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Indebtedness and Leases
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2013
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Indebtedness
Indebtedness and Leases
Long-term debt classified as not subject to compromise consisted of (in millions):
 
June 30, 2013
 
December 31, 2012
Secured variable and fixed rate indebtedness due through 2023 (effective rates from 1.00%-13.00% at June 30, 2013)
$
2,925

 
$
3,297

Enhanced equipment trust certificates (EETC) due through 2025 (rates from 4.00%-10.375% at June 30, 2013)
2,308

 
1,741

6.00%-8.50% special facility revenue bonds due through 2031
1,314

 
1,313

7.50% senior secured notes due 2016
1,000

 
1,000

Senior secured credit facility due 2019 (rate of 4.75% at June 30, 2013)
1,045

 

AAdvantage Miles advance purchase (net of discount of $46 million) (effective rate 8.3%)
693

 
772

 
9,285

 
8,123

Less current maturities
1,298

 
1,388

Long-term debt, less current maturities
$
7,987

 
$
6,735


The financings listed in the table above are considered not subject to compromise. For information regarding the liabilities subject to compromise, see Note 1 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
The Company’s future long-term debt and operating lease payments have changed as its ordered aircraft are delivered and such deliveries have been financed. As of June 30, 2013, maturities of long-term debt (including sinking fund requirements) for the next five years are:
Years Ending December 31
(in millions)
 
Principal Not Subject
to Compromise
 
Principal Subject
to Compromise
 
Total Principal
Amount
Remainder of 2013
 
$
867

 
$
174

 
$
1,041

2014
 
897

 
610

 
1,507

2015
 
796

 
4

 
800

2016
 
1,790

 
64

 
1,854

2017
 
530

 
28

 
558


Principal Not Subject to Compromise and Subject to Compromise includes payments not made due to the Chapter 11 Cases of $451 million and $154 million, respectively.
Future minimum lease payments required under operating leases that have initial or remaining non-cancelable lease terms in excess of a year as of June 30, 2013, were: remainder of 2013 – $579 million, 2014 – $1.1 billion, 2015 – $1.0 billion, 2016 – $947 million, 2017 – $903 million, and 2018 and beyond – $5.7 billion. As of June 30, 2013, $95 million and $302 million are included on the accompanying balance sheet in Liabilities Subject to Compromise and Accrued liabilities and other liabilities and deferred credits, respectively, relating to rent expense being recorded in advance of future operating lease payments.
As of June 30, 2013, AMR had issued guarantees covering approximately $1.5 billion of American’s tax-exempt bond debt (and interest thereon) and $5.1 billion of American’s secured debt (and interest thereon). American had issued guarantees covering approximately $842 million of AMR’s unsecured debt (and interest thereon).

Financing Transactions

On March 12, 2013, American closed its private offering of two tranches of enhanced equipment trust certificates (the Series 2013-1A/B EETCs) in the aggregate face amount of $664 million. The Series 2013-1A/B EETCs are comprised of a senior tranche of Class A Certificates with an interest rate of 4.00% per annum and a final expected distribution date of July 15, 2025, and a junior tranche of Class B Certificates with an interest rate of 5.625% per annum and a final expected distribution date of January 15, 2021. The Series 2013-1A/B EETCs represent an interest in the assets of two separate pass through trusts, each of which hold equipment notes issued or expected to be issued by American. Interest on the issued and outstanding equipment notes will be payable semiannually on January 15 and July 15 of each year, commencing on July 15, 2013, and principal on such equipment notes is scheduled for payment on January 15 and July 15 of certain years, commencing on January 15, 2014. As of June 30, 2013, the equipment notes are secured by eight currently owned Boeing 737-823 aircraft, one currently owned Boeing 777-223ER aircraft, and three currently owned Boeing 777-323ER aircraft and are expected to be secured by one new Boeing 777-323ER aircraft currently scheduled for delivery to American during July 2013. The certificates were offered in the U.S. to qualified institutional buyers, as defined in, and in reliance on, Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act).

On June 5, 2013, American closed its private offering of Class C enhanced equipment trust certificates (the Series 2013-1C EETCs) in the aggregate face amount of $120 million. The Series 2013-1C EETCs generally rank junior to the Series 2013-1A/B EETCs. The Series 2013-1C EETCs were issued with an interest rate of 6.125% per annum and a final expected distribution date of July 15, 2018. The 2013-1C EETCs represent an interest in the assets of a separate pass through trust, which will hold certain equipment notes issued or expected to be issued by American. The Series 2013-1C EETCs are secured by the same aircraft securing the Series 2013-1A/B EETCs. The certificates were offered in the U.S. to qualified institutional buyers, as defined in, and in reliance on, Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

On June 27, 2013 American Airlines and AMR Corporation entered into a Credit and Guaranty Agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with certain lenders. The Credit Agreement provides for a $1.05 billion term loan facility (the “Term Loan Facility”) and a $1 billion revolving credit facility (the “Revolving Facility” and, together with the Term Loan Facility, the “Credit Facilities”). The Credit Facilities are secured obligations of American and guaranteed by AMR. As of June 30, 2013, American had borrowed $1.05 billion under the Term Loan Facility. The Revolving Facility provides that American may from time to time borrow, repay and reborrow loans thereunder and have letters of credit issued thereunder in an aggregate amount outstanding at any time of up to $1 billion.
 
