Originally Posted by O2pilot

You’re kidding, right? UAL’s Annual capital obligation for long-term debt payments are between $1.1B and $1.4B each year for the next 4 years. Just in the 1st quarter of 2018 alone UAL had a Net Cash Flow of $1.7B! They have so much cash they’ve bought back over $9B of shares just in the last 3 years. The current liability numbers are bigger because they do $37B a year of revenue, vs. Alaska’s $7.9B of revenue. Adjusted for revenue, UAL’s debt is less than Alaska’s as a percentage of revenue.