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Operator
Operator
Good morning. My name is Kayla, and I would like to welcome everyone to the JetBlue Airways Second Quarter 2015 Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. I would now like to turn the call over to JetBlue's Director of Investor Relations, Kevin Crissey. Please go ahead.
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Kevin Crissey - Director-Investor Relations
Management
Thanks, Kayla. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us for our second quarter 2015 earnings call. Joining us here in New York to discuss our results are Robin Hayes, our President and CEO; Marty St. George, EVP Commercial & Planning; and Mark Powers, our CFO. This morning's call includes forward-looking statements about future events. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements due to many factors, and therefore, investors should not place undue reliance on these statements. For additional information concerning factors that could cause results to differ from the forward-looking statements, please refer to our press release, 10-Q and other reports filed with the SEC. Also during the course of our call, we may discuss several non-GAAP financial measures. For a reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to GAAP measures, please refer to the tables at the end of our earnings release, a copy of which is available on our website. And now, I'd like to turn the call over to Robin Hayes, JetBlue's President and CEO. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Earlier today, we reported our results for the second quarter 2015. In the quarter, net income was $152 million or $0.44 per diluted share. On a year-over-year basis, excluding the gain on sale of LiveTV, which occurred in the second quarter of last year, our net income more than doubled. This strong result is a reflection of the amazing efforts of our 17,000 outstanding crew members who continue to inspire humanity by exceeding our customers' expectations every day. In May, JetBlue was awarded its 11th consecutive customer satisfaction award by J.D. Power with the highest score ever by any U.S. airline. Again, I would like to congratulate our incredible crew…
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
Thanks, Marty. Good morning everyone and thanks for joining us. This morning we reported record second quarter operating income of $282 million. That's twice the operating income of the same quarter last year. Total revenue grew 8% on capacity growth of 7.5%. Yield improved 0.2% and load factor increased 1 percentage point. We're further pleased with our cost progress in the second quarter. Excluding fuel and profit sharing, year-over-year second quarter unit costs increased 0.6%, which is better than our April quarterly guidance range of 1% to 3%, due to our improved operational performance including a higher completion factor than anticipated, timing of some advertising spend, and effective cost control programs. In the quarter, year-over-year unit cost pressure came primarily from maintenance, materials and repairs, and salary, wages and benefits. Turning to fuel. In the second quarter, 90% of our fuel consumption was hedged using jet fuel swaps and caps. Including the impact of fuel hedging and taxes, our fuel price in the second quarter was $2.13, down from last year's per gallon price of $3.09, or 31%. As was the case last quarter, our hedge positions remain unchanged during the second quarter. We've hedged about 17% of our expected full-year 2015 fuel consumption. Based on the forward curve as of July 17, we expect our third quarter fuel price per gallon, including the impact of taxes and hedges, to be approximately $1.95. We don't provide guidance beyond the current quarter but to help you forecast and assuming again the July 17 forward curve, our all-in fuel price per gallon for the fourth quarter and full year would be $1.95 and $2.02, respectively. For more specific details regarding our hedge positions, please refer to our Investor Update, which was filed with the SEC and made available on the Investor Relations…
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Operator
Operator
Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session for investors and analysts. We'd like to ask everyone to please limit themselves to one or two questions with a brief follow-up so that we can accommodate as many as possible. Our first question comes from Michael Linenberg of Deutsche Bank.
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Michael J. Linenberg - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Analyst · Deutsche Bank
Yeah, hey. Good morning, everybody. Actually, some quick questions here, just on the E190s getting the , Marty, with the Wi-Fi. That's going to be – when is that going to be completed?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: So the first plane is actually in prototype right now, Mike. We will be starting full install this fall and be completed in 2016.
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Michael J. Linenberg - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Analyst · Deutsche Bank
Okay. And then the A320 seating identification process, when is that? I know that starts sometime in 2016. Is that the beginning of the year?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: We're still on track for what we announced on Investor Day, which is second half of 2016.
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Michael J. Linenberg - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Analyst · Deutsche Bank
Okay. Great. And then just maybe this is to Mark on just, well Marty, you can address it as well, just on your unit revenue trends. When we look at July guidance and we look at where you were in June, and yet it looks like the third quarter, there is an uptick in capacity. I mean, are we seeing an acceleration from June? Are the trends similar to June because you are adding a bit more seats in the July, at least July-August timeframe than what we had in the second quarter. Can you give us some additional thoughts, color on that?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Well, we have not yet seen competitive RASM obviously from the rest of the industry for July. We've seen June, and we're very happy with our performance right now. I think that the JetBlue RASM story, I think continues to be hundreds of basis of points better performance than the rest of the industry. And I think based on that strength, we're very excited about what revenue trends look like this summer, certainly compared to the rest of the industry.
