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JetBlue Airways Corporation (JBLU)

Q1 2016 Earnings Call· Tue, Apr 26, 2016

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Operator

Operator

Good morning. My name is Therese and I would like to welcome everyone to the JetBlue Airways' First Quarter 2016 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.

Kevin Crissey - Director-Investor Relations

Management

Thanks, Therese. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us for our first quarter 2016 earnings call. Joining me 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: Thanks, Kevin, and good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Earlier today, we posted record first quarter results with higher margins and greater margin expansion than most of our competitors. In the quarter, net income was $199 million, or $0.59 per diluted share. This represents year-over-year net income growth of $62 million, or 46%. This incredible achievement was made possible thanks to the fabulous efforts of our 18,000 crewmembers who continue to go above and beyond every day exceeding our customers' expectations. I truly believe our unique culture drives our outstanding crewmember engagement, and this drives these great results. Total revenues grew 6% year-over-year on 14% capacity growth. Demand was solid as our load factor held stable, but…

Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer

Management

Thank you, Marty and Robin. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us. This morning, we reported first quarter operating income of $349 million. This represents 38% growth. Pre-tax income for the quarter was $323 million. Pre-tax margin was 20%, an improvement of 5.4 percentage points. As Robin mentioned, among the U.S. airlines that have released their first quarter results, our operating margin ranks first. Our pre-tax margin is in the top three. In addition, our year-on-year operating and pre-tax margin improvements rank second. Total revenue grew 6.1% in the quarter on capacity growth of 14.1%. Yield decreased 8%, while load factor was down 0.1 percentage points. With respect to costs, the first quarter was another period of strong cost control. Excluding fuel and profit-sharing, year-over-year unit cost decreased 3.6%. That is significantly better than our January guidance range of flat to down 2%. We capitalized on milder winter weather than expected, with good cost control and great operational execution. Main drivers behind the difference between our result and guidance came from: fewer de-icing events than forecast; lower salaries, wages and benefits than anticipated; and the timing of some advertising which will move to future quarters. Turning to fuel, fuel prices remain a positive story year-on-year. We had no fuel hedges in place in the first quarter. Including taxes, our fuel price in the quarter was $1.17, down from last year's per gallon price of $2.06, or 43%. Looking ahead, we have no fuel hedges in place for the second quarter of 2016. Based on the forward curve as of April 15, we expect our second quarter fuel price per gallon, including the impact of taxes, to be approximately $1.33. For the second half of the year, we've hedged approximately 20% of our expected fuel consumption using swaps. We've also…

Kevin Crissey - Director-Investor Relations

Management

Therese, we're now ready for Q&A with the analysts. Can you go ahead with instructions please?

Operator

Operator

Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session for investors and analysts. We would 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. Your first question comes from Joseph DeNardi from Stifel. Joseph DeNardi - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Mark, I wonder if you can just flesh out the 2Q RASM guide, maybe talk about why you guys feel comfortable guiding to it now compared to not doing that in the past and maybe specifically what's the shift. I think you mentioned what the shift from April and to both March and May was, but if you could break that down between March and May.

Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer

Management

Good morning. How are you? It's Mark. Let me actually ask Marty perhaps to comment on that. Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Great. Thanks, Mark and good morning, Joe. Joseph DeNardi - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Good morning. Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Thanks. I'm glad you asked the question. I think in general, we've given more guidance than we generally have in this call. Obviously, the only month we truly guided was April, but I think we're very comfortable saying that sequentially of the three months in the quarter, April is absolutely the worst month and if you think about the two pictures we gave, it's more of an math exercise than anything else and you can sort of make your own judgment as far as how May and June go because we generally don't guide that far out. And the one thing I will say is, the move of what's normally peak April demand into both March and May, as we've said in the script, is worth about 3 points. And you get about 1 point or 1.5 point of that benefit actually is going to be in May. So the normal shape of the April, May, June RASM curve is going to be a little bit different in 2016. Joseph DeNardi - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Okay. And then Robin, I was just wondering if you could talk about just given the commentary around trimming some trough capacity in 4Q, can you just talk about what you're managing the business to. Is it to maximize earnings? I mean I understand why you're looking to trim capacity, but why not do more? It feels like we're in a little bit of a middle grounds, so maybe…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Savi Syth with Raymond James. Savanthi N. Syth - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: Hey. Good morning. Just thought I'd just talk a little bit more about Mint. Robin, as you mentioned, I think when you first rolled this out, it really was about getting those transcon markets to at least kind of perform in line with the system and you point today that it's above. And if I look at your fleet plan, looking into 2017, it looks like maybe 11% of your fleet is going to be Mint aircraft, and maybe a little more on a seat basis. So how should we think about these Mint routes and is expectation that they perform in line with system or are they so good that maybe do you see routes actually perform better than system because they are this opportunity that you're unlocking? Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Thanks, Savi. I appreciate the question. Good morning. I'm going to ask my good friend, Marty, and the leader behind Mint to answer that question. Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Thanks, Robin, and thanks, Savi, for the question. As far as how we should look at Mint, I think if you go back to when we first announced this, I think a lot of people in this call will recognize there was a lot of skepticism, but we fundamentally saw something in the marketplace that we thought created an opportunity. If you go back to the original business plan of JetBlue, what the founders saw in the late '90s, was a economy class market in the U.S. that had high fares and bad service. And that's the same thing we saw in the premium market three…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Duane Pfennigwerth of Evercore ISI.

Duane Pfennigwerth - Evercore Group LLC

Analyst

Thanks. Good morning. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Good morning, Duane.

Duane Pfennigwerth - Evercore Group LLC

Analyst

Just on the full-quarter guidance, which is appreciated, and maybe I missed this in your prepared remarks, but it looks like it implies down about 4% to 5% for May and June. Can you put a finer point on that? Like does that sound reasonable for both months? Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Hi, Duane. Good morning. It's Robin. I'll answer that. I'd give you full marks for not being satisfied with the increased guidance we provide and in true style trying to get a little bit more. No, we won't. I think, we wanted to just give you a sense of how the quarter was looking because particularly with the profile of our business, March and April are always very, very choppy. So, I know you're an excellent mathematician and I'm sure you can work out what that means for the rest of the quarter. And obviously, our visibility on May is greater than our visibility into June as well.

Duane Pfennigwerth - Evercore Group LLC

Analyst

I appreciate that. I'm not sure I agree with all those comments, but I appreciate that. Can you help us understand the timing of the contribution and the ramp on the new credit card agreement? Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Hi, Duane. It's Marty. Thanks for the question. So, we're very excited with what's happening with the credit card agreement and we're reaffirming the guidance that we gave as far as the run rate benefit of the credit card going forward. It's a little bit early for us to make any predictions as far as where that money may actually be going, but we're very happy with what we're seeing so far. We're at a point now where we're six weeks into the credit card program. Let's back up. There's generally a drop-off when you basically send people a new credit card, and say, oh, yeah, by the way, this credit card you've had for years is changing. Throw it away. You need a new one. You have to call me up and activate it. There's generally a drop-off from that. From what we're hearing from Barclaycard, we've had much less drop-off than they've seen in other conversions. And six weeks in, we're already at more credit card accounts than we had with American Express. So, we're very happy with what we're seeing. I think it's a little bit early to make a prediction on how things are going to ramp in differently. I'll compare this back to the guidance that we had given originally about the benefit to fare option, where the number we originally gave back at Investor Day and in the first or second call after fare options, we had seen things trending, but it was a little bit too early to call, but we will revise the guidance, if we do see any change in it, but we're very comfortable with the number we're seeing right now. It's just a little bit too soon to say.

