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Analyst
Savi Syth
Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q3 (8 quarters).
- Questions
- 37on tracked calls
- Challenge rate
- 3%1 of 37 questions
- Companies
- 4questioned at least once
- Reporting periods
- 8with questions
These figures cover the whole profile: every tracked question, all reporting periods.
How to read these numbers
Challenge rate is the share of questions that pushed back, pressed for specifics or questioned management’s assumptions. It describes how questions were asked on the calls tracked here; it does not measure whether any view turned out to be right.
Rounding. Rates are rounded to whole percentages, so a small share can show as 0% even when some questions were challenging. The count beside each rate is exact; “none of N questions” means no question was challenging.
No questions recorded. “—” means there is nothing to calculate: no questions were recorded for that period on the calls tracked here. It does not mean there was no activity.
Fewer than 3 questions. A company-level rate is withheld when fewer than 3 questions were recorded for that company; the questions are still counted everywhere else.
Small samples. Profiles with fewer than 10 questions are marked Limited sample.
Reporting periods. Questions are grouped by the calendar quarter each company’s fiscal reporting period maps to, not by the date of the call. Periods without a calendar mapping are listed separately under their fiscal label.
Questions asked
Grouped by company, most questions first. Open a company to read its questions, newest reporting period first.
Showing 37 of 37 questions from 4 companies
DALDelta Air Lines15 questions · 8 reporting periods · 0 of 15 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q3
Could you talk a little bit about what is driving that strength and your confidence around that outlook?
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Joe answered directly, citing bookings already more than 60% complete for the quarter and high-teens premium demand.
Curious, you know, what is driving that and the ability of that momentum into 2027.
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Joe cited higher fares, customer engagement and premium load factors but did not address 2027 momentum.
Calendar 2026 Q2
how do you see the capacity growth in this kind of domestic market versus opportunity in international market
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Joe said international (Asia and the Middle East) grows faster than average while domestic growth leans on gauge efficiency.
Calendar 2026 Q1
I was curious if the mid-teens revenue outlook reflects what you're seeing in the book today or if that includes an assumption that some of those fare increases and fees will drive kind of accelera...
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Ed confirmed the outlook includes an assumption of continued RASM improvement through the quarter given persistently high fuel prices, not just what's currently on the books.
I was curious what the general expectations are in 2Q, and if there was any differences in demand strength or ability to pass through higher costs across those entities
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Joe reported strong demand across all entities and booking periods going into peak summer. Transatlantic was a Q1 bright spot with continued momentum.
Calendar 2025 Q4
is there something in how Delta approaches this that it maintains your leadership, or how should we think about that?
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Ed maintained Delta leads across almost every operational metric. Argued a healthier, higher-quality industry benefits everyone. Joe added that a better industry sells more tickets at the industry level.
I was wondering if you could provide an assessment on how operational reliability and recoverability stacks up today compared to where it was during COVID
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Ed candidly acknowledged recovery from irregular operations needs improvement despite leading on-time performance. Post-COVID pilot contract changes in routing and rescheduling have created difficulties. Working closely with flight ops, maintenance, technology, and the pilots union.
Calendar 2025 Q3
I wonder if you could share what you're seeing on the Latin America side, perhaps broken out by near international and long haul
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Glen reported solid Latin long-haul with strong winter outlook. Short-haul mixed: Caribbean performing well, Mexican beach under some pressure. All still very profitable.
on the maintenance side, do you expect 2026 to have more or less heavy maintenance events? And beyond the events, just on inflation, just what are you seeing on the maintenance and parts?
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Dan said 2026 maintenance planning is still early. On inflation, acknowledged parts and material availability still have above-normal inflation but trending more in line. Supply chain recovery is multi-year with turn times still not at 2017-2018 levels.
Calendar 2025 Q2
Is that more of a Transatlantic comment? Is that kind of other, you know, Pacific and LatAm as well? Just kinda curious if you could flesh that out a little bit
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Glen clarified the peak-to-shoulder seasonal shift is specifically a European phenomenon (60-65% of total international). LatAm is contra-seasonal with December-January peaks; Pacific is less seasonal.
just how has your kind of view on kind of the post-summer capacity plan evolved? And if you could then talk about, like, on the domestic side as well as international side
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Glen confirmed Delta took several points of domestic capacity down. European shoulder capacity flat at +2.5% vs. mid-to-high single-digit growth at peak. Industry acting responsibly domestically; international winter schedules not fully loaded yet.
Calendar 2025 Q1
Does that mean you kind of see more regional capacity cuts in the second half as well
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Glen said they will eliminate unprofitable flying regardless of type, with off-peak taking a disproportionate hit relative to peak-day flying.