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Michael J. Linenberg - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Analyst · Deutsche Bank
Well, maybe what I'm getting at, is it more demand strength or is it because of the implementation of the new product that the new way of pricing that's really, that's driving it, or is it just too hard to parse that out?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Look, I fundamentally agree with what I said originally which is I think we've got great execution right now and I think it's core demand strength. I mean, honestly, we're 28 days into fare options. It is very hard to look at fare options and say, that's the secret sauce to create great revenue performance. We've had this revenue performance the last seven or eight months.
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Michael J. Linenberg - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Analyst · Deutsche Bank
Yeah. Okay. Fair enough. Thank you. Appreciate it.
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Operator
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from Julie Yates of Credit Suisse.
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Hey, Julie.
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Kevin Crissey - Director-Investor Relations
Management
Julie, are you there? On mute? Kayla, can you move to the next question and re-queue Julie if she's able to join us, please? Thank you.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question is from the line of Jamie Baker of JPMorgan.
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Jamie N. Baker - JPMorgan Securities LLC
Analyst · Jamie Baker of JPMorgan
Hey guys, can you hear me?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: We can.
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Jamie N. Baker - JPMorgan Securities LLC
Analyst · Jamie Baker of JPMorgan
Terrific. Good morning.
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Hey.
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Jamie N. Baker - JPMorgan Securities LLC
Analyst · Jamie Baker of JPMorgan
A follow-up on Mike's question on densification. How should we be thinking about the financial impact? I'm not asking for guidance per se but obviously 10% increase in A320 flying on a flat shell count implies fairly meaningful ex-fuel CASM improvement, but also fairly stiff RASM headwinds. Could you put some goal posts around that for us?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Sure, Jamie. I think what I'd say is we're very excited about what densification is going to bring for us. We think it's a very ROIC positive way to increase capacity. I think if you were to look at the fleet guidance that we've given, especially based on our most recent fleet modification we did with our partners at Airbus, you can sort of see how we changed the shape of our forward delivery curve really in anticipation of that capacity coming in. I mean, we are dedicated to the same sort of prudent capacity growth that we've followed for several years. And I will say based on our revenue performance, yeah, I think we've very comfortably earned that right to grow.
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Jamie N. Baker - JPMorgan Securities LLC
Analyst · Jamie Baker of JPMorgan
Okay. And then just a housekeeping, housekeeping question, given the uncertainty around fare bundles in your aforementioned commentary, the split between passenger and other revenue, have you considered adjusting the monthly traffic releases to be on a TRASM basis, tango, T as in TRASM?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Yeah, I get it. Listen, we fully recognize that we're putting you guys in a tough spot when it comes to modeling. And I'll say two things. First is that we ourselves again, a month into this, I don't think we know yet how it's going to be settling down between PRASM and RASM, or PRASM and TRASM as you use it. And second thing is I think we're certainly taking into consideration what guidance would look like in the future. But we have nothing to update right now.
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Jamie N. Baker - JPMorgan Securities LLC
Analyst · Jamie Baker of JPMorgan
Okay, fair enough. Thanks a lot, everybody.
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Operator
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Duane Pfennigwerth of Evercore ISI.
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Duane Pfennigwerth - Evercore ISI
Analyst · Evercore ISI
Hey, thanks. Good morning. Just a cost question for you. So, it looks like your capacity growth should be about 10% in the third quarter versus about 7.5% in the second quarter. You just exceeded your cost guidance here in the second quarter. So, why is it that your cross growth will be higher in the third quarter versus what you just posted?
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
Yeah. Hi, Duane. How are you doing? There's a lot of quarter-over-quarter shifting frankly from the quarters. We're seeing some advertising expense that shifted from this quarter to the third quarter; things of that nature are really sort of behind a lot of that. So there's timing of some spend. There's also some timing of some maintenance volume which we typically like to punch up in sort of in the September timeframe and then there's some technology-related expenses in that quarter as well. But overall, I mean we remain steadfast behind our full-year cost guidance which, as you know, now is tighter than our prior guidance by half a point. So just a lot of quarter noise.
