Company: UP
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-015477
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Company: Wheels Up Experience Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
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 its named executive officers for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. Stockholders may also abstain from the vote. The Say-on-Pay Vote is advisory in nature, and therefore not binding on the Company, the Board or the Compensation Committee. However, the Board and the Compensation Committee will consider the outcome of the Say-on-Pay Vote when making future decisions regarding the compensation of our named executive officers. If you own shares through a Broker or other holder of record, you must instruct your Broker or other holder of record how to vote in order for them to vote your shares so that your vote can be counted on this Proposal No. 2. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE FORTHE NON-BINDING, ADVISORY VOTE TO APPROVE NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMPENSATION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2024.

| 16Wheels Up Experience Inc.Proxy Statement and Notice of 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders |

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PROPOSAL NO. 3—RATIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM The Audit Committee of the Board (the “Audit Committee”) has appointed Grant Thornton LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. We are asking our stockholders to ratify, on a non-binding, advisory basis, this selection at the Annual Meeting. GT has audited our financial statements since the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and since the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014, has audited the historical financial statements of Wheels Up Partners Holdings LLC, our direct subsidiary (“WUP”), prior to the consummation of the business combination (the “Business Combination”) on July 13, 2021 between WUP and Aspirational Consumer Lifestyle Corp., a blank check company (“Aspirational”). Representatives of GT are expected to be in attendance online at the Annual Meeting and will have an opportunity to make a statement if they so desire and/or respond to appropriate questions. Neither our Organizational Documents nor applicable laws require stockholder ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm. However, the Audit Committee is submitting the appointment of GT to our stockholders for ratification as a matter of good corporate practice. If our stockholders fail to ratify the appointment, the Audit Committee will reconsider the selection of GT as our independent registered