Hawaiian Holdings Reports 2013 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results

HONOLULU - January 28, 2014 - Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA) ("Holdings" or the "Company"), parent company of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. ("Hawaiian"), today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2013.  

Mark Dunkerley, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, commented that "the fourth quarter's results continued the trend in improving financial performance after a difficult start to the year. Demand remains strong in our markets and we have strategies to mitigate cost pressures. We are looking forward to the year ahead confident in the great job done by our employees taking care of our customers on the ground and in the air. They remain the core asset of our business and the source of great pride among us all."

Statistical data, as well as a reconciliation of the reported non-GAAP financial measures, can be found in the accompanying tables.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

As of December 31, 2013 the Company had:

2013 Highlights

Operational

Fleet and financing

Product and loyalty

New routes and increased frequencies

First Quarter and Full Year 2014 Outlook

The table below summarizes the Company's expectations for the first quarter ending March 31, 2014 and the full year ending December 31, 2014, expressed as an expected percentage change compared to the results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013 or the year ended December 31, 2013, as applicable (the results for which are presented for reference).

First
Quarter
Item 2013 Guidance
Cost per ASM Excluding Fuel (cents) 8.28 Up 5% to up 8%
Passenger Revenue Per ASM (cents) 11.11 Up 4% to up 7%
Operating Revenue Per ASM (cents) 12.37 Up 4.5% to up 7.5%
ASMs (millions) 3,965.8 Up 1% to up 3%
Gallons of jet fuel consumed (millions) 53.9 Up 0.5% to up 2.5%
Full Year
Item 2013 Guidance
Cost per ASM Excluding Fuel (cents) 7.88 Up in the low single digits
ASMs (millions) 16,785.8 Up 4% to up 7%

Investor Conference Call
Hawaiian Holdings' quarterly earnings conference call is scheduled to begin today (January 28, 2014) at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (USA).  The conference call will be broadcast live over the Internet. Investors may listen to the live audio webcast on the investor relations section of the Company's website at www.HawaiianAirlines.com. For those who are not available for the live webcast, the call will be archived for 90 days on Hawaiian's investor website.

About Hawaiian Airlines
Hawaiian Airlines has led all U.S. carriers in on-time performance for each of the past nine years (2004-2012) as reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Consumer surveys by Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure and Zagat have all ranked Hawaiian the highest of all domestic airlines serving Hawai'i.

Now in its 84th year of continuous service, Hawaiian is Hawai'i's biggest and longest-serving airline, as well as the largest provider of passenger air service from its primary visitor markets on the U.S. mainland. Hawaiian offers non-stop service to Hawai'i from more U.S. gateway cities (11) than any other airline, along with service from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, American Samoa, and Tahiti. New non-stop service will begin between Honolulu and Beijing, China in April 2014, subject to government approval. Hawaiian also provides approximately 160 jet flights daily between the Hawaiian Islands.

Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. is a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA). Additional information is available at HawaiianAirlines.com. Follow updates on Twitter about Hawaiian (@HawaiianAir) and its special fare offers (@HawaiianFares), and become a fan on its Facebook page (Hawaiian Airlines).

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that reflect the Company's current views with respect to certain current and future events and financial performance.  Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the addition of new aircraft, new routes and increased frequencies; the Company's expectations regarding cost per available seat mile excluding fuel, passenger revenue per available seat mile, operating revenue per available seat mile, available seat miles and gallons of jet fuel consumed, each for the quarter ending March 31, 2014; the Company's expectations regarding cost per available seat mile excluding fuel and available seat miles, each for the year ending December 31, 2014; and statements as to other matters that do not relate strictly to historical facts or statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing.  Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "projects," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," variations of such words, and similar expressions are also intended to identify such forward-looking statements.  These forward-looking statements are and will be, as the case may be, subject to many risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to the Company's operations and business environment, all of which may cause the Company's actual results to be materially different from any future results, expressed or implied, in these forward-looking statements.  These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the Company's ability to accurately forecast quarter and year-end results; economic volatility; the price and availability of aircraft fuel; fluctuations in demand for transportation in the markets in which the Company operates; the Company's dependence on tourist travel; foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations; and the Company's ability to implement its growth strategy and related cost reduction goals.