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Duane Pfennigwerth - Evercore ISI
Analyst · Evercore ISI
Okay. Marty, I wonder if you could just comment on Mint. Appreciate the commentary that it's a small percentage of your seats. But how much of the outperformance relative to the industry would you attribute to Mint?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Honestly, I'd attribute very little to it, 0.7%, versus what we had expected and versus planned, I think it's de minimis.
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Duane Pfennigwerth - Evercore ISI
Analyst · Evercore ISI
Sure. Not necessarily relative to your own expectations but relative to maybe the 500 basis points of industry outperformance versus mainline domestic. I mean would you care to attribute a point to that?
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Kevin Crissey - Director-Investor Relations
Management
It's a small fleet.
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: I think it's too small to attribute.
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Duane Pfennigwerth - Evercore ISI
Analyst · Evercore ISI
Okay. And then just on, as we think about Fare Families, the way that you've positioned these as a buy-up versus getting hit with a fee, it seems like the vast majority of customers would choose to sort of buy up and I wonder if you could comment how much of the revenue as it's outlaying today if you sort of buy up to the next level, I assume all that would flow through passenger revenue. It just feels like the majority of this is going to flow through PRASM.
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: I think two things; first of all, it really is too early to tell. And we've done some surveying of what we think our competitors are doing. Obviously, we've done it in a little bit different way which does create this challenge. The second thing I would mention is we're still in a situation where the travel agencies and OTAs are not able to sell the fare options the way we sell them on JetBlue.com. So right off the bat, there's a bit of a haircut as you sort of remove them for the next two. But again, I think it's way too early for us to give a prediction on that.
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Duane Pfennigwerth - Evercore ISI
Analyst · Evercore ISI
Okay. Thank you.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question comes from Savi Syth of Raymond James.
Savanthi N. Syth - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: Hey. Good morning. I just had a few follow-up questions here. On the timing of the seat project, could you remind us like how – like roughly how many aircraft you'll be able to convert a month or what the cadence of that is? And are you currently starting to see some costs related to that ramping up? Or is that more kind of the first of the year as you start hiring and preparing ahead of the seat project?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Hi, Savi. First of all, we can't give any guidance over and above what we've given already. We haven't given ASM guidance for 2016 or 2017 yet, specifically. So I appreciate the question but I'm not in a position to give that guidance first. As far as increased costs, it's – I haven't noticed anything yet, to tell you the truth. I mean, there's a little bit of work done on certification, but it's not cost we've incurred yet.
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
That's right. Yeah, Savi, it's Mark.
Savanthi N. Syth - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: Got it.
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
Yeah. Just to confirm that that's absolutely the case.
Savanthi N. Syth - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: Okay. And then, just on the fare options. Could you provide any color on, since it was introduced in June, just maybe how many ticket sales it might impact in like July versus August? I'm guessing it's going to be more October when all the ticket sales or at least the majority of the ticket sales start to get impacted.
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: We've not historically given any guidance on what our booking curve looks like and I'm not going to break that precedent right now. Obviously, as we said, there is no impact to speak of. There's no measurable impact in June, and every month, it gets a little bit higher.
Savanthi N. Syth - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: Okay. And then maybe if I can ask, on the Boston Mint then, just how should we think about that regarding the differences versus New York? I know Boston doesn't have the same high paying load factors as New York but then again, as you pointed out, you don't have the same level of kind of equivalent products going out of Boston. Just what's your thinking on the contribution in Boston versus what you're seeing in New York?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: I think the most important story about Boston Mint is recognizing that the Mint product is designed at a very low fare. I mean, our entry level fare is $599 for both of these markets, and there are many, many, many, many coach tickets sold on airlines above $599. I think the success we've seen in New York is what gets us so excited about Boston specifically because we're seeing the small and medium business customers, we're seeing the high-end leisure customers, and we're also seeing some of the large corporates in a place like Boston where we actually have a much better collection of corporate accounts than we do in New York and much higher market penetration. Yeah. I think all those factors are going to work very, very well for success in Boston.
Savanthi N. Syth - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: All right. Appreciate it. Thank you.
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Operator
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from Julie Yates of Credit Suisse.
Julie A. Yates-Stewart - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker): Good morning. Sorry about that. I'm off mute. Wanted to ask specifically about Orlando since a legacy carrier called it out as an area of yield weakness. Are you guys seeing this as well in the quarter or any indication in the forward booking?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Not at all. We've certainly heard the commentary about airlines but we're very happy with what we're seeing in Orlando.
