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Delta Reports Financial and Operating Performance for October 2013

 

ATLANTA, Nov. 4, 2013 – Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) today reported financial and operating performance for October 2013.

 

Consolidated passenger unit revenue (PRASM) for the month of October increased 2.0% year over year, driven by strong trans-Atlantic performance and business demand in Delta's Atlanta and New York hubs. The year over year change in unit revenues was affected by $25 million of revenue loss from the government shutdown, Superstorm Sandy's impact in the prior year, and yen devaluation. Each of these factors pressured unit revenue by approximately one percentage point apiece.

 

Delta completed 99.9 percent of its flights in October and ran an on-time arrival rate of 91.4 percent.

 

The company’s financial and operating performance is detailed below.

 

 

Preliminary Financial and Operating Results

 

October consolidated PRASM change year over year 2.0%
Projected December quarter fuel price per gallon, adjusted $3.03 - $3.08
October mainline completion factor 99.9%
October on-time performance (preliminary DOT A14) 91.4%

 

Note: Fuel price includes taxes, transportation, settled hedges, hedge premiums and refinery impact, but excludes mark to market adjustments on open hedges.

 

Delta Air Lines serves more than 160 million customers each year. Delta was named by Fortune magazine as the most admired airline worldwide in its 2013 World’s Most Admired Companies airline industry list, topping the list for the second time in three years. With an industry-leading global network, Delta and the Delta Connection carriers offer service to 314 destinations in 58 countries on six continents. Headquartered in Atlanta, Delta employs nearly 80,000 employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 700 aircraft. The airline is a founding member of the SkyTeam global alliance and participates in the industry’s leading trans-Atlantic joint venture with Air France-KLM and Alitalia. Including its worldwide alliance partners, Delta offers customers more than 15,000 daily flights, with hubs in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York-LaGuardia, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Salt Lake City and Tokyo-Narita. Delta is investing more than $3 billion in airport facilities and global products, services and technology to enhance the customer experience in the air and on the ground. Additional information is available on delta.com, Twitter @Delta, Google.com/+Delta and Facebook.com/delta

Statements in this press release that are not historical facts, including statements regarding our estimates, expectations, beliefs, intentions, projections or strategies for the future, may be "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the estimates, expectations, beliefs, intentions, projections and strategies reflected in or suggested by the forward-looking statements.  These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the cost of aircraft fuel; the availability of aircraft fuel; the impact of posting collateral in connection with our fuel hedge contracts; the impact of significant funding obligations with respect to defined benefit pension plans; the impact that our indebtedness may have on our financial and operating activities and our ability to ncur additional debt; the restrictions that financial covenants in our financing agreements will have on our financial and business operations; labor issues; interruptions or disruptions in service at one of our hub airports; our dependence on technology in our operations; disruptions or security breaches of our information technology infrastructure; the ability of our credit card processors to take significant holdbacks in certain circumstances; the possible effects of accidents involving our aircraft; the effects of weather, natural disasters and seasonality on our business; the effects of an extended disruption in services provided by third party regional carriers; failure or inability of insurance to cover a significant liability at the Trainer refinery; the impact of environmental regulation on the Trainer refinery, including costs related to renewable fuel standard regulations; our ability to retain management and key employees; our ability to use net operating losses to offset future taxable income; competitive conditions in the airline industry; the effects of extensive government regulation on our business; the effects of terrorist attacks; the effects of the rapid spread of contagious illnesses; and the costs associated with insurance.  

 
 

 

Additional information concerning risks and uncertainties that could cause differences between actual results and forward-looking statements is contained in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 2012 and our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2013.  Caution should be taken not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements, which represent our views only as of November 4, 2013, and which we have no current intention to update.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

      Monthly Traffic Results (a)   Year to Date Traffic Results (a)
                               
                               
      Oct 2013   Oct 2012   Change     Oct 2013   Oct 2012   Change  
                               
RPMs (000):                            
  Domestic 9,670,334   9,692,506   (0.2%)     96,589,954   96,880,845   (0.3%)  
    Delta Mainline 7,755,832   7,747,861   0.1%     78,144,675   77,122,629   1.3%  
    Regional 1,914,502   1,944,645   (1.6%)     18,445,279   19,758,216   (6.6%)  
  International 6,588,484   6,338,344   3.9%     68,455,010   66,849,046   2.4%  
    Latin America 1,123,734   949,601   18.3%     12,664,541   11,500,287   10.1%  
    Delta Mainline 1,111,230   937,030   18.6%     12,500,164   11,362,574   10.0%  
           Regional 12,504   12,571   (0.5%)     164,378   137,713   19.4%  
    Atlantic 3,464,155   3,385,503   2.3%     34,895,213   34,606,859   0.8%  
    Pacific 2,000,594   2,003,240   (0.1%)     20,895,255   20,741,900   0.7%  
  Total System 16,258,817   16,030,850   1.4%     165,044,964   163,729,891   0.8%  
                               
ASMs (000):                            
  Domestic 11,772,469   11,443,382   2.9%     115,910,340   114,816,347   1.0%  
    Delta Mainline 9,302,742   9,029,498   3.0%     92,069,534   89,956,373   2.3%  
    Regional 2,469,727   2,413,884   2.3%     23,840,807   24,859,974   (4.1%)  
  International 7,847,088   7,502,539   4.6%     80,501,617   80,202,927   0.4%  
    Latin America 1,369,880   1,158,051   18.3%     15,103,829   14,128,390   6.9%  
    Delta Mainline 1,353,636   1,139,875   18.8%     14,891,134   13,923,970   6.9%  
           Regional 16,244   18,176   (10.6%)     212,695   204,420   4.0%  
    Atlantic 4,035,231   3,936,109   2.5%     40,670,744   41,081,281   (1.0%)  
    Pacific 2,441,977   2,408,379   1.4%     24,727,043   24,993,256   (1.1%)  
  Total System 19,619,557   18,945,921   3.6%     196,411,957   195,019,274   0.7%  
                               
Load Factor:                            
  Domestic 82.1%   84.7%   (2.6) pts   83.3%   84.4%   (1.1) pts
    Delta Mainline 83.4%   85.8%   (2.4) pts   84.9%   85.7%   (0.8) pts
    Regional 77.5%   80.6%   (3.1) pts   77.4%   79.5%   (2.1) pts
  International 84.0%   84.5%   (0.5) pts   85.0%   83.3%   1.7 pts
    Latin America 82.0%   82.0%   0.0  pts   83.8%   81.4%   2.4 pts
    Delta Mainline 82.1%   82.2%   (0.1) pts   83.9%   81.6%   2.3 pts
           Regional 77.0%   69.2%   7.8 pts   77.3%   67.4%   9.9 pts
    Atlantic 85.8%   86.0%   (0.2) pts   85.8%   84.2%   1.6 pts
    Pacific 81.9%   83.2%   (1.3) pts   84.5%   83.0%   1.5 pts
  Total System 82.9%   84.6%   (1.7) pts   84.0%   84.0%   0.0 pts
                               
Mainline Completion Factor 99.9%   98.0%   1.9  pts              
                               
Passengers Boarded 14,076,001   14,055,335   0.1%     138,768,505   139,122,511   (0.3%)  
                               
Cargo Ton Miles (000): 216,692   202,652   6.9%     1,960,396   1,998,084   (1.9%)  
                               
a  Results include flights operated under contract carrier arrangements