Airbnb, Inc.

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Industry, Financial, and Insurance Risks

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Our indebtedness could adversely affect our business and financial condition.

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As of March 31, 2026, we had $2.5 billion of long-term debt outstanding, all of which consisted of our unsecured senior notes (“Senior Notes”). We also have access to $1.0 billion of commitments and a $200 million sub-limit for the issuance of letters of credit under the 2022 Credit Facility. As of March 31, 2026, no amounts were drawn under our 2022 Credit Facility and outstanding letters of credit totaled $20 million. Risks relating to our indebtedness include:

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•increasing our vulnerability to general adverse economic and industry conditions;

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•requiring us to dedicate a portion of our cash flow from operations to payments on our indebtedness, thereby reducing the availability of cash flow to fund working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions and investments and other general corporate purposes;

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•making it difficult for us to optimally capitalize and manage the cash flow for our business;

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•limiting our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and the markets in which we operate;

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•placing us at a competitive disadvantage compared to our competitors that are less levered; and

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•limiting our ability to borrow additional funds or to borrow funds at desirable rates or terms we find acceptable.

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The agreements governing our indebtedness contain various covenants that may limit our ability to effectively operate our businesses, including those in our 2022 Credit Facility that restrict our ability to (i) incur additional indebtedness at subsidiaries that are not guarantors of the 2022 Credit Facility; (ii) create or incur additional liens; (iii) partake in sale/leaseback transactions; (iv) engage in certain fundamental changes, including mergers or consolidations; and (v) enter into negative pledge clauses and clauses restricting subsidiary distributions. The indenture governing the Senior Notes contains limited covenants and does not restrict us or our subsidiaries' ability to incur additional debt, pay dividends, repurchase securities, or engage in a variety of corporate transactions. Additionally, the covenants in our Senior Notes restricting our ability to create liens or enter into sale and leaseback transactions apply only to "principal properties," and as of March 31, 2026, neither we nor our subsidiaries own any property that constitutes a principal property.

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Any failure to comply with the restrictions of our 2022 Credit Facility or the indenture governing our outstanding Senior Notes may result in an event of default under those agreements. Such default may allow the creditors to accelerate the related debt, which acceleration may trigger cross-acceleration or cross-default provisions in other debt. In addition, lenders may be able to terminate any commitments they had made to supply us with further funds. In addition, it is possible that we may need to incur additional indebtedness in the future in the ordinary course of business or otherwise.

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In connection with the offering of the Senior Notes, we entered into interest rate swaps with an aggregate notional amount of approximately $1.7 billion that involves the exchange of fixed-for-floating rate interest payments. These swaps effectively convert the fixed interest rates on a portion of our Senior Notes to floating interest rates based on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, which increases our exposure to interest rate risk. If interest rates were to increase, our debt service obligations on the indebtedness with respect to which we have entered into these fixed-for-floating interest rate swaps would increase, even though the principal amount issued remains the same.