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International Consolidated Airlines Group. S.A.

Investor Presentation May 9, 2025

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2025 Quarter One results

Disclaimer

LEI: 959800TZHQRUSH1ESL13

Forward-looking statements:

Certain statements included in this announcement are forward-looking. These statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate only to historical or current facts. By their nature, they involve risk and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements often use words such as "expects", "believes", "may", "will", "could", "should", "continues", "intends", "plans", "targets", "predicts", "estimates", "envisages" or "anticipates" or other words of similar meaning or their negatives. They include, without limitation, any and all projections relating to the results of operations and financial conditions of International Consolidated Airlines Group, S.A. and its subsidiary undertakings from time to time (the 'Group'), as well as plans and objectives for future operations, expected future revenues, financing plans, expected expenditure, acquisitions and divestments relating to the Group and discussions of the Group's business plans, and its assumptions, expectations, objectives and resilience with respect to climate scenarios. All forward-looking statements in this announcement are based upon information known to the Group on the date of this announcement and speak as of the date of this announcement. Other than in accordance with its legal or regulatory obligations, the Group does not undertake to update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect any changes in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

Actual results may differ from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements in this announcement as a result of any number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including, but not limited to, economic and geo-political, market, regulatory, climate, supply chain or other significant external events, many of which are difficult to predict and are generally beyond the control of the Group, and it is not reasonably possible to itemise each item. Accordingly, readers of this announcement are cautioned against relying on forward-looking statements. Further information on the primary risks of the business and the Group's risk management process is set out in the Risk management and principal risk factors section in the Annual report and accounts 2024; this document is available on www.iairgroup.com. All forward-looking statements made on or after the date of this announcement and attributable to IAG are expressly qualified in their entirety by the primary risks set out in that section.

Alternative Performance Measures:

This announcement contains, in addition to the financial information prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ('IFRS') and derived from the Group's financial statements, alternative performance measures ('APMs') as defined in the Guidelines on alternative performance measures issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on 5 October 2015. The performance and outcome of the Group's strategy is assessed using a number of APMs. These measures are not defined under IFRS, should be considered in addition to IFRS measurements, may differ to definitions given by regulatory bodies relevant to the Group and may differ to similarly titled measures presented by other companies.

For definitions and explanations of APMs, refer to the APMs section in the most recent published financial report and in the IAG Annual report and accounts 2024 and the Interim Management Statement for the year to 31 March 2025 (IAG Q1 2025 Results (iairgroup.com)). These documents are available on www.iairgroup.com.

Highlights

Luis Gallego Chief Executive Officer

A world-class investment case

Unique strength in our network, hubs and brands Premium customers Growing IAG Loyalty and partnerships

Strong Execution

  • = Delivering world-class margins Delivered by our transformation

programme Delivered by our

talented employees across the globe

Strong Value Creation

Sustainable earnings growth Strong free cash flow generation Significant shareholder returns

Strong start to 2025; Outlook unchanged

  • Revenue growth of 9.6% reflecting strong demand for our network and brands
  • Operating profit €198m, an increase of €130m
  • Transformation programme supporting a 1.7pts increase in operating margin
  • Good operational performance, particularly at British Airways
  • Ordered 71 widebody aircraft to support long term strategy
  • Stronger balance sheet net leverage at 0.9x; gross debt reduced by €1.9bn
  • Delivering shareholder returns: sustainable dividends and share buyback

