match capacity with demand and in particular, to generate and fulfill demand for peak travel periods |
| We will continue to build off this momentum to strengthen our competitive advantages and further reshape the leisure travel space |
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| In today's era, poor service and cancel flights, you will put us back where we belong at the top of the pack |
| On the labor front, we've been plagued for the past 3 years by a number of labor issues, particularly with our pilots |
| While our 4Q TRASM of $0.1316 was down 6.2% versus the prior year |
| We were unfortunate again, that we slipped from a planned October opening date into December |
| This will include a more conservative approach to planning capacity in the back half of the year to provide downside risk mitigation at Boeing MAX deliveries are delayed and upside if one time |
| Easter shifts into March, while it should be a TRASM good guide to the final week of the month, the shift is generally negative overall |
| And advanced bookings as a result, were being pushed in the most difficult of the year, the end of the year, December is always the weakest sales month |
| The continued uncertainty around the timing of our MAX deliveries means we are being extra flexible with our 2024 capacity plans |
| [Indiscernible] came in at $3.09 per gallon for the full year, approximately 17% below the 2022 level |
| But we still think we put out a strong '24 but we just -- there's some uncertainty with some of the timing and moving parts |
| I don't think -- in March, it will be a little bit more difficult for us to start ramping that up, particularly given the timing of the uncertainty around the Boeing deliveries |
| We take a very vigilant approach of unlike air, where you really lose your chance to sell third party and/or certain ancillary when you go through OTA, the hotel, right? As soon as you're there, F&B, golf, spa, all of those things are sold directly |
| Labor costs, that's a big headwind that we're facing today, not just us, the industry |
| Our brand has never been stronger |
| And if I might just follow up in terms of what you're seeing on the demand side, is there any improvement on the pricing? I know in the fourth quarter, you called out off-peak pricing really weak |
| Drew, do you want to hit anything on that? Drew Wells I'll add maybe just a little bit, just be mindful that Easter comes out of April which will be a meaningful revenue headwind as well as ASM, like I mentioned, about 10% coming out of April there |
| But I would expect that on a full year basis, we would have a unit cost level that's below what we turned in the first quarter |
| This has been a difficult 3 to 4 years, as we all know |
| Across the industry, weather took a toll on mid-January and the impact to Allegiant was approximately 0.5 point ASM headwind for the quarter and about $2.5 million of revenue impact |
| Another result of the Easter shift will be a decent pull down of April capacity around 10% year-over-year |
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