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Wizz Air Holdings Plc
6/8/2023
But maybe I will just take it from the – hopefully the slide is going to move at one point. So with regard to the performance of fiscal 23, capacity grew by 76% year-on-year, and this is 40% up versus pre-pandemic levels. You recall, we made a number of investment decisions into growth. London Gatwick, Sportac positions, the opening of Visara Abu Dhabi, and the expansion in Italy are probably the most important investments we have made. And obviously, you see that through the capacity numbers. Passenger traffic reached over 51 million passengers. Just to put that in perspective, this is now a bigger number than Lufthansa's passenger number, so we carried more passengers than Lufthansa, of course. We carried more than British Airways and Air France, so that kind of puts us into a different spotlight when it comes to the European airline industry. Revenue was up 134% year-on-year and 41% versus fiscal 20. As the revenue remained a cornerstone of the revenue production of the airline, it reached 37 euros per passenger in the financial year. We made progress on unit cost reduction, but this is a transitionary process, of course, but cost per available seat kilometer came down by 8% versus previous financial year. EBITDA ended up at 134 million euros, and that translated into 535 million euros of net loss. You know, it was a difficult year for Bizet, and especially the first half of the financial year was very difficult. I mean, we basically observed most of the losses in that period. And just to remind you, that was the period when the war in Ukraine broke out and significantly affected Our network, we had to reshuffle a significant portion, roughly around 11% of our capacity from Ukraine and Russia to other new markets, creating capacity gaps and creating revenue immaturity gaps. Also, we had to go through the summer, which became very problematic for the whole industry due to all sorts of external factors, And against those external shocks, we were not resilient enough to properly operate the airline. And that incurred significant distress and significant financial burden on the company. We already started seeing a lot of improvements going through the second half of the financial year based upon the investments, what we put into operational resilience. We actually put in a lot of measures uh... invested uh... that over a hundred million uh... you don't in terms of uh... increasing the number of spares aspect of the system uh... creating uh... robust standby system for pilots and cabin crew uh... uh... the enhanced our uh... spat but uh... investment and logistics to make sure that if there is a technical matter of the category of the effort of three p as possible uh... so we had a lot more of us and i think that if you look at the uh... the European airline sectors operation year-to-date in 2024. Actually, Visa is the best performing airline in terms of completion rate. We canceled a bit more than half a percent of our flights in this period, which is a huge improvement relative to last summer's 6% cancellation rate of the industry, and that also included us. We ended up with 179 aircraft at the end of the financial year. This is... Significantly more than what we had a year before and even more relative to our pre-pandemic times given the growth of the business. As said, completion rate has improved in the second half and ever since it's been improving and it's solid as we speak. Okay, we will see what's going to happen in summertime. Obviously, we are not into the peak summer operation, but we're seeing that whatever happens in summer in terms of the quality of the operating environment, We are a lot better prepared and we are a lot more resilient and robust to cope with those issues. So I'm not suggesting that we are expecting a perfect environment. It won't be perfect, but we're going to be a lot more ready to deal with it than last year. Liquidity remains strong with 1.53 billion euros of cash on hand. And during the year, we won the Carpo Global Environment Sustainability Airline Award. which I think is a recognition of our innovations, our fleet enhancement, and our improving environmental performance relative to the industry. Could you please move the slide? So if you look at the footprint of the business, it has not changed fundamentally in terms of market focus. but it has been growing significantly. As we have discussed, we look at Bizair in terms of geographical footprint on three pillars. Bread and butter prone to the airlines operation remains Central and Eastern Europe. We have been growing in Central and Eastern Europe. Second pillar is our kind of select markets in Western Europe. That is the London market in particular, Italy and Austria. And the third pillar is the Go East strategy, which I think is probably best manifested by the operation and the creation of Visera Abu Dhabi, but also we are expanding in the broader region in the GCC and the Middle East as an inbound carrier. With that eastbound expansion, obviously the number of countries continues to grow and expected to grow even further in the future as we operate more and more into that part of the world. And with that, let me hand over to Jan, who will take us through the financial details of the fiscal year, fiscal 23. Thank you.
