---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-027632"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UP"
cik: "0001819516"
company_name: "Wheels Up Experience Inc."
filed_at: "2022-02-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T03:49:11.920877+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wheels Up appoints Delta SVP Dwight James to Board, replacing Eric Phillips

## Summary
- Eric Phillips resigned from Board effective Feb 24, 2022; departure not due to any disagreement.
- Dwight James appointed as Class I director, also on Safety & Security Committee.
- James is Delta's SVP - Customer Engagement & Loyalty and CEO of Delta Vacations.
- Delta has right to designate two Board seats; James fills Delta's Class I seat.
- James will stand for election at the company's 2022 Annual Meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-027632
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UP
- cik: 0001819516
- company_name: Wheels Up Experience Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-02-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819516/000110465922027632/0001104659-22-027632-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819516/000110465922027632/tm227836d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-027632
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-027632.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-027632.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eric Phillips resigned as Director at Wheels Up Experience Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: Eric Phillips resigned from the Board of Directors
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819516/000110465922027632/0001104659-22-027632-index.htm
- Executive change
  Dwight James was appointed as Director at Wheels Up Experience Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: to appoint Dwight James to serve as a Class I member of the Board
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819516/000110465922027632/0001104659-22-027632-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.