Originally Posted by
sleeves
No, both shareholders were given United Continental Holdings stock.
No. United bought Continental. Used the old CAL operating certificate, kept the HQ in Chicago and the name the same. Add the CAL pilots to the existing United Pilot Seniority List.
If you had UAL stock pre-merger, its exactly the same. They just added the name Continental to the existing corporate structure.
CAL is in the history books along with TWA, Northwest, etc.