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Continental Airlines: The Low-Fare, Green-Fuel Pioneer
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Continental Airlines has its hubs at Houston Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Newark Liberty in greater New York City, and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, Ohio. Operating over 6,000 flights a day to travel destinations across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and to many locations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Micronesia, Continental employs over 82,000 workers.
Frequent fliers will want to know that Continental is a member of the SkyTeam Alliance, currently partnering with Delta, Northwest, Air France, Aeromexico, KLM, and Alitalia. In October 2009, however, Continental plans to discontinue its travel membership in SkyTeam in order to joint Star Alliance. Joining Star Alliance will permit Continental to work more closely with United Airlines, with which it has been in merger talks since 2006. For the immediate future, however, Continental plans to focus on its upcoming membership in the Star Alliance.
The Continental frequent flyer travel program is OnePass. Member earn valuable miles on all Continental flights, as well as when they travel on Aero Republica, Copa, or any other SkyTeam carrier (Star Alliance after October 2009). Frequent flyers can earn and use their miles on Continental or any other carrier in its alliance.
The airline was founded in 1931 as Varney Speed Lines, its name changed to Continental Airlines in 1937. The airline was originally based in El Paso, Texas and offered service to Colorado, New Mexico, and Las Vegas, Nevada.
Many modern flyers do not know that at one time, the only class was first class—and ticket prices were always high. Continental pioneered the lower fare movement, introducing coach class fares in 1962. Continental has been flying to Europe since 1985.
Continental Airlines was also the first American airline to hire an African-American pilot, in 1963, as well as the first U.S. carrier successfully to fly through bankruptcy.
Continental recently achieved yet another first with the first biofuel-powered flight by any commercial airline in the U.S. The fuel for the flight was a fuel oil blend extracted from jatrophra seeds and algae. Continental plans to continue working with biofuels, as part of its comprehensive effort to reduce its carbon footprint. Every passenger on Continental gets an opportunity to buy carbon offsets for as little as two dollars a ticket, the money used to restore deforested areas. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has honored Continental for its continuing efforts at greener transportation.
Continental Airlines operates a fleet that consists entirely of Boeing aircraft: Boeing 737, 757, 767 and 777. The airline plans to add the Boeing Dreamliner 787 to its fleet in a couple of years. Continental signed an exclusive agreement with Boeing in the late 1990, but the European Union forced the contracts to be voided when Boeing acquired rival McDonnell Douglas in 1997. However, the agreement has continued since then.
Continental has struggled financially over the past few years, like most United States airlines. The airline reported losing millions of dollars in 2008 due to increased fuel costs and airline pilot retirement expenses.
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