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PART III
ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.
Certain information required by this item with respect to UAL is incorporated by reference from
UAL’s definitive proxy statement for its 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Information regarding
the executive officers of UAL is included in Part I of this Form 10-K under the caption “Executive
Officers of the Registrant.”
Information required by this item with respect to United is omitted pursuant to General
Instruction I(2)(c) of Form 10-K.
ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION.
Information required by this item with respect to UAL is incorporated by reference from UAL’s
definitive proxy statement for its 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Information required by this item with respect to United is omitted pursuant to General
Instruction I(2)(c) of Form 10-K.
ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS.
Information required by this item with respect to UAL is incorporated by reference from UAL’s
definitive proxy statement for its 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Information required by this item with respect to United is omitted pursuant to General
Instruction I(2)(c) of Form 10-K.
ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS, RELATED TRANSACTIONS AND DIRECTOR
INDEPENDENCE.
Information required by this item with respect to UAL is incorporated by reference from UAL’s
definitive proxy statement for its 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Information required by this item with respect to United is omitted pursuant to General
Instruction I(2)(c) of Form 10-K.
ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES.
The Audit Committee of the UAL Board of Directors adopted a policy on pre-approval of services
of independent accountants in October 2002. The policy provides that the Audit Committee shall
pre-approve all audit and non-audit services to be provided to the Company and its subsidiaries and
affiliates by its auditors. The process by which this is carried out is as follows:
For recurring services, the Audit Committee reviews and pre-approves Deloitte & Touche LLP’s
annual audit services and employee benefit plan audits in conjunction with the Committee’s annual
appointment of the outside auditors. The materials include a description of the services along with
related fees. The Committee also reviews and pre-approves other classes of recurring services along with
fee thresholds for pre-approved services. In the event that the pre-approval fee thresholds are met and
additional services are required prior to the next scheduled Committee meeting, pre-approvals of
additional services follow the process described below.
Any requests for audit, audit-related, tax and other services not contemplated with the recurring
services approval described above must be submitted to the Audit Committee for specific pre-approval
and cannot commence until such approval has been granted. Normally, pre-approval is provided at
regularly scheduled meetings. However, the authority to grant specific pre-approval between meetings, as
necessary, has been delegated to the Chairman of the Audit Committee. The Chairman must update the
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