Financial Highlights

Strong operating profit growth in Q1 2025

Strong performances across the Group

Aer Lingus British Airways Iberia* Vueling
Q1 2025
(€m)
vLY Q1 2025
(£m)
vLY Q1 2025
(€m)
vLY Q1 2025
(€m)
vLY Q1 2025
(£m)
vLY
Total revenue 438 +13.5% 3,166 +5.5% 1,829 +15.3% 567 (4.1)% 526 +1.3%
Passenger revenue 420 +12.9% 2,927 +4.9% 1,294 +7.7% 564 (4.0)% 285 +0.1%
Operating result before
exceptional items
(55) +27 96 +86 137 +67 (55) (30) 88 (4)
Operating margin before
exceptional items
(12.6)% +8.7pts 3.0% +2.7pts 7.5% +3.1pts (9.7)% (5.5)pts 16.7% (1.1)pts
ASK (m) 6,495 +5.4% 41,170 +1.3% 20,803 +5.6% 9,133 +3.3%
PRASK (cts/p) 6.46 +7.1% 7.11 +3.6% 6.22 +2.0% 6.18 (7.0)%
Non-fuel CASK (cts/p) 5.68 +2.0% 5.43 +6.1% 6.30 +9.6% 4.79 +0.7%

IAG Loyalty operating profit on pre-HMRC basis: 97 +5%

*Iberia figures exclude LEVEL

Continued strong demand in all our core markets

Currently expect to grow capacity (ASK) by 3% in 2025

Non-fuel unit costs increased in Q1 vLY as expected

Cost category Q1 2025
unit cost (% vly)
Q1 2025 FY 2025 guidance
Employee 8.5% c.2.2% - impact of FX headwinds
Supplier 9.5% c.2.5% - non-airline costs including costs
related to the growth of Iberia's MRO business
Overall non-fuel unit cost expected to
be up c.4%, including impact of FX, as
Ownership 5.9% c.1% - impact of closure of Heathrow on 21
March 2025
previously guided
Total non-fuel 8.8% c.3% - driven by wage deals and investments in
summer resilience
c.65% hedged for the rest of the year.
Fuel (7.1)% Reflecting increased flying volumes and lower
commodity pricing
At \$730/mt we expect the fuel bill to be
c.€7.5bn

Profit after tax and exceptional items of €176m in Q1 2025

Three months to 31 March
€m Before
exceptional
items 2025
Exceptional
items
Reported
2025
Before
exceptional
items 2024
Exceptional
items
Reported
2024
Revenue 7,044 7,044 6,429 6,429
Operating costs 6,846 6,846 6,361 6,361
Operating profit 198 198 68 68
Finance costs (219) (219) (228) (228)
Finance income 85 85 75 75
Net change in fair value of financial instruments 75 75 (9) (9)
Net financing credit relating to pensions 21 21 14 14
Net currency retranslation credits/(charges) 134 134 (44) (44)
Other non-operating (charges)/credits (55) (55) 37 37
Profit/(loss) before tax 239 239 (87) (87)
Tax (63) (63) (6) 89 83
Profit/(loss) after tax 176 176 (93) 89 (4)

Stronger balance sheet: net leverage reduced to 0.9x

€m 31 March
2024
31 December
2024
31 March
2025
Gross debt 16,164 17,345 15,486
of which bank and other loans 2,683 2,911 1,706
of which asset financed and lease
liabilities
13,481 14,434 13,780
Gross debt / EBITDA before
exceptional items 2.8x 2.5x 2.2x
Cash, cash equivalents and interest
bearing deposits
8,726 9,828 9,357
Net debt 7,438 7,517 6,129
Net debt / EBITDA before
exceptional items 1.3x 1.1x 0.9x
Total liquidity (cash and facilities) 13,330 13,362 12,355

Reducing gross leverage:

  • Bond buyback €577m across both 2027 and 2029 unsecured bonds in Jan 2025
  • Maturity of €500m unsecured bond in March 2025 was redeemed with cash
  • Intention to keep around two thirds of the 26 expected deliveries unencumbered
  • €668m paid to HMRC for payments related to Loyalty VAT
  • Gross leverage reduces to 2.2x

Stronger balance sheet: reducing our financial liabilities

Disciplined capital allocation to support profitable growth, best-in-class margins and sustainable shareholder returns

