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SWA SEC 8-K 19Sep07 . . . thoughts?

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Form 8-K for SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO

20-Sep-2007
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Financial Statements and Exhibi

Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On September 19, 2007, Southwest Airlines Co. (the "Company") entered into an underwriting agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") with Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and Citgroup Global Markets Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement (the "Underwriters"), in connection with the issuance and sale of a total of $500,000,000 of Southwest Airlines Co. Pass Through Trust Certificates, Series 2007-1 (the "Certificates"). The Company expects delivery of the Certificates will be made under the Underwriting Agreement on or about October 3, 2007 in two different series, comprised of $412,100,000 of Class A Certificates with a coupon of 6.15% per annum and $87,900,000 of Class B Certificates with a coupon of 6.65% per annum. Each class of Certificates will be issued by a different pass through trust.
The pass through trusts will use the proceeds from the sale of Certificates to acquire equipment notes from the Company. The equipment notes will be secured by 16 Boeing aircraft owned by the Company. Payments on the equipment notes held in each pass through trust will be passed through to the certificateholders of such trust.
The Certificates are offered pursuant to the Prospectus Supplement, dated September 19, 2007, to the Prospectus, dated September 26, 2005, which forms a part of the Company's shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-126738) (the "Registration Statement"), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 20, 2005, and amended on September 23, 2005.
The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Underwriting Agreement, a copy of which is filed herewith as Exhibit 1.1 and is incorporated herein by reference. The Underwriting Agreement is hereby incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement as an exhibit thereto.
The Underwriters or their affiliates have from time to time provided and/or may in the future provide investment banking, commercial banking and financial advisory services to the Company, for which they have received or will receive customary compensation.




Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
Exhibit 1.1, Exhibit 23.2, Exhibit 23.3 and Exhibit 23.4 are incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (333-126738) of Southwest Airlines Co. as exhibits thereto and are filed as part of this Current Report on Form 8-K
 
Half a Billion dollars might be a *smidge* more than retro pay... ;)

Buying someone or something(s). Question is: who or what?
 
logic would be you are a thorn in united side American side. So why not be a huge pain in the a$$ to Delta. Looks like Airtran would be the Target with there fleet of 737. But what do I know I fly for AMR corp.
 
USAIR has alot of cash on hand. As soon as they finalize the contract which should be very soon they will start building the empire. Southwest empiracle leaders are raising cash to fight off the onslaught. Grab some popcorn, this will be the AVIATION Battle of the BULGE!
 
logic would be you are a thorn in united side American side. So why not be a huge pain in the a$$ to Delta. Looks like Airtran would be the Target with there fleet of 737. But what do I know I fly for AMR corp.


Sounds plausible...

Your whiny little pilot's gonna vote down a contract and shut the mutha down next year... might as well sell the company for some PHAT $$$$$$.



****Note... I fully support the AirTran pilots in their fight for a good contract! Good luck guys!
 
I say SWA is buying Airtran to get ATL gates and 737's, selling the 717's to Midwest/NWA with some gates, starting an International codeshare with NWA out of PHL, BWI, LAX, SFO. Extra cash to pay for '08 fuel. I love the smell of Merlot in the evening.
 
100 mill for airtran
100 mill for frontier
100 mill for alaska
100 mill for westjet
99 mill for continental
$5 bucks left over for delta, nwa, and united
 
Asa

They will buy ASA so they can get acess to the lucrative Dothan market!

-It's all about the dollas!
 
100 mill for airtran
100 mill for frontier
100 mill for alaska
100 mill for westjet
99 mill for continental
$5 bucks left over for delta, nwa, and united

Now that $hit was funny! It's like one of those "priceless" ads!
 
Lots of Cash on hand!

The last time I saw a balance sheet we already had a large amount of CASH laying around. Will be interested to see what/who we buy with all this money!!!
 
