Glenn Tilton Airline Quotations

When we started this journey three years ago, many people questioned our ability to rebuild United into a company with a sustainable future, but together we have created a fundamentally better airline -- strong, confident and ready to compete with the world's best.

While no one underestimates the magnitude of the challenge, we are making good progress on our financial recovery program, ... We continue to work vigorously with all of our unions and other parties to achieve our number one goal: restoring the financial health of this airline without the necessity of an in-court process.

United has the most committed employees and strongest airline franchise in the world. We will not let it fail. We look forward to working with you to implement the coalition framework,

Without a coherent U.S. aviation policy that reverses the bias against airline size and removes the barriers that prevent us from constructive consolidation, U.S. carriers will be unable to compete on a global scale and we risk being marginalized,

Before today, of the 166 airline bankruptcy filings since 1978, only two passenger carriers have successfully restructured and exited as viable businesses. That will soon change to three.

This is a huge step in enabling this airline to emerge from Chapter 11 as a stronger, more competitive company,