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Commitments And Contingencies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Commitments And Contingencies [Abstract] |
Summary Of Movements In Prepayments On Flight Equipment | Movements in prepayments on flight equipment and capitalized interest during the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 were as follows:
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2015 |  |  | 2014
Prepayments on flight equipment and capitalized interest at beginning of period | $ | 3,486,514 |  |  | $ | 223,815
Prepayments made during the period |  | 747,541 |  |  |  | 320,396
ILFC Transaction |  | — |  |  |  | 3,176,322
Interest capitalized during the period |  | 79,230 | (a) |  |  | 80,328
Prepayments and capitalized interest applied to the purchase of flight equipment |  | (1,012,859) |  |  |  | (314,347)
Prepayments on flight equipment and capitalized interest at end of period | $ | 3,300,426 |  |  | $ | 3,486,514
| (a) |  | Includes an out of period adjustment of $16.9 million. See Note 2—Basis of presentation.
Unrecorded Contractual Commitments For The Purchase Of Flight Equipment | The following table presents our contractual commitments for the purchase of flight equipment as of December 31, 2015:
| 2016 |  | 2017 |  | 2018 |  | 2019 |  | 2020 |  | Thereafter |  | Total
Purchase obligations (a) | $ | 3,883,380 |  | $ | 5,647,627 |  | $ | 5,817,938 |  | $ | 4,484,003 |  | $ | 3,608,082 |  | $ | 3,017,180 |  | $ | 26,458,210
| (a) |  | Includes commitments to purchase 413 aircraft, 34 purchase and leaseback transactions and spare engine commitments.
Schedule Of Minimum Payments Under Lease Agreements | We have operating lease agreements with third parties for office space, company cars and office equipment. As of December 31, 2015, minimum payments under the lease agreements for office space were as follows:
| Future minimum lease payments
2016 | $ | 10,828
2017 |  | 13,908
2018 |  | 11,800
2019 |  | 9,657
2020 |  | 9,732
Thereafter |  | 65,253
| $ | 121,178

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of a lessee's leasing arrangements including: (1) the basis on which contingent rental payments are determined, (2) the existence and terms of renewal or purchase options and escalation clauses, (3) restrictions imposed by lease arrangements, such as those concerning dividends, additional debt, and further leasing, (4) rent holidays, rent concessions, or leasehold improvement incentives and unusual provisions or conditions. Disclosure may also include the specific period used to amortize material leasehold improvements made at the inception of the lease or during the lease term. Additionally, for operating leases having initial or remaining noncancelable lease terms in excess of one year: (a) future minimum rental payments required as of the date of the latest balance sheet presented, in the aggregate and for each of the five succeeding fiscal years, (b) the total of minimum rentals to be received in the future under noncancelable subleases as of the date of the latest balance sheet presented, and (c) for all operating leases, rental expense for each period for which an income statement is presented, with separate amounts for minimum rentals, contingent rentals, and sublease rentals. Rental payments under leases with terms of a month or less that were not renewed need not be included. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 840 -SubTopic 20 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6453985&loc=d3e41502-112717 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 840 -SubTopic 10 -Section 55 -Paragraph 40 -Subparagraph (Note 1,3) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6584154&loc=d3e38371-112697 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 840 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6452660&loc=d3e36991-112694 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 840 -SubTopic 20 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6453985&loc=d3e41499-112717 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 460 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 4 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6851643&loc=d3e12069-110248 + Details
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