Treasury Releases Airline Warrant Auction Detailed Results

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) released detailed results of auctions held from June 3 to 13, 2024, to sell its warrants for the purchase of common stock of the 11 publicly traded airlines listed below. Treasury announced on June 21, 2024 that it received $556,685,001 in aggregate proceeds from the auctions. Detailed results of the 11 auctions are provided below.

Treasury received these warrants in connection with financial assistance and loans Treasury provided to U.S. airlines and certain other types of businesses in 2020 and 2021 under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act); the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021; and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Treasury auctioned these warrants as part of its continuing post-pandemic efforts to recover value for taxpayers in an orderly, fair, and transparent manner. The assistance Treasury provided under these programs protected hundreds of thousands of jobs and helped maintain critical infrastructure capacity during the pandemic.

Issuer Auction Date

 Proceeds

Warrant Shares

Winning Bidder
Delta Air Lines, Inc. 6/5/2024

$233,000,000

11,137,878.35

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
United Airlines Holdings, Inc. 6/6/2024

$222,500,000

9,928,349

Capital Ventures International
American Airlines Group Inc. 6/13/2024

$32,600,000

29,427,914

SRS Partners Master Fund LP
SkyWest, Inc. 6/4/2024

$36,200,000

785,226

Capital Ventures International
Alaska Air Group, Inc. 6/7/2024

$17,250,000

1,882,517

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
Southwest Airlines Co. 6/7/2024

$5,650,000

4,961,811.77

Southwest Airlines Co.
Frontier Group Holdings, Inc. 6/5/2024

$3,450,000

3,117,940

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. 6/6/2024

$3,450,000

1,134,685

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
JetBlue Airways Corporation 6/3/2024

$2,295,000

5,598,807

D.E. Shaw Valence Portfolios L.L.C.
Spirit Airlines, Inc. 6/3/2024

$195,000

913,382.82

Hudson Bay Master Fund Ltd
Allegiant Travel Company 6/4/2024

$95,001

29,562.14

Parallax Master Fund, L.P.

The warrants sold in the auctions have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Act), and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the benefit of, U.S. persons absent registration under, or an applicable exemption from, the registration requirements of the Act and applicable state securities laws. The warrants were offered only to (1) “qualified institutional buyers” as defined in Rule 144A under the Act, (2) certain institutional “accredited investors” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Act, and (3) the issuers of the relevant warrants. Neither this press release nor the information regarding the auctions on Treasury’s website constitutes an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the warrants or any other securities (including the underlying shares of common stock).

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