Continental Airlines (
IATA: CO,
ICAO:
COA, Callsign: CONTINENTAL) (
NYSE:
CAL) is a
United States certificated air carrier.
Based in
Downtown Houston, Texas, it is the fourth-largest airline in the US based on revenue passenger miles. Since
1998,
Continental's marketing slogan has been "
Work Hard, Fly
Right."
Continental operates flights to destinations throughout the
U.S.,
Canada,
Latin America,
Europe, and the Asia-Pacific regions.
Together with its subsidiaries it has more than 4,
000 daily departures, serving 133 domestic and 132 international destinations and has 43,246 employees (as of
June 2009).
Principal operations are from its three hubs at
Newark Liberty International Airport (in
Newark, New Jersey),
George Bush Intercontinental Airport (in
Houston, Texas), and
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (in
Cleveland, Ohio).
Continental Micronesia, a wholly owned subsidiary, operates routes around
Micronesia from its hub at
Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport in
Guam and connects the Micronesian region with destinations in
East Asia,
Southeast Asia,
Honolulu and
Cairns, Australia.
Continental Airlines is a minority owner of
ExpressJet Airlines, which operates under the trade name
Continental Express but is a separately managed and publicly-traded company.
Chautauqua Airlines also flies under the Continental Express identity, and
Cape Air,
Colgan Air, CommutAir, and
Gulfstream International Airlines feed Continental's flights under the
Continental Connection identity. Continental does not have any ownership interests in these companies.
Continental left SkyTeam on
October 24, 2009 and joined
Star Alliance on
October 27, 2009.
Continental operates flights to destinations throughout the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific regions. It has more than 3,000 daily departures, serving 151 domestic and
120 international destinations and has 42,
200 employees (as of
March 2007).[5] Principal operations are from its three hubs at Newark Liberty International Airport (in Newark, New Jersey), George Bush Intercontinental Airport (in Houston, Texas), and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (in Cleveland, Ohio). Continental Micronesia, a wholly owned subsidiary, operates routes around Micronesia from its hub at Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport on Guam and connects the Micronesian region with destinations in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Honolulu and Cairns, Australia.
Continental Airlines is a minority owner of ExpressJet Airlines, which operates under the trade name Continental Express but is a separately managed and publicly-traded company. Cape Air, Colgan Air, CommutAir, and Gulfstream International Airlines feed Continental's flights under the Continental Connection identity, as does Chautauqua Airlines under the Continental Express identity, although Continental does not have any ownership interests in these companies.
Since
September 2004, Continental has been a member of the
SkyTeam Alliance, in which it participates with
Northwest Airlines,
Delta Air Lines,
Air France,
Aeromexico, Alitalia and
KLM; In addition to extensive code share arrangements with SkyTeam partner airlines, the airline also code-shares with
Amtrak rail services to some cities in the northeastern United States, with
US Helicopter which fly from Newark Liberty International Airport to
Manhattan, and with
SNCF French Rail to destinations in
France. In 2008, Continental announced that it will leave SkyTeam and join Star Alliance.
Fleet
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B737-300
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B737-500
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B737-700
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B737-800
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B737-900
- B757-200
- B757-200W
- B757-300
- B767-200
- B767-400
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B777-200
Will Come:
-B787-800
-B787-900
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Airlines
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- published: 18 Dec 2008
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