Julie A. Yates-Stewart - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker): Okay. Interesting. And then how was Even More in the quarter and any change to booking behavior on Even More with fare options?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: So we had a very strong quarter in Even More. We don't generally break it out of other revenue, but I did say that when you take out LiveTV, we had a nice comfortable increase in other revenue, of which obviously Even More is a very big contributor to that. With respect to impact by fare options, we've not seen any impact on Even More to speak of. But again, it's – we're four weeks in, but obviously, it's important that as we added the fare options product that all of our ancillary products are important to us. One thing we're very excited about was what we've accomplished with our new website, our new website partner, is being able to say to ourselves, how can I improve the conversion of all of my ancillary products. So it's not just Even More, it's also rental cars, it's hotels. We think all those products are going to get much better as the website design improves. And I believe the merchandize improves.
Julie A. Yates-Stewart - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker): Got it. Okay. And then just lastly, I know it's early, but any color or initial thoughts around how you're thinking about 2016 capacity?
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
No.
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Not yet.
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
Not yet, no.
Julie A. Yates-Stewart - Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker): Okay. Thank you.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question is from Dan McKenzie of Buckingham Research.
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Dan J. McKenzie - The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.
Analyst · Buckingham Research
Hey. Good morning, guys. Thanks for the time here. So just kind of a quick question here on fare options, it seems to now be replacing Fare Families in your commentary. And I'm not sure if that's a rebranding, but if it is, I guess I'm just wondering why the rebranding right off the bat? And maybe I'm just reading too much into it. But then related to that, how much bandwidth or appetite do you have to add a more stripped down fourth band or fourth option, and would you even have that flexibility to do that if you wanted to do that at some point?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Thanks, Dan. So, two things. First, with respect to the changing of Fare Families to fare options, Fare Families is always sort of internal phrase only that we use. I think we recognize that we – as we communicated internally, I think Fare Families is confusing people. Obviously, we carry a lot of family customers. It was just branding we didn't think it was going to be helpful for clarity with our external customers. We thought it was actually going to be better for our customers to understand. Second issue, I can't comment on any future pricing actions. The one thing I will say is that when we designed the original fare options packages, one thing that was very important to us was that the base package that the Blue fare, that we're still going to offer you the best product of any airline in North America. And it's still the best product of any airline in North America. So anything is possible, but it's something we can't really comment on.
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Dan J. McKenzie - The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.
Analyst · Buckingham Research
Understood. But the IT flexibility is there. Is that correct?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Oh, we have infinite IT flexibility now versus what we had six months ago.
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Dan J. McKenzie - The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.
Analyst · Buckingham Research
Got it. And then, Mark, just a second question here. What's the share buyback philosophy going forward?
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
It continues to be – it's really a policy, not a commitment. But what we try to do is repurchase shares so that we're not diluting the share count with respect to options and RSUs and whatnot granted to crew members. So it's basically to keep the share count neutral to crew member competition.
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Dan J. McKenzie - The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.
Analyst · Buckingham Research
Very good. Thanks for the time, guys.
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
Thank you very much.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question is from Hunter Keay of Wolfe Research.
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Hunter K. Keay - Wolfe Research LLC
Analyst · Wolfe Research
Hey, everybody. Good morning.
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
Hey, Hunter.
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Hunter K. Keay - Wolfe Research LLC
Analyst · Wolfe Research
Can you talk about the concept of the single fleet type? I know you guys are putting Fly-Fi on the 190s so I think that pretty much speaks volumes on how you're thinking about the role of that plane in the fleet. But do you ever think about the cost drag from running two fleet types, and would there be – assuming, Robin, as you take control of the company here for lack of a better term, would there be maybe a willingness to evaluate the place of the E190 longer term as it relates to – because I know that – we all know the revenue, we all know the network benefits from that plane, but purely from a cost perspective, would there be sort of an open-mindedness down the road to maybe shift to a single A320 family fleet type?
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
I'll take that, Hunter; it's Mark. We look at everything frankly. And clearly, a single fleet type is something that we've looked at for some time. The simplicity though in terms of the cost benefit is probably overestimated than your question would suggest because there is a lot of complexity and a lot of transition period types of costs, such as unrelenting flight-hour agreements, not to mention some LLP issues on engines. So, the net cost is probably much less than what the question would suggest. And then I do have to mention revenue because particularly out of Boston, that airplane on many of the routes out of Boston, particularly the short-haul, high-frequency routes, is really the right thing that probably would not optimally be replaced by the other type of fleet that we have at the airline. So, it's – I mean, again, just to assure you, we look at constantly and analyze constantly all manner of fleet options, but it's probably not as simple as perhaps the question suggests.