Duane Pfennigwerth - Evercore Group LLC

Analyst

I guess just as a follow-up there, can you quantify, I guess, the headwinds during this transition in the first quarter? Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: I mean, the biggest challenge we had in the first quarter was we had a – one should refer (35:59) over a three-month period where we were not acquiring any new credit card accounts. There's a transition period when the old cardholder sort of freezes the portfolio because they are in the process of negotiating the sale of it, and they basically want a static base to work with. And I don't have the exact date, but definitely in the fourth quarter, like in October, November, we stopped soliciting new credit cards. And we're a growing airline with growing geography. We're always adding credit cards. So we took a pretty big period where we weren't adding additional credit cards. And also, it was a time period where the normal course of business, marketing activities that you would normally see from American Express weren't happening, because they weren't getting done or ready to (36:46) benefit from it. They were basically investing in a long term that was going to accrue to a new partner, so that's really what happened during the period. And again, because we transitioned at the end of the quarter, that was the situation the majority of the quarter.

Duane Pfennigwerth - Evercore Group LLC

Analyst

Thanks very much. Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Okay.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Michael Linenberg with Deutsche Bank.

Mike J. Linenberg - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

Hi, everybody. Hey, Marty, I have a question for you just back on Mint. You talked about the new markets and how you expect to see margin improvement, and I appreciate that. But when I think about the markets that Mint is in today, those are markets where there is clearly significant demand for that higher-end product. And I'm just curious, as you look at some of these other Mint markets, it does feel like that there could be some diminishing returns here. And so, I look at your fleet plan next year and you have nine of your 10 going into the Mint rather than the Core. What has kind of evolved here? Because I would think that lots of conversations and dialogue, even over the last year or so, there were sort of a lot of back and forth about whether or not, there were that many more markets that you could put the Mint product in. And so, I guess, the math comes down to that the margin improvement that you see in these markets that convert to Mint more than offset potential opportunities to deploy A321 Core aircraft at least in the near term. Can you just run through some of the thinking there because it does feel like it's a bit of a sea change? Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Sure, Michael. Good morning and thanks for the question.

Mike J. Linenberg - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

Good morning. Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: I think you're actually making a very important point that I don't want to brush over. And I think the overarching summary that I would say is Mint has been a pleasant surprise for us from the very beginning. When we originally announced it, we had a business case. We have blown away the numbers in the business case. We've recently launched Boston-San Fran services. That was the market that, I think, in a lot of ways fits some of the characteristics that you described: Boston, there's not as much premium demand, not quite as clear, as far as what the value proposition could be, also a market that's been a very, very good surprise very quickly. I mean, I don't think I've seen a load factor that didn't start with a nine in that route from day one, I mean, it's been extremely, extremely lucrative. I'll give you a quick anecdote, which you'll appreciate. When we originally were floating the idea of Mint with some of our large corporate accounts and talking with some corporate accounts in New York, and, at that point in time, we didn't have that many big corporates in New York. And then, we talked to them about Mint. We talked about pricing. They said, yeah, we're in. We love it. We totally want to do it. We'll definitely support you. And this is back three years ago or four years ago, we had the same conversation in Boston, and in Boston, we have a very large corporate account base. We went to corporate accounts we've got good shares with, 40%, 50% market share, and said the same thing to them, and they said, no, we're not interested. Our customers don't fly premium. We're not sure it's going to work. It looks like a great product, but it's not for us. We obviously said, like, by the way, there are times when the Mint fare is lower than the Core fare on American, Delta, United. Are you sure? And they said, yeah, we're not interested. Two years later, they're saying to us, hey, that Mint service, we kind of want that. That's how good it was. So from that perspective, these are markets that we're very confident of the ability to get customers into this cabin. Interestingly enough, think about the people that we talked about originally, small and medium businesses, high-end leisure, and large corporate. All three legs of the stool have been very strong contributors. And I think, if you look at the markets we added then, we're comfortable that we're going to get that exact same demand in those markets.

Mike J. Linenberg - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

Okay. Very good. And then just the second one, and, Marty, I guess, this one is to you as well. Just with the Newark potentially becoming somewhat less constrained later this year per the new sort of DOT/FAA rules, I think you have about a dozen flights a day or so in Newark, and I know that's a function of your current slot position. But I do think that you have access to maybe three gates. So, it would seem that you could do, if you wanted to, probably schedule a bit more service than what you're currently offering. Is there an opportunity there for you, or is it more just focused on LaGuardia and Kennedy? Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Hey, Michael. It's Robin. I'm going to take that because I love talking about congested high fare airports.

