Derivative Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]

Derivative Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities

Risk Management Objective of Using Derivatives

Our objectives in using interest rate derivatives are to add predictability to interest expense and to manage our exposure to interest rate movements. To accomplish these objectives, we primarily use interest rate swaps and treasury locks as part of our interest rate management strategy. Interest rate swaps primarily involve the receipt of variable-rate and fixed-rate amounts from a counterparty in exchange for us making fixed-rate or variable-rate payments over the life of the agreements without exchange of the underlying notional amounts.

Changes in fair value of derivatives designated as cash flow hedges are recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income and subsequently reclassified into earnings as an increase or decrease to interest expense. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, we reclassified gains of $14.2 million and $23.7 million out of accumulated other comprehensive income into interest expense, respectively, inclusive of the Company's acceleration of the reclassification of amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income given that certain hedged forecasted transactions are not expected to occur. During the third quarter of 2023, the Company accelerated a gain of $11.5 million into earnings due to the early payoff of the hedged term loans previously designated. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, we reclassified losses of $0.7 million and $2.7 million out of accumulated other comprehensive income, net into interest expense, respectively. As of September 30, 2023, we estimate that during the next 12 months, we will reclassify into earnings approximately $7.4 million of the unrealized gain in accumulated other comprehensive income.

Changes in fair value of derivatives not designated in a hedge relationship, or economic hedges, are recognized in gain on derivative instruments, net, in our condensed consolidated statements of operations once realized. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, we recorded gains of $14.1 million and $23.3 million, respectively. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, no amounts were recognized related to derivatives not designated in a hedge relationship.

During the second quarter of 2023, we de-designated $830 million of notional value pay-fixed, receive-floating interest rate swaps. As a result, the accumulated unrealized gains at time of de-designation of $29.5 million was expected to be reclassified into earnings over the remaining term of the forecasted transactions. During the three months ended September 30, 2023, $2.6 million of this balance was reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income into interest expense, and $11.5 million was accelerated into gain on derivative instruments, net, as described above. The remaining balance of $15.4 million is included within accumulated other comprehensive income as of September 30, 2023 and will be reclassified into earnings over the remaining term of the forecasted transaction.

During the three months ended September 30, 2023, we terminated six interest rate swap positions not designated as hedging instruments. Three of the terminated instruments were pay-floating, receive-fixed interest rate swaps with a notional value of $230 million, and three were offsetting pay-fixed, receive-floating interest rate swaps with a notional value of $230 million. Upon termination, AIR received $11.1 million in cash.

As of September 30, 2023, AIR had a notional value of $600 million of pay-fixed, receive-floating interest rate swaps that are not designated as hedging instruments, and a notional value of $50 million of forward starting interest rate swaps that are not designated as hedging instruments. These derivative instruments are partially offset by a notional value of $250 million of pay-floating, receive-fixed interest rate swaps that are not designated as hedging instruments. Accordingly, the changes in the fair value of these derivatives are recognized in gain on derivative instruments, net, in our condensed consolidated statements of operations. As a result of the $250 million of pay-floating, receive-fixed interest rate swaps that are not designated as hedging instruments, we expect to receive monthly fixed interest income representing the spread between the offsetting pay-fixed and receive-fixed legs of our interest rate swap positions over a weighted-average term of 2.6 years.

Subsequent to September 30, 2023, AIR entered into a notional value $125 million pay-fixed, receive-floating interest rate swap, which economically hedges the remaining $125 million of variable-rate term loans, which results in the $475 million in term loans having an effective interest rate of 4.3%.

The following table summarizes our derivative financial instruments (dollars in thousands):


	As of September 30, 2023
	Number of	Aggregate Notional		Derivative Assets (included in Other Assets, net)		Derivative Liabilities (included in Accrued Liabilities and Other)
	Instruments	Amount		Fair Value


Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate swap, floating to fixed	7	$	600,000	$	29,898	$	—
Interest rate swap, fixed to floating	3	$	250,000	$	—	$	(3,035)
Interest rate swap, forward starting	1	$	50,000	$	3,333	$	—


	As of December 31, 2022
	Number of	Aggregate Notional		Derivative Assets (included in Other Assets, net)		Derivative Liabilities (included in Accrued Liabilities and Other)
	Instruments	Amount		Fair Value
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Treasury rate locks	1	$	100,000	$	319	$	—
Interest rate swaps, floating to fixed	10	$	830,000	$	32,222	$	—