United Airlines flights are more than just comfortThe world's largest airline by number of destinations, United operates flights to 235 domestic and 138 international cities in 60 countries around the world. It is headquartered in Chicago's Willis (formerly Sears) Tower, and operates out of hubs in Chicago, Houston, Newark, Denver, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Guam, and Tokyo. Its largest passenger hub is in Houston (with an average of 45,413 passengers per day), but O'Hare hosts the most daily United departures.
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In addition, it was the first airline to buy cutting-edge flight simulators for pilot training in 1954. Pilots, machinists, bag handlers, and non-contract employees of United traded salary concessions for 55 percent of the company's shares during a 1994 contract negotiation, making it the largest employee-owned enterprise in the whole globe. In 2010, United amalgamated with Continental after declaring bankruptcy in 2002 due to their shared, albeit far-flung, beginnings. Together with Scandinavian Airlines, Thai Airways, Air Canada, and Lufthansa, United co-founded the Star Alliance in 1997.
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United Flight DealsAviator Walter Varney flew the mail from Washington, Idaho and Nevada in 1926. Varney Air Lines was purchased in 1930 by aviation pioneer William Boeing of Boeing Air Transport. (Varney later founded Varney Speed Lines in 1934, which eventually became Continental Airlines.) Boeing Air Transport also carried mail from Chicago to San Francisco. Boeing renamed its new conglomerate United Aircraft & Transport, which also bought out a number of equipment manufacturers and other smaller airlines. Following the passage of the Air Mail Act in 1934, this newly formed company split again, into airplanes United Aircraft and the Boeing Airplane Company, and passenger and cargo service United Air Lines.
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