well going to be flying home for a couple weeks in about a mounth and was price shoping and found that Continental Airlines is about 80 bucks cheaper than anything else I can find. they were 150 for a flight from pheonix-grandrapids and everyone else is over 200. is thier a valid reason why thier so much cheaper or is it just because the company is hard up to fill thier planes?
anyone ever fly Continental Airlines??
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I've always been happy with Continental (took them to the mideast a few times, so after that I pretty much got upgraded whenever I flew them or NorthWest), definately prefer them to United or AA.
Bill
I just bought a airline ticket from Washington DC to Kansas City and Continental was one of the most expensive
fares I found.
I went with US Airways
I think it jst depends on the carriers main hubs and how busy each route is.
fares I found.
I went with US Airways
I think it jst depends on the carriers main hubs and how busy each route is.
Continental is a great airline. It is my hometown airline and I fly on them 6-10 times a year. Their planes and service are really nice.
its been a few years since i flew with them, but i had no complaints. Their service was superior, and they gave out more food than most airlines do.
Ive flown with continental several times, I think they are one of the better airlines. They have Etickets and very modern/clean jets.
I flew with Continental once from Denver to Hartford, CT with a stop in Cleveland. It was on-time and the service was good.
I fly a good amount, and have never had any problems with them. I can't say that about American, and Delta!!!!
I flew them last christmas/new years season from NY to Phoenix.
There is a reason they are cheap.
This trip involved 4 flights -- 3 going there and direct back. ALL 4 flights were late to varying degrees and not because they waited for each other. I noticed that some of the terminals they use have ads for both Continental & America's West (aka America's Worst, the airline that actually rates their own flights as having a 10% chance of being on-time), they might be merging or something.
2 of the flights used the "ExpressJet"s, which are tiny planes that have only 3 seats per row (1 on left, 2 on right). On both of these flights, there was a delay because they had to have people change seats to the back and/or add sandbags to the luggage compartment to "balance" the weight of the plane.
The second flight spent about 90 minutes circling Houston airport (continental's main hub) in the air because they had an air-traffic jam there so apparently every flight into there was delayed). It finally landed less than 3 minutes before my connecting flight was supposed to leave so I sprinted across the airport to catch it. This had to be over a mile easily. Fortunately this flight had also been delayed about 25 minutes and they had people moving from one terminal to another because they changed which one it would leave from at about this time. My luggage did not make this connection and arrived at its destination 2 days later. I wasn't the only one in line at the baggage office who made this particular connection either, but it was a bit too complicated for them to figure out I guess.
Continental couldn't track down the luggage for most of a day, even though it still had the nametags & flight path stickers on it when I got it. They were claiming it went through cleveland somehow. (Flight path was newark->dayton->houston->phoenix).
One of these flights had an in-flight movie, and I found out the wonderful new policy on this..... the crappy headsets if you want audio with your movie are no longer free. You get to pay $5 for headphones that go in the special airplane audio jacks.
There is a reason they are cheap.
This trip involved 4 flights -- 3 going there and direct back. ALL 4 flights were late to varying degrees and not because they waited for each other. I noticed that some of the terminals they use have ads for both Continental & America's West (aka America's Worst, the airline that actually rates their own flights as having a 10% chance of being on-time), they might be merging or something.
2 of the flights used the "ExpressJet"s, which are tiny planes that have only 3 seats per row (1 on left, 2 on right). On both of these flights, there was a delay because they had to have people change seats to the back and/or add sandbags to the luggage compartment to "balance" the weight of the plane.
The second flight spent about 90 minutes circling Houston airport (continental's main hub) in the air because they had an air-traffic jam there so apparently every flight into there was delayed). It finally landed less than 3 minutes before my connecting flight was supposed to leave so I sprinted across the airport to catch it. This had to be over a mile easily. Fortunately this flight had also been delayed about 25 minutes and they had people moving from one terminal to another because they changed which one it would leave from at about this time. My luggage did not make this connection and arrived at its destination 2 days later. I wasn't the only one in line at the baggage office who made this particular connection either, but it was a bit too complicated for them to figure out I guess.
Continental couldn't track down the luggage for most of a day, even though it still had the nametags & flight path stickers on it when I got it. They were claiming it went through cleveland somehow. (Flight path was newark->dayton->houston->phoenix).
One of these flights had an in-flight movie, and I found out the wonderful new policy on this..... the crappy headsets if you want audio with your movie are no longer free. You get to pay $5 for headphones that go in the special airplane audio jacks.
I use to be an "Elite" with Continental. Flew them all the time. The free upgrades for elites to first class was pretty sweet. If you are going to fly very infrequently then go with whatever is cheapest and whatever time/schedule is good for you. If you are going to fly more, then generally stick with one airline or alliance (i.e. Northwest, CO and Delta or United and USAirways, etc) so you can rack up flyer miles and earn upgrades or free travel.
Aphex- I have found that it is VERY hard to book a standard reward (i.e. 25k mile rewards) on Continental. Even if I was VERY flexible on schedule, all that they had were those "EZ Pass" rewards @ 50k miles.
I had better luck booking through Northwest which seemed to have more standard rewards. Also with the airlines losing money, I would not be surprised if they start devaluing the miles and make it harder or require more miles to get free travel or upgrades.
FlyerTalk has a great forum for each airline that people discuss FF programs. People rag on Continental all the time there.
You know what happens if the center of gravity isn't within the plane's design limits?
Passenger & luggage placement is more critical on smaller planes because they're a higher percentage of the entire aircraft's weight.
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