Continental Airlines

- Stock symbol: CAL (NYSE)
- Annual revenue (2007): $14.23 billion
- Year established: 1934
- Industry: Air travel
- Phone: (713) 324-2950
- Fax: (713) 324-2687
- HQ: Houston, Texas
- President: Jeff Smisek
- Chairman/CEO: Larry Kellner
- CFO: Jeff Misner
- Staff: 45,610
- Frequent flyer program: OnePass
- Alliance: SkyTeam
- Fleet: 372 planes

Continental provides air travel service to over 130 domestic and 120+ international markets. Overall, Continental operates over 370 jets in mainline service and 270 jets in regional service. Continental is the fourth-largest airlines company in the U..S.Bloomberg.com: Continental Air Loss Widens to $266 Million on Fuel (January 29, 2009)
On June 18, 2009, the pilot of Continental Flight 61, from Brussels to Newark, New Jersey, died mid-flight. One of the flight's two co-pilots took over landed the plane at Newark Liberty Airport shortly before noon.http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wpix-captain-dies-mid-flight,0,4394766.story
Hub Cities
1. Houston, Texas
2. Newark, New Jersey
3. Cleveland, Ohio
4. Guam
Key Dates
1. 1934: First established as Varney Speed Lines
2. 1937: Name changes to Continental
3. 1953: Merges with Pioneer Airlines
4. 1957: Expands service to Chicago and Los Angeles
5. 1963: Hires Marlon Green, first African-American pilot of a major airline
6. 1970: Fleet adds Boeing 747s
7. 1983: Files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
8. 2007: Offers iPod docking in seats
Girl Put on Wrong Flight

Continental is issuing an apology for sending 10-year-old Miriam Kamens to New Jersey instead of her intended destination of Ohio. Kamens was flying alone from Boston, and when the error was realized no one was able to tell Kamens' father where his daughter was. The airline stated that the mishap occurred because of miscommunication by the staff.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526602,00.html

Continental Airlines News
- Continental Airlines officially joins largest airline team, Star Alliance
  
  June 18th, 2009 Continental pilot dies on trans-Atlantic flightNEWARK, NJ — Continental Airlines says a pilot who died in mid-flight was a 61-year-old man ... (October 27, 2009)
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- After Flight 3407 crash, comfort in shared tragedy
  
  Continental Airlines, which paid for travel of the victims' families for the memorial, originally proposed a service on the one-year anniversary of the ... (November 09, 2009)
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- Families of jet crash victims push for better pilot training
  
  Skiles was the first officer on Flight 1549 that landed in the Hudson River and Maurer is the dad of Lorin Maurer, who died in the crash of Continental ... (November 06, 2009)
  Spartanburg Herald Journal
- Flight 3407 families helped by 'Miracle' co-pilot
  
  By Jerry Zremski WASHINGTON — Members of the group Families of Continental Flight 3407 returned to Capitol Hill on Thursday to lobby for airline safety ... (October 30, 2009)
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