Post-Effective Amendment No. 2
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 17, 2007
Registration No. 333-67886
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
 
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
Post-Effective Amendment No. 2
 
to
Form S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
 
Continental Airlines, Inc.
 
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
 
 
Delaware
 
74-2099724
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
 
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
1600 Smith Street
Houston, Texas 77002
(713) 324-5000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
 
 
Jennifer L. Vogel, Esq.
Senior Vice President,
General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer
1600 Smith Street
Department HQSEO
Houston, Texas 77002
(713) 324-2950
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
 
Copies to:
 
John K. Hoyns, Esq.
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
One Battery Park Plaza
New York, NY 10004-1482
(212) 837-6762
 
 
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.
 
If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.      o


 
If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.      o
 
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If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.      o
 
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This post-effective amendment shall hereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(c) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(c), may determine.



 

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
 
On August 17, 2001, Continental Airlines, Inc. (the “Registrant”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-67886) (the “Registration Statement”), which registered $1,800,000,000 total principal amount of pass through certificates.
 
In accordance with the undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement pursuant to Item 512(a)(3) of Regulation S-K, the Registrant files this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement to deregister all securities registered that remain unsold pursuant to the Registration Statement, which is $571,630,237 total principal amount of pass through certificates.



SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Continental Airlines, Inc. certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Houston, State of Texas, on May 16, 2007.
 

   CONTINENTAL AIRLINES, INC.
     
     
 
By: 
/s/ JENNIFER L. VOGEL
 
Name: Jennifer L. Vogel
 
Title:   Senior Vice President, General
Counsel, Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer
 
      Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement has been signed on behalf of the following persons in the capacities indicated, on May 16, 2007.
 

Signature
  
Title
     
 /s/ LAWRENCE W. KELLNER
  
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive
Officer) and Director
Lawrence W. Kellner
  
     
 
  
President and Director
Jeffery A. Smisek
  
     
*
  
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal
Financial Officer)
Jeffrey J. Misner
  
     
*
  
Vice President and Controller
(Principal Accounting Officer)
Chris Kenny
  
     
*
  
Director
Thomas J. Barrack, Jr.
  
     
*
  
Director
Kirbyjon H. Caldwell
  
     
*
  
Director
Douglas H. McCorkindale
  
     
   
Director
Henry L. Meyer III
  
     
   
Director
Oscar Munoz
  
 
 
 
     
*
  
Director
George G. C. Parker
  
     
*
  
Director
Karen Hastie Williams
  
     
   
Director
Ronald B. Woodard
  
     
*
  
Director
Charles A. Yamarone
  
     
     
*By:
        /s/ JENNIFER L. VOGEL
    
Jennifer L. Vogel
Attorney in Fact