American Airlines Inc
Lobbying group · Jul 2025 – Sep 2026
American Airlines Inc spent $4.9M lobbying the federal government (Jul 2025 – Sep 2026), mostly on aviation & airlines, finance & securities, taxes. It used 19 lobbyists, including people who worked for 6 members of Congress.
- Spent on lobbying
- $4.9M
- Lobbyists
- 19
- Bills lobbied
- 12
- Issues
- 10
Spending by quarter
- 2025 Q3$1.2M
- 2025 Q4$1.2M
- 2026 Q1$1.2M
- 2026 Q2$1.3M
Issues lobbied
- Aviation & airlines
- Finance & securities
- Taxes
- Homeland security
- Transportation
- Tariffs
- Budget & spending
- Trade
- Environment
- Labor & antitrust
Bills lobbied on
- H.R. 2353: Safer Skies Act of 202519 reports
- S. 2503: ROTOR Act10 reports
- S. 1582: Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act8 reports
- H.R. 7613: ALERT Act8 reports
- S. 10457 reports
- H.R. 1: One Big Beautiful Bill Act4 reports
- H.R. 4552: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act…2 reports
- H.R. 6938: Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment…2 reports
- H.R. 4213: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20262 reports
- S. 36222 reports
- H.R. 7089: PARK Act2 reports
- H.R. 6222: ROTOR Act2 reports
Lobbying firms hired
- American Airlines, Inc.$4.9M
- Penn Avenue Partners$800K
- Venable LLP$330K
- Cgcn Group, LLC$320K
- Empire Consulting Group$280K
- Cassidy & Associates, Inc.$250K
- The Simmons & Russell Group, LLC$240K
- Williams And Jensen, Pllc$240K
- Elevate Government Affairs, LLC$240K
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld$200K
- Chesapeake Enterprises$190K
- Tsg Advocates Dc, LLC$180K
- The Doerrer Group LLC$160K
- Covenant Government Affairs, LLC$100K
- Geoffrey P. Gray$80K
Lobbyists who worked in Congress
- Paul Sass
Staff Director, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Deputy Staff Director, House Committee on Small…Sam Graves (R-MO) - Jerr Rosenbaum
Legislative Director, Sen. John Cornyn; Chief of Staff, Rep. Robert Hurt; Chief of Staff, Rep. Jack Kingston; Chief of…John Cornyn (R-TX) - Christina Mcgarry David
Legislative Assistant / Scheduler, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart; Intern, Rep. Doc HastingsMario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) - Daniel Ziegler
Executive Director, Republican Study Committee; Legislative Director for Rep Doug Lamborn, Policy Director; Speaker…Mike Johnson (R-LA) - Joshua Fendrick
Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, and Legislative Aide, Sen. Gary C. Peters; Economic Policy Adviser, Rep…Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) - Alexander Simpson
Legislative Correspondent, Rep Chris Van Hollen, Senior Counsel, US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and…Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
Agencies contacted
- House Of Representatives · 168
- Senate · 153
- Transportation, Dept of (Dot) · 28
- White House Office · 12
- State, Dept of (Dos) · 10
- Federal Aviation Administration (Faa) · 8
Related
Filings
- 2026 Q3 report$40K
- 2026 Q3 report$50K
- 2026 Q2 report$45K
- 2026 Q2 report$50K
- 2026 Q2 report$60K
From Lobbying Disclosure Act reports filed with the Senate and House.
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Capitol Receipts, “American Airlines Inc: Lobbying Spending, Issues & Bills,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/lobbying/camericanairlines/american-airlines-inc (accessed 2026-10-16).