Thank you, Yosef. Thanks, everyone. Nice to see you. Could you please turn? Oh, thank you, to that slide. SO I'M PLEASED TO PRESENT THE FISCAL YEAR 23 AUDITED NUMBERS. THE AUDITED WAS SIGNED OFF. I KNOW EVERYBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT F24, BUT THE YEAR JUST HAPPENED AND WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT. AND SO THERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS NOTWITHSTANDING. WE ENDED UP WITH 3.9 BILLION OF REVENUE, WHICH IS 2.3 TIMES WHAT IT WAS IN F22. SO MORE THAN DOUBLING. HOWEVER, FOR REASONS WE ALL KNOW, OUR FUEL COSTS TRIPLED IN THE SAME PERIOD IN THE PRIOR YEAR COMPARED TO THE PRIOR YEAR. AND IT WAS AT 1.9 BILLION FOR THE FULL YEAR. NON-FUEL COSTS ALSO CAME IN HIGHER, HIGHER THAN WE WOULD LIKE, THOUGH IN H2, IN THE SECOND HALF, WE SAW COSTS START TO COME DOWN VERSUS EARLIER IN THE YEAR, AND ULTIMATELY WE DELIVERED AN EBITDA FIGURE OF 134 MILLION VERSUS A NEGATIVE FIGURE FOR THE PRIOR YEAR. OUR OPERATING LOSS WAS FLAT YEAR ON YEAR, SHOWING SOME IMPROVEMENT OFF OF A HIGHER REVENUE BASE, AND OUR FINAL NET PROFIT NUMBER ENDED UP AT A LOSS OF 535 MILLION FOR THE YEAR BROADLY IN LINE WITH CONSENSUS. I DO WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE REVENUE PERFORMANCE SO I'M GOING TO SWITCH TO THE NEXT SLIDE. And you can see that we delivered a rask of 3.98 cents, which is slightly higher than where we were in F20, and 2% higher for the second half of F20, but 33% higher than F22. And this is due to a strong, fair environment and continued ancillary growth. The investments that we made during the COVID period in F23, in terms of our broader network, gives passengers more choice, and we are quite proud of the flexibility in the products that we offer. LOUDER? IS MY MIC NOT ADJUSTED? SO YEAH, SO WE'RE PROUD OF THE PRODUCTS THAT WE OFFER, WHICH WE PRICE USING ADVANCED COMPUTING TO MAXIMIZE REVENUE. IN FACT, OUR ANCILLARY PRODUCTS DELIVER 2.29 EURO CENTS, 2.29 EUROES MORE THAN LAST YEAR AND 5.32 EUROES MORE THAN F20, WHICH IS MORE THAN THE TARGET GROWTH RATE THAT WE'VE BEEN USING IN THAT CATEGORY. THE MIX OF TICKET TO ANSWER THERE REMAINS ROUGHLY THE SAME, AROUND HALF. SO NICE PROGRESSION THERE AND EXCITING THINGS TO COME GOING FORWARD. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. ALL RIGHT. SO X FUEL UNIT COSTS ENDED UP 14% HIGHER VERSUS F-20 FOR THE FULL YEAR. BUT LIKE I SAID, FOR H-2, X FUEL UNIT COSTS COMPARED TO F-20 H-2 WERE UP 8%, WHICH IS IN LINE WITH THE GUIDANCE THAT WE GAVE AT Q3 WHERE WE SAID EXFIELD COSTS EXPECTED TO COME DOWN TO SINGLE DIGIT INCREASES VERSUS F20. VERSUS FISCAL YEAR 22, EXFIELD COSTS HAVE ALSO REDUCED 8%, WHICH IS DRIVEN BY HIGHER UTILIZATION, HIGHER SEAT COUNT, AND OVERALL COST REDUCTION EFFORTS. that we embarked on over the winter. We faced the familiar challenges last year, such as the war in Ukraine, where we incurred costs associated with the reallocation of aircraft capacity and crew, high energy costs, and of course, all the disruption topics we've talked about in the last few quarters that affected us last summer, including supply chain and labor shortages. Now, though, with the pandemic firmly behind us, we've gone back to forward planning and risk management. And so with fuel costs, you're going to see a much more competitive position as we've been layering in fuel hedges all last year and continue to do so. We also took a good look at our network and adjusted crew duties, invested in crew, added more spare standby crews, spare aircraft, established KPIs. LOOKED AT OUR MAINTENANCE STRATEGY AND OUR CUSTOMER SERVICE STRATEGY. SO A LOT OF INVESTMENT FINDS ITS WAY INTO THE COST BASE OF F23, AND WE EXPECT THE RESULTS OF THAT TO THEN PROCEED INTO F24 AND LIKELY LIMIT THE COST INCREASES GOING FORWARD. IF WE GO TO CASH, NEXT SLIDE. this familiar waterfall. So you can see how we're managing cash. And predictably, operating cash reduced over the year in line with our net loss. However, that was offset by inflows in revenue, so ticket sales associated with unflown revenue, so ticket sales collected for future flights. A slight increase in working capital, and that's basically with regards to payment terms and being able to, as a bigger airline, WITH OUR SCALE DRIVE BETTER PRICING ARRANGEMENTS AND WORKING CAPITAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH OUR CUSTOMER BASE. WE HAD A CASH OUTFLOW WITH REGARDS TO OUR UK AND EU EMISSIONS TRADING CREDITS, AND THAT'S AN INVENTORY ITEM THAT WE BUY FORWARD, AND SO WE'RE FULLY PROTECTED FOR THE YEAR. ON THAT, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS A CASH OUTFLOW. AND THEN WE SAW PDP PAYMENT REFUNDS, AND SO THOSE ARE DEPOSITS THAT WE PLACE WITH THE MANUFACTURER THAT GET RETURNED TO US WHEN WE TAKE AN AIRCRAFT DELIVERY. AND THEN WE HAVE 245 MILLION INFLOW FROM A DRAW ON THE PDP FACILITY, WHICH WE HAD TALKED ABOUT IN PRIOR QUARTERS, AND AT THE LAST EARNINGS ANNOUNCEMENT, WE WERE CLOSE TO FINALIZING, BUT FINALIZED IN THIS LAST QUARTER. SO WE ENDED UP THE YEAR WITH 1.5 BILLION IN CASH, INCLUDING THAT PDP FACILITY. AND WHAT THAT REALLY IS, THE WAY TO THINK ABOUT THAT IS MORE OF AN ACCELERATION OF FUTURE DEPOSIT REFUNDS. IT'S A TIMING ISSUE AS OPPOSED TO A TRADITIONAL LEVERAGE STYLE INSTRUMENT. HOWEVER, YOU'LL SEE HOW IT'S EFFECTED IN THE BALANCE SHEET. