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Debt Instrument, Loan Per Agreement Through Payroll Support Program Of CARES Act

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Debt Instrument, Required Payment Per Year, Percentage

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Letters Of Credit Outstanding That Do Not Reduce Availability Under Revolving Facilities, Amount

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Number Of Aircraft To Secure Loan

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Variable Rate, LIBOR Floor

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Amount of increase in additional paid in capital (APIC) resulting from the issuance of warrants. Includes allocation of proceeds of debt securities issued with detachable stock purchase warrants.

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Number of securities into which the class of warrant or right may be converted. For example, but not limited to, 500,000 warrants may be converted into 1,000,000 shares.

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Percentage points added to the reference rate to compute the variable rate on the debt instrument.

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Amount, before unamortized (discount) premium and debt issuance costs, of long-term debt. Includes, but is not limited to, notes payable, bonds payable, commercial loans, mortgage loans, convertible debt, subordinated debt and other types of debt.

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Face (par) amount of debt instrument at time of issuance.

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Contractual interest rate for funds borrowed, under the debt agreement.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Period of time between issuance and maturity of debt instrument, in PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Amount of borrowing capacity currently available under the credit facility (current borrowing capacity less the amount of borrowings outstanding).

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Debt - Narrative (Details) shares in Millions		1 Months Ended			3 Months Ended			6 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
Debt - Narrative (Details) shares in Millions	Oct. 13, 2020 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2020 USD ($) shares	Apr. 30, 2020 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2020 USD ($) shares	Jun. 30, 2020 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2020 USD ($) shares	Sep. 30, 2020 USD ($) aircraft shares	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
CARES Act warrant issuance					$ 14,000,000	$ 100,000,000
Proceeds from issuance of debt									$ 22,481,000,000	$ 500,000,000
Outstanding letters of credit that reduce availability under revolvers		$ 300,000,000			300,000,000			$ 300,000,000	300,000,000
Outstanding letters of credit that do not affect availability of revolvers		$ 300,000,000			300,000,000			$ 300,000,000	300,000,000
Additional Paid-In Capital
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
CARES Act warrant issuance					$ 14,000,000	100,000,000			$ 114,000,000
Delta Common Stock Warrants
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Number shares called by warrants (in shares) \| shares		6.7			6.7			6.7	6.7
Revolving Credit Facility
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Proceeds from revolving credit facilities							$ 3,000,000,000.0
Repayments of revolving credit facilities					$ 400,000,000
Undrawn credit facilities		$ 25,000,000			$ 25,000,000			$ 25,000,000	$ 25,000,000
Revolving Credit Facility \| Subsequent event
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Repayments of revolving credit facilities	$ 2,600,000,000
Undrawn credit facilities	$ 2,600,000,000
2020 Unsecured Notes \| Unsecured Debt
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument amount						$ 1,300,000,000
Interest rate per annum (percent)						7.375%
Unsecured CARES Act Payroll Support Program Loan \| Unsecured Debt
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Interest rate per annum (percent)		1.00%			1.00%			1.00%	1.00%
Unsecured loan per agreement through payroll support program, CARES Act		$ 1,600,000,000			$ 1,600,000,000			$ 1,600,000,000	$ 1,600,000,000
Relative fair value basis		1,500,000,000			1,500,000,000			$ 1,500,000,000	1,500,000,000
Debt instrument term								10 years
Aggregate principal amount		1,648,000,000			1,648,000,000			$ 1,648,000,000	1,648,000,000		$ 0
SkyMiles Notes due 2025 \| Secured Debt
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument amount		$ 2,500,000,000			$ 2,500,000,000			$ 2,500,000,000	$ 2,500,000,000
Interest rate per annum (percent)		450.00%			450.00%			450.00%	450.00%
SkyMiles Notes due 2028 \| Secured Debt
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument amount		$ 3,500,000,000			$ 3,500,000,000			$ 3,500,000,000	$ 3,500,000,000
Interest rate per annum (percent)		4.75%			4.75%			4.75%	4.75%
SkyMiles Term Loan \| Secured Debt
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument amount		$ 3,000,000,000.0			$ 3,000,000,000.0			$ 3,000,000,000.0	$ 3,000,000,000.0
Interest rate per annum (percent)		4.75%			4.75%			4.75%	4.75%
LIBOR minimum per annum (percent)		1.00%
Aggregate principal amount		$ 3,000,000,000			$ 3,000,000,000			$ 3,000,000,000	$ 3,000,000,000		0
SkyMiles Term Loan \| Secured Debt \| LIBOR
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Margin on rate (percent)		3.75%
2020 Senior Secured Notes \| Secured Debt
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument amount						$ 3,500,000,000
Interest rate per annum (percent)		7.00%			7.00%	7.00%		7.00%	7.00%
Aggregate principal amount		$ 3,500,000,000			$ 3,500,000,000			$ 3,500,000,000	$ 3,500,000,000		0
2020 Term Loan \| Secured Debt
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument amount						$ 1,500,000,000
Interest rate per annum (percent)		5.75%			5.75%			5.75%	5.75%
Required payments per year (percent)						1.00%
Aggregate principal amount		$ 1,496,000,000			$ 1,496,000,000			$ 1,496,000,000	$ 1,496,000,000		0
2018 Revolving Credit Facility \| Revolving Credit Facility
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Interest rate per annum (percent)		3.75%			3.75%			3.75%	3.75%
Revolving credit subject to extended maturity						$ 1,300,000,000
Aggregate principal amount		$ 2,350,000,000			$ 2,350,000,000			$ 2,350,000,000	$ 2,350,000,000		0
2020 Secured Term Loan Facility \| Secured Term Loan
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument amount			$ 3,000,000,000.0	$ 2,700,000,000			$ 2,700,000,000
Debt instrument term							364 days
Pass Through Certificates Series 2020-1 \| Secured Debt
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument amount		1,135,000,000			1,135,000,000			1,135,000,000	$ 1,135,000,000
Proceeds from issuance of debt			$ 135,000,000	$ 1,000,000,000.0
Number of aircraft to secure debt \| aircraft									33
Pass Through Certificates 2019-1 Class B \| Secured Debt
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Interest rate per annum (percent)						8.00%
Proceeds from issuance of debt						$ 108,000,000
NYTDC Special Facilities Revenue Bonds, Series 2020 \| Bonds
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Proceeds from issuance of debt					1,500,000,000
Aggregate principal amount		1,511,000,000			1,511,000,000			1,511,000,000	$ 1,511,000,000		$ 0
Credit facilities and SkyMiles financing agreements
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Minimum liquidity covenant		2,000,000,000.0			2,000,000,000.0			2,000,000,000.0	2,000,000,000.0
SkyMiles program
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Aggregate limit on sale of pre-paid miles covenant		$ 550,000,000			550,000,000			$ 550,000,000	$ 550,000,000
SkyMiles program \| Secured Debt
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Proceeds from issuance of debt					$ 9,000,000,000.0