United’s New First Suite and Business Cabin Now Available to Hong Kong

New luxurious 180º Lie-Flat Beds Re-define Transpacific Flying Experience for Hong Kong Passengers

HONG KONG – August 15, 2008 – United Airlines’ much-anticipated new United First Suite and United Business cabin are now available to Hong Kong. Starting today, the new premium products are available three days a week on United’s daily nonstop services between Hong Kong and San Francisco and the carrier’s daily nonstop services between Hong Kong and Singapore. Later in the year, all daily flights of these routes will be fully configured with the new premium products. Following United’s schedule to gradually upgrade its international fleet, other reconfigured B747 aircraft will also enter service in late 2008 and fly between Hong Kong and Chicago as well as Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City.

United’s debut of its new First Suite and Business Class cabin to Hong Kong was marked by the arrival on August 15 of United flight 869 from San Francisco to Hong Kong. This has been the carrier’s first newly-configured Boeing 747-400 aircraft to Asia, featuring 180º fully flat beds, iPod connectivity and a 15.4-inch personal flat-screen television to provide customers with optimal privacy, comfort and working space during long international flights.

“This flight to Hong Kong marks a major milestone in the development of United’s service offering to our Asia-Pacific customers,” says Mark Schwab, Vice President, Pacific, United Airlines. “The Asia-Pacific region, particularly Hong Kong, has always been an important part of United’s global growth strategy. We are therefore very much committed to introducing even better products and services for our customers.”

The new United First and United Business cabins are designed to provide customers with a comfortable “home away from home” for rest and relaxation or an “office away from office” environment for maximum productivity during long international flights. In these cabins, customers can enjoy more than 150 hours of on-demand movies and television with noise-cancelling headphones; work on an ergonomically-designed tray table that comfortably accommodates a laptop computer; relax on a 180º fully-flat seat with four-way lumbar support and six-way adjustable headrest; and dine on appetizers and entrées created by world-renowned award-winning chef Charlie Trotter.

United has the distinction of being the first U.S. carrier to offer fully flat beds in First and Business Class. United is also the only U.S. carrier to offer three cabins of service on all of its international overseas flights. In addition to first and business services, United offers economy class with its Economy Plus® seating, which provides up to 13 extra centimeters of legroom. For more information about the new United First and Business cabins, visit www.suitedreams.united.com.

About United: United Airlines (Nasdaq: UAUA) operates more than 3,200* flights a day on United and United Express to more than 200 U.S. domestic and international destinations from its hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C. With key global air rights in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and Latin America, United is one of the largest international carriers based in the United States. United also is a founding member of Star Alliance, which provides connections for our customers to 975 destinations in 162 countries worldwide. United's 55,000 employees reside in every U.S. state and in many countries around the world. News releases and other information about United can be found at the company's Web site at united.com.

*Based on United's flight schedule between Jan. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2008.

About United in the Asia Pacific region:United operates around 400 services a week to/from/within the Asia Pacific region and the U.S. United flies from 13 Asia Pacific cities including Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, Melbourne, Nagoya, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei and Tokyo. United won the “Best Economy/Coach Class” in 2006 OAG Airline of the Year Awards and was named “Best Transpacific Airline” in the 2005 OAG Awards. The airline also took the “Best North American Airline” in TTG Asia’s 2007 travel poll and “Best American Airline Serving China” in Business Traveler China’s 2005 - 2007 travel polls. For seven consecutive years, United has been voted “Best North American Airline” by Business Traveler Asia Pacific 2001 - 2007.