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. Comparing cash balances over the last four years, you can see that we tend to hover around 1.5, and that's by design, 1.5 billion. You'll see that cash number grow as the business grows. Obviously, we have an obligation in January with a 500 million repayment, which we're anticipating and planning for. And so we're seeing a strong summer, right? And so the cash balances are progressing slightly ahead of forecast currently. And the business has performed like that throughout the winter. So we're very confident in where we are in cash, very pleased in where we are with cash. And in terms of some of the dynamics on cash, If you think about where interest rates and deposit rates have moved since when we did the bond payments that we've been setting aside cash for, we're actually seeing a positive carry in terms of the cost of the debt and the cash that we're earning on our bank accounts. So that's helping as well. We, as I mentioned earlier, we have, you know, as a bigger airline, dramatically bigger airline, we have a lot more leverage with our suppliers and our customers to be able to drive the right pricing and the right working capital terms. And you also notice a trend where our restricted cash is starting to decrease, and that's because historically we've had to put certain deposit instruments in place on our aircraft leases. and then cash collateralize that. As we now continue to mature, we no longer have that style of obligation, which means that our restricted cash balances reduces as those old aircraft are re-delivered and those leases expire and roll off of our fleet. So we see a trend there where our restricted cash starts to decrease, and that will continue going forward as we recycle our fleet continuously. And then, like I said, we have this PDP facility. There's actually a natural repayment profile in this. And so every time a plane is delivered, rather than us getting the deposit like we would during a sale leaseback, the deposit actually gets swept and goes towards repaying the facility. And so that facility, if you remember from the previous slide, was around $245 million. That facility is coming down every time a plane is delivered. And so that will naturally amortize and be available to us in the future for the next two and a half years. SHOULD WE REQUIRE ADDITIONAL LIQUIDITY. SO THAT'S A FACILITY THAT WE PLAN ON KEEPING IN PLACE TO DEAL WITH ANY DISRUPTIONS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. This is the last slide here. So you can see that dramatically bigger business in terms of flights. Load factor for the year, just under 88%. But if you've seen from the traffic numbers, it's increasing. So we see a positive trend in load factor and certainly significantly better than the prior year. Our stage length is increasing, and that helps in terms of utilization as well, which is at 11 hours, so better than it was in the prior quarter, which is 10 1⁄2 hours. BUT STILL SHORT OF THE 12-HOUR MARK, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE HITTING NOW AND LOOKING TO EXCEED TO END UP CLOSER TO THE 12-AND-A-HALF-HOUR TARGET THAT WE PUT FORWARD LAST QUARTER. AND THEN IN TERMS OF REGULARITY, THIS IS A SLIDE THAT DOESN'T SHOW HOW WELL, DOESN'T PAINT A GOOD PICTURE LAST SUMMER WHERE YOU SEE 96% COMPLETION OR 4% CANCELLATION IN JUNE, BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT SINCE THEN, LIKE WE SAID AND LIKE WE PROMISED, the targets that we set have delivered much higher, much better results, such that certainly in this calendar year, we've seen north of 99% and consistently maybe since October. So we're starting to see some improvements there, and we look to try and maintain that level ultimately as part of our customer service ambitions and our overall profitability. Overall, you know, there are no surprises in F23. There are some positive things to talk about, and I'll hand the floor back over to Josef for fiscal year 24. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Jan. I would like to take you through some slides here, which I think are important for you to understand, especially to understand what we are doing with operations. because it was a pain point in fiscal 23, but I think hopefully you would understand it, that it is totally debased by now and up against a very different performance standards than last year. Also, I'm going to take you through a few slides on the demand side, on the market side, and talk a bit about fleet and sustainability. and trying to provide you with an outlook for the current financial year. Could you please move the slide? Could you please move the slide? Thank you. So, unit cost. I mean, obviously, this is the most important issue for the airline. We are in the commodity business, lowest unit cost, lowest cost of insulin in commodities, and this is the business model that we have. We have to come back to where we were prior to the COVID breakout in terms of becoming, again, the lowest cost producer in the industry. And I think we are well on the way to achieve that. So