TOP NEWS: British Airways owner IAG swings to 2022 profit

(Alliance News) - International Consolidated Airlines Group SA on Friday said it swung to a ...

Alliance News 24 February, 2023 | 8:28AM
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(Alliance News) - International Consolidated Airlines Group SA on Friday said it swung to a profit in 2022, led by higher passenger numbers, as more took to the skies after Covid-19 curbs eased.

The London-based British Airways parent reported a pretax profit of EUR415 million for 2022, swinging from a loss of EUR3.51 billion in 2021. In 2019, the airline reported a pretax profit of EUR2.28 billion.

Operating profit was EUR1.26 billion, 4.7% higher than the median company-compiled consensus of EUR1.20 billion, which had a range of EUR1.07 billion to EUR1.40 billion. It swung from an operating loss of EUR2.77 billion in 2021, but 2022's figures were less than half of 2019's operating profit of EUR2.61 billion.

Revenue jumped to EUR23.07 billion from EUR8.46 billion in 2021, but was 9.6% below 2019's EUR25.51 billion. Passenger revenue surged to EUR19.46 billion from EUR5.84 billion, but 13% below EUR22.47 billion in 2019.

Fuel, oil costs and emissions charges surged to EUR6.12 billion from EUR1.78 billion in 2021 and were 1.6% higher than EUR6.02 billion in 2019.

Employee costs surged 54% to EUR4.65 billion from EUR3.01 billion, but were 6.3% below 2019 levels of EUR4.96 billion.

Looking ahead, IAG expects 2023 operating profit before exceptional items to be between EUR1.8 billion and EUR2.3 billion, above 2022's EUR1.23 billion but at least 30% lower than EUR3.29 billion in 2019.

It anticipates an operating loss of around EUR200 million in the first quarter of 2023, narrowed from EUR731 million a year prior, assuming no material impacts from geopolitical developments or setbacks related to Covid. In the first quarter of 2019, it posted an operating profit of EUR135 million.

Further, it anticipates capital expenditure of around EUR4.0 billion for 2023, up 3.2% from EUR3.88 billion in 2021 but far below 2019's EUR12.83 billion. The company's outlook is based on forward jet fuel prices and spot foreign exchange rates of Thursday.

IAG declared no dividend for 2022, unchanged from 2021. In 2019, it paid a dividend of 17.0 euro cents per share.

IAG shares were 1.9% lower at 162.34 pence each in London on Friday morning.

By Tom Budszus, Alliance News reporter

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