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    Home»Blue Chips»Singapore Airlines Ekes Out an Operating Profit for its Fiscal 2022 Second Half: 7 Highlights from the Airline’s FY2022 Earnings
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    Singapore Airlines Ekes Out an Operating Profit for its Fiscal 2022 Second Half: 7 Highlights from the Airline’s FY2022 Earnings

    The airline sees brighter days ahead with the skies becoming less cloudy.
    Royston YangBy Royston YangMay 20, 20225 Mins Read
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    Singapore Airlines Limited (SGX: C6L), or SIA, is seeing a surge in demand for air travel as borders reopen.

    It’s music to the ears of investors as passenger movement at Changi Airport rose to close to 40% of pre-pandemic levels at the end of April.

    This level was more than double the 18% recorded just a month before.

    Over at SIA, the number of passengers carried for April surged to 1.45 million, up more than 13-fold year on year.

    For the January to April period, the total number of passengers carried was 3.4 million, more than nine-fold the 356,500 in the same period last year.

    These numbers are also showing up in the airline’s results.

    For its latest fiscal 2022 (FY2022) earnings, the carrier managed to eke out a small S$9.7 million operating profit for its FY2022’s second half (2H2022).

    Here are seven other highlights from SIA’s earnings that investors should take note.

    Better overall financial numbers

    For the airline’s 2H2022, revenue more than doubled year on year to S$4.8 billion.

    A small operating profit of S$9.7 million was generated, a sharp reversal from the S$650 million operating loss in the same period last year.

    For FY2022, SIA saw total revenue nearly doubling year on year to S$7.6 billion.

    An operating loss of S$609.7 million was incurred while the net loss came up to S$962 million.

    This level of net loss was significantly better than the S$4.3 billion incurred in FY2021, the worst year in SIA’s history.

    Ramping up passenger numbers

    With Singapore fully reopening its borders last month under the Vaccinated Travel Framework, investors can expect passenger numbers to ramp up further.

    Singapore is now on track to restore passenger volumes at Changi Airport to at least half the level they were before the pandemic.

    Passenger capacity for SIA more than doubled from 24% (of pre-COVID levels) in April 2021 to 51% by March 2022.

    Based on current demand and advance bookings, the group anticipates that passenger capacity can reach 61% in the current quarter, with the capacity to continue improving to 67% by the end of the quarter ended 30 September 2022.

    One of the youngest fleets in the industry

    SIA continues to operate one of the youngest fleets in the airline industry, with an average age of six years and three months.

    This is significantly lower than the 15 years and four months industry average fleet age, according to the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation.

    As of 31 March 2022, SIA had a total of 183 aircraft across its SIA and Scoot brands.

    With a net of 16 new aircraft joining the fleet in this fiscal year, FY2023 should end with a total of 199 aircraft.

    SIA’s network is recovering

    The national carrier’s network is slowly recovering with more destinations added.

    At the end of FY2022, SIA flew to a total of 93 destinations in 36 countries, up from 85 at the end of the previous quarter.

    The airline’s pre-COVID network comprised 137 destinations in 37 countries, so it may still take a while for SIA to ramp up its network to pre-pandemic levels.

    New marketing campaigns

    A global brand campaign called “We Look Forward to Seeing You in the Air Again” has been launched to encourage more customers to fly with SIA.

    The campaign promises an enhanced travel experience and SIA also held its first online travel fair in Singapore, offering travel packages with 10 participating travel agents.

    KrisFlyer, SIA’s loyalty programme, also relaunched its new monthly promotion after two years to allow members to stretch the value of their miles and book spontaneous getaways to various destinations.

    Membership has increased by 11% as of March 2022 compared to January 2020.

    Potential drag from MCBs

    Investors should, however, watch out for the potential conversion of SIA’s Mandatory Convertible Bonds (MCBs) into shares.

    As of 31 March 2022, the airline had around 2.98 billion shares in issue.

    Assuming all of the MCBs are converted to ordinary shares without any redemptions, the total number of shares to be issued is around 3.48 billion, or more than double the number of issued shares in circulation currently.

    This conversion will occur on 8 June 2030 and will result in a significant dilution in SIA’s earnings per share.

    No prospect of a dividend yet

    SIA generated a positive operating cash flow of S$3 billion compared with an operating cash outflow of S$3.3 billion in FY2021.

    However, capital expenditure remained elevated at S$3.05 billion, resulting in negative free cash flow for the airline for FY2022.

    Given the losses incurred and negative free cash flow, it will not be reasonable to expect the airline to resume its dividend payments yet.

    Get Smart: Clearer skies ahead

    There are clearer skies ahead for SIA as it slowly ramps up its operations.

    The reopening of borders will go a long way to restoring the airline’s former glory.

    Singapore is also emphasizing the importance of maintaining its Air Hub status and has recently announced that Changi Airport’s Terminal Five will resume construction after a two-year hiatus.

    Investors have a lot to look forward to in the coming year as SIA spreads its wings once again.

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