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Old Apr 29, 2008 | 12:48 pm
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Originally Posted by FWAAA
Incidentally, WN reports that $2.6 billion of their $3.1 billion of cash is tied up in connection with their fuel hedging.
This is not correct. As of 3/31/08 WN had $3.0 billion of cash and cash equivalents and $140 million in other short-term investments (which would match up with the $3.1 billion of cash you mention). Fuel derivitives are not counted as cash (which seems pretty obvious to me), the current portion of fuel derivitives was valued at $1.25 billion on 3/31/08 (there is a line item on their balance sheet called Fuel Derivitive Contracts) while Other Assets on their balance sheet (which includes non-current fuel derivitive contracts) were $1.9 billion on 3/31/08. (See LUV Quarterly Balance Sheet)
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