New Merger! Bye-bye Continental!

[SeanTK]

Interesting...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36904325

[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.

[Tyler012]

So what happens to all of the regional operators that own leases to continentals name? Do they just become United Express?

[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.

[Triple_7]

Wow...all the airlines I've ever flown on except American and Malaysia have/will disappear

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

[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.