Pretax Income (Loss)
Millions
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018*** 2019 2020
AMR Corp               1,287             (2,756)             (3,860)             (1,308)                (751)                (857)                  231                  504             (2,071)             (1,757)                (504)       (1,965)       (2,445)       (2,180)        3,212        4,616        4,299        3,084        1,884        2,256     (11,453)
Continental Airlines Inc**                  562                (130)                (649)                  186                (449)                  (68)                  369                  566                (684)                (439)                     -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -  
Delta Air Lines Inc               1,549             (1,864)             (2,002)             (1,189)             (3,992)             (3,859)             (6,968)               1,819             (9,041)             (1,581)                  608            769        1,025        2,527        1,072        7,157        6,636        5,701        5,151        6,198     (15,587)
Northwest Airlines Corp                  435                (671)             (1,220)                  218                (861)             (2,457)             (2,864)               2,315             (6,213)                     -                       -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -  
UAL Corp**                  431             (3,357)             (3,198)             (2,804)             (1,726)           (21,180)            22,889                  695             (5,379)                (668)                  253            845          (724)            539        1,128        4,219        3,819        2,999        2,648        3,914       (8,822)
US Airways Group Inc I                (223)             (1,852)             (1,915)               1,472                (621)                     -                       -                       -                       -                       -                       -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -  
US Airways Group Inc II                     -                       -                       -                       -                       -                       -                    404                  434             (2,210)                (243)                  502              90            637            631               -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -  
America West Holdings Corp                    25                (324)                (215)                    58                  (89)                     -                       -                       -                       -                       -                       -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -  
Midwest Air Group Inc                      8                  (24)                  (16)                  (20)                  (47)                  (65)                      5                     -                       -                       -                       -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -  
  --sub Network and Regionals               4,074           (10,978)           (13,075)             (3,388)             (8,536)           (28,486)            14,066              6,333           (25,598)             (4,688)                  859          (261)       (1,507)        1,517        5,412      15,992      14,754      11,784        9,683      12,368    (35,862)
Southwest Airlines Co               1,018                  828                  317                  604                  339                  779                  790               1,058                  278                  164                  745            323            685        1,209        1,816        3,479        3,547        3,251        3,164        2,957       (4,256)
AirTran Holdings Inc                    47                      1                    10                    87                    17                    12                    25                    87                (292)                  135                    60               -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -  
JetBlue Airways Corp                  (22)                    42                    95                  174                    75                  (24)                      9                    41                  (76)                    99                  161            145            209            279            623        1,097        1,216            921            219            768       (1,893)
Alaska Air Group Inc                  (27)                  (64)                (102)                    29                  (21)                  137                  (88)                  202                (213)                  203                  406            394            514            816            975        1,312        1,345        1,207            585        1,016       (1,840)
Hawaiian Holdings Inc                  (12)                    19                  (55)                  (17)                    (7)                    10                  (41)                    (2)                    53                    97                    82              (1)              86              86            113            296            379            411            301            305          (700)
  --sub Hybrid                1,004                  826                  265                  877                  403                  915                  695              1,386                (250)                  698              1,454            861        1,494        2,390        3,527        6,184        6,487        5,790        4,269        5,046       (8,689)
Spirit Airlines, Inc.                     -                       -                       -                       -                       -                       -                       -                       -                       -                       -                      20            123            175            282            353            502            419            354            205            436          (620)
Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc*                    88                    25                  (40)                    20                  (36)                  (20)                  (25)                  (60)                  (44)                     -                       -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -                 -  
  -- sub ULCC                     88                    25                  (40)                    20                  (36)                  (20)                  (25)                  (60)                  (44)                     -                      20            123            175            282            353            502            419            354            205            436          (620)
     14,157    (45,171)
 Total All Sectors               5,167           (10,127)           (12,850)             (2,490)             (8,169)           (27,592)            14,736              7,659           (25,892)             (3,990)              2,333            722            161        4,190        9,292      22,678      21,661      17,927      17,850
* Frontier Airlines Inc before 2006. Year end March 31 treated as the year before.
** United and Continental are assumed as a single carrier beginning October 1, 2010
*** Note: In 2018, many airlines changed their accounting principles to conform to new standards, which lead to some significant changes in the numbers reported compared to previous years. For the sake of clarity, many airlines provided recast 2017 results in their 10-K reports that  
       can be found in SEC’s EDGAR tool.
Note: Zero value might also mean data not reported.
Data Source:  SEC 10K Filings