It would nice to see us pick up Alaskan Airlines they have gotten rid of all of the 80's but 4 of them. Also they go to Mexico and Canada so swa could start flying "International" and we would not have to start up issues. And we would pick up Alaska nice stop also I guess the way they route the flights to Mexico no etops. The one issue may be horizon air just food for thought I would like to see swa do some thing so our stock picks up and so we can keep a good thing going.
 
Got to do something with the cash

We're just "dirtying up" the balance sheet a bit to reduce the LBO threat.

Gup


Is is true that $500,000,000 in debt does put some dirt on the balance sheet but you have to use the cash for something....can't have it just sitting in the bank!
 
You use it to buy back shares, hence returning cash to the shareholders, which is what corporations are supposed to do.
 
Reading this post reminds me why never to take financial advice from a pilot. What company in the world would mortgage aircraft to buy stock(even their own). We are going to buy some tangible asset(Airtran)IMO.
 
This makes us in the pool scared. I hope nothing happens until I start class in Dec or Jan.

I sincerely hope this turns out to be wrong, but I was physically in the PD offices last Wednesday and as of then there are no plans for classes after Oct 3rd for the rest of 2007. Also FYI they only firm up dates when the training center makes up its mind between 21-30 days ahead of the respective class date. Again the more the better and I would love it to be true but don't count on any Nov or Dec classes at this point. Cheers, klr
 
USAIR has alot of cash on hand. As soon as they finalize the contract which should be very soon they will start building the empire. Southwest empiracle leaders are raising cash to fight off the onslaught. Grab some popcorn, this will be the AVIATION Battle of the BULGE!

Two points..

There is NO airline named USAir.
A callsign yes.. but no airline.

And you're smoking something good if you think there will be a "contract" anytime soon!
 
Does anyone know what some of these rumored 'targets' are worth? What's the market cap on say, AirTran, Alaska, WestJet, or whoever else people are speculating we're about to buy. Seems like we oughtta figure out if we're even in the ball park with 1/2 a billion plus what ever our cash on hand was.
 
Reading this post reminds me why never to take financial advice from a pilot. What company in the world would mortgage aircraft to buy stock(even their own). We are going to buy some tangible asset(Airtran)IMO.

I've read that when interest rates are low enough, it is can be cheaper for a corporation to take a loan and buy back stock than pay dividends.

...I'm not a financial guru, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
 
Or, for $1 Billion, part-cash, part-stock, you could buy either one...

Or neither. I didn't stay at a HIE last night, so WTH do I know? ;)
 
Think Internationally...

Not AirTran or Alaska. I think the purchase will be Global Aero Logistics (GAL) and operated as a separate subsidiary.

Of course I'm almost always wrong.

One thing for sure.

Whatever happens, it will not be anything we can come up here on any bulletin board. :confused:
 
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As of 31 March '07, Frontier's "Net Tangible Assets" total just under $210m. :eek: Plus, Mexico routes in/out of Denver and several SWA-heavy cities (MDW, MCI, BNA, etc.). Hmmmm.
 
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Think Internationally...

Not AirTran or Alaska. I think the purchase will be Global Aero Logistics (GAL) and operated as a separate subsidiary.

Of course I'm almost always wrong.

One thing for sure.

Whatever happens, it will not be anything we can come up here on any bulletin board. :confused:

More likely only part of GAL. I don't think SWA wants anything to do with DC10's and L10's.

The legacies that are making money are doing it with Int'l ops. There is still too much domestic capacity, so buying a domestic only (FL) or domestic/near Int'l (AK) doesn't make a whole lot of sense (cents). If SWA is going to increase revenue they need to go Int'l. Near and far. And they need to do it cheaply. So buying a small carrier that has all the authorizations needed makes the mose sense.

I believe that it might just be NAA with some orders for whatever 767-300's they can find. (NAA has 5 plus 5 757's) Not to mention that NAA pilots will willingly be stapled to the bottom of SWAPA's list.

I could be wrong as well. Frequently, that's the case.

Then again, SWA may go a completely different direction with all this "credit." Like no where in particular.
 
United. DEN, IAD, and now SFO. Especially for Int'l ops. They have a few of them over there.
 

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