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Hunter K. Keay - Wolfe Research LLC
Analyst · Wolfe Research
Okay. Mark, thank you. And then can you talk about the timeline when you need to make a decision on when to convert potentially those A321s to Mint-configured? I think it's further than a six months' lead time. Please confirm that. And then also real quickly, how much of your July ASM is going to be up? Thanks a lot.
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
Yeah. I can't recall. So it is a...
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Under a year.
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
Provision in the contract where I think it is – I'm not sure if it's six months. I think it's a little longer than the six-month period under the contract. But it's not so long that it makes the ability to convert prohibitive or unrealistic. So it's there in fact as I think we mentioned in our prepared remarks, that's how we're going to accommodate some of the Boston expansion to the flexibility in the contracts. And, Marty, do you want to talk, take the capacity?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Yeah, I'm actually looking for the number right here to make sure I get it right. I believe the number is – I'll take that offline to find it. I'll get back to you, Hunter, on the capacity in July.
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Hunter K. Keay - Wolfe Research LLC
Analyst · Wolfe Research
All right. Thanks, Marty and Mark. Appreciate it.
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
Sure.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question is from Andrew Didora of Bank of America.
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Andrew G. Didora - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Analyst · Bank of America
Hi. Good morning, everyone. Marty, you often talk about your six focus cities as it relates to the margin side. Can you maybe provide a little bit of color on how these markets performed from a revenue perspective relative to the overall stats you reported for the network this morning?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: We generally don't break out the results by city any more than we have. I'll say that we're very happy with all six of them. We think there's growth potential in all six of them. I'm not sure I'm understanding the question fully, Andrew, so maybe you could give a little more.
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Andrew G. Didora - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Analyst · Bank of America
Just curious on how the unit revenues trended in your six focus cities relative to the directionally 1.5% PRASM increase for the overall network? Did it outperform, underperform?
Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Yeah, we generally don't report that by city, unfortunately. Sorry.
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Andrew G. Didora - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Analyst · Bank of America
Okay. And then Mark, just have you begun to layer in any hedges for 2016 yet, or are you pretty much fully floating right now?
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
No. We're fully floating. We haven't – we continue to look at it, of course. The shape of the curve is sort of interesting and the hedging costs are suggesting it's probably not quite the time.
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Andrew G. Didora - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Analyst · Bank of America
Okay. Thank you.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question comes from the Helane Becker of Cowen. Helane R. Becker - Cowen & Co. LLC: Thanks, Operator. Hi, guys. Thank you for the time. Just on fare options. As we look forward to your traffic releases for the next three or four months, is there a way we'd be able to sort of sort out the uptake on that? Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Helane, as of now, no. I mean we have no plans to change our current reporting or guidance structure. It will, again it's for the next several months, it's still going to be a relatively small number. Helane R. Becker - Cowen & Co. LLC: Okay. All right. That's great. And then as we look ahead to opportunities for Mint. For example, you mentioned I think service to one of the Caribbean islands and so on and the high-end leisure customer that kind of likes that product. Are there opportunities, A, for more markets where that makes sense and B, is there an opportunity to push the fares higher after the introductory period? Or some of these markets are seasonal, should we just think about it as always being Mint for $599? Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Hi, Helane. Good morning. It's Robin. I'll take that one. I think, look, we do see a lot of opportunity for future Mint markets. We want to be very considered and thoughtful in the rollout because this is a sort of a very sort of different business model for us and it creates complexity. And so we are very conscious about isolating that complexity. And also if you look at our future order book, the high-density 321 is a very important airplane for us too. And so…
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Operator
Operator
Our next question comes from Joseph DeNardi of Stifel.
Joseph W. DeNardi - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Hey. Thanks. Good morning.
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
Good morning.
Joseph W. DeNardi - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: On the operational performance metrics that you guys provided and the improvement you're seeing there in terms of on-time departures, can you quantify what benefit that has to the cost structure in the quarter or is that just mainly a passenger satisfaction benefit?
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
Hey, Joe. It's Mark. I can't quantify, but I will tell you, it is palpable. Particularly as we look at, and a lot of energy here, particularly in New York operating metrics and credit to the team, we're seeing a completion factor. We're seeing all of the metrics that were outlined by Robin. And we also are pretty fanatical about a fleet launch. And it truly, truly is one of the sort of underlying good guys behind our ability to tighten our cost guidance. And so it's – it truly is there. But I think we would all love to be able to quantify what D0 equals in terms of CASM but it truly is there.
