Employee Benefit Plans (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Employee Benefit Plans [Abstract]

Components Of Net Periodic Benefit Cost

	Pension Benefits Three Months Ended September 30,						Other  Postretirement Benefits Three Months Ended September 30,
UAL	2011			2010			2011			2010
Service cost	$	22		$	1		$	11		$	8
Interest cost		44			2			32			29
Expected return on plan assets		(36	)		(2	)		(1	)		(1	)
Amortization of unrecognized gain and prior service cost		(5	)		—			—			(3	)
Net periodic benefit costs	$	25		$	1		$	42		$	33
United
Service cost	$	2		$	1		$	8		$	8
Interest cost		2			2			29			29
Expected return on plan assets		(3	)		(2	)		(1	)		(1	)
Amortization of unrecognized gain and prior service cost		—			—			—			(3	)
Net periodic benefit costs	$	1		$	1		$	36		$	33
Continental (a)
Service cost	$	20		$	17		$	3		$	3
Interest cost		42			40			3			3
Expected return on plan assets		(33	)		(29	)		—			—
Amortization of unrecognized (gain) loss and prior service cost		(5	)		25			—			4
Net periodic benefit costs	$	24		$	53		$	6		$	10

(a) For Continental, the 2011 period represents Successor and the 2010 period represents Predecessor.

	Pension Benefits						Other Postretirement Benefits
	Nine Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
UAL	2011			2010			2011			2010
Service cost	$	66		$	4		$	35		$	23
Interest cost		133			7			95			87
Expected return on plan assets		(105	)		(7	)		(2	)		(2	)
Amortization of unrecognized gain and prior service cost		(17	)		(1	)		(1	)		(9	)
Net periodic benefit costs	$	77		$	3		$	127		$	99
United
Service cost	$	5		$	4		$	25		$	23
Interest cost		7			7			85			87
Expected return on plan assets		(8	)		(7	)		(2	)		(2	)
Amortization of unrecognized gain and prior service cost		(1	)		(1	)		—			(9	)
Net periodic benefit costs	$	3		$	3		$	108		$	99
Continental (a)
Service cost	$	61		$	50		$	10		$	7
Interest cost		126			119			10			10
Expected return on plan assets		(97	)		(82	)		—			—
Amortization of unrecognized (gain) loss and prior service cost		(16	)		72			(1	)		13
Net periodic benefit costs	$	74		$	159		$	19		$	30

(a) For Continental, the 2011 period represents Successor and the 2010 period represents Predecessor.

Share-Based Compensation Expense

	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2011		2010		2011		2010
Share-based compensation expense
UAL (a)	$	13	$	9	$	40	$	30
Continental Predecessor				49				57

Unrecognized Share-Based Compensation Expense

	September 30, 2011		December 31, 2010
Unrecognized share-based compensation expense	$	57	$	43

(a) Includes expense recognized in integration-related costs for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011.