if you look at the production side of the equation, available seat kilometers are up 30% in the current financial year. load factors are getting back to pre-pandemic levels, as well as utilization. Actually, we are seeing utilization outperforming fiscal 20 levels, but we would be back to historical performance level. One significant difference, though, is the gauge of our aircraft, and obviously that brings a lot of efficiencies to the equation. Now, the average seat count is 226, which was 219 last year. and basically a lot lower back in fiscal 20 when we were primarily operating AC20s, but now the fleet has moved to AC21s. In terms of efficiency, productivity group, productivity is improving quite dramatically in the current year. I mean, you recall last year we had to drop fleet utilization, and with that we also dropped crew productivity, but as now fleet utilization is enhanced back into historical levels, crew productivity comes with that. The fleet age continues to improve, so it's down to a little more than four years. With that, Visa operates the youngest fleet of aircraft of any airline in Europe. And obviously, the scale benefit continues to unfold, enabling us to spread fixed costs across the system. We are going to operate 23 more aircraft in the financial year than last year. And importantly, given all the investments we have made into operational resilience and robustness, we are expecting disruptions to be a lot lower than last year. The 38% is not the intended improvement on cancellation rate. We intend to improve cancellations a lot more than that. But overall disruptions are expected to be still significant, but a lot lower than last year. And with regard to fuel, we are back into hedging, 60% of all requirements. in the current financial year are hedged. And fuel price is a lot lower than last financial year. And importantly, when it comes to fuel burn, now 63% of our fleet is constituted by new technology aircraft, the NEO aircraft, which is only 7% in fiscal 20 and 49% in the last financial year. So you... You hopefully can see that the platform, the operating parameters of the business have improved dramatically versus last financial year. Could you please move the slide? So talking about the operating platform and the resilience of the operating model, I said we invested a lot taking the learning of last summer. Basically, we took the position that no matter what happens, in the operating environment, we simply have to be a lot more resilient ourselves as opposed to just trying to rely on the performance of the supply chain. So we've got the supply stream reconfirmed and committed by Airbus, and we are actually quite confident that what we are planning on in terms of aircraft deliveries will get delivered. We are stabilizing the summer flying program. We made a lot of changes to the design of rostering to make sure that we can easier execute the rostering of the crews even under distressed circumstances. We are increasing network and schedule density. That's important for recovery especially. We have decentralized operations. So basically day-to-day operational decision making is no longer centralized but is decentralized at AOC level. Basically what it means is that we double down on headcount in operational management. So we added like another 150 headcounts to day-to-day operational management to much better and robustly address the issues we are potentially dealing with. We increased spare aircraft and spare engine ratios in the business. That's a significant investment to make sure that if there is a breakdown on whatever basis, we have spares to operate. We also increased spare parts, so we are stocking up on spares and also we are enhancing capabilities for AOG recovery. We are enhancing the logistics and the supply chain around it internally and externally. We have done quite some automations to make sure that we are less reliant on labor resources where there is a systemic solution to that. And with that, of course, we were scaling systems and leveraging data as much as possible. Now, if you look at the results of that so far, so you look at regularity, We are the number one low-cost carrier in Europe year-to-date. We are doing better than the European airline industry on completion rate. We are also doing better than the airline industry on on-time performance. D0, we are off 4% versus the European average, which is obviously a huge improvement versus where we were a year ago. And we are doing better than any of the low-cost carriers we are competing with. So clearly what we are seeing is that we made significant efforts. We invested quite a lot financially, but also into headcount and other resources. And now we are seeing the performance improving as a result of that. Could you please move the slide? Also, I think we've been gaining significant traction when it comes to brand recognition. We are holding the lines in Central and Eastern Europe, and we are seeing quite some improvements in terms of recognizing our brands in kind of new markets or the Western European markets or the newly invested markets. As you can see, I mean, obviously this is a process, but a significant progression has been achieved. We are really putting the