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Thank you for standing by and welcome to American Airlines Group's Second Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speaker presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press 11 on your telephone. To remove yourself from the queue, you may press 11 again.

I would now like to hand the call over to Neil Russell, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Latif. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the American Airlines Group earnings conference call. On the call with prepared remarks, we have our CEO, Robert Isom and our CFO, Devin May. In addition, we have a number of our senior executives in the room this morning for the Q and A session. Robert will start the call with an overview of our performance. Devin will follow with details on the quarter in addition to outlining our operating plans and outlook going forward. After our prepared remarks, we will open the call for analyst questions, followed by questions from the media. To get in as many questions as possible, please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. Before we begin today, we must state that today's call contains forward looking statements, including statements concerning future revenues, costs, forecasts of capacity and fleet plans.

These statements represent our predictions and expectations of future events, but numerous risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ from those projected. Information about some of these risks and uncertainties can be found in our earnings press release and Form 10 Q that was issued earlier this morning. Unless otherwise specified, all references to earnings per share are on an adjusted and diluted basis. Additionally, we will be discussing certain non GAAP financial measures, which exclude the impact of unusual items. A reconciliation of those numbers to the GAAP financial measures is included in the earnings press release, which can be found in the Investors section of our website.

A webcast of this call will also be archived on our website. The information we are giving you on the call this morning is as of today's date, and we undertake no obligation to update the information subsequently. Thank you for your interest and for joining us this morning. With that, I'll turn the call over to our CEO, Robert Isom.

Good morning, everyone. This morning, American reported an adjusted pretax profit of $869,000,000 for the second quarter or earnings per share of $0.95 which is toward the high end of the guidance we provided in April. We achieved this in a difficult and evolving operating and demand environment, and we're proud of our second quarter performance. We remain steadfast in our focus on our 2025 priorities, which will continue to shape the long term success of American. Executing on these priorities will enable us to grow margins, generate sustainable free cash flow, and further strengthen our balance sheet.

Our priorities this year include delivering on our revenue potential, renewing our focus on the customer experience, operating with excellence and driving efficiencies throughout the airline. We're pleased with the progress we've made on each of these fronts, and we'll share more on them this morning. Let's begin with our performance during the second quarter. In the second quarter, we produced record revenue of $14,400,000,000 a testament to the progress we're making on our commitment to deliver on our revenue potential even in a challenging environment. Our year over year passenger unit revenue improvement led our network peers for the fourth straight quarter.

Long haul international PRASM performed in line with our initial expectations, with all entities producing positive year over year results. Driven by continued strength in the premium cabin, Atlantic PRASM was up 5%, and Pacific PRASM was up approximately 1% year over year on approximately 17% more capacity. Premium demand and spending from higher income consumers remained resilient in the second quarter. On a year over year basis, unit revenue in the Premium Cabin performed four points better than the Main Cabin. We're well positioned to attract premium customers with plans to expand our premium seating further in the years ahead.

The strength in international premium was offset by domestic leisure weakness. Domestic unit revenue was down approximately 6% year over year. The softness in the main cabin persisted throughout the second quarter. While domestic unit revenue is expected to remain lower year over year in the third quarter, we expect that July will be the low point and that performance will improve sequentially each month in the quarter as industry capacity growth slows and demand strengthens. As shown on slide four of the earnings presentation that we published this morning, the efforts of our sales team to recover revenue from indirect channels beat our expectations in the quarter, with our indirect share now down 3% versus historical levels.

We saw the greatest sequential improvement in indirect leisure channels, but we continue to make progress in corporate channels. We remain on track to get back to our historical share of indirect channel revenue as we exit 2025. In the second quarter, we grew our managed business revenue by 10% year over year, outpacing broader industry growth. This result is further confirmation that our sales and distribution efforts are being well received by our customers. Our work to grow the ADDvantage program and enhance our partnership with Citi is continuing as we prepare for the start of our new 10 agreement in January 2026.

Slide five highlights that active Advantage members have grown 7% year to date, with our highest growth in enrollments coming from Chicago, Dallas Fort Worth, New York. Advantage members are more engaged, generate a higher yield versus nonmembers, and are a key driver for premium cabin demand, currently accounting for approximately 77% of premium revenue. Spending on our co branded credit cards was up 6% year over year for the second quarter as customers continue to favor advantage miles as their preferred rewards currency. American remains committed to offering an industry leading travel rewards program, and we look forward to sharing more exciting updates in the months ahead. The further strengthening of our network remains a key priority for the team.

