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Employee Retention of United Airlines : United Air Lines, Inc., (NYSE: UAL) is a major airline based in the United States and one of the world's largest airlines with 48,000 employees[11] and 359 aircraft.[12] It is a subsidiary of United Continental Holdings, Inc. formerly, UAL Corporation, with corporate offices in Chicago. United's largest hub is Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. United also has hubs in Washington Dulles International Airport, Denver International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport and Narita International Airport near Tokyo.[13] United is a founding member of the Star Alliance, the largest airline alliance in the world, and offers connections to over 1,000 destinations in over 170 countries worldwide.[14]
On Sunday, May 2, 2010, the Boards of Directors at Continental Airlines and UAL Corp. approved a stock-swap deal that would combine them into the world's largest airline in revenue passenger miles and second largest in fleet size and destinations after Delta Air Lines. The new airline will take on the United Airlines name, Continental's logo and be based in United's hometown of Chicago. The parent company of the new carrier will be called United Continental Holdings, Inc. The new United will be run by Continental's CEO, Jeffery Smisek, along with United Airline's CEO, Glenn Tilton, serving as non-executive Chairman of the board until his retirement two years hence. United's pilots union announced that they "are fully prepared to protect and defend the interests of all United pilots."[15]
On August 27, 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice approved the US$3 billion merger.[16] Share holders of both companies approved the deal on September 17, 2010. The transaction was completed on October 1, 2010.

You have chosen to explore employment opportunities with one of the largest global air carriers in the world. We invite you to review this overview, which highlights some important features of United's comprehensive portfolio of benefits. We realize that career decisions are based on many factors. Our goal is to emphasize the value these benefits add to United's total rewards strategy.

Pleasure Travel Benefits are available to all employees (temporary, seasonal, part-time and full-time).

Full-time and part-time employees are additionally eligible for the following benefits:

Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
Disability
Life and Accident Insurance
Sick leave
Flexible Spending Program
Employee Assistance Program
401(k)
Credit Union Membership Privilege
Vacation
Worldwide travel privileges for you and your eligible family members, travel companions and domestic partners
Qualified Domestic Partner Benefits
Long-Term Care
Online Compensation and Benefits Statements

Pros
Employee travel benefits are great. Mid/Senior management compensation is excellent. Airline industry is complex, so lots of interesting opportunities and problems to solve. If one is looking for challenge in their role, there is lots!
Cons
With each new change in Senior Management, lots of things change since they are given complete freedom. This could become disruptive esp with lots of management changes have happened the past few years.
HQ divided among multiple locations and lots of facilities moves is reason for loss of productivity.
If one has worked at United long enough, one can see the same projects/ideas/cycles float every few years - deja vu.

United's early route system, formed by connecting U.S. air mail routes, operated east-to-west along a transcontinental route from New York City via Chicago and Salt Lake City to San Francisco, as well as north-and-south along the West Coast. The early interconnections during this era became the basis of major United hubs in Chicago and San Francisco, followed later by additional hubs in Denver and Washington, D.C. These four cities remain United's principal hubs to this day.
On the night of October 11, 1933, a United Boeing 247 exploded in mid-air and crashed near Chesterton, Indiana, killing all seven people aboard. Investigation revealed that the explosion was caused by a nitroglycerin bomb placed in the baggage hold. The United Airlines Chesterton Crash is believed to be the first proven case of air sabotage in commercial aviation history. No suspects or motives were ever discovered.


United Air Lines route map, 1940


A United DC-6, parked on the northwest maintenance ramp of Stapleton Airport, September 1966
During World War II, United-trained ground crews modified airplanes for use as bombers, and transported mail, material, and passengers in support of the war effort. Post-war United benefited from both the wartime development of new airplane technologies (like the pressurized cabin which permitted planes to fly above the weather) and a boom in customer demand for air travel. This was also the period in which Pan American Airways established a Tokyo hub and revived its Pacific route system that would later be acquired by United.
On November 1, 1955, United Airlines Flight 629, which was flying from Stapleton Airport in Denver to Portland, Oregon, was bombed, killing everyone on board the Douglas DC-6B aircraft. The bomb was planted by Jack Graham who placed the device in his mother's luggage with the intent of collecting on her life insurance policy. Graham was arrested, tried, and was executed a year after the explosion.[24]
United merged with Capital Airlines on June 1, 1961 and displaced American as the world's second largest airline, after Aeroflot. In 1968 the company reorganized, creating UAL Corporation, with United Airlines as a wholly owned subsidiary.
United Airlines has the distinction of being the only commercial airline to have operated Executive One, the designation given to a civilian flight which the U.S. President is aboard. On December 23, 1973, then President Richard Nixon flew as a passenger aboard a United DC-10 flight from Washington Dulles to Los Angeles. White House staff explained that this was done to conserve fuel by not having to fly the usual Boeing 707 Air Force aircraft.[25] In keeping with the common practice of having two aircraft immediately available at all times during Presidential travel, an Air Force aircraft flew behind in case of an emergency.
 
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