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Neil Glynn

Founder & Managing Director, AIR Control Tower

AIR Control Tower

AIR Control Tower is an independent research and analysis platform. Its mission is to provide impactful insight and analysis across the global airline industry at a company and market level via detailed financial models to aid decision making for key stake holders at a time when risks have seldom, if ever, been higher and the global sector grapples with the imperative of funding de-carbonisation. Unique analysis forecasting global carrier-level earnings/cash flows, and restructuring/de-leveraging prospects, is designed to dynamically assess the health of the industry, predict surprises and identify potential requirements for third party support.

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<li>Following 2Q24 , our operating profit of S$2.9bn and a net profit of S$2.6bn, stand considerably higher than consensus of S$2.5bn and S$2.3bn respectively. </li>
<li>SIA’s continue to suffer more inflation than most peers (ex-Qantas). However, 1H24 illustrated that continued restoration of capacity is diluting pressure and narrowing the gap to peers.</li>
<li>The true test for SIA will be management of normalizing profitability beyond FY24. We model operating profit of S$1.8bn/net profit of S$1.5bn in FY25, versus consensus of S$1.5bn/S$1.2bn.</li>
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Following 2Q24 , our operating profit of S$2.9bn and a net profit of S$2.6bn, stand considerably higher than consensus of S$2.5bn and S$2.3bn respectively. 
SIA’s continue to suffer more inflation than most peers (ex-Qantas). However, 1H24 illustrated that continued restoration of capacity is diluting pressure and narrowing the gap to peers.
The true test for SIA will be management of normalizing profitability beyond FY24. We model operating profit of S$1.8bn/net profit of S$1.5bn in FY25, versus consensus of S$1.5bn/S$1.2bn.


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