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provisions of the Airport Noise and
Capacity Act of 1990 and its implementing regulations. Furthermore, no assurance can be given
that the County's power to impose a PFC will not be terminated by Congress or the FAA, or that
the PFC program may not be modified or restricted by Congress or the FAA so as to reduce PFC
Revenues available to the County.
Customer Facility Charges
The Second Supplemental Indenture pledges the County's receipts from a Customer
Facility Charge ("CFC") to secure the Series 2007 Bonds. The CFCs do not secure the Series
2013 Bonds. The CFC was imposed, as more fully described below, at $2.50 per transaction day
on all rental car contracts issued for the rental of passenger motor vehicles at the Airport
effective December 1, 2004. The CFC was increased to an amount of $3.25 per transaction day
effective July 1, 2007, and increased to $3.75 per transaction day effective December 1, 2010.
The CFC has no stated expiration date.
The CFC was imposed pursuant to Ordinance No. 04-64 of the County, enacted October
19, 2004, as amended by Ordinance No. 07-21 of the County, enacted May 1, 2007 and
Ordinance No. 10-16 of the County enacted November 16, 2010 (collectively, the "CFC
Ordinance"). Under the terms of the CFC Ordinance, the CFC is defined as a charge of $3.75
per Rental Car Transaction Day. "Rental Car Transaction Day" is defined as each 24-hour
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period, or fraction thereof, within a rental period under or pursuant to a Rental Car Contract.
"Rental Car Contract" means the document or documents (whether written, electronic or
otherwise) under or pursuant to which any Rental Car Operator rents, arranges for the rental of,
and/or delivers possession of a passenger motor vehicle to a customer. Each Rental Car Operator
is obligated under the CFC Ordinance to remit to the County all CFCs imposed on its customers
pursuant to the CFC Ordinance, whether or not they are actually collected from its customers.
Set forth below is a table showing historical CFCs received by the County. CFC
revenues have been sufficient since 2007 to pay debt service associated with the Series 2007
Bonds.
Fiscal Year CFC Revenue
2006 $781,260
2007 1,025,781
2008 1,282,388
2009 1,175,375
2010 1,072,591
2011 1,485,337
2012 1,495,728
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HISTORICAL OPERATING RESULTS
The following tables of Historical Operating Results of the Airport are derived from the
audited financial statements of the County for the fiscal years ended 2008 through 2012,
inclusive. Fiscal Year 2013 partial-year data is based on unaudited financial information.
OPERATING REVENUES
Charges for Services
Miscellaneous
TOTAL OPERATING REVENUES
OPERATING EXPENSES
Personal Services
Contractual Services
Supplies
Utilities
Other Operating Expenses
Depreciation
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES
OPERATING INCOME (LOSS)
NON-OPERATING REVENUES
(EXPENSES)
Intergovernmental Revenues
Investment Income
Other Non-Operating Income
Interest Expense
Other Debt Service Costs
PFC/CFC
Gain/Loss on Disposal of Fixed
Assets
TOTAL NON-OPERATING
REVENUES (EXPENSES)
INCOME (LOSS) BEFORE
OPERATING TRANSFERS
Capital Contributions’?
Operating Transfers In
Operating Transfers Out
NET INCOME (LOSS)
2013
( months
2008 2009 010 011 012 ending )
$7,605,726 $8,202,533 $8,656,082 $9,451,744 $9,208,230
860 908 101,441 2,393 802
$7,606,586 $8,203,441 $8,757,523 $9,454,137 $9,209,032
1,309,867 1,336,415 1,425,680 1,395,918 1,840,328
1,376,796 1,644,117 1,608,640 1,920,115 2,118,909
305,203 381,504 565,966 797,664 828,649
729,604 827,692 785,564 876,743 808,259
1,411,235 1,484,741 1,651,014 2,903,169 2,459,902
2,272,496 2,806,403 3,182,841 3,320,226 3,524,789
$7,405,201 $8,480,872 $9,219,705 $11,213,835 $11,580,836
201,385 (277,431) (462,182) (1,759,698) (2,371,804)
347,780 367,054 267,673 47,941 9,553
432,527 353,769 361,149 148,620 293,061
95,785 30,276 5,500 15,210 12,000
(826,860) (776,553) (1,199,270) (1,172,013) (1,208,154)
(130,989) (166,581) (152,531) (141,510) (133,120)
2,741,829 2,553,688 2,539,493 3,217,536 2,910,080
608 (380,398) (1,800) 558 (4,617)
$2,660,680 $1,981,255 $1,820,214 $2,116,342 $1,878,803
2,862,065 1,703,824 1,358,032 356,644 (493,001)
8,500,606 2,476,460 4,513,934 12,217,146 8,916,994
100,000
(1,067,100) (1,013,427) (1,119,595) (1,039,095) (460,785)
$10,295,571 $3,166,857 $4,552,371 $11,534,695 $8,063,208
“) Represent grant funds received by the County.
Source: Okaloosa County, Florida audited financial statements (2008-2012), Okaloosa County
finance department (2013)
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Management Discussion of Financial Results
Northwest Florida Regional Airport derives its revenues from landing fees and rentals
charged to the airlines serving the Airport and from a variety of non-airline sources. In addition,
a $4.50 Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) on each sold ticket is collected by airlines on behalf of
the Airport and $4.39 is remitted on a monthly basis. PFCs are used to fund the Airport’s current
debt service on its 2003 Bonds (part of the Refunded Indebtedness), and have been approved to
assist with local matching of federal and state grants. The Airport also collects a $3.75 per.rental
car day Customer Facility Charge to fund the Series 2007 Bonds for the construction of a
consolidated rental car service facility on 22.6 acres leased from the Air Force. The total
leasehold is just over 130 acres for which the Airport paid $357,912 in Fiscal Year 2012, up 3%
from the $347,487 paid in Fiscal Year 2011. Landing Fees for the joint use of the Air Force
flying facilities amounted to $118,485 in Fiscal Year 2012 based on 15,652 operations. This
reflected reduced usage from 2011 of $153,355 for 20,502 operations due to the unexpected
departure of Vision Airlines.
