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| We are continuing to improve our operating efficiency |
| Our asset-light charter business, powered by Air Partners leading global platform, is an increasingly significant and critical piece of our flight solutions that has greatly enhanced our ability to serve the full breadth of our customers’ needs, here in the US and around the world, and is a great complement to our programmatic member offerings |
| I'm very pleased that following the challenging period the company faced last year, we are seeing an accelerating level of engagement and we believe that our value proposition is resonating with customers across our offerings and market segments |
| I'm also pleased to report on the progress we've made since our last earnings call, including solidifying our financial position, enhancing our operating team and structure, building our traditional new business pipelines and scaling our Delta customer initiative while continuing to invest and deliver an exceptional experience for our customers |
| This reflects normal seasonality as well as our improved financial position and continued strong interest in our service offering from corporate and individual member flyers |
| We have made key structural improvements in our service offering and cost structure that create the foundation on which we can grow and set the business on a path to be sustainably profitable |
| Beyond operations, we've also made significant improvements on the commercial side of our business |
| I'm proud of the progress our team has made, as demonstrated in our fourth quarter cost profile, though OpEx may fluctuate from quarter-to-quarter going forward |
| This transition in our program offering as well as the increasing mix of charter and corporate flying combined are expected to provide a strong tailwind to our adjusted contribution margins in the year ahead |
| Those members benefit from guaranteed access, attractive pricing with guaranteed cap rates and many other benefits |
| Our charter capabilities have significant scale and are a growing and profitable business for us |
| I am pleased with the progress we have made in this area, and we recognize the importance of maintaining strong controls relative to our financial and information technology processes |
| With our robust capabilities, we are growing with high-value corporate customers |
| We're forging a tighter integration with Delta's sales team and are seeing strong interest in our offerings from among their largest and most important customers |
| We believe a balanced mix of individual and corporate flying would be ideal to allow us to shape demand, drive asset utilization and scale access across our network and improve our overall operations and profitability by smoothing our flying volume seasonally as well as across the days of the week |
| I'm really excited about our leadership position in the market, where we're heading and the opportunities in front of us |
| We anticipate that will drive our asset utilization through improved maintenance availability and crew efficiency and allows us to reduce our fleet size |
| First, we significantly strengthened our financial position with the addition of $490 million of committed capital led by Delta |
| Our regional program, which was rolled out last June, concentrates our controlled fleet flying in our primary service areas where we have significant advantages from network density |
| We believe we now have the best operations team in the industry |
| Along those lines, our charter volumes were up approximately 20% year-over-year, reflecting the success of our efforts to shift our mix to more profitable charter flying as we increasingly serve our customers with an integrated global aviation solution |
| Along those lines, I'm very proud of our strong and improved customer service metrics |
| I'm pleased to report that our completion rates and on-time performance have improved significantly over the past year and remain in line or above two key internal targets, with the first being at least a 98% completion rate and the second being over 85% on-time performance |
| Wheels Up is the first company in private aviation to disclose these types of performance metrics, and it reflects our confidence and our commitment to provide an exceptional experience to our customers |
| Today, expanding our presence in Atlanta, we have what I believe is the best operations team in the industry and I'm confident they will help us continue our journey to lead the industry and to share with you our progress |
| We ended the year on an operationally strong note and I look forward to leading our exceptional team in delivering for you every day |
| More importantly, we expect our customers will benefit from improved customer service and response times |
| These functions form the nucleus of our commercial engine that positions us to better shape demand and drive revenue optimization that works hand in hand with the capacity and scale of our network |
| We expect our efforts will result in greater optimization of pricing and revenue management, greater choice and differentiation for our customers, and higher-incremental margins for Wheels Up |
| We believe FTV better illustrates the true size and breadth of our business and it allows us to better highlight the success of our efforts to grow our more profitable charter business and drive a higher mix of corporate flying, which generally comes with higher-incremental margins |
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| More than half of the year-over-year decline was the result of lower aircraft sales revenue and divesting of our aircraft management business at the end of the third quarter, which allowed us to focus on our core operations |
| Our adjusted contribution margin was 1.2% in the quarter, reflecting lower overall volumes that drove underutilization of our fixed assets and was inclusive of several additional cost adjustments related to maintenance and other operational areas that are not expected to be recurring |
| Adjusted EBITDA loss was $38.1 million for the quarter |
| Flight revenue was down year-over-year as we continued to execute on our plan to focus on our network strengths where we have an advantage and can be profitable |
| These metrics include all sources of delay, weather, air traffic control, unscheduled maintenance events and even customer delays |
| While that has improved year-over-year, it is down sequentially, partially reflective of the adjustments I described earlier |
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