Flight Attendants Protest at 2009 UAL Shareholder Meeting

Workers Chastise UAL BOD for Failure to Hold Executives Accountable

CHICAGO, June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Airlines Flight Attendants,
represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO (AFA-CWA),
will join other workers for the third year in a row to protest the greed and
poor decisions of CEO Glenn Tilton and other senior management.

Workers are furious with the repeated bonus programs for hundreds of millions
paid to executives while workers are forced to endure concessions. The UAL
BOD, Chaired by Glenn Tilton, is complicit in these failures of this
management including:
-- the loss of 50,000 jobs,
-- shrinking United Airlines from its premier status in the world,
-- putting the airline on the chopping block at every turn,
-- hundreds of millions lost in failed hedges as fuel prices rose and
fell,
-- shareholder payout while the stock price plummeted and other airline
conserve cash.

The UAL Board sat quietly during last year's annual shareholder meeting as
Glenn Tilton told one of United's #1 customers to take his business elsewhere
if he didn't like what was happening at United. What will the UAL Board allow
Tilton to say this year?

The picketing Protest will begin an hour before the meeting starts and
continue at the conclusion of the meeting. Many of the protesters will also
attend the meeting.

Date: June 11, 2009
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Central
Where: Linneman and Algonquin Road in Elk Grove Village, IL

More than 55,000 flight attendants, including the 16,000 flight attendants at
United, join together to form AFA, the world's largest flight attendant union.
AFA is part of the 700,000 member strong Communications Workers of America,
AFL-CIO. Visit us at www.unitedafa.org.

SOURCE Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO

Sara Nelson of the Association of Flight Attendants, +1-202-286-1973