In the second quarter, our growth was focused on Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, three strategic hubs critical to our network and where we continue to see long term opportunity. We're encouraged by the early results from this additional capacity, with share, unit revenue and financial results tracking in line with or ahead of expectations. We'll remain responsive to the demand and competitive environment as we execute our long term network strategy, and we remain focused on deploying capacity that best serves our customers. Our new customer experience organization is elevating every part of the travel journey. We've continued to make meaningful improvements across all phases of the customer experience.

We've announced several exciting updates to our lounge network, including opening a new flagship lounge in Philadelphia. In Miami, we've announced plans for a new flagship lounge and are expanding the Admiral's Club lounge footprint. American is proud to offer more premium lounges than any other carrier. Later this summer in Charlotte, we'll open Provisions by Admiral's Club, a new, unique, and additional lounge concept for customers that are seeking a quick refreshment before catching their next flight. The new flagship suite on our Boeing seven eighty seven-nine officially entered service last month on select flights to London.

In this winter, this premium offering is expected to expand to Argentina, New Zealand, and Australia, giving more customers the opportunity to enjoy this elevated experience. Customer response to the new aircraft and flagship suite product has been overwhelmingly positive. We want our customers' experience at the airport to be as easy and as seamless as possible. In May, we implemented TSA Touchless ID, which significantly expedites the security screening process. Additionally, we're the first airline to test one stop security for flights into The US, starting with American's flights from London to Dallas Fort Worth, allowing customers to bypass baggage reclaim and TSA rescreening upon arrival.

We're excited to be the first carrier to implement one stop security, which will greatly enhance the connecting experience and overall journey for our customers traveling internationally. Thank you to the Department of Homeland Security for its continued partnership and commitment. We've also introduced several additional customer enhancements during the quarter, including an option for customers to use Miles as a form of payment for upgrades and improvements to our in flight food and beverage offerings. We're excited about the momentum we've built, and we're just getting started. Our customer experience team is undertaking a comprehensive review of every phase of the travel journey and making investments that will deliver tangible improvements for our customers and our revenue performance.

Turning now to our operation. The team has continued to plan, execute, and recover through very difficult operating conditions this summer. Disruptive operating conditions are a reality of our business, and the American team continues to do an excellent job recovering from irregular operations and mitigating the impact to our customers. In the second quarter, there was significant storm activity at our hubs in Dallas Fort Worth, Chicago, Washington, D. C.

And in the Northeast, a 36% increase in disruptive operational events over the same period last year. Thanks to the investments we've made in technology and our operation and our team's continued focus on controlling what we can control, we were able to recover quickly from these disruptions. A big thank you to the entire American Airlines team for continuing to deliver for our customers in the midst of a very challenging operating environment. Finally, I'd like to acknowledge the families and communities affected by the catastrophic flooding in Central Texas. American is a proud Texas based airline, and we've joined forces with our disaster response partners, the American Red Cross, AirLink, and Team Rubicon, to aid relief efforts and support impacted families.

Now I'll turn the call over to Devin to share more about our second quarter financial results and outlook.

Thank you, Robert, and good morning, everyone. Excluding net special items, American reported a second quarter operating margin of approximately 8% and earnings per share of $0.95 both at the high end of our guidance. Our second quarter revenue of $14,400,000,000 was up 0.4% year over year. Second quarter unit cost, excluding fuel and net special items, was up 3.4% year over year, over half a point better than the midpoint of our guidance. This is a result of the team's continued strong execution on our efficiency initiatives and a shift in timing of maintenance events to later in the year.

This resulted in an EBITDAR margin of 14.2%, a 1.5 reduction year over year, which is similar to the year over year margin decline of our network peers. This is a great result considering the current domestic demand environment and our differentiated position, which includes the relative domestic weighting of our network and paying full market rates for all of our largest labor groups. We are committed to running the airline as reliably and efficiently as possible while continuing to improve our revenue performance and enhance the customer experience. These efficiencies are driven by best in class workforce management, efficient asset utilization, and procurement excellence, and are unlocked by investments in technology and process improvements. By year end, we expect to have driven cumulative savings of over $750,000,000 and delivered approximately $600,000,000 of working capital improvements since we launched our reengineering the business efforts in 2023.