Airline Revenue: Landing fees, terminal space rental, security fees, baggage handling
and loading bridge fees charged to Airlines comprised 31 percent of the Airport’s operating
revenues in Fiscal Year 2012. The overall result was a 2.6% percent increase in airline revenue
compared with Fiscal Year 2011 despite a 20% reduction in enplanements due to the departure
of Vision Airlines.
Non-Airline Revenues: These revenues are derived primarily from commissions and
space rental from rental car companies and public parking. These two sources accounted for
about 54 percent ($5.0 million) of all Airport operating revenue in Fiscal Year 2012. There was
no increase in parking rates in 2012, but parking revenue decreased 15 percent largely reflecting
the decrease in enplanements due to Vision’s untimely departure. In addition to rental car and
parking revenue in Fiscal Year 2012, the Airport received an additional $580,000 in non-airline
revenue primarily from food, beverage and other terminal concession-related revenue.
Non-operating Revenues: Passenger Facility Charge revenue decreased 13 percent in
2012, while Customer Facility Charges from rental cars decreased 0.7 percent, which reflected
the reduction in passenger traffic upon Vision's early departure from the market.
Operating Expenses: Operating expenses of $11,580,836 (including depreciation)
increased 4.7 percent over Fiscal Year 2011 primarily due to increased promotional activity
driven by increases in personnel and contractual services related to the Vision Airlines ramp-up,
additional debt service for Bob Sikes Airport, one-time start-up costs for the new Airport police
function, and additional overlapping costs during the transition from the sheriff's security force.
INVESTMENT CONSIDERATIONS
General
The following discussion describes certain risks affecting the payment of and security for
all Bonds outstanding under the Indenture, including the Series 2013 Bonds. The following
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discussion is not meant to be an exhaustive list of the risks associated with the purchase of the
Series 2013 Bonds and does not necessarily reflect the relative importance of the various risks.
Potential investors are advised to consider the following along with all other information
described elsewhere or incorporated by reference in this Official Statement in evaluating their
purchase of the Series 2013 Bonds.
General Factors Affecting Airline Activity at the Airport
There are numerous factors which affect air traffic generally and air traffic at the Airport
specifically. Demand for air travel is influenced by factors such as population, levels of
disposable income, the nature, level and concentration of industrial and commercial activity in
the service area, and the price of air travel. The price of air travel is, in turn, affected by the
number of airlines serving a particular airport and a particular destination, the financial
condition, cost structure and hubbing strategies of the airlines serving an airport, the willingness
of competing airlines to enter into an airport market, the cost of operating at an airport, the price
of fuel, and any operating constraints (due to capacity, environmental concerns or other related |
factors) limiting the frequency or timing of airport traffic within the national system or at a
particular airport. In addition, the global hostilities and the threat of renewed terrorist attacks
may dampen air traffic.
Dependence on Levels of Airline Traffic and Activity. The Series 2013 Bonds are
payable solely from and secured by a pledge of the Net Revenues of the Airport System and the
Pledged PFC Revenues. Gross Revenues are dependent primarily on the level of aviation
activity and enplaned passenger traffic at the Airport. Several factors, including (1) the
challenging global and national economic environment that began in late 2007, (2) weakened
demand for air travel, (3) reduced airline passenger capacity, and (4) increased airline pricing
have adversely impacted levels of passenger traffic and associated revenues at the Airport.
Future levels of aviation activity and enplaned passenger traffic at the Airport will be dependent
upon many local, regional, national and international factors, including the national and local
unemployment rate, the prolonged weak global and national economic conditions, political
conditions, aviation security and public health concerns, the financial health of the airline
industry and of individual airlines, airline service and routes, airline competition and airfares,
airline mergers, the sale of airlines, alliances and consolidations, availability and price of
aviation and other fuel, employee cost and availability and labor relations within the airline
industry and capacity of the national air traffic control system and of the Airport, some of which
are discussed in further detail hereafter in this section.
Concentration of Airline Market Share. The major air carriers operating at the Airport,
by local market share, are Delta, American, US Airways and United/Continental, as discussed
above under the heading "NORTHWEST FLORIDA REGIONAL AIRPORT -— Airline Market
Share". These airlines have also been involved in recently completed or pending mergers and
consolidations that could affect their future market shares at the Airport to an extent that cannot
currently be predicted.
Delta, at present, has the largest market share of all air carriers at the Airport, followed by
American. No assurances can be given with regard to the future level of activity of Delta,
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American, US Airways or United/Continental at the Airport, or that, in the event that the
operations of these airlines at the Airport are reduced or discontinued, for whatever reason, such
operations would be replaced by other carriers. See "Risk of Airline Bankruptcies" below.
Current Economic Conditions. Historically, airline passenger traffic nationwide has
correlated closely with the state of the U.S. economy and levels of real disposable income.
Previous recessions and periods of stagnant economic conditions in the U.S. and Florida
contributed to reduced passenger traffic at the Airport. Further, the 2008-2009 recession and
associated high