Maintain balance
sheet strength
Invest in rebuilding
our fleet
Improve customer
experience,
resilience, digital
and sustainability
Commitment to
sustainable
dividends
Excess cash returned
to shareholders if
no inorganic
opportunities exist
Maintain net debt /
EBITDA < 1.8x
across the cycle
Invest to grow
capacity 2%-4%
per annum*
Drive margin
performance across
the Group in the
12% to 15% range
Sustainable ordinary
dividend
through the cycle
Distribute excess cash
below net leverage of
1.2x to 1.5x
0.9x at 31 March 2025
Investment Grade
5 new aircraft
in Q1 2025
26 planned in 2025
1.7pts margin
increase in Q1 vLY
Final dividend
€0.06 per share
€530m of shares
bought in 2025**
Up to €1bn in 2025

Delivering our strategy

Transforming our businesses

British Airways

  • Increased services to key long-haul destinations: Nashville, Sao Paulo, Bangkok and Riyadh. Deployment of A350s to Rio and Buenos Aires. Consolidation and expansion of LHR-Barbados
  • Completed Club Suite retrofit of Heathrow based B777's
  • Achieved the best quarter OTP since IAG founded

Iberia

  • Continued strengthening LatAm position: increase presence in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. Developing key NATL destinations (Boston) through XLR. Continuation of Tokyo relaunched in Q424.
  • Refurbishing A330s
  • Higher year-on-year OTP in both long and short-haul

Aer Lingus

  • Seasonal to Las Vegas launched in Q424, and winter routes to Seville, Marrakech, Malta. Additional routes to Athens and Nice.
  • Journey improvements, including boarding processes and techsupported check-in processes. Ireland's 4th most trusted brand
  • Process changes and technology driving punctuality 83% OTP

Vueling

  • Return to growth: consolidating winter routes (Istanbul); new routes (Heathrow-Bilbao); strengthening Barcelona (Tirana)
  • Customer journey enhancements: AI virtual assistant and WhatsApp
  • OTP at 87.5% driven by AI-optimisers and new weather-mitigation tool in partnership with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre

Loyalty

  • Loganair became the third Global Currency partner, adopting Avios as their loyalty programme currency in March.
  • Successful Avios-only flights on Iberia and Aer Lingus in Q1; first ever Wine Flyer experience to San Sebastian sold out.

Outlook

  • Whilst being mindful of geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, our outlook is unchanged
  • We are continuing to see good demand for air travel across our core markets and for our brands, highlighting the strength of our portfolio
  • Latin America and Europe continue to be strong and the North Atlantic demand has been robust, with strength in our premium cabin mitigating some recent softness in US point-of-sale economy leisure
  • As of 6 May we are around 80% booked for the second quarter, with revenue ahead of last year, and 29% booked for the second half, broadly in line with last year

Our strategy to deliver world-class margins and returns

See APM summary for definitions

Appendices

Our key metrics for Q1 2025

The metrics included in this slide are before exceptional items See the APM Summary for definitions

Modelling assumptions

Revenue

– Capacity increase of c.3% - continuing focus on our core markets

• Non-fuel unit costs

  • Increase of around 4%, including an adverse FX impact
  • Weighted to H1 ahead of the summer peak

• Fuel costs

– c.65% hedged for the rest of the year. At \$730/MT expected total fuel bill to be c.€7.5bn

• Free cash flow

  • Payment of €668m to HMRC to advance our appeal against HMRC decision regarding historical VAT treatment at IAG Loyalty. €260m has now been recovered as British Airways input VAT
  • Capex of c.€3.7bn depending on fleet deliveries
  • €288m final FY 2024 dividend proposed
  • Intention to return up to €1bn of excess capital in up to 12 months