During the second quarter, we raised $1,000,000,000 through a loyalty term loan financing and used the proceeds to cash settle our $1,000,000,000 convertible note earlier this month. American ended the second quarter with approximately $38,000,000,000 of total debt and $29,000,000,000 of net debt, our lowest net debt levels since the third quarter of twenty fifteen. We ended the second quarter with $12,000,000,000 of total available liquidity. In the quarter, we produced $791,000,000 of free cash flow and have now produced $2,500,000,000 of free cash flow in the first half of the year. We anticipate having positive free cash flow for the full year.

With regard to our fleet, we now expect to take delivery of 50 new aircraft this year at the high end of our previous range of 40 to 50 deliveries. This is driven by earlier than planned deliveries of several aircraft that we now expect to receive in the fourth quarter a few months earlier than our previous expectation of the first quarter of twenty twenty six. Based on these expected deliveries, our twenty twenty five aircraft CapEx, which also includes used aircraft purchases, spare engines, and net PDPs, is now expected to be between 2,500,000,000.0 and $3,000,000,000 and our total CapEx is expected to be between $3,500,000,000 and $4,000,000,000 We continue to expect moderate levels of CapEx in future years with annual aircraft CapEx averaging approximately $3,500,000,000 for the remainder of the decade. I'd now like to walk you through our outlook for the third quarter. We continue to be mindful of both the demand and competitive environment as we develop our capacity plans for the remainder of the year.

For the third quarter, we expect capacity to be up two to 3% year over year. Our year over year domestic capacity is up by approximately 5% during the July peak, but growth will slow to approximately 2% in August and will be down 1% in September. We expect third quarter revenue to be between down 2% and up 1% year over year. We expect July to be one of the year's weakest year over year RASM performing months, given the higher industry capacity and that the month was largely booked prior to the strengthening demand trends we have seen over the past couple of weeks. But we believe the worst is behind us, and year over year revenue will sequentially improve each month this quarter.

Third quarter nonfuel unit costs are expected to be up 2.5% to 4.5% year over year, driven primarily by the collective bargaining agreements we have ratified over the past two years. This performance is in line with the second quarter, but on a lower rate of growth. We expect similar performance in the fourth quarter, given the shift in maintenance expense from the second quarter to the fourth quarter. Based on our current demand assumptions and fuel price forecast, we expect to produce a third quarter loss per share of between $0.10 and $0.60 Based on recent demand trends, we expect full year earnings per share of between a loss of $0.20 and a profit of $0.80 with the midpoint being a profit of $0.30 per share. We believe the top end of the range is achievable if demand in the domestic market continues to strengthen, and we would only expect to be at the bottom end of the range if there was macro weakness that we don't see in our recent booking trends.

We are proud to be forecasting a profit in a year where we have faced the challenges of a tragic accident, significant and continued ATC delays, unprecedented weather, the full financial cost of new collective bargaining agreements, and a material drop in demand in the domestic market where we produce over 70% of our revenue. It is a testament to the durability of our business and the resilience of our people. I'll now turn the call back to Robert for closing remarks.

Thank you, Devin. In closing, we're pleased with our second quarter results and the hard work of the American Airlines team. This year has been challenging, but our team has skillfully managed through an uncertain demand environment and difficult operating conditions to deliver a safe and reliable operation for our customers. We're confident that we're delivering on the right long term initiatives. With our continued focus on execution, we remain on track to deliver for the long run.

We believe American is uniquely positioned to benefit as domestic demand recovers in the back half of the year. With that, operator, you may now open the line for questions.

Thank you. To allow everyone the opportunity to participate, you will be limited to one question and one follow-up. Please standby while we compile the Q and A roster. Our first question comes from the line of Jamie Baker of JPMorgan Securities. Please go ahead, Jamie.

Thanks and good morning to the team. So Robert, you and I had a constructive exchange in my opinion back at the March Industrials Conference. So I wanted to kind of stick to that theme following some of the more recent OA disclosures. What we heard from a competitor when discussing the industry landscape is that several airlines are operating a double digit percentage of their flights at a loss. So I guess my question for you Robert is twofold.

First, can you give us an approximation maybe on a full year basis to adjust for seasonality, what overall percentage of American flying loses money? And maybe how that's changed and evolved in recent years? And then second, is there a path towards a more modest percentage of loss producing flying? How do you accomplish that? What are the upside drivers? Thanks.

