Continental Airlines

Flying while pregnant hinges on due date

2011-12-02 13:55:00

Who wants to deliver a baby on an airplane? Answer: No one. Not the mother-to-be and not the flight attendants, pilots or passengers. That's why most airlines have fairly strict requirements for women who travel near the end of their pregnancies. Even...

AMR, American Airlines file for bankruptcy

2011-11-29 06:22:00

American Airlines and its parent company AMR Corp filed for bankruptcy Tuesday after failing to win a labor deal with pilots and suffering from mounting fuel costs. AMR had been the only major U.S. carrier to avoid bankruptcy in the past decade. Its...

What's the use of antitrust law if Obama allows wireless deal?

2011-03-28 15:44:00

Airlines

2007-03-04 00:00:00

Here is a list of selected national and international airlines that offer flights out of major cities in the United States. In some cases, an airline may not have its own mileage award program, but it may partner with another airline. Note: "FF" denotes...

Bailout pays airlines for years of bad management

2001-09-30 00:00:00

AS HE pursued his doomed merger with United Airlines earlier this year, US Airways chief executive Rakesh Gangwal said "there is no Plan B" if regulators were to block the deal. Thank goodness, then, for Plan C: Using the terrorist attacks in New York...

Airlines ground 20% of schedule; workers laid off

2001-09-16 00:00:00

Airlines imposed drastic cutbacks yesterday in an effort to avoid bankruptcy after last week's terrorist attacks, with three major carriers slicing schedules by 20 percent and Continental Airlines laying off 12,000, or one-fifth of its work force. The...

Island adoption market delivers pain and profit

2003-11-02 00:00:00

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - With four young children and a fifth on the way, a visibly pregnant Neji Johnny was an easy target for a recruiter for Adoption Choices, an American agency that scours the poverty-scarred streets of this remote Western Pacific...

SARS creates turbulence for Asian airlines

2003-04-19 00:00:00

HONG KONG - While airlines around the world battled insolvency and fretted over the war in Iraq, Asian-based carriers rode out the industry's latest downturn a bit more smoothly. Then along came SARS. Asia's aviation industry has been pitched into what...

Food service in the air -- from peanuts to pesto

2004-05-23 00:00:00

To buy or not to buy -- that is the question that plagues some airline passengers who aren't certain whether they are going to get fed on their flights. Nowadays, airlines show in-flight food options on their Web sites. Sometimes, the carriers will...

US Air to lay off 11,000, cut schedule

2001-09-18 00:00:00

The financial devastation hitting the airline industry hit home yesterday as US Airways Group Inc., the second-biggest operator at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, said it will cut about 11,000 jobs and trim its flight schedule by 23 percent....

Pilots not surprised by airport security breaches

2001-09-12 00:00:00

Commercial pilots who crisscross the country daily in jetliners like those used in yesterday's attacks say the terrorists probably included trained pilots, took advantage of lax airport security and carefully chose the flights they hijacked. The pilots...

2 teams to develop plans for air travel safety

2001-09-17 00:00:00

With airlines still flying a reduced schedule and struggling financially, Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta announced yesterday that he wants a group of private experts to recommend quickly how air travel can be made safer. Mineta named six...

Continental Airlines flight 1404 veered off the left side of runway 34R during a takeoff from Denver International Airport. The captain and five passengers were seriously injured.

2011-07-18 23:00:00

Law enforcement officials take a man off a Continental Airlines flight from Houston to Chicago that was diverted to St. Louis. Witnesses and authorities say the man yelled that he had to get off the plane and tried to open the main entry door while the plane was in flight. A passenger took this

2011-05-09 00:00:00

LaShonia Hunter, 23, of the Poconos in Pennsylvania, tries on the wig she'll wear to audition for the "American Idol" reality television show as she waits with thousands of potential contestants at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, N.J., Monday, Aug. 14, 2006.

2010-02-18 08:14:48