Hawaiian Airlines (HA, Honolulu) expects an incremental two-month delay in the delivery of its first B787-9, with the fallout impacting other deliveries originally planned for 2024.
"We received notification from Boeing that our first B787 delivery will be slightly delayed from November of this year to January next year, and will also impact our remaining 2024 deliveries. This delay will move some CapEx from 2023 to 2024 so we now believe our CapEx for this year will be about USD280 million," Chief Financial Officer Shannon Okinaka said during the quarterly investor call.
The airline has twelve B787-9s on order, including nine directly from the manufacturer and three on lease from Boeing Capital. The airline planned to take one aircraft this year and a further three in 2024. Service entry is planned for March 2024 on the Hawai'i-US West Coast routes.
Chief Executive Officer Peter Ingram recently told ch-aviation the airline would consider adding more B787-9s in the future, as its current widebody fleet comprises twenty-four A330-200s.
"The [B787's] larger 300-seat cabin allows us to grow capacity without changing frequencies. The premium cabin on our B787s not only has an enhanced lie-flat seat product but also has nearly twice as many seats in the premium cabin as our A330s, allowing us to capture more of the demand for premium products in our markets that we've seen over a sustained period of time," Chief Revenue Officer Brent Overbeek added.
Meanwhile, Hawaiian Airlines is seeing an improvement in its A321-200Ns' availability, although Ingram conceded that their engine issues are still far from being resolved.
"The worst period saw us with five of our 18 aircraft on the ground awaiting engines. More recently, we've experienced two and sometimes three grounded aircraft. Our plan prior to this morning had been for no more than two aircraft out of service for the next few months, improving to one in the fourth quarter," Ingram said.
He added that the airline was not able to evaluate before the earnings call the impact of the recent announcement of Pratt & Whitney's that accelerated inspections of some 1,200 engines will be necessary due to a manufacturing issue.
"Our team has already started to work with Pratt & Whitney to understand the specific impacts on our installed fleet. And in the days ahead, we will assess whether we must take any schedule action to mitigate aircraft shortages," Ingram said.
The airline has also confirmed that it had taken all maintenance of its A330s in-house, including the A330-300(P2F)s to be operated for Amazon.com.
"By in-sourcing management of our A330 maintenance, we're taking full ownership of our A330 fleet reliability, which will provide a lower steady-state cost structure and better control and flexibility to accommodate changes in our business, especially as we bring the freighter fleet into service," Ingram explained.
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