Okay. Thanks, Jamie. And I'll just start with, we don't run our airline based on other airlines' perceptions of our business. We run and have a fantastic hub and spoke network system, a great set of partners. We're really proud of what we do.

And on a system basis, if you take a look at our results today, the primary differentiator between us and some of our competitors is largely two things. One, we're paying, our team members at, market wages. Others, you know, are benefiting from not doing that. I'm sure that that will, catch up, you know, over over the long run. The second thing is we do have a network that we're proud to say is, more oriented, to the domestic network.

And let's face it. The domestic network has been under stress because of the uncertainty, in in the economy and the the the the reluctance of, you know, domestic passengers to get in the game. We think that that's gonna change. We think that's gonna be a tailwind for us. And especially as as demand, and and capacity come back in in more into balance, it's gonna fit very well with the things that we're doing to make American really, thrive in the long run, delivering on our revenue potential, improving our customer experience, playing into premium, taking advantage of of international.

We're gonna be having, you know, some international growth. And, it's all based on, or all keyed off of, you know, an incredible level of efficiency. So I feel proud of what we got.

Our next question comes from the line of Conor Cunningham of Melius Research.

Two, if I may. You mentioned a sequential improvement in The U. S. Domestic market as you think about through 3Q. There's obviously been a wider range of outlooks from some of the other players out there.

So I was hoping that you could help frame up what you actually see within your within your US domestic performance from maybe July to September. Does it just track the capacity plans? And the reason why I ask is, like, obviously, things changed in July, and you talked about how you were basically fully booked for July. So if you could just talk about where you're booked for the remainder of 3Q and then maybe 4Q, that would be super helpful. Thank you.

Sure, Connor. I can start. But hey, I just want to note that our Vice Chair and Chief Strategy Officer, Steve Johnson, he's recovering from a case of pneumonia, not with us today. He's fine, but getting some rest and is on the mend. So I'll start and hand it out over to Devin.

Look, when we take a look at what we've got on the books right now, July has been tough, really hit hard by the uncertainty during the primary booking period for those that wanted to travel in July. And as we take a look through the third quarter, we probably have about 65% of revenue on the books. I think that's probably plus or minus right, And about 20% on the books for the fourth quarter. So there's a lot to go and good reason to have a lot of optimism for some of the trends that we're seeing going from July into August and September and into the fourth quarter. But also, look, we've had a lot of volatility in the business so far, and we want to be mindful of that as we forecast as well. Devin?

Yeah. And I must add. Like Robert said, we will see sequential improvement throughout the quarter. July is going to look a lot like our, second quarter results. But as we get into August and September, we're gonna see some nice improving trends there and expect that to continue into q four.

Okay. That's helpful. And then maybe I could talk maybe we're ask a little bit about just earnings baselining. Obviously, a lot has gone on in in the first half of this year. And the question that I get is just around, like, what the actual potential of the business is now that you've kind of gotten back to a level of demand where I think is sufficient to what maybe what you were thinking in January.

So if you could just talk about what the headwinds that you faced in the first half of this year and what you don't necessarily expect to repeat next year. Think that would be helpful as we start to think about 'twenty six and beyond. Thank you.

Yeah. We're obviously a ways off of run rate earnings right now, and we see a lot of potential for margin expansion as we go forward.

And it's it's everything Robert's talked about, and it's everything we've talked about over time. Like, as we look out for the next six months, domestic marketplace is going to improve, and that's a that's a great tailwind for us. As we head into next year, we expect that to continue, and we're gonna start benefiting from our new credit card agreement with Citi, which we're incredibly excited about. We continue to invest meaningfully in the customer and the premium experience, which we think is also gonna drive nice tailwinds for us. So this year, obviously, a really tough first half.

We think we're gonna get some nice tailwinds as we head on to the second half and expect expansion as we head into 2026.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Kathryn O'Brien of Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead, Kathryn.

Good morning, everyone. Thanks for the time. Two questions. First one, a bit of a follow-up to Conor's. Can you just speak on how you're thinking about capacity and unit costs versus January?

Within the low single digit and mid single digit ranges you're expecting, have things shifted at all? And then I know this is early, but this year, I think you had a couple of points of pressure from new labor contracts. Can you just speak to, like, headwinds and tailwinds we should be thinking about into next year?