Could you talk about like how you're thinking about the four entities that what's reflected in that guide
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Glen confirmed domestic main cabin is the largest weakness, Atlantic and Pacific looking strong, Latin hanging in with fluctuations but holding.
Calendar 2024 Q4
any color that you can provide on how we should think about it for this year in terms of kind of interest side, but also kind of a non-interest side
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Dan guided non-OpEx flattish around $800 million, with ~$100M deleveraging benefit offset by loss of non-recurring investment gains. Pension expected flattish.
I'm guessing your CapEx is still, you know, thinking is around $5 billion. But you did have kind of 46 deliveries in, sorry, 38 versus kind of a 46 assumption
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Dan confirmed $5 billion CapEx target and approximately 40 aircraft deliveries in 2025, making up for a few shortfalls in 2024.
ACHRArcher Aviation Inc.10 questions · 6 reporting periods · 1 of 10 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
how do you envision day 1 to day 365 post-merger in getting the engineering teams
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Adam said Archer and Wisk are uniquely complementary (both built 12-tilt-6 architectures from different angles, commercialization vs autonomy) and there will be an exploratory period to capture synergies, including with Insitu on the ISR side.
compare and contrast like some of the technical differences there and kind of what it might mean
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Tom Muniz answered directly: Halo/Thunder is a clean-sheet platform for a different mission (heavier payloads, further, faster) that reuses Midnight building blocks like batteries and motors but adds a new hybrid system, targeting first flight next year.
what milestones you need to kind of meet flying in L.A. before you start working on eIPP?
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Tom Muniz gave a flight-test update, over 150 piloted test flights, up to 5 times a day, many flights over 50 miles and flying between airports, and said initial eIPP operations remain on track to begin later this year, starting with CTOL.
Just generally kind of what needs to happen on that line to kind of get that generating cash flow?
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Adam explained ZEE, Archer's aviation foundation model, unifies siloed flight data into an intelligence layer spanning pilot applications, air traffic management and airline operations, and said early deployments and discussions with agencies point to a path to revenue and profitability.
Calendar 2025 Q4
where that EBITDA can step up as you go through the year? And maybe any kind of commentary on CapEx expectations
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Priya declined annual/multiyear guidance but outlined three spend areas, supply-chain/manufacturing capacity, the dual-use hybrid aircraft, and AI autonomy software, with awards or early revenue as potential offsets.
Calendar 2025 Q3
what the spend -- the near-term spend you see at Hawthorne and kind of what that incremental spend there is
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Adam gave the $126M/$171M purchase breakdown but declined to size incremental spend, saying decisions remain to be made.
I wonder if you could talk a little bit more about the kind of the eIPP program.
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Adam explained eIPP is about building public and regulator trust, not revenue, and should accelerate the certification path.
Calendar 2025 Q2
under this scenario, could you talk about what can be accomplished on the certification side?
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Adam was candid that nobody is out of policy yet due to industry issue papers, positioning Archer and Joby as the only two in the final stages. Direct.
Calendar 2025 Q1
Does the one that you talked about standardizing the propulsion loss, does that address all of them?
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Tom said resolving the total-loss-of-propulsion issue paper unlocks the vast majority of remaining compliance items, positioning Archer well with the FAA.
Calendar 2024 Q4
how are you thinking about the ability to scale that then to meet some of these kind of early demands
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Adam framed Launch Edition as the way to monetize each aircraft built but gave only a high-level 25/26/27 ramp, no firm units.
LUVSouthwest Airlines10 questions · 7 reporting periods · 0 of 10 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
Are there kind of any common themes and where that capacity growth is happening
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Justin says capacity growth concentrates on existing points of strength to build customer loyalty and durable revenue streams.
Calendar 2026 Q1
Just curious what the aircraft sales benefits were in 1Q and expected in 2Q in the P&L
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Tom disclosed 5 aircraft sales in Q1 (three 700s, two 800s) with approximately $30-40 million book impact, not material to the cost performance. Structural cost improvements are the main driver.
Calendar 2025 Q4
I was curious, Tom, if you could provide color on CASM-X progression through the year. And particularly, is it fair that the 3.5% pressure in 1Q is maybe the high watermark
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Tom declined to give full-year CASM-X trajectory but expressed confidence in cost visibility. Andrew reported corporate business up mid-single digits ex-government in Q4 with a very strong start in January corporate bookings. New product expected to unlock additional corporate revenue.
