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Debt
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Debt Debt
Long-term Debt

Long-term debt balances, including obligations for finance leases, and associated interest rates and maturities as of December 31, 2021, were as follows:

December 31,
20212020
(in millions)
Senior secured revolving credit facility, due 2024$— $1,690 
Senior secured term loan facility with a rate of 1.85%, due 2026
2,619 2,619 
Senior notes with a rate of 5.375%, due 2025
500 500 
Senior notes with a rate of 5.125%, due 2026
— 1,500 
Senior notes with a rate of 4.875%, due 2027
600 600 
Senior notes with a rate of 5.750%, due 2028
500 500 
Senior notes with a rate of 3.750%, due 2029
800 800 
Senior notes with a rate of 4.875%, due 2030
1,000 1,000 
Senior notes with a rate of 4.000%, due 2031
1,100 1,100 
Senior notes with a rate of 3.625%, due 2032
1,500 — 
Finance lease liabilities with a weighted average rate of 5.88%, due 2022 to 2030
208 252 
Other debt of consolidated VIEs with a weighted average rate of 2.15%, due 2022 to 2028
26 19 
8,853 10,580 
Less: unamortized deferred financing costs and discount(87)(93)
Less: current maturities of long-term debt(1)
(54)(56)
$8,712 $10,431 
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(1)Represents current maturities of finance lease liabilities and, as of December 31, 2021, the outstanding borrowings under the revolving credit facility of a consolidated VIE.

Senior Notes

As part of our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we completed senior note financing transactions during 2020 and early 2021 in an effort to extend the maturities and reduce the interest rates of our outstanding debt, as well as to bolster liquidity and add to our available cash at that point in time.

In February 2021, we issued $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.625% Senior Notes due 2032 (the "2032 Senior Notes") and incurred $21 million of debt issuance costs. Interest on the 2032 Senior Notes is payable semi-annually in arrears on February 15 and August 15 of each year, beginning August 15, 2021. We used the net proceeds from the issuance, together with available cash, to redeem all $1.5 billion in aggregate principal amount of our outstanding 5.125% Senior Notes due 2026, plus accrued and unpaid interest. In connection with the redemption, we paid a redemption premium of $55 million and accelerated the recognition of the unamortized deferred financing costs related to the redeemed notes of $14 million, which were both included in loss on debt extinguishment in our consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021.

In December 2020, we issued $800 million aggregate principal amount of 3.750% Senior Notes due 2029 (the "2029 Senior Notes") and $1.1 billion aggregate principal amount of 4.000% Senior Notes due 2031 (the "2031 Senior Notes") and incurred $27 million of debt issuance costs. Interest on the 2029 Senior Notes and the 2031 Senior Notes is payable semi-annually in arrears on May 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning May 1, 2021. We used the net proceeds from the issuances, together with available cash, to redeem all $1.0 billion in aggregate principal amount of our outstanding 4.250% Senior Notes due 2024 and all $900 million in aggregate principal amount of our outstanding 4.625% Senior Notes due 2025, plus accrued and unpaid interest. In connection with these redemptions, we paid redemption premiums totaling $31 million and accelerated the recognition of unamortized deferred financing costs related to the redeemed notes of $17 million, which were both included in loss on debt extinguishments in our consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2020.

In April 2020, we issued $500 million aggregate principal amount of 5.375% Senior Notes due 2025 (the "2025 Senior Notes") and $500 million aggregate principal amount of 5.750% Senior Notes due 2028 (the "2028 Senior Notes") and incurred
$14 million of debt issuance costs. Interest on the 2025 Senior Notes and the 2028 Senior Notes is payable semi-annually in arrears on May 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning November 1, 2020.

In June 2019, we issued $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 4.875% Senior Notes due 2030 (the "2030 Senior Notes"). We used a portion of the net proceeds from the issuance to repay $500 million outstanding on our senior secured term loan facility (the "Term Loan") and to repay $225 million outstanding on the senior secured revolving credit facility (the "Revolving Credit Facility"). As a result of the repayment and simultaneous amendment of the Term Loan, we accelerated the recognition of $10 million of unamortized deferred financing costs and discount and fees, which were included in other non-operating income, net in our consolidated statement of operations during the year ended December 31, 2019.

The 2025 Senior Notes, the 4.875% Senior Notes due 2027, the 2028 Senior Notes, the 2029 Senior Notes, the 2030 Senior Notes, the 2031 Senior Notes and the 2032 Senior Notes are collectively referred to as the Senior Notes and are jointly and severally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by the Parent and substantially all of its direct and indirect wholly owned domestic restricted subsidiaries, other than Hilton Domestic Operating Company Inc. ("HOC"), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Parent and the issuer of all of the series of Senior Notes.

Senior Secured Credit Facilities

Our senior secured credit facilities consist of the $1.75 billion Revolving Credit Facility, of which $250 million is available in the form of letters of credit, and the Term Loan. The obligations of our senior secured credit facilities are unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by the Parent and substantially all of its direct and indirect wholly owned domestic restricted subsidiaries. During the year ended December 31, 2021, we fully repaid the $1,690 million outstanding debt balance on the Revolving Credit Facility, which we borrowed in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of December 31, 2021, we had $60 million of letters of credit outstanding on the Revolving Credit Facility, resulting in an available borrowing capacity of $1,690 million.

Other Debt of Consolidated VIEs

In August 2021, one of our consolidated VIEs borrowed 500 million JPY (equivalent to $4 million as of December 31, 2021) on its revolving credit facility, which has a maturity date of June 2022; refer to Note 5: "Consolidated Variable Interest Entities" for additional information on the revolving credit facilities of our consolidated VIEs. In December 2021, our two consolidated VIEs each borrowed 300 million JPY (totaling to an equivalent of $5 million as of December 31, 2021) with zero percent interest rates and maturity dates in November 2024 and November 2028.

Debt Maturities

The contractual maturities of our long-term debt as of December 31, 2021 were as follows:

Year(in millions)
2022$54 
202326 
202426 
2025523 
20262,660 
Thereafter5,564 
$8,853