This year is largely unfolding as we expected to start the year. First quarter, we had guided to CASM up 8% for a lot of reasons that we had talked about mainline regional mix, labor expenses, a reduction in capacity. We came in just inside of that. Second quarter, we had guided to CASM up 4%. Again, we came in just inside of that number and, felt good about it.

We're executing on all of our different cost initiatives. We did benefit in the second quarter with some maintenance maintenance expense that pushed out to q four, and so we're gonna see a similar unit cost trend, to what we saw in the second quarter for both the third and fourth quarter. So at the midpoint, unit cost up probably somewhere around 3.5%. As we head into 2026, it's it's early. It's gonna be somewhat dependent on our capacity production, but I'd just say over the long term, I think we've done an exceptional job managing costs.

We spent the last couple of years really focused on reengineering the business for efficiency, and that's across the entirety of our business, And I think we're doing a really nice job with it. So that's the outlook for this year. And I think in '26, we'll continue to perform really well relative to the rest of the industry.

Okay. Great. And then maybe just one on the indirect revenue share, if I could. Saw that came in better than expected in the second quarter. But on an operating margin basis, the gap to peers is about the same this quarter.

It was in the second quarter of last year with indirect revenue much more recovered. Is there an element where revenue share is getting close to historical levels that's more volume driven than it was before the distribution strategy change and there's some element of pricing that recovers over time in those contracts? Or is it the margin pressure is coming from the relatively higher domestic exposure and maybe more market labor rates versus one of your peers you spoke about earlier in the call? Just would love to unpack that.

Yeah. Thanks. You hit it exactly right at the end. Like, it's to me, it feels like a pretty incredible result that our margin performance year over year was very much in line with our peers. In a quarter where we know the weakest part of the business was the domestic marketplace, and we have more exposure to domestic.

And, like you said on the cost side, we are faced with the full cost of newly reached collective bargaining agreements. At least one of our peers isn't in that position yet, but will be eventually. So for us to produce the same year over year margin in that environment seems like a really great result, and, you see it in the unit revenue numbers. We've had four straight quarters of, relative outperformance on unit revenue. It's just hard to have that flow through to margin or relative margin when you have these types of differences.

And, Katherine, I'll just add, one of the other proof points is the corporate managed traffic that's improved 10% year over year in a relatively flat business market. We're not done yet. And that's the point I think is really important. We've got a few percentage points more to get back to where we were prior to the sales and distribution strategy change. But we've got even more from that because we know that our network and our team is capable of delivering it at higher levels.

I do believe that the last few percentage points going to be hard. But also, I think that they're going to be the most profitable points we bring in.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Tom Wadewitz of UBS. Please go ahead, Tom.

Good morning. This is Atul Maheshwari on from Tom Wadewitz. Thanks a lot for taking our questions. Robert, if I heard you right, did you say that you were expecting a full recovery in indirect channel market share as you exit 2025? Is so if you could please confirm that.

And related to that, are you able to quantify what would be the revenue lift that we should expect for 2026 as you run rate the 2025 exit rate to all of next year?

Well, Tom, I'll start with the first, which is just getting back to our historical share. As we exit 2025, we're on track to getting restoring our full indirect channel share. And what that means is that as we exit the year, so it's not embedded in the full year 2025 results. But as we move into 2026, I expect to see that come through. We talked last year about that representing $1,500,000,000 of revenue.

There's a good chunk of that that's going to flow through. We're really pleased with our performance getting back on track.

Okay. And then as my follow-up, just following up on some of the questions that have been asked already. But if we look at your profit margins relative to your network peers, just it would seem based on the outlook set all of you provided this year that your margin gap even at the EBITDAR level is likely to widen this year. Really, as you look out over the next few years, what do you think American really needs to do to make progress in bridging this gap? And do you think there are any structural impediments to American actually fully bridging this gap over time?

Well, I'll just start with last year. At the end of last year, we had a two point EBITDAR margin gap to United inclusive of We had about a two point EBITDAR margin gap to them as well, and that's a gap that we expect to close over time. This year is an unusual year for all the reasons we discussed, and you have to probably dig a level deeper. One, we're we have a larger domestic, exposure than either of our large network competitors.

Two, we have, we're just at different cycles with, where we are at with collective bargain agreements. We have all of ours in place. One of our competitors does not. So not everything is going to come through in margin, in a linear fashion, but we do think, over time, yes, we expect we can close that margin gap. We don't think there's anything structural.

