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New Merger! Bye-bye Continental!

PostPosted: Sun May 02, 2010 6:31 pm
by SeanTK

Re: New Merger! Bye-bye Continental!

PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2010 1:44 pm
by VVM
From what I have seen and read - not in depth, I'll point that out now - it looks almost like it's going to be Continental with United's name.  So long as none of the bad points of United creep in it'll all be good.  Otherwise my OnePass will be going right in the bin.

Re: New Merger! Bye-bye Continental!

PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2010 5:35 pm
by Tyler012
So what happens to all of the regional operators that own leases to continentals name? Do they just become United Express?

Re: New Merger! Bye-bye Continental!

PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2010 7:32 pm
by DaveSims
So what happens to all of the regional operators that own leases to continentals name? Do they just become United Express?



Correct, they will all serve the combined company, which is saying its name will be United.  This merger will be slightly different than the Delta/NW merger, which was basically a takeover by Delta.  All of Delta's regionals still exist, but call themselves Regional Elite as a group, even though the planes say Delta Connection, and each individual carrier retained their callsigns.

Re: New Merger! Bye-bye Continental!

PostPosted: Wed May 05, 2010 1:11 am
by Triple_7
Wow...all the airlines I've ever flown on except American and Malaysia have/will disappear :o

First was TWA, then Northwest, and now Continental...I've never flown Delta or United.

Re: New Merger! Bye-bye Continental!

PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2010 3:12 pm
by Tyler012
That's a really pretty livery, I hope they keep that.

All I ask for is that they keep that good old traditional Continental Customer Care.