United Air Lines, Inc., (NYSE: UAL) is a major airline based in the United States and one of the world's largest airlines with 48,000 employees and 359 aircraft. It is a subsidiary of United Continental Holdings, Inc. formerly, UAL Corporation, with corporate offices in Chicago. United's largest hub is Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. United also has hubs in Washington Dulles International Airport, Denver International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport and Narita International Airport near Tokyo. United is a founding member of the Star Alliance, the largest airline alliance in the world, and offers connections to over 1,000 destinations in over 170 countries worldwide.
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Campaign Finance
$6,493,981 GivenFigures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:
- contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
- only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
- contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
- corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
- organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.
For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.
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Lobbying
$35,205,732 SpentFigures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.
For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.
Lobbying on Behalf of United Airlines
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Firm Hired Amount United Airlines $31,248,732 -
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Aviation, Airlines & Airports,
- Transportation,
- Fed Budget & Appropriations,
- Labor, Antitrust & Workplace,
- Taxes,
- Retirement,
- Energy & Nuclear Power,
- Homeland Security,
- Environment & Superfund,
- Government Issues
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Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title H.R.658 FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011 S.223 FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act H.R.915 FAA Reauthorization Act of 2009 H.R.1586 FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act S.1451 FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act H.R.831 H.R.2454 American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009 H.R.2881 FAA Reauthorization Act of 2007 S.1300 Aviation Investment and Modernization Act of 2007 S.1209
Regulations
Mentioned in 4116 dockets; Submitted to 182 docketsAll data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.
Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.
Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.
Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.
The tables show occurrences of "United Airlines" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.
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Documents Submitted by the Organization
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Mentions in Document Text
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EPA Violations
3 Enforcement ActionsFigures are based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s ECHO website. The ECHO database contains federal and state environmental enforcement actions. Data displayed here includes only those actions that began after 2000 and resulted in fines of over $1 million.
Actions where the company was the sole defendant are listed first. Actions where the company is one of multiple defendants are listed subsequently.
For more information see our EPA methodology page.
| Case Name | Defendant | Date | Locations | Amount |
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| Hawaii D.O.T. (Storm Sewer Permits) | United Airlines (+8 others) | 2006 | Honolulu, Hi; Kahului, ... | $61,722,500 |
| Peak Oil Superfund Site (De Minimis Aoc) | United Air Lines, Inc. (+310 others) | 2002 | Tampa, Fl | $2,421,038 |
| Beede Waste Oil Superfund Site | United Airlines Inc (+493 others) | 2001 | Plaistow, Nh | $1,662,814 |
Advisory Committees
52 people on 16 committeesData is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.
The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.
Table shows employees of "United Airlines" that sat on federal advisory committees.
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