We had talked about what we think are some of the key reasons around it, inclusive of your first question, sales and distribution is something that was a headwind last year. It remains a headwind for us this year, but coming into next year, we think it'll be a tailwind to margin. We've talked about our, our Citi agreement. There's been a gap to our peers there. We think we have an incredible partner, an incredible agreement in place, and we're gonna close that gap over time as well.

And we like a lot of the work that we're doing on the commercial side of the business, including, some really nice investments in premium and premium customer, which we think will help as well. So, there's a gap today, and there will be a gap this year, but we do expect to close it heading into 2026.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Michael Linenberg of Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead, Michael.

Hi. Good morning. This is Shannon Daria on for Mike. So American recently agreed to drop its lawsuit against Chicago aviation authorities. Where do you guys stand today, and what does it mean for your schedule later this year and early next year out of Chicago?

Presumably, you thought you'd have more slots and not less than we have now.

Thanks for the question. And, hey, regarding Chicago, this is a tremendous opportunity for America. We've been slowest to rebuild out of the pandemic, our network for a number of reasons, largely because of pilot shortfalls in our regionals. But now that we have full ability to staff, we're in good shape. And so you'll see Chicago hit four eighty five peak departures, I and, you know, we're on our way to to producing even more than that over 500 as we take a look into, next year.

We have the gate capacity we need to to fulfill that growth and even more. And in terms of, the status of, the litigation, we feel really good about where we're at. We, you know, worked with the city, to design and, you know, finance the the expansion of Chicago. And all we're asking to do is is have them live up to, what they said they would do in terms of, gate allocation. So we're not, concerned.

We've got what we need now, and we're gonna have what we need, going forward.

Thanks. And if I just may follow-up, on the Embraer tariff, you know, we've heard that some airlines don't have to accept delivery of airplanes. Is that gonna be the case with you and Embraer, assuming that, you know, current tariffs go through?

Embraer is a terrific partner. And the E175s are just an exceptional aircraft with soon to be satellite based Wi Fi and full first class cabin. And so it fits really well. We're proud to be the operator of the world's largest fleet of Embraer aircraft, and that's unique to American. We're working with the Embraer on deliveries, but we don't anticipate any long term issues.

As a matter of fact, we know that the Brazilian government's working with, the administration, and Embraer as well. And so over the long run, we know what's best. There's a tremendous amount of US based content on those Embraer aircraft, and there's a lot that goes into negotiating trade deals. So, we stand by ready help in any way, and we've made sure that the administration and Embraer knows our interests, and we're confident it will be taken care of.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Andrew Dodora of Bank of America. Please go ahead, Andrew.

Hi, good morning, everybody. So Robert, you've been speaking a lot about your revenue share in indirect channels. When I think about share more broadly, right, your capacity growth has been trailing your network peers for the past six or so quarters. I guess as we move forward from here, are you content with growing less than your peers and driving that RASM outperformance that you've been getting? Or does there come a time when share matters and you need to maybe at least grow in line with some of your primary competition? Any thoughts around that?

Oh, sure. It's always a balance. And it's something that we're going to make sure that we have a network that takes care of our customers in a way that we need to serve them and that we can do so profitably over the long run. We're super pleased with the hub network that we're fortunate to have. Our hubs are based in the metro areas that are growing the fastest in The United States.

You've seen from some of our recent announcements about the new Terminal F in DFW. It's going to allow DFW to be the world's largest hub. We're confident that our hubs will support more growth. And specifically, as we look into 2026, you're going to see us make sure that we restore you know, our our share in in in Chicago. You're gonna see us, continue to build Philadelphia, which has been, you know, a really a a bright spot.

And you'll also see us continue to, invest in in Miami. All that goes with, you know, a tremendous, domestic network that is ultimately the anchor, to help support international growth. And our fleet, is gonna allow for more of that. And, I like the opportunity we have to play both in the international market and premium space as well. So good things on the horizon from that perspective. We're going to take care of our customers.

Got it. Thank you for that. And just my second question here. I know you've spoken about kind of your corporate revenues growing 10% in a flattish market. Can you more quantify the demand improvement you've seen of late that just gives you the confidence to speak to the accelerating revenue growth despite the tougher comps as we head into the back half of the year?

Yes. It's just booking trends. And it's especially what we see coming from June moving into July. And then, as you move into August and September, we feel really confident in terms of an improving capacity and supply environment, and American benefits, and we should benefit more than others given our exposure.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of David Vernon of Bernstein. Your question, please, David.

