SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 or 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported):February 26, 2003
Atlantic Coast Airlines Holdings, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
Delaware 0-21976 13-3621051
(State or (Commission (IRS
Other File Employer
Jurisdiction Number) Identification
of No.)
Incorporation)
45200 Business Court, Dulles, VA 20166
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code:(703)650-6000
N/A
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
Item 9. Regulation FD Disclosure.
Atlantic Coast Airlines Holdings, Inc. (ACA) (NASDAQ/NM: ACAI)
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Kerry Skeen will make a
presentation to investors and financial analysts during the
Raymond James & Associates 24th Annual Institutional Investors
Conference being held in Orlando, FL. The ACA presentation is
scheduled to take place Monday, March 3, 2003, at approximately
11:45am Eastern Time.
Raymond James will webcast an audio-only version of its
conference participants' presentations live on the Internet.
Break-out sessions will not be webcast. Access to the site will
be permitted after a brief registration process. Listeners will
need to register and listen at the following web address:
http://customer.nvglb.com/RaymondJames/Institutional/
Listeners should go to this site at least 15 minutes prior to the
event to register and download and install any necessary
software, Microsoft Windows Media Player or RealPlayer.
Preregistration is available now. For those unable to listen to
the live broadcast, a replay will be available for 30 days by
accessing the above address. There is no charge to access the
event.
The slides that will accompany the ACA presentation will be
available as a PowerPoint file in the "For Investors" section of
the Atlantic Coast corporate website:
www.atlanticcoast.com
On February 26, 2003, Atlantic Coast Airlines issued the
following press release attached hereto as Exhibit 99.
Statements in this news release and by company executives
regarding projections and expectations of future operations,
earnings, revenues and costs represent forward-looking statements
and information that are based on management's current
expectations as of the date of this press release. In this
context, the words "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect"
and similar expressions, as they relate to the company's
management, are intended to identify such forward-looking
statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks,
uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the
actual results of the company to be materially different from
those reflected in such forward-looking statements. A number of
risks and uncertainties exist which could cause actual results to
differ materially from these projected results. Such factors
include, among others: United's decision to elect either to
affirm all of the terms of the company's existing United Express
Agreement, or to reject the agreement in its entirety; the timing
of such decision; any efforts by United to negotiate changes as a
condition to affirming the contract; United's ability and
willingness to make future payments to the company under the
United Express Agreement; the company's ability to collect pre-
petition obligations from United or to offset pre-petition
obligations due to United; willingness of finance parties to
continue to finance additional aircraft deliveries pending
United's decision whether to affirm or reject the United Express
Agreement and of market conditions generally; willingness of the
company to accept regional jet deliveries pending resolution of
its agreement with United, and ability to settle arrangements
with Bombardier regarding undelivered aircraft; United's ability
to successfully reorganize in bankruptcy; changes in levels of
service agreed to by the company with its code-share partners due
to market conditions; the ability and timing of agreeing upon
rates with United; the ability of these partners to manage their
operations and cash flow, and ability and willingness of these
partners to continue to deploy the company's aircraft and to
utilize and pay for scheduled service at agreed upon rates;
availability and cost of product support for the company's 328JET
aircraft; whether the company is able to recover or realize on
its claims against Fairchild Dornier in its insolvency
proceedings and unexpected costs arising from the insolvency of
Fairchild Dornier; general economic and industry conditions;
additional acts of war; and risks and uncertainties arising from
the events of September 11 and from the slow economy which may
impact the company, its code-share partners, and aircraft
manufacturers in ways that the company is not currently able to
predict. These and other factors are more fully disclosed under
the company's "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations" in ACAI's Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 and in its
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30,
2002. These statements are made as of February 27, 2003 and ACA
undertakes no obligation to update any such forward-looking
information, whether as a result of new information, future
events, changed expectations or otherwise.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, the Registrant has caused this current report to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
ATLANTIC COAST AIRLINES HOLDINGS,
INC.
Date: February 27, 2003 By: /S/ David Asai
David Asai
Vice President and Chief
Accounting Officer