Mike J. Linenberg - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

Not a problem. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: We are – again, good morning and thanks for the question. Look, actually we're over 20 flights a day now on average...

Mike J. Linenberg - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

Okay. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: ...out of Newark.

Mike J. Linenberg - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

Okay. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: So we've done a good job over the years getting the odd slot here and there. Great news about the airport sort of moving to a level 2 on slotted airport. Obviously, gates and other facilities do act as a form of constraint, but we're very happy about the news, and no announcements today, but we are looking very closely at Newark, and we definitely see an opportunity for expansion there as well. We do extremely – Newark is the sort of airport we do extremely well whether they're a constrained airport with an incumbent competitor that charges very high fares, and we can go in and offer a better product at a lower price and do very well. So, watch this space on Newark.

Mike J. Linenberg - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank.

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from Hunter Keay with Wolfe Research.

Hunter K. Keay - Wolfe Research LLC

Analyst · Wolfe Research.

Thank you. Good morning. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Good morning, Hunter. How are you?

Hunter K. Keay - Wolfe Research LLC

Analyst · Wolfe Research.

Hi. Good. Thanks, Robin. Hey, Marty, can you educate us a little bit on the Lauderdale market and how Miami International competes against Hollywood for some of the local traffic, and wondering if there was any key distinctions that we should be aware of between those two airports that make them maybe a little bit less competitive with each other than just the sort of simple geography would suggest because obviously there's going to be a lot of growth in that market, not just from you guys over the next couple of years, but from some other airlines as well too. So how are you guys thinking about those two airports in the context of sort of fighting over local growth, local share? Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Hi. Hi, Hunter. Good morning and thanks for the question. We love talking about Fort Lauderdale. We think it's a very important market for us, and it's had a lot of growth in the last couple of years for JetBlue, and as Robin said earlier, more to come. We look at the Fort Lauderdale versus Miami and just throw Palm Beach in there. We look at those, the balances in those three airports from a lot of different lenses. And it's funny at JetBlue, we're still a low-cost airline, that number one lens we look at is cost. Our airport fees for enplanement at Lauderdale are a fraction of what it costs to fly out of Miami. And we think that gives us a great opportunity right off the bat because we can offer lower fares in Fort Lauderdale than we could offer in Miami, which we think gives us a great opportunity on the pricing front. Second issue on the demand front, what we think is…

Hunter K. Keay - Wolfe Research LLC

Analyst · Wolfe Research.

Okay. Thanks, Marty. And then, Robin, getting back to Joe's question earlier in the call about how you're running this business, I think, you talked about, correct me if I'm wrong, but you said basically maximizing EBIT dollars and maximizing profit. But isn't there a difference? You said you're not tone-deaf earlier when asked about guiding to 2Q RASM too, which I think is a great comment. I appreciate that. But isn't there a difference between managing your business for shareholder wealth creation and managing your business for profit maximization. And I think at this point, the shareholder wealth creation thing is particularly sensitive when you see these stocks all go down day after day in the exact same guidance point. Well, our point is to focus shift to maximizing shareholder wealth and stemming the bleeding, which is getting pretty painful for some of your owners as opposed to just maximizing profit. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah. No, I mean, I also did mention ROIC. I mean, we continue to make great strides on improving our ROIC metrics. And we're continuing to focus on doing that. Look, personally, I think the stock provides a great value right now. I mean, if you look at where we are in the space with a sort of a positive revenue, unit revenue trend towards the rest of this year, a tight handle on costs, I mean delivering a top-of-class margins in the first quarter, when I think about all of that. And also, really in terms of some of the revenue initiatives, we're still in the early stages of things like the credit card and the cabin restyling. I think, all of those go together to drive shareholder wealth creation. And for an airline like JetBlue where we have to be very conscious of delivering here and now, but also on our long-term plans, I think, we're executing well. But the comments that are being made about unit revenue, I do understand and that's why we kind of changed how we kind of describe the quarter because we did want to be sympathetic to that. But at the end of the day, we are – by drive – improving our margin, improving our net income, driving a strong ROIC performance, we think in the medium to long-term, that's what delivers the most value to shareholders.

