DELTA AIR LINES money in federal elections

Carrier spelling with a space, not every Delta row

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. DELTA AIR LINES is the form with AIR LINES as two words. The $5,505,160 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not enplanement counts, not a slot-allocation docket, and not a NAICS rollup of all airline employers. People who typed DELTA AIRLINES as one word, DELTA, or DELTA AIR LINES INC sit in other rows if stored that way.

The FEC field is not a crew-roster export. Pilots, flight attendants, and ground staff who used this exact three-word string share the key with corporate payroll. LobbyVault does not recode those spelling variants into this carrier label. Occupation pages show titles stored beside the airline name.

1,219 donors and 43,095 lines

1,219 unique donors produced 43,095 DELTA AIR LINES contribution lines totaling $5,505,160. That is on the order of 35 itemized receipts per donor — a high-volume pattern. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a split among flight crew, maintenance, and headquarters jobs.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the company’s committee PAC filings are outside the $5,505,160 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Repeat names among 43,095 lines from 1,219 people are expected.

Other airline employer strings

Other carrier legal names are separate keys on the industry index. Combining them with DELTA AIR LINES would be a researcher-built major-airline recode. This page stays at $5,505,160 for DELTA AIR LINES only.

PILOT, FLIGHT ATTENDANT, and similar occupation keys still hold crew who omitted the carrier name. Occupation breakdowns are the place to inspect those titles. State filings are omitted from the federal total.

Donor table

The DELTA AIR LINES donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a merger, a hub city, or a motive to that line. The 1,219 unique-person count is not an employee headcount from the airline.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the carrier string. People who typed DELTA AIRLINES as one word are not in these 1,219 unless a receipt also grouped to DELTA AIR LINES.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $5,505,160, 43,095 contributions, 1,219 donors, top employer DELTA AIR LINES. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare other industry keys on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles stored next to this employer.

Keep DELTA AIR LINES’s $5,505,160, 43,095 contributions, and 1,219 donors on this three-word spelling. One-word DELTA, INC suffixes, unitemized gifts, and committee PAC documents stay on their own records. The donor table lists disclosed recipients without converting the string into a NAICS air-transport total.

Carrier receipts versus the airline PAC

DELTA AIR LINES as three words is the stored key behind $5,505,160. One-word DELTA and one-word DELTA AIRLINES, if stored, are other rows. Committee PAC filings for the carrier are other FEC documents. Unitemized gifts stay outside the 43,095 lines.

1,219 unique donors produced those 43,095 receipts, about 35 lines per person. That volume is a payroll-style reading of itemized individual gifts, not a crew-roster headcount and not a hub-by-hub census. The packet does not split pilots, attendants, and ground staff.

Occupation breakdowns remain the place to see PILOT and related titles stored beside the carrier. The industry index ranks other airline legal names separately. Follow the donor table for disclosed recipients. This guide does not assign party percentages to DELTA AIR LINES. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Keep DELTA AIR LINES’s 1,219 donors and 43,095 lines on the three-word spelling. One-word DELTA remains another key if stored that way. The donor table lists disclosed recipients for the $5,505,160 only.

Questions

How much have DELTA AIR LINES-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $5,505,160 to the DELTA AIR LINES employer string, from 43,095 contributions and 1,219 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the company’s PAC and not a NAICS airline total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this Delta corporate political spending?

No. The $5,505,160 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to DELTA AIR LINES. Corporate treasury and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. LobbyVault does not fold those documents into this industry row. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include Delta Airlines spelled as one word?

Only if the grouped employer text is DELTA AIR LINES. DELTA AIRLINES and DELTA are separate keys if stored that way. A receipt counted here carries the three-word carrier string. Crew who typed only PILOT sit in occupation-style rows instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed DELTA AIR LINES?

The rollup counts 1,219 donors and 43,095 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count to about 35 lines per person. This is not an employee headcount from the airline. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.