The risks, uncertainties and assumptions referred to above that could cause the Company's results to differ materially from the results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements also include the risks, uncertainties and assumptions discussed from time to time in the Company's other public filings and public announcements, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 and the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as well as other documents that may be filed by the Company from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  All forward-looking statements included in this document are based on information available to the Company on the date hereof.  The Company does not undertake to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date hereof even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results expressed or implied herein will not be realized.

Table 1.
Hawaiian Holdings, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in thousands, except for per share data) (unaudited)

Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended
December 31, December 31,
2013 2012 %
Change
2013 2012 %
Change
Operating Revenue:
Passenger $ 478,114 $ 440,735   8.5 % $ 1,942,829 $ 1,767,041   9.9 %
Other   53,771   52,251   2.9 %   213,036   195,312   9.1 %
Total   531,885   492,986   7.9 %   2,155,865   1,962,353   9.9 %
Operating Expenses:
Aircraft fuel, including taxes and delivery   173,756   175,196   (0.8) %   698,802   631,741   10.6 %
Wages and benefits   109,169   96,313   13.3 %   427,438   376,574   13.5 %
Aircraft rent   26,655   25,074   6.3 %   108,534   98,786   9.9 %
Maintenance materials and repairs   43,387   46,281   (6.3) %   203,387   183,552   10.8 %
Aircraft and passenger servicing   31,268   28,966   7.9 %   120,635   103,825   16.2 %
Commissions and other selling   27,615   25,269   9.3 %   125,900   114,324   10.1 %
Depreciation and amortization   22,057   21,912   0.7 %   83,050   85,599   (3.0) %
Other rentals and landing fees   20,544   22,137   (7.2) %   81,317   85,623   (5.0) %
Other   43,586   39,601   10.1 %   173,055   152,931   13.2 %
Total   498,037   480,749   3.6 %   2,022,118   1,832,955   10.3 %
Operating Income   33,848   12,237   133,747   129,398
Nonoperating Income (Expense):
Interest expense and amortization of debt discounts
and issuance costs   (13,434) (11,777) (50,453) (43,522)
Interest income   213   103   639   580
Capitalized interest   3,289   3,196   12,625   10,524
Gains (Losses) on fuel derivatives   5,597   (8,835)   (5,334)   (11,330)
Other, net   (1,357)   (1,109)   (4,814)   136
Total   (5,692)   (18,422)   (47,337)   (43,612)
Income (Loss) Before Income Taxes   28,156   (6,185)   86,410   85,786
Income tax expense (benefit)   11,077   (2,777)   34,556   32,549
Net Income (Loss) $ 17,079 $ (3,408) $ 51,854 $ 53,237
Net Income (Loss) Per Common Stock Share:
Basic $ 0.33 $ (0.07) $ 1.00 $ 1.04
Diluted $ 0.31 $ (0.07) $ 0.98 $ 1.01
Weighted Average Number of
Common Stock Shares Outstanding:
Basic   52,409   51,515   52,099   51,314
Diluted   54,360   51,515   53,155   52,535

Table 2.
Hawaiian Holdings, Inc.
Selected Statistical Data (unaudited)

Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended
December 31, December 31,
2013 2012 % Change 2013 2012 % Change
Scheduled Operations:
Revenue passenger miles (RPM) (a) 3,378.4 3,272.8 3.2% 13,658.1 12,195.9 12.0%
Available seat miles (ASM) (a) 4,183.4 3,997.5 4.7% 16,761.8 14,660.0 14.3%
Passenger revenue per RPM (Yield) 14.15 ¢ 13.47 ¢ 5.0% 14.22 ¢ 14.49 ¢ (1.9%)
Passenger load factor (RPM/ASM) 80.8% 81.9% (1.1) pt. 81.5% 83.2% (1.7) pt.
Passenger revenue per ASM (PRASM) 11.43 ¢ 11.02 ¢ 3.7% 11.59 ¢ 12.05 ¢ (3.8%)
Total Operations:
Revenue passenger miles (RPM) (a) 3,382.8 3,279.1 3.2% 13,677.6 12,217.6 11.9%
Available seat miles (ASM) (a) 4,189.1 4,006.8 4.5% 16,785.8 14,687.5 14.3%
Passenger load factor (RPM/ASM) 80.8% 81.8% (1.1) pt. 81.5% 83.2% (1.7) pt.
Operating revenue per ASM (RASM) 12.70 ¢ 12.30 ¢ 3.3% 12.84 ¢ 13.36 ¢ (3.9%)
Operating cost per ASM (CASM) 11.89 ¢ 12.00 ¢ (0.9%) 12.05 ¢ 12.48 ¢ (3.4%)
CASM excluding aircraft fuel (b) 7.74 ¢ 7.63 ¢ 1.4% 7.88 ¢ 8.18 ¢ (3.7%)
Gallons of jet fuel consumed (a) 56.4 54.5 3.6% 226.2 199.5 13.4%
Average cost per gallon of jet fuel (actual) (c)  $  3.08  $  3.22 (4.3%)  $  3.09  $  3.17 (2.5%)
Economic fuel cost per gallon (c)(d)  $  3.13  $  3.27 (4.3%)  $  3.15  $  3.20 (1.6%)

(a) In millions.
(b) See Table 4 for reconciliations of operating expenses excluding aircraft fuel.
(c) Includes applicable taxes and fees.
(d) See Table 3 for a reconciliation of economic fuel costs. 

Table 3.
Hawaiian Holdings, Inc.
Economic Fuel Expense
(in thousands, except per-gallon amounts) (unaudited)

The Company believes that economic fuel expense is the best measure of the effect of fuel prices on its business as it most closely approximates the net cash outflow associated with the purchase of fuel for its operations in a period.  The Company defines economic fuel expense as GAAP fuel expense plus (gains)/losses realized through actual cash (receipts)/payments received from or paid to hedge counterparties for fuel hedge derivative contracts settled during the period.  

Three Months Ended December 31, Twelve Months Ended December 31,
2013 2012 % Change 2013 2012 % Change
Aircraft fuel expense,  including taxes and delivery $ 173,756 $ 175,196 (0.8%) $ 698,802 $ 631,741 10.6%
Realized losses on settlement of fuel derivative contracts 2,792 3,054 (8.6%) 14,018 7,372 90.2%
Economic fuel expense $ 176,548 $ 178,250 (1.0%) $ 712,820 $ 639,113 11.5%
Fuel gallons consumed 56,420 54,458 3.6% 226,214 199,465 13.4%
Economic fuel cost per gallon $ 3.13 $ 3.27 (4.3%) $ 3.15 $ 3.20 (1.6%)

Table 4.
Hawaiian Holdings, Inc.
Non-GAAP Financial Reconciliation
(in thousands, except per-share data) (unaudited)

The Company evaluates its financial performance utilizing various GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures, including, net income, diluted net income per share, CASM, PRASM, RASM and Passenger Revenue per RPM.  Pursuant to Regulation G, the Company has included the following reconciliation of reported non-GAAP financial measures to comparable financial measures reported on a GAAP basis.  The Company believes that excluding fuel costs from certain measures is useful to investors because it provides an additional measure of management's performance excluding the effects of a significant cost item over which management has limited influence.  