Upon consummation of the Merger, US Airways Group and US Airways, Inc. will be required to join the Credit Facilities as guarantors. Following the joinder, certain minimum dollar-thresholds under the negative and financial covenants in the Credit Facilities automatically will be increased.

Except under certain circumstances, American may not make drawings under the Revolving Facility until the date (the “Plan Effective Date”) on which certain conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement have been satisfied and the effective date has occurred under (i) a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization that does not differ from the plan of reorganization filed with the Bankruptcy Court on April 15, 2013 in any manner adverse to the lenders without consent (the “Approved Plan of Reorganization”) or (ii) an alternative plan of reorganization that satisfies certain financial metrics set forth in the Credit Agreement (an “Alternative Plan”).
The Term Loan Facility and Revolving Facility mature on June 27, 2019 and June 27, 2018, respectively, unless otherwise extended by the applicable parties, except that if the Plan Effective Date has not occurred on or before June 27, 2014 under the Approved Plan of Reorganization or an Alternative Plan, then the Term Loan Facility and Revolving Facility mature on June 27, 2014, and if the effective date under a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization occurs under a plan of reorganization that is neither the Approved Plan of Reorganization nor an Alternative Plan, then the Term Loan Facility and Revolving Facility mature on such date.
Voluntary prepayments may be made by American at any time, with a premium of 1.00% applicable to certain prepayments made prior to the date that is six months following June 27, 2013. Mandatory prepayments at par of term loans and revolving loans are required to the extent necessary to comply with American's covenants regarding the collateral coverage ratio and certain dispositions of collateral. In addition, if a “change of control” (as defined in the Credit Agreement) occurs with respect to AMR, American will be required to repay at par the loans outstanding under the Credit Facilities and terminate the Revolving Facility. The Merger would not constitute a change of control.
The Credit Facilities bear interest at an index rate plus an applicable index margin or, at American's option, LIBOR (subject to a floor of 1.00%) plus an applicable LIBOR margin. The applicable LIBOR margins are 3.75% and 3.50% for borrowings under the Term Loan Facility and the Revolving Facility, respectively. Subject to certain limitations and exceptions, the Credit Facilities are secured by certain route authorities, slots and foreign gate leaseholds utilized by American in providing scheduled air carrier service between the United States and South America countries, specifically Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The Credit Facilities contain events of default customary for similar financings, including cross-acceleration to other material indebtedness. Upon the occurrence of an event of default, the outstanding obligations under the Credit Facilities may be accelerated and become due and payable immediately. The Credit Facilities also include affirmative, negative, and financial covenants that, among other things, limit the ability of AMR and its restricted subsidiaries to pay dividends and make certain other payments, make certain investments, incur additional indebtedness, incur liens on the collateral, dispose of the collateral, enter into certain affiliate transactions and engage in certain business activities, in each case subject to certain exceptions. In addition, AMR must maintain a minimum aggregate liquidity (as defined in the Credit Agreement) of $1.5 billion prior to the Merger and $2.0 billion on and following the Merger.
 
In June 2013, American also remarketed approximately $216 million of Tulsa Municipal Airport Revenue Refunding Bonds Trust Series 2001A, 2001B, and 2000B due June 1, 2035 (Series 2000B) and December 1, 2035 (Series 2001 A&B).

The Company filed a motion with the Bankruptcy Court on October 9, 2012, requesting entry of an order authorizing American to, among other things: (i) obtain postpetition financing in an amount of up to $1.5 billion secured on a first priority basis by, among other things, up to 41 Boeing 737-823 aircraft, 14 Boeing 757-223 aircraft, one Boeing 767-323ER aircraft and 19 Boeing 777-223ER aircraft as part of a new enhanced equipment trust certificate (EETC) financing (the Refinancing EETC) to be offered pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and (ii) use cash on hand (including proceeds of the Refinancing EETC) to indefeasibly repay the existing prepetition obligations secured by such aircraft, as applicable, which are currently financed through, as the case may be, an EETC financing entered into by American in July 2009 (the Series 2009-1 Pass Through Certificates), a secured notes financing entered into by American in July 2009 (the 2009-2 Senior Secured Notes) and an EETC financing entered into by American in October 2011 (the Series 2011-2 Pass Through Certificates and, together with the Series 2009-1 Pass Through Certificates and the 2009-2 Senior Secured Notes, the Existing Financings), in each case without the payment of any make-whole amount or other premium or prepayment penalty. American expects the Refinancing EETC structure to be substantially similar to the structure of the Series 2011-2 Pass Through Certificates, other than the economic terms (such as the interest rate) and certain terms and conditions to be in effect during the Chapter 11 Cases.

