Federal contractor · CHICAGO, IL
UNITED AIRLINES, INC.
UNITED AIRLINES, INC. received $11.9M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 21 awards (+24% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $66.7M. Its largest customer was USTRANSCOM ($11.9M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $11.9M
- New awards
- 21
- Sole-source
- 0.0%
- Single offer
- 0.0%
- UEI
- JD7QTHZX2CM7
- Parent company
- UNITED AIRLINES HOLDINGS, INC.
Company family
Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.
4 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $11.9M in FY2026 together.
- UNITED AIRLINES, INC.CHICAGO, IL · Family page$11.9M
- UNITED AIR LINES INCDENVER, CO$0
- UNITED AIR LINES, INC.CHICAGO, IL$0
- UNITED AIRLINES, INC.CHICAGO, IL$0
AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 20.7KFY2017
- 68.7KFY2018
- 3.3MFY2019
- 11.3MFY2020
- 17.1MFY2021
- 4.3MFY2022
- 5MFY2023
- 4MFY2024
- 9.6MFY2025
- 11.9MFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- USTRANSCOM$11.9M99.9%20 awards
- Department of State$15.3K0.1%1 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Transportation & logistics$11.9M99.9%
- Professional services$15.3K0.1%
Where the work was performed
- Abroad$11M92%
- Cook County, IL$312.3K2.6%
- Shawnee County, KS$308K2.6%
- Riverside County, CA$174.3K1.5%
- El Paso County, TX$149K1.2%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition0.0%US 39% · $0
- Sole-source awards0.0%US 30% · $0
- Single-offer competitions0.0%US 8.7% · $0
- 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· Riverside County, CA· Transportation & logistics· Feb 25, 2026 – Feb 25, 2026· HTC71126F1697
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.
UNITED AIRLINES, INC. received -$372.9K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2 actions (0 new awards). Its largest program was 20.901 · Payments for Essential Air Services (-$372.9K).
- Assistance · FY2026
- -$372.9K
- New awards
- 0
- Actions
- 2
- Since FY2021
- $2.8B
Assistance by fiscal year
- 2.8BFY2021
- 10.8MFY2022
- 15.6MFY2023
- 14.1MFY2024
- -1.4MFY2025
- -372.9KFY2026
By type
- Direct payments-$372.9K0.0%
Top programs
- 20.901 · Payments for Essential Air Services-$372.9K0.0%
Largest awards
- 20.901 · Payments for Essential Air Services· Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation· Direct payment for specified use· Oct 30, 2023 – Nov 13, 2025· 69A3452460456
- 20.901 · Payments for Essential Air Services· Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation· Direct payment for specified use· Oct 30, 2023 – Nov 13, 2025· 69A3452460423
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–FY2026.
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.
- TATONDUK OUTFITTERS LIMITED$22M−52% in FY2026FAIRBANKS, AK · 77% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveUSTRANSCOM · Nonscheduled air transportationUSTRANSCOM · Scheduled air transportation
- AIR GREENLAND A/S$19.4M+11% in FY2026NUUSSUAQ, DNK · 67% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveUSTRANSCOM · Nonscheduled air transportation
- AMERIJET INTERNATIONAL INC$28.2M−96% in FY2026MIAMI SPRINGS, FL · 78% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveUSTRANSCOM · Nonscheduled air transportationUSTRANSCOM · Scheduled 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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.
Across the company family of UNITED AIRLINES, INC. (4 recipients).
Matched organizations
- UNITED AIRLINES, INC.AI match · 100%
- Lobbying · 2025
- $5.8M
- 28 reports
- Lobbying · 2023–2026
- $20.8M
- $20.8M in its own reports
- PAC giving · 2026
- $313.5K
- 1 PAC
Lobbying by year
- 2023$9M20 reports
- 2024$3.6M20 reports
- 2025$5.8M28 reports
- 2026$2.4M14 reports
Top issues
- Aviation, aircraft and airlines82 reports
- Budget and appropriations50 reports
- Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code20 reports
- Financial institutions, investments and securities19 reports
- Transportation16 reports
- Agriculture11 reports
- Environment and Superfund6 reports
- Labor issues, antitrust and workplace4 reports
Who was contacted
- U.S. SENATE80 reports
- U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES67 reports
- Transportation - Dept of (DOT)21 reports
- White House Office10 reports
- Commerce - Dept of (DOC)5 reports
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)5 reports
- Treasury - Dept of5 reports
- State - Dept of (DOS)4 reports
- Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)1 reports
Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).
Lobbying firms hired
- The Duberstein Group Inc.$1.1M14 reports
- Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.$700K14 reports
- Mehlman Consulting, Inc.$700K14 reports
- Michael Best Strategies LLC$520K6 reports
- BALLARD PARTNERS$490K6 reports
- Alignment Government Strategies$410K14 reports
Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.
PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle
- Republican$182.5K58%
- Democratic$129K41%
- Other or none$2,0000.6%
PACs sponsored
- UNITED AIRLINES, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (UAPAC)$691K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.
Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.
Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.
Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.