American Airlines and the 2010 FEC election cycle

American Airlines crossed with 2010

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — American Airlines and 2010 — sum to $255,495. 413 itemized contributions and 98 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the American Airlines hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Ninety-eight donors and 413 lines in 2010 sit under the two-word carrier brand. AMR-era legal names and later merger labels stay on their own keys if filers used them. Federal aviation contracts on USAspending are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. AMR, AMERICAN AIRLINES INC, AA, US AIRWAYS, and generic PILOT or FLIGHT ATTENDANT occupation strings are other keys if stored separately.

4.0% of the American Airlines roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $6,427,635 ($6.4 million). The 2010 slice of $255,495 is about 4.0% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.0%. Treating 2010 as the American Airlines FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $6,427,635 as the denominator for the 4.0% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2010 from being folded silently into $6,427,635.

413 contributions from 98 donors

Dividing $255,495 by 413 contributions yields about $619 per itemized gift. Dividing by 98 donors yields about $2,607 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 4.2. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

98 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for American Airlines 2010 holds the rows.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. American Airlines is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter and American Airlines to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $255,495 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 413 contributions, the 98 unique donors, and the 4.0% share of $6,427,635.

Limits of the American Airlines × 2010 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $255,495. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not an air-transportation NAICS total and not an American Airlines PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 98 donors, and 413 contributions. AMR, AMERICAN AIRLINES INC, AA, US AIRWAYS, and generic PILOT or FLIGHT ATTENDANT occupation strings are other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing American Airlines and 2010 together

Start with $255,495, then American Airlines 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: American Airlines, 2010, $255,495, 413 contributions, 98 donors, 4.0% of $6,427,635, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 4.0% share, the 98-donor count, and the $619 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did American Airlines donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $255,495 in itemized individual contributions for the American Airlines grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 413 contributions and 98 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $6,427,635 all-cycle figure.

What share of American Airlines FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $6,427,635. The 2010 cell of $255,495 is about 4.0% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.0% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the American Airlines hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this American Airlines’s PAC or an official account?

No. $255,495 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to American Airlines. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not an air-transportation NAICS total and not an American Airlines PAC.

Where is the overlay for the American Airlines 2010 join?

Open American Airlines 2010 for the cycle overlay, American Airlines for the grouping hub, and the 2010 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.