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American Raises $10 Billion via Debt; Largest Ever by an Airline
March 11, 2021
American Airlines raised a record $10bn via a bond and leveraged loan offering on Wednesday, setting the record for the largest debt package by an airline, beating Delta’s $9bn debt issuance in September last year. American’s deal was upsized by $2.5bn from the originally planned $5bn via bonds and $2.5bn via a leveraged loan backed by its loyalty program AAdvantage. The airline raised $6.5bn via bonds with details of the tranches as follows:
- It raised $3.5bn via a 5Y bond at a yield of 5.5%, 25bp inside initial guidance of 5.75% area. The offering was upsized from $2.5bn. The bonds are amortizing with an interest-only period of two years and the scheduled amortization at 33% p.a. beginning in year three. The weighted average life of the bond is effectively 3.7 years.
- It raised $3bn via an 8Y bond at a yield of 5.75%, 25bp inside initial guidance of 6% area. The offering was also upsized from $2.5bn. The bonds are amortizing with an interest-only period of two years and the scheduled amortization at 33% p.a. beginning in year three. The weighted average life of the bond is effectively 6.7 years.
The bonds have expected ratings Ba2/BB and received orders over $45bn as per FT sources, 4.5x issue size. Some of the proceeds from the issue will be deposited into certain reserve accounts with most going to repay all outstanding amounts under its term loan facility given by the US Treasury during the pandemic last year. American and AAdvantage Loyalty IP Ltd expect to enter into a credit agreement providing for a $3.5 billion term loan facility – the leveraged loan transaction.
American Airlines’ bonds were slightly higher – its 5% 2022s were up 0.75 to 98.02, yielding 6.7% and its first lien 11.75% 2025s were up 1.6 to 120.7, yielding 6.22%.
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