A345_Leadership Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 Conserving cash American continues to take aggressive action to reduce costs and preserve cash. The airline estimates that it has removed approximately $17 billion from its operating and capital budgets for 2020. This has been achieved primarily through cost savings resulting from reduced flying. The company also: Removed more than 150 aircraft from its fleet through early retirements or by placing aircraft into temporary storage. In addition to the previously announced retirements of the Boeing 757, Boeing 767, Embraer E190, Airbus A330-300, Bombardier CRJ-200 and certain other regional aircraft, the company recently decided to permanently retire all 15 of its Airbus A330-200 aircraft. Reached an agreement with Boeing to secure rights to defer deliveries of 18 737 MAX aircraft scheduled to be delivered in 2021 and 2022 to 2023 and 2024. The company also finalized a series of sale-leaseback transactions to finance its remaining Airbus A321 aircraft deliveries in 2021. As a result, the company now has financing secured for all of its planned deliveries through 2021. Made the difficult decision to proceed with furloughs to reduce headcount absent an extension of the CARES Act Payroll Support Program (PSP). In total, more than 20,000 team members have opted for an early out or long-term leave, and 19,000 team members were furloughed beginning Oct. 1. The company, along with its union partners, continues to aggressively fight for an extension of the PSP that would allow the airline to bring back those furloughed employees and reinstate service to small- and medium-sized markets that have suffered without the extension of funds. Reduced its non-aircraft capital expense — by $700 million in 2020 and another $300 million in 2021 — through reductions in fleet modification work, the elimination of all new ground service equipment purchases, and pausing all noncritical facility investments and IT projects. Bolstering liquidity In addition to reducing its operating and capital expenditures, American continues to strengthen its liquidity position. The company: Finalized a $5.5 billion loan agreement with the U.S. Department of the Treasury through the CARES Act loan program. In October, the company increased its loan capacity through the program to $7.5 billion. Closed $1.2 billion of financing with Goldman Sachs Merchant Bank through two senior secured note transactions. American does not have any large non-aircraft debt maturities until its $750 million unsecured bonds mature in June 2022. Received the final payments of allotted PSP funds, including an incremental $168 million of previously unallocated funds identified by the Treasury Department. Announced authorization to issue up to $1 billion of equity in an at-the-market offering to further bolster liquidity. Reduced its daily cash burn rate2 to approximately $44 million per day in the third quarter from approximately $58 million per day in the second quarter. The company presently expects its fourth-quarter cash burn rate to be approximately $25 to $30 million per day. The company’s third-quarter pro forma liquidity balance is approximately $15.6 billion and it expects to end the fourth quarter with more than $13 billion in total available liquidity, which excludes any proceeds from the $1 billion at-the-market equity offering. https://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2020/American-Airlines-Reports-Third-Quarter-2020-Financial-Results-CORP-FI-10/default.aspx Quote Link to post Share on other sites
naia Posted October 23 Share Posted October 23 PHL já está com bastante 787 baseado, CLT deve seguir a mesma linha. No doméstico, CLT parece ser um grande sucesso. PHL, é bem menos dependente de O/D e, apesar de estar entre DC e NY, é sede de uma região com mais de 7 mi de hab. Se não me engano, CLT-LHR é de 772. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FAKMIA Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 Vai tarde! Até os 767s eram mais confortáveis que esse lixão... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LipeGIG Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 Os B772 reformados estão bem melhores que os A332 ex-US Airways e são um grupo operacional maior. Reduz mais uma sub-frota, mais dois aeroportos que agora vão ficar mais padronizados com o restante da American: 777+787 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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