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The Board of Directors and Stockholders
United Continental Holdings, Inc.
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of United Continental Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2011 and
December 31, 2010, and the related statements of consolidated operations, comprehensive income (loss), cash flows, and stockholders’ equity (deficit) for
each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2011. Our audits also included the financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15(a) for the
years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010. These financial statements and the financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s
management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that
we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes
examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting
principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits
provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the
Company at December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2010, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the
period ended December 31, 2011, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, such financial statement schedule,
when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth
therein.
As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company elected to change its method of accounting for frequent flyer award breakage in
2010.
As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has changed its method of accounting for multiple deliverable revenue
recognition as a result of the adoption of the amendments to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification resulting from Accounting Standards Update
No. 2009-13, Multiple Deliverable Revenue Arrangements, effective January 1, 2011.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the Company’s internal control
over financial reporting as of December 31, 2011, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of
Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 22, 2012, expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Chicago, Illinois
February 22, 2012
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