Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Abstract]


UAL	Pension and Other Postretirement Unrecognized Actuarial Gains (Losses) and Prior Service Cost			Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Derivatives and other Financial Instruments			Total
Balance at December 31, 2008	$	130		$	(37	)	$	93
Change in fair value of financial instruments		—			15			15
Employee benefit plans:
Reclassification of unrecognized net actuarial gains into earnings		(9	)		—			(9	)
Current year actuarial loss		(64	)		—			(64	)

Balance at December 31, 2009		57			(22	)		35
Derivative financial instruments:
Reclassification of losses into earnings		—			68			68
Change in fair value of derivatives		—			168			168
Change in fair value of other financial instruments		—			21			21
Employee benefit plans:
Reclassification of unrecognized net actuarial gains into earnings		(12	)		—			(12	)
Current year actuarial gain		107			—			107

Balance at December 31, 2010		152			235			387
Derivative financial instruments:
Reclassification of gains into earnings		—			(503	)		(503	)
Change in fair value of derivatives		—			163			163
Employee benefit plans:
Reclassification of unrecognized net actuarial gains into earnings		(24	)		—			(24	)
Current year actuarial loss		(440	)		—			(440	)

Balance at December 31, 2011	$	(312	)	$	(105	)	$	(417	)

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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