UNITED AIRLINES

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.

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.