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Financing Activities
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Fair Value Disclosures [Abstract]  
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Convertible Notes due 2025

On May 1, 2020, the Company completed the public offering of $2.3 billion aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes (the "Convertible Notes"). The Convertible Notes bear interest at a rate of 1.25 percent and will mature on May 1, 2025. Interest on the notes is payable semi-annually in arrears.

Holders may convert their Convertible Notes at their option on or after February 1, 2025, and prior to the close of business on April 29, 2025, as stated in the offering documents. The Company has elected to settle conversions in cash. The initial conversion rate was 25.9909 shares of common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes (equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $38.48 per share of common stock). However, based on the Company's most recent cash dividends declared in February 2025, the bond conversion rate changed, and was 27.5005 as of March 31, 2025. The Company repurchased $689 million in principal of its Convertible Notes during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022, and the net carrying amount and principal amount of the Convertible Notes was $1.6 billion as of March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024. There were no partial extinguishments of debt during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. An immaterial amount of Convertible Note conversions were initiated during the first quarter of 2025. The Convertible Notes will settle in the second quarter of 2025. As a result, the balance as of March 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, is classified as Current maturities of long-term debt in the accompanying unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet.

The Company recognized interest expense associated with the Convertible Notes as follows:
Three months ended March 31,
(in millions)20252024
Non-cash amortization of debt issuance costs$3 $3 
Contractual coupon interest5 5 
Total interest expense$8 $8 

The unamortized debt issuance costs are being recognized as non-cash interest expense based on the 5-year term of the notes, through May 1, 2025, less amounts that were or will be required to be accelerated immediately upon conversion or repurchases. The Company had no changes to contingencies with regards to the Convertible Notes during the three months ended March 31, 2025. The effective interest rate associated with the Convertible Notes was approximately 1.9 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2025.
Payroll Support Program Loan due 2030

During 2020 and 2021, the Company entered into definitive documentation with the United States Department of the Treasury ("Treasury") with respect to payroll funding support ("Payroll Support") pursuant to three separate Payroll Support programs: the "PSP1 Payroll Support Program" in April 2020 under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ("CARES Act"); the "PSP2 Payroll Support Program” in January 2021 under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021; and the "PSP3 Payroll Support Program" in April 2021 under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

As consideration for its receipt of funding under each of these Payroll Support programs, the Company issued promissory notes in favor of Treasury (each initially classified as a component of Long-term debt less current maturities in the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet). The note associated with the PSP1 Payroll Support Program is due in April 2030. The notes associated with the PSP2 and PSP3 Payroll Support Programs are due in January and April 2031, respectively.
On the day after the fifth anniversary of each note, the interest rate is scheduled to change to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate plus two percent. During first quarter 2025, the Company made the decision to prepay the first Payroll Support Program Loan in advance of the fifth anniversary date of April 20, 2025. As a result, the balance as of March 31, 2025, is classified as Current maturities of long-term debt in the accompanying unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet.

On April 17, 2025, the Company made an early prepayment in full of this loan of $976 million, utilizing available cash on hand.

Revolving Credit Facility

The Company has access to $1.0 billion under its amended and restated revolving credit facility (the "Amended Credit Agreement"), which expires in August 2028. For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, there were no amounts outstanding under the Amended Credit Agreement.

Sale-Leaseback

As more fully described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, in fourth quarter 2024 the Company entered into an agreement with UMB Bank, N.A. ("UMB Bank") involving the sale of 36 of the Company’s -800 aircraft that qualified as sale-leaseback arrangements under applicable accounting guidance. In first quarter 2025, the Company completed the agreement through the sale of one additional -800 aircraft to UMB Bank for $24 million, and then immediately leased the aircraft back for approximately three years. This resulted in a recognized gain of $3 million in first quarter 2025, reflected within Other operating expenses, net in the accompanying unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Loss.

Repurchase of Common Stock

Under an accelerated share repurchase program entered into by the Company with third-party financial institutions in first quarter 2025 (the "First Quarter 2025 ASR Program"), the Company paid $750 million and received an initial delivery of 19,867,550 shares during February 2025, representing an estimated 80 percent of the shares to be purchased by the Company under the First Quarter 2025 ASR Program. This share amount was based on the $30.20 closing price of the Company's common stock on February 19, 2025. Final settlement of the First Quarter 2025 ASR Program occurred in April 2025 and was based on a discount to the volume-weighted average price per share of the Company's common stock during a calculation period completed in April 2025. Upon settlement, the third-party financial institutions delivered 4,242,267 additional shares of the Company’s common stock to the Company. Upon completion of the First Quarter 2025 ASR Program in April 2025, the average purchase price per share for the 24,109,817 shares repurchased was $31.11. Additionally, in January 2025, a third-party financial institution delivered 1,010,663 additional shares of the Company's common stock to the Company upon settlement of an accelerated share repurchase program entered into by the Company with the third-party financial institution in fourth quarter 2024 (the "Fourth Quarter 2024 ASR Program"). Upon completion of the Fourth Quarter 2024 ASR Program in January 2025, the average purchase price per share for the 7,806,450 shares repurchased under the program was $32.02.