Joseph W. DeNardi - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Okay. Thank you. And then on the interest expense reduction that you're expecting from the debt paydown, could you quantify that for the year and maybe talk about what opportunities there are for further paydowns that are too expensive to retire?
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
Sure. I would just – I would note, point out that in today's press release, we noted that interest expense was down quarter-over-quarter by $7 million as a result of reduction in debt. We continue to look at other opportunities to pay down debt. We are mindful of the fact that a lot of fixed debt may have break implications, and our treasury team has successfully been able to work with lenders and we're basically prepaying a debt close to par, so we're minimizing the impact of those prepayment issues. And so in that light, prepayment opportunities abound; of – the $84 million that we prepaid this past quarter reflected like the prepayment of special facility bonds of securing a hangar as well as a number of aircraft.
Joseph W. DeNardi - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Okay. Thanks, Mark.
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
Thank you.
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Operator
Operator
Our next question is from Tom Kim of Goldman Sachs. Tom Kim - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Good morning and thanks for the time here. I'm curious if you can provide a little bit of color around some of the underlying drivers behind the PRASM curve deceleration you saw in the second quarter? Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: I don't think we can give a lot more guidance than what I've given so far. And the one thing I will say that I may not have stressed enough earlier is that a big chunk of this benefit has come from a lot of the network investments we've made over the last several years, specifically in Latin America. If you go back 12 months to this call 12 months ago, we would have been talking about challenges in Latin America. With the capacity that JetBlue and other carriers have added. I think we've annualized that and some of the capacity has come out from some of our competitors and we've got extremely strong revenue performance in Latin America. So we're very excited about that. And as I said earlier about domestic, domestic is really spread across the whole system. I don't think we see any unusual pockets of strength or weakness domestically. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Hey, Tom. It's Robin. I'd just like to add a couple of more thoughts on that. I think first of all, I think it's – when we talk about acceleration within a quarter, I think we have to be a little bit careful about just looking at sort of monthly traffic numbers because there's often a bit of noise and you've got to kind of look back at the comps and how did our May…
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Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer
Management
It's frankly just really good discipline with – across the system in the near term. Again, operational metrics are very, very impactful, and credit to the crew members. I wish I could quantify exactly how much that is as Joe asked for but – and then we're seeing, we're seeing really good cost behavior and it's really across the board.
Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: I think, Tom, if I may, it's Robin. I just want to. I mean I think as we said at our Investor Day, as a company, we know how important strong ex-fuel CASM cost control is to our ability to continue to grow our model. And so it's something that we remain extremely focused on. We don't have time here to go into sort of all of the things that we're doing but there's a lot of focus on the operational side, how we review expenditure, some of the programs we've got and some of the larger expenses to areas to drive more efficiency. And then frankly, as Mark pointed out, just running a more on-time operation, completing more flights, have an inherent efficiency that also kind of bubbles up into the number.
Tom Kim - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Okay. Yeah. Thanks for the color. I appreciate that.
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We have one more question from Rajeev Lalwani of Morgan Stanley. Rajeev Lalwani - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Hi. Thanks for taking my question. Just a high-level one on the Transcon market. There's been a fair amount of changes from yourself and some other carriers. And I was just wondering if you can maybe bring all that together and just talk about if the environment on that side is improving, getting more or less competitive. Just your thoughts here would be great. Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Hi. Thanks, Rajeev. The Transcon market has been strong for us. I think obviously Mint is an important contributor to that, but it is by no means the most important contributor. And we're seeing this strength in almost all of our JFK Transcon markets, not just only in San Francisco; also seeing strength in Boston. We've had markets, for example the Fort Lauderdale, our Transcon markets which have been breakeven for a while are now solidly profitable. I think we're really seeing the Transcon improving across the board. And we're very happy with the trends we're seeing. And I think it's one of the reasons we're so excited about adding Boston next year. Rajeev Lalwani - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Okay. Great. And then just last question. On Latin America, it seems like a fair amount of the other carriers have been stuffing up their investments in partnerships and co-chairings and things like that. I'm just wondering how that may impact you from that competitive standpoint if at all. Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Honestly, we're very happy with our growth potential in Latin America. We do have a couple of strong partnerships in the Caribbean. We're always looking for more…
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Kevin Crissey - Director-Investor Relations
Management
All right, everybody. That concludes our second quarter 2015 conference call. Thanks for joining us and have a great day and see you next quarter.
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And again, that will conclude today's conference. Thank you all for your participation.