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Debt (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2020
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Details of Pass Through Trusts | Certain details of the pass-through trusts with proceeds received from issuance of debt in 2020 are as follows (in millions, except stated interest rate):
EETC Issuance Date |  | Class |  | Face Amount |  | Stated interest rate |  | Total proceeds received from issuance of debt during 2020 |  | Total debt recorded as of June 30, 2020
September 2019 |  | AA |  | $ | 702 |  |  | 2.70% |  | $ | 189 |  |  | $ | 702 |
September 2019 |  | A |  | 287 |  |  | 2.90% |  | 77 |  |  | 287 |
September 2019 |  | B |  | 232 |  |  | 3.50% |  | 62 |  |  | 232 |
|  |  |  | $ | 1,221 |  |  |  |  | $ | 328 |  |  | $ | 1,221 |
Contractual Principal Payments under Long-Term Debt Agreements | The table below presents the Company's contractual principal payments (not including debt discount or debt issuance costs and any debt entered into after the balance sheet date) at June 30, 2020 under then-outstanding long-term debt agreements (in millions):
Last six months of 2020 |  | $ | 898 |
2021 |  | 4,298 |
2022 |  | 1,807 |
2023 |  | 857 |
2024 |  | 3,164 |
After 2024 |  | 7,934 |
|  | $ | 18,958 |

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