American Airlines Group, Inc.

And welcome to the American Airlines Group second quarter 2021 earnings conference call. Today's call is being recorded. At this time, all participants' lines are in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. If you have a question at this time, please press the star and then the number one key on your touchstone telephone. If your question has been answered or you wish to remove yourself from the queue, please press the pound key. And now, I would like to turn the conference over to your moderator, Managing Director of Investor Relations, Mr. Dan Cravens.

Thanks, Jerome, and good morning, everyone, and welcome to the American Airlines Group's second quarter 2021 earnings conference call. On the call with us this morning, we have Doug Parker, Chairman and CEO, Robert Isom, President, and Derek Kerr, Chief Financial Officer. Also on the call for our Q&A session are several of our senior execs, including Corporate Affairs, Vasi Raja, Chief Revenue Officer, Elise Everwine, Chief People and Communications Officer, Allison Taylor, Chief Customer Officer, and Devin May, our Senior VP of Finance. Like we normally do, Doug will start the call with an overview of our quarter and will update to the actions we've taken during the pandemic and through the recovery. Robert will then follow with some remarks about our operations, commercial, and other strategic initiatives. After Robert's remarks, Derek will follow the details on the quarter and our operating plans going forward. After Derek's comments, we'll open a call for analyst questions and lastly questions from the media. As a reminder, to get in as many questions as possible, please limit yourself to one question and a follow-up. Before we begin, we must state that today's call does contain forward-looking statements, including statements concerning future revenues, costs, forecasts of capacity, fleet plans, and liquidity. risk and uncertainties could cause actual results that differ from those projected. Information about some of these risks and uncertainties can be found in our earnings press release issued this morning and our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30th, 2021. In addition, we will be discussing certain non-GAAP financial measures this morning, which exclude the impact of unusual items. A reconciliation of those numbers to the GAAP is included in the earnings release.

of this call will also be archived on the website. The information that we're giving you on the call is as of today's date, and we undertake no obligation to update the information subsequently. Thanks again for joining us. At this point, I'd like to turn the call over to our Chairman and CEO, Doug Parker.