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The Board of Directors and Stockholder of
Continental Airlines, Inc.
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Continental Airlines, Inc. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2011 and December 31,
2010 (Successor), and the related statements of consolidated operations, comprehensive income (loss), cash flow, and stockholder’s equity for the year ended
December 31, 2011 (Successor), the period from October 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010 (Successor), the period from January 1, 2010 to September 30, 2010
(Predecessor), and the year ended December 31, 2009 (Predecessor). Our audits also included the financial statement schedule listed in the index at Item 15(a).
These financial statements and 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 audit 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. We were not engaged to
perform an audit of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a
basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the
Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence
supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management,
as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the 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 (Successor), and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for the year ended December 31,
2011 (Successor), the period from October 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010 (Successor), the period from January 1, 2010 to September 30, 2010 (Predecessor),
and the year ended December 31, 2009 (Predecessor), 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 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.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Chicago, Illinois
February 22, 2012
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