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Commitments and Contingencies (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2021
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract] |
Firm Commitments and Options to Purchase Aircraft and Summary of Commitments | As of September 30, 2021, United had firm commitments and options to purchase aircraft from The Boeing Company ("Boeing") and Airbus S.A.S. ("Airbus") as presented in the table below:
|  |  |  | Scheduled Aircraft Deliveries
Aircraft Type |  | Number of Firm Commitments (a) |  | Last Three Months of 2021 |  | 2022 |  | 2023 |  | After 2023
Airbus A321XLR |  | 50 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 50 |
Airbus A321neo |  | 70 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 16 |  |  | 54 |
Airbus A350 |  | 45 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 45 |
Boeing 737 MAX |  | 371 |  |  | 4 |  |  | 48 |  |  | 114 |  |  | 205 |
Boeing 787 |  | 8 |  |  | 1 |  |  | 7 |  |  | — |  |  | — |
(a) United also has options and purchase rights for additional aircraft. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Summary of Commitments | The table below summarizes United's commitments as of September 30, 2021, which include aircraft and related spare engines, aircraft improvements and all non-aircraft capital commitments (in billions):
Last three months of 2021 |  | $ | 0.9 |
2022 |  | 5.3 |
2023 |  | 7.0 |
2024 |  | 4.8 |
2025 |  | 4.3 |
After 2025 |  | 12.2 |
|  | $ | 34.5 |
Based on these assumptions as of September 30, 2021, our estimated future payments through the end of the terms of our CPAs are presented in the table below (in billions):
Last three months of 2021 |  | $ | 0.6 |
2022 |  | 2.1 |
2023 |  | 2.0 |
2024 |  | 1.9 |
2025 |  | 1.6 |
After 2025 |  | 5.5 |
|  | $ | 13.7 |

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