Hunter K. Keay - Wolfe Research LLC

Analyst · Wolfe Research.

Okay. Thank you, guys.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from David Fintzen of Barclays.

David Fintzen - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst

Hey. Good morning, everyone. I guess, a question for Marty. When I think back to, I guess it was November 2014 when you guys rolled out all the initiatives in the cabin restyle, a $100 million incremental EBIT contribution that was obviously a very different pricing environment. When you look at the world today, how do you feel about that $100 million? Are there – is there a little more dilution in the revenue environment we need to take into account or kind of what's changed between here and late 2014? Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Hi, Dave. Good morning. Thanks for the question. We absolutely fully agree with the guidance we gave, originally $100 million in cabin restyling. Obviously, some things have moved since we originally made that announcement. I would also mention that we did throw in 10 additional seats on the A321 All-Core fleet, which we're actually going to start seeing this summer. So, to the extent that we've looked at that overall package, we still feel very comfortable with what that's going to produce for our owners when that fully rolls out. And honestly, if you look at overall industry dynamics, prices come and go. Demand comes and goes. I think, it's – there's a much longer trend line here. I don't think any of us looks at the current demand environment and the pricing environment with this demand and says this is going to be the normal forever.

David Fintzen - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst

Okay. That's – I appreciate that. And then, coming back to Lauderdale, how do you think about Mint fitting into Lauderdale at some point? I mean, obviously you're doing some of the trans-cons. Does that further differentiate your franchise in Lauderdale particularly down into LatAm down the road? Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: You know, interesting question about the future of Mint on different types of markets. I think, if you look at how Mint has progressed, what we've shown is we're not afraid to take Mint to unconventional places. I think places like Aruba and Barbados, I think, were good examples of some pretty significant changes versus where the U.S. industry has flown in premium transcon market. I think, if you look at things like the other islands we're flying this year, St. Maarten, a much shorter haul than the six-hour flight to Barbados, also places where we think there's very strong premium demand. With respect to Fort Lauderdale, it's a market we do very well in. We've grown a lot. We're very profitable. We do see the opportunity for strong premium demand to the West Coast, so we're excited about the additions that we added for Fort Lauderdale. As we've talked about things like 321 LRs, if you wanted to fly longer distance, not necessarily from Fort Lauderdale, but from elsewhere in the system, we think a Mint-like product would be very important to that. So I think the fact that we have proven, first of all, that our crewmembers can deliver a premium product and can deliver it better than anybody else; and, second, that customers will respond to JetBlue launching a premium product by shifting share, I think, there's a lot of runway ahead of the growth of Mint.

David Fintzen - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst

Okay. I appreciate all that color. Thanks.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Dan McKenzie of Buckingham.

Dan J. McKenzie - The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.

Analyst

Hey. Thanks. Good morning, guys. With respect to the revenue outlook for the second quarter, I understand the holiday shift. But stripping this out, I'm wondering if you can help add some color around some of the key buckets. So Latin America versus walk-up fares, say, versus growth markets or competitive capacity. Just given the number of strengths that you cite in the business and the general strength we're seeing from other airlines domestically, I guess I'm just trying to understand where you might be seeing some sequential deterioration here. Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Hi, Dan. Thanks for the question. Can you just restate that one more time? Because I'm just – I feel like the first half of the question and second half of the question is different. I just want to make sure I answer exactly what you're trying to get at.

Dan J. McKenzie - The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.

