Paid by the city

UNITED AIRLINES INC

The city's published checkbook records $268,095,360 paid to UNITED AIRLINES INC across 93 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2026.

Name as the city files it — often the legal name, not the trading name. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.

By fiscal year

FY2018$13,917,166

FY2019$22,415,098

FY2020$58,164,276

FY2021$5,443,524

FY2022$5,039,317

FY2023$8,405,302

FY2024$2,442,733

FY2025$2,109,050

FY2026$150,158,894

A dash means no payment to this vendor appears in that year's file. The city publishes this a few times a year, so it runs behind — the newest payments can take a few months to appear, and a fiscal year that has just ended usually isn't published at all yet. Treat the most recent year as incomplete.

Which department paid

Houston Airport System (HAS)$268,095,360

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $149,999,194

PO Cap Proj Release — $116,383,161

Vendor Invoice — $1,643,003

PO One-time — $70,000

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded. None of this vendor's payments were flagged sole-source or emergency.

Contracts billed under

4600017963 — $149,999,194

4600013225 — $36,500,000

4600014011 — $26,082,110

4600013226 — $23,853,852

4600013812 — $17,197,199

4600016802 — $12,500,000

4600016298 — $250,000

A contract number is the city's master agreement; individual purchases are released against it and don't each go back to council for a vote.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page is summed from the City of Houston's published checkbook ↗, FY2018–FY2026. PlainDocket stores the totals; the individual payments stay on the city's portal, where you can filter them yourself.

These are payments, not a budget. The same ledger carries debt payments, bank and pension transfers and accounting reversals alongside what the city bought, so adding it all up doesn't describe city spending — which is why you won't find a citywide total here. What a named vendor or department was paid is solid.
This covers what the city paid — not what a council vote approved. A contract approved years ago can still be generating payments, and money approved recently may not have been paid yet.