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5. Leases
AMR's subsidiaries lease various types of equipment and property, primarily aircraft and airport facilities. The
future minimum lease payments required under capital leases, together with the present value of such payments,
and future minimum lease payments required under operating leases that have initial or remaining non-
cancelable lease terms in excess of one year as of December 31, 2006, were (in millions):
Year Ending December 31,
Capital
Leases
Operating
Leases
2007 $ 197 $ 1,098
2008 236 1,032
2009 175 929
2010 140 860
2011 142 855
2012 and thereafter 651 6,710
1,541 $ 11,484
(1)
Less amount representing interest 614
Present value of net minimum lease payments $ 927
(1) As of December 31, 2006, included in Accrued liabilities and Other liabilities and deferred credits on the accompanying
consolidated balance sheet is approximately $1.4 billion relating to rent expense being recorded in advance of future
operating lease payments.
At December 31, 2006, the Company was operating 210 jet aircraft and 21 turboprop aircraft under operating
leases and 89 jet aircraft and one turboprop aircraft under capital leases. The aircraft leases can generally be
renewed at rates based on fair market value at the end of the lease term for one to five years. Some aircraft
leases have purchase options at or near the end of the lease term at fair market value, but generally not to
exceed a stated percentage of the defined lessor's cost of the aircraft or a predetermined fixed amount.
Certain special facility revenue bonds have been issued by certain municipalities primarily to improve airport
facilities and purchase equipment. To the extent these transactions were committed to prior to May 21, 1998 (the
effective date of EITF 97-10, “The Effect of Lessee Involvement in Asset Construction”) they are accounted for as
operating leases under Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation 23, “Leases of Certain Property
Owned by a Governmental Unit or Authority”. Approximately $1.8 billion of these bonds (with total future
payments of approximately $4.6 billion as of December 31, 2006) are guaranteed by American, AMR, or both.
Approximately $495 million of these special facility revenue bonds contain mandatory tender provisions that
require American to make operating lease payments sufficient to repurchase the bonds at various times: $100
million in 2007, $218 million in 2008, $112 million in 2014 and $65 million in 2015. Although American has the
right to remarket the bonds, there can be no assurance that these bonds will be successfully remarketed. Any
payments to redeem or purchase bonds that are not remarketed would generally reduce existing rent leveling
accruals or be considered prepaid facility rentals and would reduce future operating lease commitments. The
special facility revenue bonds that contain mandatory tender provisions are listed in the table above at their
ultimate maturity date rather than their mandatory tender provision date. Approximately $198 million of special
facility revenue bonds with mandatory tender provisions were successfully remarketed in 2005. They were
acquired by American in 2003 under a mandatory tender provision. Thus, the receipt by American of the
proceeds from the remarketing resulted in an increase to Other liabilities and deferred credits where the tendered
bonds had been classified pending their use to offset certain future operating lease obligations.