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Debt (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2021
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Details of Pass Through Trusts | Certain details of the pass-through trusts with proceeds received from issuance of debt in 2021 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 |  | Total debt recorded as of June 30, 2021
February 2021 |  | B |  | $ | 600 |  |  |  |  | 4.88% |  | $ | 600 |  |  | $ | 600 |
Contractual Principal Payments under Long-Term Debt Agreements | The table below presents the Company's contractual principal payments (not including $600 million of unamortized debt discount, premiums and debt issuance costs) at June 30, 2021 under then-outstanding long-term debt agreements (in millions):
Last six months of 2021 |  | $ | 1,001 |
2022 |  | 2,967 |
2023 |  | 2,847 |
2024 |  | 3,908 |
2025 |  | 3,378 |
After 2025 |  | 20,683 |
|  | $ | 34,784 |

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