(Thanks, View from the Wing)
It looks like Northwest is beginning to make its push away from Continental, albeit in a small way:
You can read the details at Cranky’s website here, but you’ll be happy to know that Continental will be installing Live TV featuring 80 (yes 80) channels beginning early next year. Look for the full roll-out on its domestic fleet over the course of 2009. Continental’s in-flight entertainment has been subpar, and this, plus in-flight [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Continental’s In-Flight Live TV to Have 80 ChannelsContinental heard the whining, and now they’re making a change: After announcing that they were removing the 500 mile minimum for short flights, they have reversed that for Elite members and will continue to give 500 miles for short flights. Nicely done.
(The longer version is that Copa Airlines, Aero República, Hawaiian Air, Island Air, U.S. [...]
Continental became just another airline today when they announced that non-Elite members will be paying $15 to check their first bag. Don’t worry, Elite members, you’ll also be pissed off when you hear that they’re eliminating the 500-mile minimum and have reduced Platinum mileage bonus from 125% to 100%, plus they’re lowering the Silver bonus [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Continental Announces OnePass Changes: Guess What, You Won’t Like Them (Unless You Like Paying to Check Your First Bag)Whenever there’s a story about Southwest Airlines’ much-publicized fuel hedging strategy, there are lots of questions about why other airlines don’t do it. The answer? It can be risky. The example? This Houston Chronicle report notes that Continental’s most recent fuel hedges have a price floor of about $121 - around $8 higher than the [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: The Dangers of Fuel Hedging: Continental’s Hedges Under WaterA follow up on one of my favorite stories from 2005:
You may remember that preacher Joel Osteen’s wife was involved in some sort of altercation with a Continental flight attendant prior to takeoff on a flight from Houston to Vail. Mrs. Osteen found liquid on her first class seat, asked the flight attendant to clean [...]
Continental has changed its standby policies to give passengers a bit more flexibility (for a price). For a $50 fee ($25 if you’re gold or platinum), you can change your flight to any other flight that is scheduled for within 12 hours of your original flight, provided you do it within 24 hours of your [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Continental Improves Standby Policy (But You Have to Pay)According to this thread on Flyertalk, Continental is eliminating its beloved sundaes in business class on transcon flights.
Now, I enjoyed the Continental sundaes as much as anyone (frankly, if Osama Bin Laden gave me a sundae I’d probably enjoy it). I think we can all agree that sundaes, as a rule, are a good thing.
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I was away when the Continental/United tie-up was announced and everyone else has already commented on this already. I won’t bore you with a long blah blah blah about it, I’ll bore you with a short point:
- We’re at least a year from this being implemented.
- Many of the details haven’t been decided, so it’s [...]
Continental joins American and United in announcing significant job cuts and capacity reductions in the coming year. The airline said that it will cut about 3,000 jobs, and reduce mainline departures by 16% in the 4th quarter of this year (that represents about 11% of the available seat miles). Most of that will come from [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Continental to Eliminate Jobs, Capacity