United Airlines

United Airlines is the world's third-largest airline in terms of total passenger transported (behind American Airlines and Delta Air Lines) and in terms of total operating revenues (behind Air France-KLM and American Airlines). It employs around 61,000 people and operates nearly 500 aircraft. It is headquartered in unincorporated Elk Grove Township, Illinois near its operations base at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
United is prominent in the transcontinental air travel market and has large route networks spanning the Atlantic and Pacific. United Airlines carries more international passengers than any other American airline, and has a very prominent code sharing agreement in the Star Alliance to complement its international destinations. United is committed to bolstering its international image through the expansion of its current international destinations. With a very competitive and cutthroat domestic travel environment, United its capitalizing on the high fares and discriminating customers in the international travel market to bolster both its image and its bottom line.
UA is a founding member of the Star Alliance, through which it is a marketing partner of 16 other carriers. It has a special partnership with Star member Lufthansa which includes profit-sharing on certain trans-Atlantic routes. Separately, United currently code shares with SNCF French Rail to stations in France and has marketing agreements of varying intimacy with Aeromar, Air Dolomiti, Air China, Aloha Airlines, BWIA, Cayman Airways, Continental Connection (operated by Gulfstream), Great Lakes Airlines, Emirates, and Virgin Blue.