Analyst

Yeah. I'm just wondering if you can add some color around some of the key revenue buckets, as I think about those Latin America versus walk-up pricing, what those trends are doing versus perhaps the growth markets. And it's just – we're seeing some – domestically seems pretty good from the other airlines that have reported and I – and you guys have been talking about a lot of positive things that are going on in your system. I'm just wondering – I'm just trying to separate out where we might be seeing any sequential deterioration? Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Okay. That's very helpful. Thank you for that. Well, first of all, let me give you a high level view of how we see the competitive environment shaking up for the rest of the year. And actually, it's – a lot of it's actually not a JetBlue story. One thing we didn't stress in the script and maybe we should have is that if you look at our ASM growth for the rest of the year, I think, we made a sort of a glancing comment to it, but I think it's worth stressing a little bit more. We annualize a lot of our growth as we hit third quarter and fourth quarter. So for example, right now, our scheduled growth for second quarter is like 11% in ASM, third quarter it's down to 7%, and fourth quarter it's in the 5%. So, our comps get a lot better from that perspective. So, we think that's actually a big upside for us. With respect to what we're seeing in the demand environment, I think, we're – as we said in the script, we're seeing good demand in the business markets and we're very happy we have that good mix of business and leisure. And really, I think – I don't think what we're saying is all that different than what we're hearing competitor's say. I mean, clearly Latin America has been a challenge for us, but again it's a very strong franchise. It's still extremely profitable. And I don't think we look at this as any sort of crisis.

Dan J. McKenzie - The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.

Analyst

Understood. Okay. And then, I guess, just going back to the corporate leisure mix, can you share what that mix is today and how would you compare the year-over-year trends in those? And I guess if you could just perhaps also following up on my prior question, perhaps talk about walk-up pricing and maybe how those trends might be affecting the revenue outlook. Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Hi, Dan. Thanks. Well, first of all, I get very skittish talking about pricing in general, but I feel pretty good talking about what's happening in the corporate market. What we're seeing in our corporate is that their total demand for air travel among all airlines is flat, flat to slightly down. What we're seeing in JetBlue is actually increasing our share in the overall corporate market space. And I think, there are a couple of things that are causing that. First is we do continue to add in incremental route. I'd give a quick shout out to Cleveland. We started Cleveland earlier. Cleveland had a very, very good start out of the gate. No disrespect to Cleveland, but that's a classic business market, and it's done very well for us with our corporate accounts, so I think that's been a big help. And the second thing is I think as corporate travel accounts get stressed, and I think, if we're seeing corporate travelers who are looking to get more value out of the buck, that's a perfect opportunity to take another look at JetBlue and we're seeing it in our numbers. That tends to be a very good time for us.

Dan J. McKenzie - The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.

Analyst

Very good. Thanks, Marty, appreciate it.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Jamie Baker with JPMorgan.

Jamie N. Baker - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Hey. Good morning, gentlemen. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Hi, Jamie.

Jamie N. Baker - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan.

So, a couple of interesting things have happened recently. One, and you addressed this, you think you have the bandwidth to take on a merger, but you opted to walk away and keep your powder dry, that's fine. The second issue is that the DOT tentatively approved Norwegian's U.S. flights. So I'm basically wondering if either of these events have any impact on how you feel about wide-body and/or transatlantic flying or if any eventual decision on that front is simply, I don't know, mutually exclusive from the two aforementioned issues? Because Norwegian definitely seems to be beating you to the punch, and you clearly have additional bandwidth to take on more than what you're doing. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been sitting across the table from Virgin America a few weeks ago. Any thoughts? Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: No. Thanks, Jamie, and Good morning to you. And, yeah, no, I think, I'll address the sort of forward-looking intent behind your question. Look, I mean we're very focused on delivering our current plan, but, as I said, when I think you fired the question at me at your Investor Day.

Jamie N. Baker - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Yes. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: We do, when we look at our success in Mint and flying into markets, high-premium markets with high fares, then we do think that that presents a longer-term opportunity for JetBlue. Now, I think, one of the things that we put a lot of value on is the simplicity. And so, as I think I said, the 321LR is something we are looking very seriously at because we think that the incremental amount of complexity that that provides is very manageable. I think a step-up to wide-body is a much bigger deal. I think, it's something that, whilst one could never say never, it's something potentially further out. Right now, we're focused on the current plan and we continue to evaluate the 321LR.

