United Continental Holdings is the result of the 2010 merger of United Airlines and Continental Airlines.
Continental Airlines was founded by Walter T. Varney in 1934 as Varney Speed Lines. Notable points from their history include converting B-17s, B-29s, and P-51s for the united States Armed Forces during World War II, being one of the three airlines to launch the 747 in 1990, expanding to Europe in 1985, and to Asia in 2001.
Walter T. Varney also founded United Airlines as the Varney Air Lines air mail service in 1926. Notable events from the history of United include being the first to use the all-metal Boeing 247 in 1933, merging with Capital Airlines in 1961 to become the nation’s largest airline, expanding through the acquisition of Pan Am’s entire Pacific Division with a hub in Tokyo in 1985, and being the first airline to introduce the Boeing 777 in 1995.
Two of the four planes used in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were United planes. The effect of this on the company was a $2.14 billion loss in 2001. They filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2002. They came out of bankruptcy in 2005.
The process of merging the two major airlines started in April of 2010. In May the two boards of directors reached an agreement. The Justice Department approved in August, and the shareholders approved in September. The new company would keep the United Airlines name but use the Continental logo, livery, and CEO.
Due to the coronavirus quarantine, United promised that they would leave middle seats empty in an effort to practice social distancing. This doesn’t seem to be the case on at least one flight from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California.
United Continental Holdings, Inc. today has almost 90,000 employees worldwide and had $37.152 billion in revenue in 2012.
United Airlines Continental Holdings, Inc.United Continental Holdings is the result of the 2010 merger of United Airlines and Continental Airlines.
Continental Airlines was founded by Walter T. Varney in 1934 as Varney Speed Lines. Notable points from their history include converting B-17s, B-29s, and P-51s for the united States Armed Forces during World War II, being one of the three airlines to launch the 747 in 1990, expanding to Europe in 1985, and to Asia in 2001.
Walter T. Varney also founded United Airlines as the Varney Air Lines air mail service in 1926. Notable events from the history of United include being the first to use the all-metal Boeing 247 in 1933, merging with Capital Airlines in 1961 to become the nation’s largest airline, expanding through the acquisition of Pan Am’s entire Pacific Division with a hub in Tokyo in 1985, and being the first airline to introduce the Boeing 777 in 1995.
History
Two of the four planes used in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were United planes. The effect of this on the company was a $2.14 billion loss in 2001. They filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2002. They came out of bankruptcy in 2005.
The process of merging the two major airlines started in April of 2010. In May the two boards of directors reached an agreement. The Justice Department approved in August, and the shareholders approved in September. The new company would keep the United Airlines name but use the Continental logo, livery, and CEO.
Due to the coronavirus quarantine, United promised that they would leave middle seats empty in an effort to practice social distancing. This doesn’t seem to be the case on at least one flight from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California.
United Continental Holdings, Inc. today has almost 90,000 employees worldwide and had $37.152 billion in revenue in 2012.
I am absolutely disgusted with how United Airlines treated one of it’s PAYING customers, and DOCTOR no less…a doctor who needed his flight to get to patients and stated that clearly!! Then being dragged out if his seat and off the plane, as well as being injured in the process because he wasn’t volunteering to get off the plane. And all this for your own employees and for YOUR OWN STUPIDITY BY OVERBOOKING!!! Your employees should have had to make other arrangements. I will never fly with your airline, and will make damn sure I let everyone, who doesn’t know about this incident, know about it. How dare you treat people that way!!?!? And the so called “cops” also treating him that way? Jist sick. Sick ? sick ? SICK ? I hope this company is put out of business because of this. Especially when there was no compassion from your side at all. Even in the ridiculous response and sorry-a** excuse UA sounded like dicks who only care about money. SOBS!
Dear Mr. Rainey;, Mr. Mc Donald and Mr. Simsek, H5QH3T is my confirmation number. Your ads say you want to be the airline people want to fly. Well I will never fl;y United again. Our flights and your staff were fine. It is your policies I wonder about. I WONDER WHAT ELSE YOU ARE NOT DOING AS REGARDS MAINTENANCE. On a 4 hour 49 minute flight there was no movie. We were supposed to download entertainment. Who wants to watch on an iPad/phone? What if the battery runs out? Of the probably over 200 on the flight I noticed maybe 3 watching this way. Not even pretzels were offered with drinks. Snacks offered for purchase were very high in salt. Nothing healthy was offered. On an almost 5 hour flight they only had snacks for purchase-no meals. A passenger in my row from UK had to get a seat belt extension. She claims she flies about once a month and has NEVER had that embarrassing problem. So why don’t you charge $10 more and give us movies and pretzels. What we remember is that 4 hours and 49 minutes and how comfortable we are. It is bad enough that the seats are so close. Can’t you even make that time enjoyable? When is the last time you even tried to sit in one of those seats? Again if you do not care about our comfort which we can see and feel why should we believe you do proper maintenance which we cannot observe? I want to fly comfortably and safely. I will NOT fly United
Your airline United for some reason to it upon itself to disrupt our return flight from Aruba flight 1041 on October 26th 2014 by changing our seat assignments. We were traveling with our infant granddaughters and caused a major disruption during our flight. Your customer service reply was we/you can do what we want to do! My confirmation number was CQS9KY and my daughter-in-law Jennifer Johnson was BHC263 were affected, put in separate rows in seat F.
This is totally unacceptable for an airline to do this without prior notification. Our seat were reserved over 3 months before our flight date. The people sitting in our seats said the purchased the upgrade seats 3 weeks ago,! You have some nerve doing this to people and we are people! You are sXXXX to tell us we can do what we want to do with no care to what would the consequences would be. I want a call from the COO to resolve this issue. My number is 215-630-****. Thank you for your attention
please send me an e mail at this address.
I want to attach a letter to the CEO for a response.
I’ve tried through “NORMAL” channels and have been unable to get a response after over a month!!
Phil Darcy