UNITED AIRLINES as FEC employer text: $7.4 million

A carrier brand on Schedule A, not a fleet PAC

LobbyVault’s industry table ranks grouped employer text. UNITED AIRLINES is the brand as stored on individual receipts. The $7,420,373 total is those itemized gifts. It is not United’s operating revenue, not airport-slot value, and not a NAICS rollup of all passenger airlines.

People who typed UNITED, UAL, UNITED EXPRESS, a regional affiliate, or PILOT without the carrier sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into this key. AMERICAN AIRLINES remains a separate employer-name page.

Regional affiliates and United Express-style names, if stored separately, never enter this brand key. Pilots who typed only a craft title likewise sit elsewhere. The $7,420,373 total is the carrier string as grouped, nothing broader.

2,047 donors and 70,363 lines

2,047 unique donors produced 70,363 UNITED AIRLINES contribution lines totaling $7,420,373. That is on the order of 34 itemized receipts per donor, with a smaller typical line than partnership rows that have fewer, larger gifts. Payroll PAC-style itemized patterns can produce that volume. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a cockpit-versus-ground split.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the carrier’s committee PAC filings are outside the $7,420,373 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear.

2,047 unique donors is not a seniority list. Furloughed, retired, and current staff can share UNITED AIRLINES if that is what they typed. The FEC field is not a union roster.

American Airlines and title-only rows

AMERICAN AIRLINES is a separate carrier string in this batch. Combining it with UNITED AIRLINES would mix two FEC employer fields. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION is a government-employer key, not a substitute for airline payroll. This page stays at $7,420,373 for UNITED AIRLINES.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the carrier — pilot, flight attendant, mechanic — as typed. Those titles as employer-box strings are other industry keys when donors skipped the company name.

Donor table

The UNITED AIRLINES donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a route award, a labor contract, or a motive to that line. Former employees who still type the brand share the string with current staff. The FEC field is not an HR file.

Repeat names are expected among 70,363 lines from 2,047 people. Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the carrier string.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $7,420,373, 70,363 contributions, 2,047 donors, top employer UNITED AIRLINES. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare AMERICAN AIRLINES on the industry index. Use occupation breakdowns for titles stored next to this employer.

High line volume is not a headcount

70,363 contribution lines from 2,047 donors totaling $7,420,373 can look like a workforce census. It is not. Repeat itemized gifts, payroll-deduction PAC-style patterns, and former employees who still type UNITED AIRLINES all inflate the line count. The packet does not publish how many of the 2,047 people were on the payroll in any given year.

AMERICAN AIRLINES is a separate carrier key. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION is a regulator employer, not airline staff. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and the carrier’s own committee PAC documents stay outside the $7,420,373 unless an individual receipt carries this employer string.

Use the donor table to inspect disclosed recipients. LobbyVault does not attach a route map or a labor contract to a large gift. Occupation pages show titles stored beside the carrier. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS air-transportation total.

Keep UNITED AIRLINES’s $7,420,373, 70,363 contributions, and 2,047 donors on this carrier string. AMERICAN AIRLINES stays on its own page. Unitemized gifts and the carrier PAC remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside the brand. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not a NAICS air-transportation total.

Questions

How much have UNITED AIRLINES-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $7,420,373 to the UNITED AIRLINES employer string, from 70,363 contributions and 2,047 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the carrier’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 United’s corporate political spending?

No. The $7,420,373 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to UNITED AIRLINES. 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 American Airlines employees?

No. AMERICAN AIRLINES is a separate employer string with its own page. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text UNITED AIRLINES. Staff who typed only a job title such as PILOT are in those other rows if stored that way. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed UNITED AIRLINES?

The rollup counts 2,047 donors and 70,363 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an employee headcount from the carrier. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.