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WestJet Annual Report 2015 | 22
The following table presents our fourth quarter 2015 financial and operational summary:
Three months ended December 31
($ in thousands, unless otherwise noted)
2015
2014
Change
Financial summary
Revenue 958,715
994,394
(3.6%)
Operating expenses 846,028
854,787
(1.0%)
Earnings from operations 112,687
139,607
(19.3%)
Operating margin (per cent)(i)
11.8%
14.0%
(2.2 pts)
Earnings before tax 92,628
124,816
(25.8%)
EBT margin (per cent)
(i)
9.7% 12.6% (2.9 pts)
Net earnings
63,436
90,713
(30.1%)
Earnings per share:
Basic
0.51
0.71
(28.2%)
Diluted
0.51
0.70
(27.1%)
Cash dividends declared per share 0.14 0.12 16.7%
Operational summary
ASMs
6,524,788,975
6,378,247,018
2.3%
RPMs 5,114,188,857
5,081,440,294
0.6%
Load factor 78.4% 79.7% (1.3pts)
Yield (cents) 18.75
19.57
(4.2%)
RASM (cents) 14.69
15.59
(5.8%)
CASM (cents)
12.97
13.40
(3.2%)
CASM, excluding fuel and employee profit share (cents)
(i)
10.04
9.21
9.0%
Fuel consumption (litres) 317,477,003
300,254,948
5.7%
Fuel costs per litre (cents) 57
81
(29.6%)
Segment guests 4,893,020
4,826,149
1.4%
Average stage length (miles)
887
925
(4.1%)
Departures 53,284 48,676 9.5%
Utilization (hours)
11.2
11.6
(3.4%)
Full-time equivalent employees at period end
9,211
8,698
5.9%
(i) Please refer to page 55 and 56 of this MD&A for definitions of key operating indicators and a reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures and
additional GAAP measures.