customer in the forefront of our activities. We inducted four new contact centers, call centers, to make sure that whatever claims or issues people may have, then we can actually react to those with significant capacity. Um, a lot of automation, uh, that has been happening, uh, automating claims. Uh, I mean, we have no intention at all to, uh, to withhold any payments or anything, uh, from customers. And actually what we want to make sure is that, uh, customers themselves, uh, can, uh, can, can resolve these, uh, these issues. Uh, we launched a media, uh, virtual assistant, uh, on the visa app, um, And now the claim backlog is back to pre-pandemic levels, actually lower than pre-pandemic levels. We have also moved the logistics around disruptions with regard to hotel accommodation. So we think that we are a lot better prepared to deal with the customer, whatever issues they may have. We are expecting the issues to be a lot less than last year, but whatever issues they still have, we are a lot better prepared to deal with them ourselves and also through our partners who are processing these issues. Could you please move? We have been expanding in Central and Eastern Europe. Central and Eastern Europe remains bread and butter for the company, for the business, so that's where most of the focus goes into. You can see that our market share positions have improved across the board pretty much, but also we are improving our presence in the newly invested markets too. We are expecting a lot safer growth profile to come through the financial year than in the previous financial years. Previous financial years we invested a lot into new markets, into new routes, et cetera. Here you can see that the backbone is already created, so we are essentially putting meat on the backbone. So most of the growth, 84% of the growth will come through as increasing frequencies on existing services. 14% growth is joining existing dots, existing airports. So, essentially, this growth profile of the business is a lot more de-risked versus the growth profile before. And you can see that we are growing across the board. We are growing significantly in industry core markets. If you take September as a snapshot, last year we had 83 aircraft in these markets. This September we are expecting to have 92 aircraft. If you look at the new markets, the United Arab Emirates, UK, Italy, Austria, etc., we had 49 aircraft, and that fleet will grow to 60 aircraft year on year. So we are growing pretty much everywhere across the board, across all markets. Could you please move the slide? Thank you. We're seeing that the fundamentals of the network are getting better and stronger, more enhanced, more robust. So if you look at maturity, the network is maturing. So you just look at fiscal 22, you see that 15% of our capacity was less than a year old. I mean, obviously, this is financially the most distressing. That comes down to 4% in fiscal 24, so it's a lot stronger profile. If you look at the mix of the network, it is getting more diversified. still heavily VFR driven, but some other components, some other segments are also growing significantly. Leisure, for example, is coming to 21% of the capacity. Very importantly, when you look at the The frequencies, we are increasing frequencies again. We are putting meat on the bone. So the backbone is there and now we are enhancing that with more frequencies. And obviously more frequencies mean more operational reliability, but it also means higher yielding, being able to tap into higher yielding traffic. We continue to balance capacity allotment across primary and secondary airports. 61% of all capacity is operated through secondary airports. Could you please move? Just a few words on On the east, I think we are increasingly excited about the results of our east operations in the UAE. Our visa Abu Dhabi network is now growing to almost 40 destinations, and that's a continuous process. The fleet is growing, nearly doubling to 15 aircraft. and brand awareness is very strongly improving as a result of our growth. We're seeing that we are absolutely adequate in bringing in the right products, right services to the needs of the market. Also, we are just taking off in Saudi as an inbound carrier. 24 routes are launched. Very quick traction in the marketplace with positive reactions. But it's not only down to these two countries, but we are growing essentially across the board in the Middle East, Jordan, Egypt, but also in Central Asia and in most of the stand countries. So this is clearly a new market segment which excites us quite a lot for future growth potential. So with regard to the fleet, as said, we ended fiscal 23 with 179 aircraft. We are expecting to end the current financial year with 205 aircraft. As said, we continue to upgauge with the deliveries of AC-21 NEOs. So we are expecting average seat count to be 226 at the end of the financial year. Eighty percent of the fleet, essentially, is now A321, mostly NEO and some COs. I think that is a tremendous transformation of the operating platform. Five years ago, we were 180-some seats per aircraft, predominantly AC20T operations. So I probably can say that we have transformed the operation of this air from AC20 to AC21 by