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1999 Annual Report STOCKHOLDER INFORMATION 1999 Accomplishments Headquarters Independent Accountants Fly to Win Continental Airlines, Inc. Ernst & Young LLP Added four destinations in Europe and the Middle East, giving us more transatlantic routes from New York than any other carrier 1600 Smith Street One Houston Center Continued to enjoy domestic length-of-haul adjusted RASM premium to the industry Houston, TX 77002 1221 McKinney Joined with dozens of other airlines to create the leading Internet portal for booking travel, to be launched in 2000 Tel. (713) 324-5000 Houston, TX 77010-2007 Continued our profitable growth from our underdeveloped hubs Drove up on-line bookings on Continental’s website by 173 percent, with E-Ticket sales rising to 47 percent of total sales by the end of the year Investor Information Common Stock To obtain a Form 10-K or other Continental’s Class B and Class A common stock trade on the New financial information, visit the company’s York Stock Exchange under the symbols CAL and CAL.A. As of Fund the Future website at: www.continental.com February 16, 2000, there were 52,001,821 shares of Class B and Ended fourth consecutive year with more than $1 billion in cash and short-term investments ($1.6 billion) 11,262,949 shares of Class A common stock outstanding, with Took delivery of 58 new Boeing jets and retired 61 older planes, giving Continental one of the youngest jet fleets in the industry, just or write: 7.4 years Investor Relations approximately 14,668 holders of record of Class B and 2,884 hold- Continued stock buy-backs, spending $751 million through December 31, 1999 of an authorized $1.2 billion share repurchase program Continental Airlines, Inc. ers of record of Class A. Started operations at a third Newark terminal and updated facilities throughout our franchise hubs P.O. Box 4607 Holders of Class B common stock are entitled to one vote per Achieved significant income from the sale of non-strategic assets, including our interest in Amadeus and a portion of Equant N.V. Houston, TX 77210-4607 share, and holders of Class A common stock are entitled to ten votes per share, on all matters submitted to a vote of common Make Reliability a Reality Transfer Agent and Registrar stockholders, subject to restrictions governing voting rights of Implemented Customer First, putting our service promises into plain English for our customers Harris Trust and Savings Bank holders who are not United States citizens. Shares of Class A Expanded our Presidents Clubs by adding three lounges 311 West Monroe common stock are convertible at any time into an equal number Added larger bins to permit our customers to carry on their bags P.O. Box A3504 of shares of Class B common stock. The Company has not paid Working to convince Congress to modernize and privatize the air traffic control system Chicago, IL 60690-3504 cash dividends on its common stock and has no current inten- Working Together Attn: Shareholder Services tion to do so. Certain of the Company’s credit agreements and