Alaska Air Group, Inc. (ALK) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Alaska Air Group twenty twenty six Second Quarter Earnings Call. At this time, all participants have been placed on mute to prevent background noise. Today's call is being recorded and will be accessible for future playback at alaskaair.com. After our speakers' remarks, we will conduct a question and answer session for analysts. I would now like to turn the call over to Alaska Air Group's Vice President of Finance, Planning and Investor Relations, Ryan St. John. Thank you, operator, and good morning. Thanks for joining us today to discuss our second quarter twenty twenty six earnings results. Yesterday, we issued our earnings release along with several accompanying slides detailing our results, which are available at investor.alaskaair.com. On today's call, you'll hear updates from Ben, Andrew and Shane. Several others of our management team are also on the line to answer your questions during the Q and A portion of the call. Air Group reported a second quarter GAAP net loss of $76,000,000 Excluding special items, Air Group reported an adjusted net loss of $102,000,000 As a reminder, forward looking statements about future performance may differ materially from our actual results. Information on risk factors that could affect our business can be found within our SEC filings. We will also refer to certain non GAAP financial measures such as adjusted earnings and unit costs excluding fuel. And as usual, we have provided a reconciliation between the most directly comparable GAAP and non GAAP measures in today's earnings release. Over to you, Ben. Thanks Ryan and good morning everyone. Let me start by directly acknowledging our financial performance. While we beat our initial guidance for the second quarter, we still...