United Airlines and the 2010 FEC election cycle

United Airlines is one axis; 2010 is the other

An industry-cycle page is not a restatement of United Airlines and not a restatement of 2010. It is the cell where they meet: $145,621, 229 contributions, 107 donors. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle are the source note.

On the employer side, United Airlines is airline employer text. On the cycle side, 2010 is a two-year FEC window, not a single Election Day. Gifts dated in either year of that window sit in $145,621.

Leaving either axis off the citation misstates the record. $7,420,373 is the lifetime United Airlines bucket. The 2010 hub is every grouping that year. The join is $145,621.

2010 is not the whole United Airlines story

United Airlines across all cycles is $7,420,373. United Airlines in 2010 is $145,621 — about 2.0%. The gap is $7,274,752. Closing that gap would require other cycle joins, which this packet does not list.

A reader who only opens the 2010 overlay still sees $145,621 for this string, not $7,420,373. A reader who only opens the industry hub still needs the year filter to recover $145,621. 2010 holds $145,621 of $7,420,373 for this string — about 2.0%. Other cycles hold $7,274,752 (98.0%). Folding those other cycles into a 2010 citation would misstate the record by $7,274,752.

What 107 unique donors are not

107 unique donors are not a census of United Airlines. They are the identities attached to 229 itemized rows that summed to $145,621. Mean gift $636; mean per donor $1,361; about 2.1 rows each.

Household reuse of a workplace string is common on FEC forms. That inflates neither $7,420,373 nor $145,621 with “extra companies”; it can inflate donor counts relative to a strict employee roster that this table does not have. 229 itemized contributions from 107 donors produced the cell. Unique donors are contributor keys, not employees counted by HR. This file does not invent names for those 107 identities.

How FEC cycle 2010 works on this join

Cycle 2010 is the second key in the join. Combined with UNITED AIRLINES, it produces $145,621. Combined with nothing, it is the year hub. Combined with a different string, it is a different tie.

Itemized receipts in either year of the window are in scope. Unitemized receipts are not. Independent expenditures are not. Those exclusions apply regardless of United Airlines. The 2010 hub without United Airlines is a different page. The United Airlines hub without 2010 is a different page. Only the overlap is $145,621.

Outside $145,621: PACs, unitemized, awards

Outside $145,621: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, PAC spending, and any federal award table. Inside $145,621: itemized individual receipts matching UNITED AIRLINES in cycle 2010.

The page is airline employer text, not a United Airlines PAC, an air-transport NAICS rollup, or United Continental as a sibling string. Naming those exclusions keeps the join from being read as a company political budget. Self-reported employer text splits across spellings. UNITED AIRLINES is the key used here. Related titles and legal names are other keys and are not added into $145,621 or $7,420,373.

Snapshot versus live overlay

JSON copy is written once from a packet. Hubs can refresh. If United Airlines 2010 on the site shows a different total than $145,621, use the live overlay and FEC.gov. The canonical path for this explanation is the ties URL in the packet.

The body facts remain: UNITED AIRLINES × 2010 = $145,621, 229 contributions, 107 donors, 2.0% of $7,420,373. No other dollars are authorized. Use All FEC ties to find other two-dimension pages. Use United Airlines 2010 for rows. This prose stays inside packet facts: $145,621, 229, 107, 2.0% of $7,420,373. Restating the join without new numbers: United Airlines in 2010 is $145,621 from 229 itemized individual contributions and 107 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $7,420,373 across cycles, so 2010 is about 2.0% and other windows hold $7,274,752 (98.0%). The grouping is airline employer text, not a United Airlines PAC, an air-transport NAICS rollup, or United Continental as a sibling string. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $636; mean per donor about $1,361; about 2.1 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2010 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $145,621.

Questions

How much did United Airlines donors give in 2010?

$145,621 is the itemized-individual total for UNITED AIRLINES in 2010. Volume: 229 contributions, 107 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $145,621, 229 contributions, and 107 donors in the United Airlines × 2010 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,420,373.

What share of United Airlines FEC money is 2010?

2010 holds $145,621 of the $7,420,373 stored for United Airlines, roughly 2.0%. The leftover $7,274,752 is other windows on the United Airlines hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $145,621, 229 contributions, and 107 donors in the United Airlines × 2010 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,420,373.

Does this include only United Airlines employees?

The grouping is airline employer text, not a verified roster. 229 itemized lines from 107 donors produced $145,621 in 2010. Employment status is not a field in this aggregate. FEC.gov is the source for $145,621, 229 contributions, and 107 donors in the United Airlines × 2010 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,420,373.

Where is the overlay for the United Airlines 2010 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: United Airlines 2010, United Airlines, 2010 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $145,621 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $145,621, 229 contributions, and 107 donors in the United Airlines × 2010 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,420,373.