The Bankruptcy Court approved the motion on January 17, 2013 and entered an order (the EETC Order) to such effect on February 1, 2013. The trustees for the Existing Financings have appealed the EETC Order and judgments rendered in certain related adversary proceedings. The appeals have been briefed and fully submitted and oral arguments were heard on June 20, 2013. The Company intends to continue to assert vigorously its rights to repay the Existing Financings without the payment of any make-whole amount or other premium or prepayment penalty, and is considering all of its options, including the payment of the Existing Financings and closing the Refinancing EETC notwithstanding such appeal. There can be no assurance that the Refinancing EETC will be completed on acceptable terms, if at all, and, although the Company can opt to reinstate the Existing Financings prior to emergence, if the Company determines to repay rather than reinstate the Existing Financings prior to emergence, it is possible that it could lose the appeal and be required to pay make-whole amounts with respect to the Existing Financings. As of June 30, 2013, such make-whole amounts would have exceeded $400 million in the aggregate.

On June 27, 2013, American commenced tender offers to purchase for cash any and all of the Series 2009-1 Pass Through Certificates, the Series 2009-2 Senior Secured Notes and the Series 2011-2 Pass Through Certificates (collectively, the Existing Securities). The tender offers expire on August 2, 2013, unless extended or earlier terminated. There can be no assurance that any such tender offers will be successful.
Sale-leaseback Arrangements
American has arranged sale-leaseback financings with certain leasing companies for 33 Boeing 737-800 aircraft scheduled to be delivered from July 2013 through 2014. The financings of each aircraft under these arrangements are subject to certain terms and conditions. In addition, in some instances, they are also subject to collaboration with the Creditors' Committee and other key stakeholders and to the approval of the Bankruptcy Court.
During the second quarter, American financed 9 Boeing 737-800 aircraft under sale-leaseback arrangements, which are accounted for as operating leases. These sale-leaseback transactions resulted in gains which are being amortized over the respective remaining lease terms.
Collateral Related Covenants
Certain of American’s debt financing agreements contain loan to value ratio covenants and require American to periodically appraise the collateral. Pursuant to such agreements, if the loan to value ratio exceeds a specified threshold, American is required, as applicable, to subject additional qualifying collateral (which in some cases may include cash collateral), or pay down such financing, in whole or in part, with premium (if any), or pay additional interest on the related indebtedness, as described below.
Specifically, American is required to meet certain collateral coverage tests on a periodic basis on three financing transactions: (1) 10.5% $450 million Senior Secured Notes due 2012 (the 10.5% Notes), (2) 7.5% Senior Secured Notes due 2016 (the Senior Secured Notes) and (3) Credit Facilities, as described below:
 
10.5% Notes
Senior Secured Notes
Credit Facilities
Frequency of    
Appraisals
Semi-Annual
(April and October)
Semi-Annual
(June and December)
Semi-Annual
(June and December)
LTV
Requirement
43%; failure to meet collateral
test requires posting of additional
collateral
1.5x Collateral valuation to
amount of debt outstanding
(67% LTV); failure to meet
collateral test results in
American paying 2% additional
interest until the ratio is at least
1.5x; additional collateral can be
posted to meet this requirement
1.6x Collateral valuation to
amount of debt outstanding
(62.5% LTV); failure to meet
collateral test results in
American either providing additional collateral or repaying a portion of the Credit Facilities until the ratio is met
LTV as of
Last
Measurement    
Date
56.6%
38.7%
18.5%
 
 
 
 
Generally, certain route authorities, take-off and landing slots, and rights to airport facilities used by American to operate certain services between the U.S. and London Heathrow, Tokyo Narita/Haneda, and China
Generally, certain route authorities, take-off and landing slots, and rights to airport facilities used by American to operate all services between the U.S. and South America
Collateral
Description
143 aircraft consisting of:
Type
 
# of
Aircraft
 
 
 
MD-80
 
74

B757-200
 
41

B767-200ER
 
3

B767-300ER
 
25

TOTAL
 
143

 
 
 
 

At June 30, 2013, the Company was in compliance with the most recently completed collateral coverage tests for the Senior Secured Notes and the Credit Facilities. As of June 30, 2013, American had $41 million of cash collateral posted with respect to the 10.5% Notes, which matured in 2012. The Company has not satisfied the debt with respect to the 10.5% Notes due to the ongoing Chapter 11 Cases.
Other
Almost all of the Company’s aircraft assets (including aircraft and aircraft-related assets eligible for the benefits of section 1110 of the Bankruptcy Code) are encumbered, and the Company has a very limited quantity of assets which could be used as collateral in financing.
The Chapter 11 Cases triggered defaults on substantially all debt and lease obligations of the Debtors. However, under section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code, the commencement of a Chapter 11 case automatically stays most creditor actions against the Debtors’ estates.
As discussed in Note 1 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, the Company has been using the benefits afforded by the Bankruptcy Code to restructure the terms of much of its indebtedness and lease obligations. The Company cannot predict at this time the outcome of its efforts to restructure its indebtedness and lease obligations. It is possible that holders of the Company's unsecured indebtedness may lose a portion of their investment depending on the outcome of the Chapter 11 Cases.