AMERICAN AIRLINES — Federal Lobbying Profile

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 40 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

1,150

Filed by

Reported in-house

$105,913,000

Reported by firms

$59,225,400

These two are not added together. An organisation lobbying for itself reports its own spending, and the firms it retains report what they were paid; the rules ask the first to include the second, but filings do not always do so and a filing gives no way to tell. Each is shown as reported.

Reported lobbying by year

The larger of in-house and firm-reported each year, $ millions 2007 to 2026

Filings

1,000 filings, newest first. The 1,000 most recent of 1,150; pick a year for the rest.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	GEOFFREY P. GRAY	$20,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	CGCN GROUP, LLC	$80,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	THE DOERRER GROUP LLC	$40,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	WILLIAMS AND JENSEN, PLLC	$60,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	$50,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	THE SIMMONS & RUSSELL GROUP, LLC	$50,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.	$1,260,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	ELEVATE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, LLC	$60,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	EMPIRE CONSULTING GROUP	$70,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	PENN AVENUE PARTNERS	$180,000 reported

Filed by

Each firm that has reported for this client, and the client itself where it lobbies in-house, with the reports filed and the amounts they disclose.

Firm	Reports	Amount
AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. In-house	77	$105,913,000
PENN AVENUE PARTNERS	58	$10,140,000
VENABLE LLP	77	$8,240,000
SIGNAL GROUP CONSULTING, LLC	49	$3,550,000
EMPIRE CONSULTING GROUP	63	$3,195,000
THE SIMMONS & RUSSELL GROUP, LLC	50	$2,720,000
WEXLER \| WALKER, A UNIT OF HILL+KNOWLTON STRATEGIES, LLC	23	$2,600,000
LHD & ASSOCIATES, INC.	40	$2,590,000
SBL STRATEGIES, LLC	46	$2,311,000
AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD	36	$2,190,000
CHESAPEAKE ENTERPRISES	50	$1,894,375
THE DOERRER GROUP LLC	63	$1,850,000
THE NORMANDY GROUP, LLC	37	$1,840,000
ELEVATE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, LLC	28	$1,660,000
CGCN GROUP, LLC	27	$1,612,000
INVARIANT LLC	23	$1,540,000
THE OB-C GROUP, LLC	30	$1,480,000
ARENTFOX SCHIFF LLP	22	$1,150,000
BAKER DONELSON BEARMAN CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ	14	$1,120,000
THE CORMAC GROUP, LLC	23	$850,000
CARDINAL POINT PARTNERS	13	$760,000
GEOFFREY P. GRAY	37	$730,000
CASSIDY & ASSOCIATES, INC.	14	$650,000
THE INGRAM GROUP LLC	13	$610,000
FEDERAL STRATEGY GROUP	13	$580,000
DENNY MILLER ASSOCIATES	26	$520,000
WILLIAMS AND JENSEN, PLLC	11	$500,000
CAPITOL RESOURCES, LLC	7	$260,000
TSG ADVOCATES DC, LLC	6	$255,000
STARK STRATEGIC, LLC	8	$240,000
BALLARD PARTNERS	4	$240,000
BRENT S. FRANZEL	2	$240,000
D SQUARED TAX STRATEGIES, LLC	14	$220,000
CAPITOL STRATEGIES PARTNERS LLC	10	$190,000
BEN BARNES GROUP LP	6	$180,000
MR. WILLIAM GRIFFIN	28	$158,425
COVENANT GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, LLC	3	$150,000
TONIO BURGOS & ASSOCIATES, INC.	17	$110,000
HILL & KNOWLTON STRATEGIES, LLC	13	$79,600
COVINGTON & BURLING LLP	4	$20,000

Issues lobbied

How many report sections named each issue, counting the current version of each report.

Issue	Code	Mentions
Aviation/Airlines/Airports	AVI	955
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	273
Homeland Security	HOM	269
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	250
Transportation	TRA	149
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities	FIN	91
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace	LBR	89
Retirement	RET	62
Trade (domestic/foreign)	TRD	45
Energy/Nuclear	ENG	32
Clean Air and Water (quality)	CAW	20
Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)	TAR	20
Travel/Tourism	TOU	18
Environment/Superfund	ENV	17
Immigration	IMM	15

Bills named in its filings

Bill numbers found in the filers' descriptions, most often named first.

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 658	112th	55
H.R. 5376	117th	43
H.R. 2353	119th	37
H.R. 2997	115th	33
H.R. 915	111th	31
H.R. 2881	110th	25
S. 1405	115th	23
H.R. 3935	118th	21
H.R. 2200	111th	20
S. 1939	118th	19
H.R. 2577	114th	18
H.R. 3011	112th	18
H.R. 2594	112th	18
S. 223	112th	18
S. 1300	110th	18
H.R. 4441	114th	17
H.R. 2610	113th	17
S. 1838	118th	16
H.R. 3440	117th	16
H.R. 5855	112th	16
H.R. 659	118th	15
H.R. 4094	117th	15
H.R. 4156	113th	15
H.R. 3116	112th	15
S. 3261	110th	14

From reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Firms report what each client paid them; an organisation lobbying for itself reports its own expenses. Amounts count the current version of each report once.