Three months ended December 31, Twelve months ended December 31,
2013 2012 2013 2012
Net income Diluted net income per share Net income (loss) Diluted net income (loss)
per share
Net income Diluted net income per share Net income Diluted net income per share
As reported - GAAP $ 17,079 $ 0.31 $ (3,408) $ (0.07) $ 51,854 $ 0.98 $ 53,237 $ 1.01
Add: unrealized (gains) /
losses on fuel derivative
contracts, net of tax (5,033) (0.09) 3,469 0.07 (5,210) (0.10) 2,375 0.05
Reflecting economic fuel expense $ 12,046 $ 0.22 $ 61 $ - $ 46,644 $ 0.88 $ 55,612 $ 1.06

 (in millions, except for CASM data) Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended
 (unaudited) December 31, December 31,
2013 2012 2013 2012
GAAP operating expenses  $  498.0  $  480.7  $  2,022.1  $  1,833.0
Less: aircraft fuel, including taxes and delivery (173.7) (175.2) (698.8) (631.7)
Adjusted operating expense - excluding aircraft fuel  $  324.3  $  305.5  $  1,323.3  $  1,201.3
Available Seat Miles 4,189.1 4,006.8 16,785.8 14,687.5
CASM - GAAP 11.89 ¢ 12.00 ¢ 12.05 ¢ 12.48 ¢
Less: aircraft fuel (4.15)  (4.37) (4.17) (4.30)
CASM - excluding aircraft fuel 7.74 ¢ 7.63 ¢ 7.88 ¢ 8.18 ¢

Table 5.
Hawaiian Holdings, Inc.
Fuel Derivative Contract Summary (unaudited)
As of January 17, 2014

The Company utilizes heating oil swaps and purchased put options to hedge against price volatility of our future aircraft fuel consumption.  Swap positions are outlined below:

Weighted
Average
Contract Price
Percentage of
Projected Fuel
Requirements
Hedged
Fuel Barrels
Hedged
First Quarter 2014
     Heating Oil Swaps  $  2.92 61% 856,000
Second Quarter 2014
     Heating Oil Swaps  $  2.99 50% 727,000
Third Quarter 2014
     Heating Oil Swaps  $  3.00 35% 524,000
Fourth Quarter 2014
     Heating Oil Swaps  $  2.96 20% 303,000
First Quarter 2015
     Heating Oil Swaps  $  2.89 15% 78,000

Table 6.
Hawaiian Holdings, Inc.
Foreign Exchange Forward Contract Summary (unaudited)
As of January 17, 2014

Japanese Yen Australian Dollar
Quarter of Settlement Weighted Average
Forward Contract
Price
Percentage of
Projected Foreign
Denominated JPY
Sales Hedged
Weighted Average
Forward
Contract Price
Percentage of
Projected Foreign
Denominated AUD
Sales Hedged
(in USD|JPY) (in AUD|USD)
First Quarter 2014  ¥96.03 60% AUD 0.9535  59% 
Second Quarter 2014 ¥99.95 50% AUD 0.9302 50%
Third Quarter 2014 ¥100.14 40% AUD 0.9054 41%
Fourth Quarter 2014 ¥99.35 30% AUD 0.8984 29%
First Quarter 2015 ¥97.78 22% AUD 0.9065 24%
Second Quarter 2015 ¥101.88 21% AUD 0.8788 21%
Korean Won New Zealand Dollar
Quarter of Settlement Weighted Average
Forward Contract
Price
Percentage of
Projected Foreign
Denominated KRW
Sales Hedged
Weighted Average
Forward Contract
Price
Percentage of
Projected Foreign
Denominated NZD
Sales Hedged
(in USD|KRW) (in NZD|USD)
First Quarter 2014 KRW 1,094 40% NZD 0.8018 30%
Second Quarter 2014 KRW 1,104 33% NZD 0.7915 24%
Third Quarter 2014 KRW 1,108 23% NZD 0.7762 18%

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COMPANY CONTACT:
Scott Topping, CFO - (808) 835-3700
Scott.Topping@HawaiianAir.com

INVESTOR RELATIONS CONTACT:
Ashlee Kishimoto, Sr. Director - (808) 838-5421
Ashlee.Kishimoto@HawaiianAir.com

MEDIA RELATIONS CONTACTS:
Alison Croyle, Director - (808) 835-3886
Alison.Croyle@HawaiianAir.com


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