United Airlines announces public offering of common stock and convertible senior notes

United Airlines announced (30-Sep-2009) plans to offer common stock and convertible senior notes with the net proceeds from both offerings to be used for general corporate purposes:

• 19 million shares of its common stock in an underwritten registered public offering.
• USD175 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2029 in a concurrent underwritten registered public offering. [more]