DELTA AIR LINES

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.

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.