now. As said, the fleet age continues to fall. As a result, obviously, we are deriving significant economic benefits, unit cost benefits, as well as environmental benefits from that. So talking about environment, sustainability. Wizz Air has been recognized increasingly globally of its environmental performance, being the lowest carbon footprint airline in Europe, but one of the lowest in the world as well. You can see our performance in FISCO 23, a lot stronger than even our next best competitor and clearly much more better than the industry. Our footprint measured as carbon dioxide per revenue kilometer continues to fall. So in the current financial year, we are expecting actually quite a significant reduction of our carbon footprint by around 9 percent. So this remains in our focus. You know that we have taken a number of initiatives, not only relying on technology. but also investing into SAF, various commercial agreements, and also equity investments into SAF initiatives. So we think that's kind of a second pillar of our sustainability commitment next to our best use of existing technology. And the third pillar is obviously the transformation of the industry into a brand new technology, quite likely hydrogen. So we are piloting with Airbus to try to define the next hydrogen-powered plane and the operation of that plane, which is probably 15, 20 years down the line, but we want to make sure that we are effecting that process already. So really, our sustainability strategy is based on three pillars, maximizing use of existing technology, investing into stuff to bridge between current technology and the new technology, and also affecting the new technology by getting involved into development of the hydrogen plane. We have been growing the organization substantially. Now we have over 7,300 people working for the company. We hired 2,500 people last year, and we kind of continue that rate going forward. So very quickly, actually, in a good year from now, the company will reach the 10,000 mark in terms of number of employees. We put in a number of programs in place to aid people's career development, whether they are in the office or they are in the in the flight deck or in the cabin. On the one hand, this is obviously serving retention purposes, but also, most importantly, it also serves long-term loyalty purposes. We also got involved into a number of charity type of operations. We allotted 200,000 free tickets to Ukrainian refugees. We did rescue flights to Turkey after the earthquake. So we try to be good to society and try to find our place to be as helpful as we can be given the circumstances. Also, we enhanced our governance processes. We appointed a deputy chair of the board, Steven Johnson, and also set up a new committee, the Safety, Security, and Operational Compliance Committee. We improved the diversity of the of the board of directors. So we think that we are kind of moving and enhancing our standing on each front of ESG, be it sustainability, be it governance, be it the social aspects of the company. So with regard to outlook, we are expecting 30% capacity growth in the financial year. That's pretty much equally split between first half and the second half. Stage length is probably going to be around mid-single digit given the growth of the eastern operation that implies longer stage length. Load factors will come back to pre-pandemic level. above 90 percent, well above 90 percent, I would say, so more approaching mid-90s. Exterior costs will continue to fall as we are ramping up the efficiencies of operations, especially fleet utilization, group productivity, and completion rate. The tax rate is going to be somewhat higher than before. We are expecting roughly around 10%. We moved the tax residency of Wiesel Hungary, the airline from Switzerland to Hungary, and that affects the tax rate on a going forward basis. And we are guiding on net profit of 350 to 450 million euros. And maybe just to spend a few moments on the swing of a billion in profitability over the year, three major building blocks for that roughly around 400 million euros would be accounted on the basis of revenue improvement. I mean, again, just put that in perspective. So last year, lots of new market investments, the reshuffling of capacity from Ukraine and Russia to other markets, obviously distressing revenue performance. So all those maturities are now flowing through the system, resulting in roughly around 400 million contribution to profit. Then the second block is actual cost reduction. I mean, this is the core. This is what we can affect. This is what we can manage that comes through on the basis of operation improvements. So fleet utilization, crew productivity, and schedule completion, less disruption, less disruption cost. And the remaining 400 million would be the blend of the macros essentially. favorable fewer prices and significant fewer volume hedged already and somewhat balancing FX rates netting roughly around $400 million. So when you look at these things, that's kind of the construct of the $1 billion coming from these three pillars. And I think with that, I would close the presentation. So it's over to you for questions.
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