Federal contractor · ATLANTA, GA
DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
DELTA AIR LINES, INC. received $8.9M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 38 awards (−61% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $398.4M. Its largest customer was USTRANSCOM ($8.4M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $8.9M
- New awards
- 38
- Sole-source
- 0.0%
- Single offer
- 0.0%
- UEI
- W14ZM8ZS2625
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 23.9MFY2017
- 49.3MFY2018
- 79.1MFY2019
- 101.6MFY2020
- 56.2MFY2021
- 32.5MFY2022
- 8.2MFY2023
- 15.8MFY2024
- 22.9MFY2025
- 8.9MFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- USTRANSCOM$8.4M94%36 awards
- Department of the Navy$524.8K5.9%2 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Transportation & logistics$8.4M94%
- Education & social services$524.8K5.9%
Where the work was performed
- Fulton County, GA$3.9M44%
- Abroad$2.3M26%
- 66$597.9K6.7%
- Orange County, FL$524.8K5.9%
- Prince George's County, MD$423.1K4.8%
- El Paso County, TX$353.6K4.0%
- Craven County, NC$330K3.7%
- Bell County, TX$157.5K1.8%
- San Diego County, CA$125.8K1.4%
- Outagamie County, WI$103.5K1.2%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition0.0%US 39% · -$451.9K
- Sole-source awards0.0%US 30% · $0
- Single-offer competitions0.0%US 8.8% · -$451.9K
- Urgency justifications0.0%US 5.1% · $0
A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.
Largest awards
- USTRANSCOM· Fulton County, GA· Transportation & logistics· May 18, 2026 – May 18, 2026· HTC71126F7295
- USTRANSCOM· Fulton County, GA· Transportation & logistics· May 18, 2026 – May 18, 2026· HTC71126F7320
- Department of the Navy· Orange County, FL· Education & social services· Feb 10, 2026 – Apr 22, 2026· N6134026F1007
Federal grants & assistance received
Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.
DELTA AIR LINES, INC. received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).
- Assistance · FY2026
- $0
- New awards
- 0
- Actions
- 0
- Since FY2021
- $3.1B
Assistance by fiscal year
- 3.1BFY2021
- -3.9MFY2025
Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2025.
Subawards
Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.
As a prime: who it pays · FY2026
No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.
As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026
- Sub-contracts: $27.9M (36 subawards)
- Sub-grants: $879.4K (2 subawards)
4 primes
- THE BOEING COMPANY$24.2M84%OKLAHOMA CITY, OK · 12 subawards
- BOEING COMPANY, THE$3.7M13%SAINT LOUIS, MO · 24 subawards
- LANSING, MI · 1 subaward
- NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS$379.4K1.3%ARLINGTON, TX · 1 subaward
By fiscal year
- FY2021: $0 paid out · $826.9K received
- FY2022: $0 paid out · $42.9M received
- FY2023: $0 paid out · $49.1M received
- FY2024: $0 paid out · $47.4M received
- FY2025: $0 paid out · $47M received
- FY2026: $0 paid out · $28.8M received
Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.
Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.
Teaming partners
Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.
Companies it pays
No subawards reported to other companies.
Primes that pay it
6 companies · $216.1M reported
- THE BOEING COMPANY$211.6MSAINT LOUIS, MO · 257 subawards · Support activities for air transportation
- ATLANTA, GA · 2 subawards · Architectural, engineering, and related services
- WOOD DALE, IL · 5 subawards · Support activities for air transportation
Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.
Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.
Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.
Competitors
Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.
Compared on 5 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC$31.2M+37% in FY2026FORT WORTH, TX · 65% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveUSTRANSCOM · Scheduled air transportationUSTRANSCOM · Nonscheduled air transportation
- AMERIJET INTERNATIONAL INC$28.2M−96% in FY2026MIAMI SPRINGS, FL · 58% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveUSTRANSCOM · Nonscheduled air transportationUSTRANSCOM · Scheduled air transportation
- WHEELS UP PARTNERS LLC$26.2M−63% in FY2026CHAMBLEE, GA · 2 entities · 55% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveUSTRANSCOM · Nonscheduled air transportation
Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.
Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.
Lobbying and PAC activity
Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.
Matched organizations
- Delta Air Lines, Inc.AI match · 100%
- DELTA AIRLINESAI match · 100%
- Lobbying · 2025
- $6M
- 60 reports
- Lobbying · 2023–2026
- $19.9M
- $19.9M in its own reports
- PAC giving · 2026
- $685.5K
- 1 PAC
Lobbying by year
- 2023$5.1M55 reports
- 2024$5.6M60 reports
- 2025$6M60 reports
- 2026$3.2M32 reports
Top issues
- Aviation, aircraft and airlines156 reports
- Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code57 reports
- Trade (domestic and foreign)42 reports
- Energy and nuclear37 reports
- Fuel, gas and oil36 reports
- Budget and appropriations21 reports
- Consumer issues, safety and products17 reports
- Transportation15 reports
Who was contacted
- U.S. SENATE174 reports
- U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES172 reports
- Transportation - Dept of (DOT)48 reports
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)34 reports
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)28 reports
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)24 reports
- Treasury - Dept of21 reports
- Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)20 reports
- State - Dept of (DOS)18 reports
- Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)17 reports
Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).
Lobbying firms hired
- Miller Strategies, LLC$1.3M14 reports
- Avoq, LLC$1.2M14 reports
- Fierce Government Relations$1.1M14 reports
- RESOLUTION PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC$1.1M14 reports
- Capitol Counsel LLC$780K14 reports
- AxAdvocacy Government Relations$740K13 reports
- Navigators Global LLC (Formerly DC Navigators, LLC)$730K13 reports
- TEAM HALLAHAN LLC$700K14 reports
18 firms in all. Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.
PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle
- Republican$446.5K65%
- Democratic$227.5K33%
- Other or none$11.5K1.7%
PACs sponsored
- DELTA AIR LINES PAC$1.3M raised this cycle
PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.
Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.
Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.
Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.
Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.