Jamie N. Baker - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Got it. And second question, still trying to get a better handle on revenue performance in March; I realized that's kind of old news now, but for a portion of the quarter, the AAdvantage fares at the big three had gone away, but then Delta started bringing them back, right, the American was considering doing the same, and now they have returned. If anything, I would've thought the absence of AAdvantage fares would've helped you earlier in the quarter and then hurt you in March, but that's not how the cadence of RASM played out. Were there any changes in the industry's fare structure as the quarter rolled on that had an impact on you or did your revenue performance just, I don't know, march to its own drum during the quarter? Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Marty, would you? Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Yes. Thanks. Thanks, Jamie, and thanks, Robin. First of all, again, we all get skittish talking about pricing, but I'll do my best to try to answer it without going to jail.

Jamie N. Baker - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Yeah, of course. Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: One thing I'll say is that with respect to AAdvantage pricing, we don't really play in the markets where AAdvantage pricing is big. We said this publically, and I'd like to remind everybody, we generally don't carry a lot of connecting customers domestically. Internationally, we have a high connecting percentage, but our connecting percentage on a system level is in the teens. So, the impact of the Burlington to Los Angeles customer going over four different gateways on AAdvantage pricing is really not that big a deal for us. We do carry people at some point, who want to do those itineraries, but we don't really play that game. Second thing I'd say is if you look at what we saw in our overall bookings over the first quarter, we clearly saw I'd say the second half of March going forward, we really saw bookings solidify to the extent that we're seeing challenging yield environment up until then, we really see things sort of – I don't know if I want to use the word flattened out because it depends on how you look at the metric. But in general, I think, we've certainly seen our bookings as, sort of, not long before Easter until now, I think, it's been much stronger. It's definitely stable versus what we've seen before.

Jamie N. Baker - JPMorgan Securities LLC

Analyst · JPMorgan.

Okay. I appreciate it very much. Thanks, guys.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from Helane Becker with Cowen and Company.

Helane Becker - Cowen and Company

Analyst · Cowen and Company.

Hi, guys. Thank you so much for getting me in towards the end here. Most of my other questions have been asked and answered, but I heard your comments earlier about Puerto Rico. And I know there's a new airport operator who is making some pretty big investments in the airport. And I'm just kind of wondering if you could just discuss how that will benefit your service, and if once these are done, it makes sense to grow that market. Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Hi, Helane, it's Marty. Thanks for the question and good morning. No, we've been working with that new operator for a while. And I think one of the things that's enabled our growth in Puerto Rico to-date, and we've grown a good bit over the last four or five years, is the relationship we've had with the commonwealth, with the last administration, the current administration. We're in Terminal A and we've been in Terminal A for several years because we wanted to be in a position to grow. We're very excited about the new operator. We've worked with them already in Cancun, so we have experience with them and we're very optimistic. We're very hopeful that the economic situation in Puerto Rico resolves, but I will say the diaspora of Puerto Ricans to Florida has actually worked out for us. I'd like to be in a position where people are moving back and forth rather than moving in one direction. But having a Puerto Rican community in more parts of the U.S. we think is a very good thing for JetBlue.

Helane Becker - Cowen and Company

Analyst · Cowen and Company.

And then that brings me to my follow-up question. Does Cuba represent a similar opportunity, given your South Florida presence? Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Cuba, we think it represents a very similar opportunity. Cuba is a very, very big market, a great VFR market. And for those of us who have been there, I think we'd all tell you it will be a great leisure market when it opens up fully. So we're very excited about it. We're looking forward to seeing where the DOT comes out in their decision with respect to who is going to get, what route authorities. The one advertising I'm putting there for JetBlue is, we are infamous for going in and reducing fares and stimulating markets. So, I think, a market like this with strong VFR demand, we are exactly the right carrier to get everything we asked for. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: And, Helane, if I can just build on that last point, Cuba today has about 60% of the number of international visitors that the Dominican Republic has which is the largest market in the Caribbean, and hopefully it does that without significant access to the U.S. market, I'm talking vacationers here. So, it wouldn't be hard to conclude that once there is sort of scheduled air service, those numbers will grow, and that clearly is going to take some time, the infrastructure to catch up. But once it does, then Cuba has the potential, I think, to be the largest inbound Caribbean market.

