Finding the debt equivalent of operating lease

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Leases (in part)

American leases 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 leases terms in excess of one year as of December 31, 2004, were (in millions):

Year ending December 31,

Capital leases

Operating leases

2005

$211

$1,066

2006

233

999

2007

187

982

2008

225

931

2009

174

838

2010 and subsequent

950

7,525

 

1,980

$12,341

Less amount representing interest 815 
Present value of net minimum lease payments $ 1,165

American's capital lease liability is reported among other debt on the balance sheet. The company's debt totaled $25,567 million. Some analysts might consider operating lease commitments as equivalent to debt when assessing financial risk. If American's operating leases were considered capital leases, lease payments would be capitalized at the present value of all future payments.

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If the interest rate used by American to discount rental payments on capital leases is 12% and rentals after 2009 are payable approximately evenly over the following 9 years (approximated as $7,525/$838), what is the debt equivalent of the operating lease commitments?

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