Fuel hedging

As per FY 2024 results Q1 2025 Q2 2025 Q3 2025 Q4 2025 Q1 2026 Q2 2026
Jet fuel price scenario \$750/mt \$760/mt \$760/mt \$750/mt \$730/mt \$730/mt
\$/€ scenario 1.044 1.044 1.044 1.044 1.044 1.044
Hedge ratio 72 % 67 % 60 % 49 % 39 % 32 %
Effective blended price post fuel and FX
hedging*
\$745/mt \$765/mt \$760/mt \$755/mt \$735/mt \$730/mt
As per Q1 2025 results Q2 2025 Q3 2025 Q4 2025 Q1 2026 Q2 2026 Q3 2026
Jet fuel price scenario \$730/mt \$730/mt \$720/mt \$710/mt \$710/mt \$700/mt
\$/€ scenario 1.087 1.087 1.087 1.087 1.087 1.087
Hedge ratio 73 % 64 % 59 % 56 % 45 % 36 %
Effective blended price post fuel and FX
hedging*
\$745/mt \$750/mt \$740/mt \$730/mt \$725/mt \$710/mt
As per FY 2024 results As per Q1 2025 results
Jet fuel price
scenario
FY 2025
Fuel cost
Jet fuel price
scenario
FY 2025
Fuel cost
\$680/mt c.€7.5bn \$530/mt c.€6.9bn
Sensitivity \$720/mt c.€7.7bn \$710/mt c.€7.4bn
\$760/mt c.€7.9bn \$730/mt c.€7.5bn
\$810/mt c.€8.1bn \$750/mt c.€7.5bn
Note: Effective blended price excluding into plane cost \$860/mt c.€8.3bn \$960/mt c.€8.0bn

FY 2025 capacity planned to be c.3% higher than 2024

Note: British Airways includes BA CityFlyer and BA EuroFlyer; Iberia includes Iberia Express

Alternative Performance Measures (APMs) and terminology definitions

Measure IFRS/APM Definition Source of calculation
Capex (or gross capital expenditure) IFRS Acquisition of property, plant and equipment and intangible assets per
cash flow statement
Direct from Cash flow statement (Net cash flows from investing activities)
Cash IFRS Cash and cash equivalents and Current interest-bearing deposits Direct from Balance sheet (Current assets)
EBITDA before exceptional items APM Operating result before exceptional items, interest, taxation, depreciation,
amortisation and impairment.
FY 2024 Results Release (alternative performance measures section, note f: Gross
and Net debt to EBITDA before exceptional items) and accounting policies
Free cash flow APM Net cash flows from operating activities, less the cash flows associated
with the acquisition of property, plant and equipment and intangible
assets reported in net cash flows from investing activities from the Cash
flow statement.
FY 2024 Results Release (Reconciliation of alternative performance measures
section, note e: Free cash flow)
Gross debt IFRS Total borrowings (current and non-current) Direct from Balance sheet (Current liabilities, Non-current liabilities)
Gross debt to EBITDA before exceptional
items (or Gross leverage)
APM Based on Gross debt (per above) and the full year EBITDA before
exceptional items
Direct from Balance Sheet (Current liabilities, Non-current liabilities) and FY 2024
Results Release (alternative performance measures section, note f: Gross and Net
debt to EBITDA before exceptional items) and accounting policies
Liquidity (or Total liquidity) APM Cash (per above) plus committed and undrawn general and overdraft
facilities, and aircraft-specific financing facilities
FY 2024 Results Release (Reconciliation of alternative performance measures
section, note i: Liquidity)
Movements in working capital IFRS Net movements in working capital per cash flow statement Direct from Cash flow statement (Net cash flows from operating activities)
Net debt IFRS Gross debt (per above) less Cash FY 2024 Results Release (Reconciliation of alternative performance measures
section, note f: Gross and Net debt to EBITDA before exceptional items)
Net debt to EBITDA before exceptional
items (or Leverage)
APM Based on Net debt (per above) and the full year EBITDA before
exceptional items
FY 2024 Results Release (Reconciliation of alternative performance measures
section, note f: Gross and Net debt to EBITDA before exceptional items)
Operating profit (and other Income
statement items) before exceptional items
APM See FY 2024 Results Release (alternative performance measures section,
note a: Profit after tax before exceptional items) and accounting policies
FY 2024 Results Release (alternative performance measures section, note a: Profit
after tax before exceptional items) and accounting policies
Unit measures (PRASK, Fuel CASK, Non Fuel
CASK)
APM Passenger revenue, fuel costs, non-fuel costs (before exceptional items)
divided by capacity (ASKs)
Glossary in the 2024 ARA

Where the term ARA is used this refers to both the Annual report and accounts and the Annual Financial Report.

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