Helane Becker - Cowen and Company

Analyst · Cowen and Company.

Okay. Thank you. And then, have you ever quantified the impact of densification on your unit revenue performance later in the year? Like, I guess, there's going to be a drag until the whole fleet is done. So have you ever tried to quantify that for us? Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah. I think just to answer that really quickly, the impact this year is very small because we're just talking about the additional 10 seats on I think the 2014 or 2015 All-Core 321s. Once we start getting into next year, 2017 and beyond, then the 320 fleet gets done. We'll start to update that later out in a little bit more detail. Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: By the way, in the...

Helane Becker - Cowen and Company

Analyst · Cowen and Company.

Okay. Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: ...in the investor update, we do have that schedule of the reselling program by fleet type.

Helane Becker - Cowen and Company

Analyst · Cowen and Company.

Oh, great. Thank you so much. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And our next question comes from Darryl Genovesi with UBS.

David Binney - UBS Investment Bank

Analyst · UBS.

Hi, everyone. This is Dave Binney stepping in for Darryl. Only one question here. Can you talk about how much of an opportunity you have to build out LA and San Francisco organically? Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Hi, David. It's Marty. Thanks for the question. Good morning. Let me take it on a higher level, then go – and go more micro. We have a challenge in the West Coast with facilities. It's certainly one of the things we find attractive about Virgin America. We've been working with the airport authorities in both airports trying to get additional gate access, and we're still optimistic that we will get there at some point. Not for nothing, this is one of the reasons why we have been focused on trying to grow in Long Beach for quite a while, because we think it's a great airport for Southern California. With respect to Northern California, we're somewhat constrained now. We actually don't have our own gates in San Francisco today, and we're always looking for opportunities to grow more. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Yeah. I do want to just stress, I think both of those markets remain priority markets for us to serve. I mean, we've seen a lot of success with our Mint expansion, and we do believe that there needs to be access for airlines like JetBlue to come in and offer more choice and lower fares. And we're going to be working extremely hard to make sure those – that happens both in LAX and San Francisco.

David Binney - UBS Investment Bank

Analyst · UBS.

Okay. Great. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And our final question comes from Rajeev Lalwani with Morgan Stanley. Rajeev Lalwani - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC: Hi, guys. Thanks for squeezing me in at the end here. Just two questions. One, just coming back to Fort Lauderdale, just adding all that capacity and growing that market, how does that impact your Latin exposure? I'm assuming it pushes it up a fair amount, and I'm just wondering if you're comfortable with that given some of the pressures you're seeing. And then the other question is on the capital return side or capital allocation. As you get through this year and you finished paying down debt, repay the numbers that you noted earlier. Should we just assume that going forward it's going to be all capital returns, buybacks, dividends, et cetera? Martin J. St. George - Executive Vice President-Commercial & Planning: Hi, Rajeev. Let me take the first – It's Marty. Let me take the first question first. We expect Fort Lauderdale growth. We have a pretty strong Latin portfolio out of Fort Lauderdale now. And I'd say the last few routes we've had at Fort Lauderdale have included domestic routes, routes like Nashville which starts beginning of May. San Diego which starts in June, and we announced New Orleans for this fall. So, we see growth book domestically and internationally, and we've got a great international presence there right now. So, I don't think we'll look at this as a marked change in our overall Latin exposure.

Mark D. Powers - Chief Financial Officer

Management

And with respect to your second question, I'll simply repeat our statement in the prepared remarks is that we will assess additional capital return options and update you in the – on our plans towards the end of the year. Robin Hayes - President, Chief Executive Officer & Director: Well, thanks for the questions, everybody, and joining us this morning and back to Kevin.

Kevin Crissey - Director-Investor Relations

Management

Well, that's it, everybody. That concludes our first quarter call. Thanks for joining us, and Therese (1:06:31) and I are available if you have any follow-up questions. Please give us a call. Thanks.

Operator

Operator

And again, that will conclude today's conference. Thank you for all of your participation.