Calendar 2025 Q3
Just not assuming any kind of demand environment change just based on that initiative ramp-up and capacity plans. Like how should we think about the progression of year-over-year RASM
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Bob framed the 2026 EBIT stack: $600-800M base guide + $1B assigned seating + ~$700M annualized bag fees + loyalty and other initiatives. Andrew noted Q1 capacity is modest YoY increase with load factor and knife-edge yield benefits carrying forward.
Calendar 2025 Q2
Is that kind of leisure? Is that corporate? And could you give a little bit of color on what you saw corporate do in 2Q
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Andrew reported sequential corporate improvement: May was the trough, then steady improvement through June, July, and August. Leisure customers came alive before the 4th of July. Bob noted volume is returning after months where even promotions couldn't generate demand, an encouraging sign of broad-based recovery.
Just how you plan on handling that in terms of kind of cash flow and P&L?
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Tom explained aircraft are fully paid for so sale proceeds are essentially fully accretive to cash flow. Book gains exist but are less than cash proceeds. Full year EBIT guide excludes any book gains from fleet transactions.
Calendar 2025 Q1
what's the size of that kind of government exposure? And I know some of your competitors have reduced the dedicated seats into those areas
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Andrew noted managed business is up ~4% ex-government. Bob estimated government exposure at roughly 2% of business, noting that while it's down a lot, its percentage of total business is very small.
what kind of an impact is just not having the kind of the gauge aircraft you want having on your load factor or is that not a driver here?
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Andrew confirmed load factor is the same on MAX 8 and MAX 7. The 25 extra seats on the 8 provide good returns during peak times. The percentage needed of MAX 7s has decreased post-pandemic but is not zero. Bob added it's not a factor today but could become one if Boeing continues not delivering the MAX 7.
Calendar 2024 Q4
From a timing perspective, those kind of red-eye initiatives, I'm guessing they kind of kick in there in the second and third quarter. Is it kind of fairly consistent
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Tammy confirmed the capacity-driven cost benefit ramps throughout the year with the biggest impact in Q4.
I was hoping you could talk a little bit about the cadence of unit cost growth for the rest of the year. Just to clarify that low single-digits exit rate, what type of a capacity growth that exit r...
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Tammy provided a detailed bridge from Q1 7-9% to Q4 low-single-digit exit rate, breaking out 3-4pts from capacity initiatives, 1pt from overstaffing lapping, and 2-3pts from labor anniversaries plus cost plan benefits.
UALUnited Airlines Holdings2 questions · 2 reporting periods · 0 of 2 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
how you are thinking about it in terms of domestic versus international given, you know, what you are planning
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Nocella said domestic is more mature and tied to GDP; international growth expected to outpace domestic.
Calendar 2025 Q3
curious how you're thinking about kind of 2026 and how that progresses?
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Mike confirmed Boeing narrowbody deliveries slightly ahead and accelerating into 2026-2027. Widebody still delayed but optimistic. Additional deliveries are quickly margin and return-on-capital accretive.
Challenge rate by company
Every company this analyst questioned, most questions first. A company-level rate is shown from 3 questions; below that it is withheld.
| Company | Questions | Challenge rate |
|---|---|---|
| DAL Delta Air Lines | 15 | 0%none of 15 questions |
| ACHR Archer Aviation Inc. | 10 | 10%1 of 10 questions |
| LUV Southwest Airlines | 10 | 0%none of 10 questions |
| UAL United Airlines Holdings | 2 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
Activity by reporting period
Questions recorded for each calendar quarter that companies’ reporting periods map to (not the call date), with the challenge rate for that period. Periods inside the range with no questions are shown as “No questions recorded”.
| Calendar period | Questions | Challenge rate | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 5 | 0%none of 5 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q1 | 5 | 0%none of 5 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q2 | 5 | 20%1 of 5 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q3 | 6 | 0%none of 6 questions | 4 |
| 2025 Q4 | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions | 3 |
| 2026 Q1 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 2 |
| 2026 Q2 | 7 | 0%none of 7 questions | 4 |
| 2026 Q3 | 2 | 0%none of 2 questions | 1 |
- 2024 Q45 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 5 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q15 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 5 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q25 questions · challenge rate 20% (1 of 5 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q36 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 6 questions) · 4 companies
- 2025 Q44 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 4 questions) · 3 companies
- 2026 Q13 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 2 companies
- 2026 Q27 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 7 questions) · 4 companies
- 2026 Q32 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 2 questions) · 1 company
Topics
Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.
- Demand12
- Cost Pressure8
- Geographic Expansion7
- Capex Investment7
- Revenue Growth5
- Competitive Dynamics5
- Capital Allocation4
- Regulation Policy4
- Innovation & R&D3
- Product Launch3
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- Supply Chain2
- M&A1
- Cloud & AI1
- Pricing1
- Margin1