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FORM 3 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 OMB APPROVAL
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INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES OMB Number: 3235-0104
Expires: September 30, 1998
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Estimated average burden
Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or hours per response .... 0.5
(Print or Type Responses) Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 -----------------------------
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* 2. Date of Event Re- 4. Issuer Name AND Ticker or Trading Symbol
quiring Statement
Northwest Airlines Corporation (Month/Day/Year) Continental Airlines, Inc.; CAIA
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(Last) (First) (Middle) 1/25/98 5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) 6. If Amendment, Date
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3. IRS or Social Se- Director X 10% Owner (Month/Day/Year)
curity Number of ---- ----
2700 Lone Oak Parkway Reporting Person Officer (give Other (specify ---------------------
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(Street) 95-4205287 ---- ---- Joint/Group Filing
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Line)
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X Reporting Person
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Form filed by
More than One
Reporting Person
Eagan, Minnesota 55121 ---
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(City) (State) (Zip) TABLE I -- NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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1. Title of Security 2. Amount of Securities 3. Ownership 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial
(Instr. 4) Beneficially Owned Form: Direct Ownership (Instr. 5)
(Instr. 4) (D) or Indirect
(I) (Instr. 5)
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Class A Common Stock, $0.01 par value 8,535,868 shares I See Attachment A
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Over)
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, SEE Instruction 5(b)(v). SEC 1473 (7-97)
POTENTIAL PERSONS WHO ARE TO RESPOND TO THE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FORM ARE NOT REQUIRED
TO RESPOND UNLESS THE FORM DISPLAYS A CURRENTLY VALID OMB CONTROL NUMBER.
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FORM 3 (CONTINUED) TABLE II - DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED (E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE
SECURITIES)
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1. Title of Derivative Security 2. Date Exer- 3. Title and Amount of Securities 4. Conver- 5. Owner- 6. Nature of Indirect
(Instr. 4) cisable and Underlying Derivative Security sion or ship Beneficial
Expiration (Instr. 4) Exercise Form of Ownership
Date Price of Deriv- (Instr. 5)
(Month/Day/ Deri- ative
Year) vative Security:
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Amount (D) or
Date Expir- of Indirect
Exer- ation Title Number (I)
cisable Date of
Shares (Instr. 5)
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Explanation of Responses:
NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORPORATION
By: /s/ Douglas M. Steenland February 4, 1998
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Douglas M. Steenland Date
Senior Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary
**Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal **Signature of Reporting Person
Criminal Violations. SEE 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space is insufficient,
SEE Instruction 6 for procedure.
Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained in this form are not
required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB Number. Page 2
SEC 1473 (7-97)
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ATTACHMENT A TO FORM 3
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Reporting Person Date of Event Issuer Name and Ticker
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Northwest Airlines Corporation 1/25/98 Continental Airlines, Inc.
2700 Lone Oak Parkway CAIA
Eagan, Minnesota 55121
4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
On January 25, 1998, Northwest Airlines Corporation, a Delaware
corporation ("Northwest"), Newbridge Parent Corporation, a Delaware corporation
("Newbridge"), Air Partners, L.P., a Texas limited partnership (the
"Partnership"), the partners of the Partnership signatories thereto (the
"Partners"), Bonderman Family Limited Partnership, a Texas limited partnership
("Transferor I"), 1992 Air, Inc., a Texas corporation ("Transferor II"), and Air
Saipan, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of the
Northern Marianas Islands ("Transferor III", and collectively with "Transferor
I" and "Transferor II", the "Transferors"), entered into an Investment Agreement
(the "Investment Agreement"). Pursuant to the Investment Agreement and subject
to the terms and conditions set forth therein, Northwest and Newbridge will
acquire from the Partners the outstanding partnership interests in the
Partnership and from the Transferors the shares of Class A Common Stock of
Continental Airlines, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Continental"), par value
$.01 per share ("Continental Class A Common Stock"), owned by them, in exchange
for shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of Newbridge
("Newbridge Class A Common Stock") and cash.
The Partnership and the Transferors beneficially own in the
aggregate 8,535,868 shares of Continental Class A Common Stock, which amount
includes 3,039,468 shares that may be acquired upon the exercise of warrants
held by the Parterniship and represents approximately 13.8% of Continental's
common stock equity and approximately 51.8% of its outstanding common stock
voting power.
Under the Investment Agreement, the Partnership, the Partners and the
Transferors have agreed, among other things and subject to certain limited
exceptions, not to (i) offer for sale, sell (including short sales), transfer,
tender, pledge, encumber, assign, or otherwise dispose of (including by gift),
or enter into any contract, option or other arrangement or understanding
(including any profit-sharing arrangement) with respect to or consent to the
offer for sale, sale, transfer, tender, pledge, encumbrance, assignment or other
disposition of, any or all shares of Continental Class A Common Stock, including
shares of Continental Class A Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of
warrants to purchase shares of Continental Class A Common Stock held by the
Partnership; or (ii) grant any proxies or powers of attorney, deposit any shares
of Continental Class A Common Stock into a voting trust or enter into any other
voting arrangement with respect to any shares of Continental Class A Common
Stock.
Under the Investment Agreement, the Partnership, the Partners and the
Transferors have agreed that at any meeting of the stockholders of Continental
or in any other
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circumstance in which the Partnership's or such Transferor's vote, consent or
other approval is sought or otherwise eligible to be given, it will vote (or
cause to be voted) the shares of Continental Class A Common Stock owned by the
Partnership or the Transferor, as the case may be, (i) against any action that
would result in a material breach by the Partnership, the Partners or the
Transferors of the Investment Agreement and (ii) except as otherwise agreed by
Northwest, against the following actions: (1) any Business Combination (as such
term is defined in the Investment Agreement) involving Continental (other than a
Business Combination with Northwest or any of its affiliates), (2) any change in
the majority of the Board of Directors of Continental, (3) any material change
in the present capitalization of Continental or any amendment of Continental's
Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws, (4) any other material change in
Continental's corporate structure or business, (5) any other action that could
reasonably be expected to prevent the transactions contemplated by the
Investment Agreement or the entry by Northwest and Continental into an operating
alliance, or (6) any action that would cause the fully diluted voting power of
Continental represented by the shares of Continental Class A Common Stock held
by the Partnership and the Transferors to be less than that percentage of the
fully diluted voting power of Continental represented by such shares on the date
of the Investment Agreement.
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