Glenn Tilton Work Quotations

We look forward to continued cooperation with all of our unions and employee groups as we work to reach consensual agreements that will help us redesign our business and compete more effectively in the long term.

Our plan will have to be more aggressive than it was out of court. We will need more cost savings. Work rules will have to be on the table. We have to take this opportunity to create a different and durable cost structure that allows us to compete and succeed in a different revenue environment.

The fact that we have proposals for up to $3 billion in exit financing from four of the most prestigious financial institutions in the world is solid confirmation of the work that we have done together, and most importantly, of our ability to build on that success in the future,

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.

These solid results are evidence of real progress in our work to make United competitive and resilient.

We've put ourselves in a position to be able to compete with the effect of high oil prices in 2006. I'm confident that the work that we've done will put us in a position to have a competitive result whatever the market environment may be.

We also recognize that there is work where we at United do not have an advantage. That work is performed for us by vendors in the U.S., Korea and other countries, now including China.

important steps forward as we work to transform United.

The confirmation of our plan is a clear validation of the work we have done to make United a sustainable enterprise with a strong financial and operational foundation. We will leverage that foundation to take full advantage of the opportunity we have to compete for leadership in the U.S. and worldwide.

This is the last of the tentative agreements with our work force and underscores the significant progress we have made in recent weeks toward cutting costs, ... The IAM, along with our other unions, has stepped up to the challenge by cooperating in an unprecedented way to set the framework for a stronger, more competitive airline.