(Thanks to View from the Wing):
Continental has eliminated what has been considered their best OnePass reward:  the 135,000 first class ticket to Australia on Qantas.   (Their 105,000 mile business class ticket was also a great deal.)  These tickets now cost 285,000 and 190,000 miles, respectively.  You used to have to call 330 days before [...]

The NY Times is reporting that Delta and Northwest are close to announcing a merger, an announcement of which will supposedly be shortly followed by Continental and United joining forces.
You’ll read plenty of commentary about these mergers elsewhere, so you don’t need me to analyze the minutia, but let me say this:  if you thought [...]

Good news for Continental fans: the airline will install JetBlue’s LiveTV on nearly of all its fleet beginning in early 2009 (the whole process will take about 18 months). Wi-Fi will also be available (for free) so you can use your blackberry in the sky.
First class passengers will get the television for free, [...]

(Thanks to Upgrade Travel Better for this:)
You can read the original post for the details, but basically you can now convert 25,000 Continental OnePass miles (which is worth 1 r/t domestic flight on Continental) into 3 free flights on Southwest by converting the miles into Choice Hotel points (and then moving them around from there).  [...]

This really, really, really has been a terrible summer to fly.  A Continental Airlines flight from Caracas to Newark was re-routed to Baltimore because of bad weather.  Once there, it sat on the tarmac for 5 hours, where the plane (as we’ve heard in other cases) became disgusting.  The passengers started to get angry, then [...]

Passengers on a Continental flight from Amsterdam to Newark last week said that service stunk – literally.
A problem with the toilets caused the flight to stop in Shannon, Ireland, overnight as mechanics tried to fix the issue.  The flight re-departed the next day, but the plumbing backed up again,  leaving only 1 toilet working for [...]

I know this is just a press release, but it’s pretty amazing nonetheless:  a Continental flight attendant named Norma Heape will have her 50th anniversary with the airline this week, on a flight from Newark to Hong Kong.  Pretty incredible when you consider all the upheaval in the industry (and that she’d still want to [...]

A 16 year old high school student who was on a class trip from Hawaii was kicked off a Continental Airlines flight from Newark to Hawaii because she was coughing.  I wish there was more to it than that, but it actually appears that the student has some sort of coughing spell, and the pilot [...]

A Continental Airlines flight from Hong Kong to Newark was held at the gate for 2 hours after arriving because several passengers reportedly had "flu-like" symptoms.  Earlier reports suggested that the flight was like a scene out of Airplane with a huge number of ill passengers ("We had a choice of steak or fish.  Yes, [...]

Remember that Continental Airlines flight that had an emergency landing after its pilot died in the cockpit?  According to this article, a passenger (who flies Cessnas) helped to land the plane.  Well, "helped" is probably going a bit far.  He sat in the cockpit and helped with the radio and checklists.  The best part, though, [...]