- United Airlines -

Founded: July 1, 1931 from four companies - Varney Speed Lines, National Air Transport, Pacific Air Transport and Boeing Air Transport.

Enter service March 30, 1933 with a total of 30 aircraft linking points between Los Angeles and New York. First ever sleeper-transport added on long domestic routes in January 1, 1937. UA's first service provided out of North America in August 1983, to Tokyo, Japan. .

United Airlines Today: World's second-largest airline serving 112 domestic and 44 international pointsin 32 countries. Main base are O'Hare - Chicago and SFO - San Francisco. Subsidiary: Shuttle by United. United Express.

Associates: Atlantic Coast Airlines. Greatlakes Aviation. Mountain West. WestAir.

Share-code and route agreement with: Air Canada. Aloha Airlines. Ansett Australia. BMI. Cayman Airways. Emirates. Gulfstream Internaional Airlines. Royal Brunei. Thai International. Transbrasil. Major-share holdings by employees(55%). Wholly-woned by UAL Corportation.

Destination Cities: N/A. Extensive list.

Annual Revenue: USD$ 150,000 million.

Passengers: 80 million.

Cargo: 550,000 tons.

Employees: 83,000.

Untied Airlines Fleet:
Airbus A320-200 (34).
BAe 146-100 (5).
BAe 146-200 (5).
BAe Jetstream 31/32 (15).
BAe Jetstream 41 (15).
Beechcraft B1900C/D (44).
Boeing 727-200adv (63).
Boeing 737-200 (63).
Boeing 737-200adv (30).
Boeing 737-300 (147).
Boeing 737-400 (10).
Boieng 737-500 (100).
Boeing 747-100 (24).
Boeing 747-200B (9).
Boeing 747-400 (40).
Boeing 757-200 (120).
Boeing 767-200 (12).
Boeing 767-200ER (10).
Boeing 767-300ER (20).
Boeing 777-200 (12).
Boeing 777-200ER (8).
de Havilland DHC-8-300 (12).
Embraer EMB-120 (18).
Embraer EMB-170/175 (6).
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 (46).
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 (8).
McDonnell Douglas MD-11 (5).

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