Company: SRFM
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-043326
Chunk: 117

Company: SURF AIR MOBILITY INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
Chunk 117
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. It is a certified Part 135 operator that operates a fleet of over 50 aircraft, including the Cessna Caravan, the Cessna Grand Caravan, the Pilatus PC-12, and the Tecnam Traveller. Southern provides both seasonal and full-year scheduled passenger air transportation service in the Mid-Atlantic and Gulf regions, Rockies and West Coast, and Hawaii, with select routes subsidized by the United States Department of Transportation (“U.S. DOT”) under the Essential Air Service (“EAS”) program.

Following the Southern Acquisition, the Company operates a combined regional airline network servicing U.S. cities across the Mid-Atlantic, Gulf South, Midwest, Rocky Mountains, West Coast, New England and Hawaii.

The results of operations of Southern are included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements from the date of acquisition, July 27, 2023, through December 31, 2024. For historical financial information of Southern prior to the Acquisition Date, refer to the sections entitled “Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for Southern Airways Corporation” and “Audited Financial Statements for Southern Airways Corporation as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 and for the Years Ended December 31, 2022 and 2021” in the Form 8-K/A filed August 29, 2023.

2024 Operating Environment

Since 2020, the Company has been incurring expenses to support the development of the technology of its digital platform with the aim of enabling the regional air mobility market to operate at scale and to enhance the user’s ability to make informed decisions based on multiple first and third party data sources as well as connected aircraft, and the Company expects these development expenses to continue to be incurred. Additionally, the Company is developing fully-electric and hybrid-electric powertrain technologies with its commercial partners to electrify existing fleets and new aircraft. As a result, the Company expects to incur significant costs in the future to support the development of this technology.

In addition to incremental costs incurred in the execution of the Company’s near and long-term business strategy, the Company has experienced inflationary pressures, which have materially increased the Company’s costs for aircraft fuel, wages and benefits and other goods and services critical to its operations during 2023 and 2024 and believes perceived recessionary risks have impacted the 2024 results. For example, perceived recessionary risks may cause companies and individuals to reduce travel for either professional or personal reasons, and drive higher prices in the supply chain the Company relies upon