Eastern Airlines LLC

Eastern Airlines LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business organized as a limited liability company and based in Kansas City, Missouri, operates as a prime contractor delivering domestic and international charter air transportation and heavyweight logistics services to the Department of Defense on a full-and-open competitive basis—no set-aside categories.

Eastern Airlines' footprint centers on Air Mobility Command, which accounts for 793 of 883 total awards (approximately 90% of activity by count) and $3.05 billion of the $3.07 billion combined potential value. The remaining activity splits to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (90 awards, $20.3 million). The vendor operates 100% as prime; no subcontract work appears in the award portfolio. Customer concentration is absolute: Air Mobility Command dominates both by award count and by potential value. Representative work includes domestic charter air transportation delivery orders ranging from approximately $87,850 to $1.62 million, with individual Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) orders carrying combined values up to $1.8 million and running through September 2030. Domestic and international heavyweight delivery orders under the Global Heavyweight Services (GHS) contract range from approximately $10,200 to $269,000 per task.

Eastern Airlines holds two master Indefinite Delivery Vehicles (IDVs) with Air Mobility Command that anchor its federal contracting profile. The International Charter Airlift Services in support of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet IDV, awarded October 1, 2024, carries a $161.52 million ceiling with performance through September 30, 2030; 45 delivery orders valued at $38.1 million have been issued against it to date. The Global Heavyweight Services multiple-award contract, valued at $1.503 billion and administered by Air Mobility Command, has generated 68 delivery orders worth $15.8 million. Two additional unnamed IDVs—HTC71120DCC03 (489 task orders, $98.2 million) and HTC71124DCC09 (250 task orders, $53.7 million)—dominate the task-order pipeline and account for the majority of recent activity. A fifth vehicle, HTC71121DC001, supports 24 task orders worth $4.5 million.

Activity trajectory shows modest decline from a five-year high: 2022 yielded 158 awards, 2023 climbed to 188, then 2024 contracted to 170, 2025 to 155, and 2026 (year-to-date through August) shows only 55 awards. This downward arc may reflect recompete timing, vehicle maturation, or baseline fluctuation in Air Mobility Command task ordering. The vendor's combined potential value across all awards is $3.07 billion, against which $210.1 million has been obligated (7% realization). No recompete cliff data was provided in the source material.

Eastern Airlines' capability footprint is narrow and operationally focused. The vendor specializes in nonscheduled chartered passenger air transportation (789 awards under NAICS 481212 / PSC code for passenger air charter) and scheduled freight air transportation (94 awards under NAICS 481211 / PSC code for air freight). Work spans domestic military installations (Killeen, El Paso, Riverside, Alexandria, Savannah, Fort Drum, Hawaii, Alaska, and others) and international performance locations including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Poland, Romania, Germany, Great Britain, Slovakia, Chile, Argentina, Italy, Taiwan, Japan, and elsewhere. Service Contract Inventory data is sparse—only two SCI records, both as named subcontractor, covering FY2024 with 7.4 FTEs reported. SCI does not capture the bulk of Eastern Airlines' federal activity, which is priced and structured as goods (charter capacity) and firm fixed-price task orders rather than service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold.

Eastern Airlines competes exclusively on full-and-open, non-set-aside basis across its Air Mobility Command portfolio. The vendor self-certifies as small disadvantaged business but does not pursue 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other set-aside vehicles. Award histories show uniform "No Set-Aside Used" designations. The company operates as a pure prime contractor with no identified subcontract relationships in the award data; delivery orders under its IDVs carry no named subcontractor activity. This posture positions Eastern Airlines as a direct provider of air charter and heavyweight logistics capacity rather than as a systems integrator or team lead.