Long-term Debt (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Long-term Debt

Schedule of long-term debt

	December 31, 2011			December 31, 2010
Notes payable to banks, due in semi-annual installments, variable interest based on LIBOR, or with interest rates ranging from 1.35% to 3.81% through 2012 to 2020, secured by aircraft	$	364,741		$	418,109
Notes payable to a financing company, due in semi-annual installments, variable interest based on LIBOR, or with interest rates ranging from 0.70% to 7.52% through 2012 to 2021, secured by aircraft		477,241			518,070
Notes payable to banks, due in semi-annual installments plus interest at 6.06% to 7.18% through 2021, secured by aircraft		193,197			212,504
Notes payable to a financing company, due in semi-annual installments plus interest at 5.78% to 6.23% through 2019, secured by aircraft		53,803			61,087
Notes payable to banks, due in monthly installments plus interest of 3.15% to 8.18% through 2025, secured by aircraft		706,463			663,487
Notes payable to banks, due in semi-annual installments, plus interest at 6.05% through 2020, secured by aircraft		19,946			21,969
Notes payable to banks, due in semi-annual installments, plus interest at 3.72% to 3.86%, net of the benefits of interest rate subsidies through the Brazilian Export financing program, through 2011, secured by aircraft		—			360
Notes payable to a financing company, due in semi-annual installments interest based on LIBOR secured by flight simulator equipment		—			2,389
Long-term debt		1,815,391			1,897,975
Less current maturities		(208,398	)		(159,039	)
Long-term debt, net of current maturities		1,606,993			1,738,936

Schedule of maturities of long-term debt

2012	$	208,398
2013		162,978
2014		168,984
2015		176,180
2016		181,622
Thereafter		917,229
	$	1,815,391