Good morning, guys. And thanks for taking the question. So Robert, I wanted to ask you a little bit about the investment in sort of the customer experience. And I want to ask it in kind of two ways. One, first kind of, as you look at yourself relative to your peers, where are the big opportunities for you to improve the customer experience?

And as you talk to investors about this, like, how are you thinking about measuring this? Is it net promoter scores? How are you going to kind of judge the performance on improving the overall customer experience? Obviously, it will eventually show up in the bottom line. But I'm just wondering how are you thinking about talking about your progress on this journey to improve with investors and analysts? Thanks.

Thanks, David. Appreciate the question. First off, we're going to measure this by our customers' perception and by revenue performance. Okay, so first off, we will evaluate our Net Promoter Scores. That will be a huge driver.

And as well, in terms of revenue performance, this is going to be we're doing this to improve premium revenues and revenue overall. So unit revenues will be the metric that we take a look at. And so in terms of where we're at, we've had a long history of firsts in terms of customer experience enhancements and improvements, and we're building on that. So whether it's the new flagship suites on our 787s, which will soon be on our 321XLRs, which then will also be on our seven seventy seven-300s that are being reconfigured, You know, that all plays into that. Our our premium lounge network, is larger than than anyone else.

You heard our Philadelphia announcement, Miami, and there will be more on that. A lot of that is built into the capital spending that we've already planned. So I would suggest that there's not a lot of catch up on that front. You will see us invest in our food and in flight amenities. And again, you will see us continue to invest in the premium experience.

Where I look at opportunities going forward though, it really is the ability to serve that premium customer, especially international and internationally as well. And we have a fleet that is ideally suited to do that. So those adjustments that I described, they're all gonna result in the ability to serve almost 50% more premium customers and premium seating as we move out into 2,030. And from an international perspective, our fleet is going to allow us to serve more or actually improve flying by almost 50% or more than 50% as we move out into 02/1930.

Thanks for that. And I guess, as you think about where you guys stand relative to peers in terms of Net Promoter, or do you benchmark that at all?

We do. And we think it's a great opportunity. But it's something, again, that is on a front that we take very seriously. It starts with running an exceptional operation. And we've been hit with our share of challenging operating conditions this summer, certainly in June and July.

And no place has been hit. No airline has been hit as hard as American. So it starts with running a reliable operation. We're making sure that we can recover as quickly as possible, investing in technology on that front. And then moving from there, it really is making sure that we have the basics and those things that are just essential for competition.

And then there's some things that you're gonna see us play in that we'll look to even outpace the competition. And on that front, it's all designed to improve our customer experience and revenue performance.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Duane Pfennigwerth of Evercore ISI. Please go ahead, Duane.

Hey, thanks. Good morning. So depending upon how we interpret the guide for 3Q, maybe there's slight sequential improvement in RASM depending upon how the quarter plays out. But I wonder how would you rank your enthusiasm for sequential improvement by entity, maybe domestic versus Atlantic versus Latin? And do you see a path back to positive RASM for domestic this year?

Hey, Duane. I'll just say this about the environment right now in Q3 versus Q2. In the third quarter, domestic is going to be better, but it starts with a month of July that's going to look very similar to what we had in the second quarter. But we do expect improvement beyond that point, and that's actually the entity where to see the most improvement. Transatlantic, we had outstanding performance in the second quarter.

You know, as the Iran conflict was heating up, that was during a pretty decent booking window for q three, So we do expect a little bit softer performance in the transatlantic in July and August, but by September, we think it's going to be performing really nicely again. The rest of the network, I think there's probably some pressure in short haul Latin, long haul Latin, and Trans Pacific will probably perform pretty similarly to what we saw in q two. But when we look at it in totality, we really like the environment that we're in now versus where we were, you know, a couple of months ago, and especially as we get to the back end of this quarter, we think there's some really nice potential for positive unit revenue ahead. That's not baked into the guide. Obviously, we're going to have negative unit revenue this quarter at the midpoint, But we do think as we head out to the fourth quarter, there is potential for positive unit revenue performance.

Thanks for that. And then I may have missed it, apologies if I did, but you guys have been pretty good at keeping your capacity in kind of this 3% range. Basically for all the quarters of this year, you made some comments about early deliveries. Does that change the trajectory for the fourth quarter? Or do you lean harder on retirements? Or is it just a rounding error?

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