Frontier Group Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:ULCC) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

Duane Pfennigwerth: Hey, thanks. Just on network development, couple questions. On your planning horizon and how that relates to the booking curve, we’re a little surprised to see large changes to October here in early August or late July granted they were capacity adds or they’re not deletes. Can you just talk a little bit about how your network planning process has changed? And how you see it evolving over time? What prevents you from planning with stability kind of further out? Or are you waiting to see aircraft availability et cetera? And I guess, most importantly, do you think this costs you at all from a sort of long-term bookings curved perspective? Or is all the action kind of close in?

Daniel Shurz : Okay. Duane, Well, I’ll unpack that. Look, I think Paul, we have made tweaks to our schedule and some of our schedule rules and schedule design rules to try and address some of what we’ve seen in the operational environment we’re going through at the moment. We made those changes, we made those changes as close than as we could that did that did cause us to be somewhat to get somewhat behind on actually loading all of our schedules that particularly affected us, actually, September that have most significant effect. That we’re expecting that to be sort of a relatively one-off. We’re actually moving forward to adding the capacity we want to add earlier, but we did want to make sure that we did make adjustments that we needed to make.

We need to see improvements obviously in this. And we’ve made some improvements, we think, but we made some changes that we can improve operations. From the the booking curve perspective, it’s a very minor impact. We are seeing – we see most of our volumes are much closer in the math. There’s a small impact, but it truly is small. And going forward, as we get schedules on sale further out it just extended our schedule for New Year and that impact will go away altogether.

Duane Pfennigwerth: Okay. Thank you. And then, just with respect to the booking curve, at least one carrier in the U.S. talked about kind of the surprising strength close in. But that they basically didn’t assume that going forward for the rest of the quarter. Does that ring true to you? And what assumptions have you made with respect to kind of closing bookings for the balance of the quarter?

Daniel Shurz : We have a value proposition of – very well from a close in perspective and we’ve seen continued impairment. We have seen a continued trend since the pandemic or since pandemic recovery in 2022 of strong close in demand. Our anticipation broadly speaking is that that will maintain relatively similar to the way we’ve seen it over the last number of months.

Duane Pfennigwerth: Okay. Appreciate the time.

Operator: Thank you. One moment, please. Our next question comes from the line of Michael Linenberg of Deutsche Bank. Your line is open. Again, Michael Linenberg your line is open.

Michael Linenberg: Great. Hey, good afternoon everyone. Hey, I guess, one part – one question here, but sort of two parts. When we think about your network and we sort of think about what percent is under development, I’m trying to get a sense of what percent can we look at a same-stores basis? And then, what would be new? There’s obviously – I know you’re in a lot of seasonal markets and so they go away and they come back. How should we think about like, if I were to look at your market today, take a snapshot like what percentage is under development are relatively new markets, may be something that’s been added in the last 12 months? And something that’s not seasonal that that comes in and out every six months out of the year, it’s in six months out. Can you give us a better sense on that? I guess that would be to you Daniel and I have sort of a follow-up tied to that.