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Contract Revenue and Pass-through and Other Revenue
 12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2021
Revenue From Contract With Customer [Abstract]  
Contract Revenue and Pass-through and Other Revenue

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Contract Revenue and Pass-through and Other Revenue

The Company recognizes contract revenue when the service is provided under its capacity purchase agreements and flight services agreement. Under the capacity purchase agreements and flight services agreement, our major partners generally pay for each departure, flight hour (measured from takeoff to landing, excluding taxi time) or block hour (measured from takeoff to landing, including taxi time) incurred, and an amount per aircraft in service each month with additional incentives based on flight completion, on-time performance, and other operating metrics. The Company’s performance obligation is met when each flight is completed, and revenue is recognized and reflected in contract revenue.

The Company’s contract revenue also includes temporary rate reductions during fiscal year 2021 under our capacity purchase agreements. The basis for the reductions is temporary improvements in our cost structure being passed on to our major partners, primarily from lower labor costs due to the grants received under the Payroll Support Program and its extensions through the period ended September 30, 2021.

The Company recognizes pass-through revenue when the service is provided under its capacity purchase agreements and flight services agreement. Pass-through revenue represents reimbursements for certain direct expenses incurred including passenger liability and hull insurance, property taxes, other direct costs defined within the agreements, and major maintenance on aircraft leased at nominal rates. The Company’s performance obligation is met when each flight is completed or as the maintenance services are performed, and revenue is recognized and reflected in pass-through and other revenue.

The Company records deferred revenue when cash payments are received or are due from our major partners in advance of the Company’s performance, including amounts that are refundable. The Company deferred $10.7 million and $23.8 million of revenue during the years ended September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2020, respectively, which was billed to and paid by our major partners. Deferred revenue is recognized as flights are completed over the remaining contract term.

The deferred revenue balance as of September 30, 2021 represents our aggregate remaining performance obligations that will be recognized as revenue over the period in which the performance obligations are satisfied, and is expected to be recognized as revenue as follows (in thousands):

Periods Ending

 

 

 

 

September 30,

 

Total Revenue

 

2022

 

$

6,298

 

2023

 

 

10,210

 

2024

 

 

9,997

 

2025

 

 

4,974

 

2026

 

 

1,758

 

Thereafter

 

 

1,263

 

Total

 

$

34,500

 

 

A portion of the Company's compensation under its capacity purchase agreements with American and United is designed to reimburse the Company for certain aircraft ownership costs. Such costs include aircraft principal and interest debt service costs, aircraft depreciation, and interest expense or aircraft lease expense costs while the aircraft is under contract. The Company has concluded that a component of its revenue under these agreements is deemed to be lease revenue, as such agreements identify the "right of use" of a specific type and number of aircraft over a stated period-of-time.

The lease revenue associated with the Company's capacity purchase agreements is accounted for as an operating lease and is reflected as contract revenue on the Company's consolidated statements of operations. The Company recognized $170.2 million, $208.9 million, and $219.0 million of lease revenue for the years ended September 30, 2021, 2020, and 2019, respectively. The Company has not separately stated aircraft rental income and aircraft rental expense in the consolidated statements of operations because the use of the aircraft is not a separate activity from the total service provided under our capacity purchase agreements.  

The Company entered into lease agreements with GoJet Airlines LLC (“GoJet”) to lease 14 CRJ-700 aircraft as of September 30, 2021. The lease agreements are accounted for as operating leases and have a term of nine (9) years beginning on the delivery date of each aircraft. Under the lease agreements, GoJet pays fixed monthly rent per aircraft and variable lease payments for supplemental rent based on monthly aircraft utilization at fixed rates. Supplemental rent payments are subject to reimbursement following GoJet’s completion of qualifying maintenance events defined in the agreements. Lease revenue for fixed monthly rent payments is recognized on a straight-line basis within contract revenue. Lease revenue for supplemental rent is deferred and recognized within contract revenue when it is probable that amounts received will not be reimbursed for future qualifying maintenance events over the lease term.

The Company mitigates the residual asset risks through supplemental rent payments and by leasing aircraft and engine types that can be operated by the Company in the event of a default. Additionally, the operating leases have specified lease return condition requirements and the Company maintains inspection rights under the leases. As of September 30, 2021, the Company recognized $12.4 million of lease incentive assets, net of amortization, and $9.7 million of related lease incentive obligations for reimbursement of certain aircraft maintenance costs defined within the lease agreements. Lease incentive assets are amortized on a straight-line basis and recognized as a reduction to lease revenue over the lease term.

Lease revenue recognized under the GoJet agreements, net of amortization of the lease incentive assets, was $9.5 million for the year ended September 30, 2021. Amounts deferred for supplemental rent payments totaled $0.8 million as of September 30, 2021. The following table summarizes future minimum rental income under operating leases related to leased aircraft that had remaining non-cancelable lease terms as of September 30, 2021 (in thousands):

Periods Ending

September 30,

 

Total Payments

 

2022

 

$

15,288

 

2023

 

 

15,288

 

2024

 

 

15,288

 

2025

 

 

15,288

 

2026

 

 

15,288

 

Thereafter

 

 

54,467

 

Total

 

$

130,907