Latest News: Archive
December 2009
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Kathryn Mikells' Message to Employees — 4th Quarter Investor Update
Dear Fellow Employee, Today we issued an update to investors on our financial outlook, commonly referred to as “investor guidance,” for the fourth quarter of 2009. This update is part of our normal practice as we approach the end of...
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John Tague Message to Employees — Strengthening our Fleet
Our progress around the fundamentals of our business — Focus on 5 — has led us to an important next step in our future. As you saw from Glenn’s announcement this morning, we are moving forward with orders for 50...
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October 2009
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Kathryn Mikells' Message to Employees — Third Quarter Results
Dear fellow employee, This morning we issued our financial results for the third quarter. I would like to walk you through some of the highlights from our quarterly results and give you an update on our recent successes raising cash...
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United Raises $438 Million to Strengthen Liquidity
Dear Fellow Employee, Yesterday, we successfully priced the common stock and debt offerings we announced Wednesday. We were pleased that investors showed a strong interest in our offerings, allowing us to increase the size of the offering to approximately $438...
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June 2009
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Glenn Tilton's Message to Employees — Investing in Our Future
Dear fellow employee: We have been talking with you about the progress we are making against Focus on 5, our operating agenda for the company. The work you all are doing is delivering results, improving our cost structure, our...
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May 2009
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Letter from John Tague to all Employees
Dear fellow employee, I want to follow up on my communications to you on the importance of alliances and anti-trust immunity for our company. As I discussed last week, there are divergent views on the benefits of alliances. Many of...
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Glenn Tilton's Remarks to the European Aviation Club
May 7, 2009 - In a well written editorial, Air Transport World this month said recent activities in the U.S. Congress, and I quote “again illustrate the vast gulf separating how politicians (and some regulators) view airlines and virtually every...
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April 2009
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United’s Labor Negotiations Platform
April 29, 2009 - During each of our opening negotiation sessions with our unions, United presented our Labor Negotiations Platform. The presentation consists of an historical overview of the industry, an overview of United’s current and future business, our focus...
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Doug McKeen’s Opening Remarks for Negotiations
Welcome. It’s good to be getting started as we formally commence the section six negotiation process. There is a lot more work ahead of us to craft agreements that are both good for our employees and good for United....
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March 2009
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Glenn Tilton Remarks to the Phoenix Aviation Symposium
March 27, 2009 I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you today, on behalf of Doug Parker, Dave Barger, Jim May and our fellow directors of the board of the ATA, about the issues and opportunity for our industry. During...
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