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Continental Airlines Info - Information About Continental Airlines

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Continental Airlines Info - Information About Continental Airlines

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Continental Airlines

Founding Year:

The year it was founded in Texas, Continental Airlines was known as Varney Speed Lines in 1934. The name change to Continental occurred just a few years later in 1937.

Headquarters and Main Hub:

Continental is based in Houston Texas, and its main hub is also located there. Other major hubs for Continental Airlines include Newark and Cleveland.

Official Website:

Seat Maps:

Phone Number:

Phone number #800-525-0280

Frequent Flyer and Global Alliance:

Continental Airlines has a frequent flyer club called OnePass. It is part of the global alliance SkyTeam.

Frequent flyer info

Major Crashes / Incidents:

Continental's deadliest crash was in May 1962. A bomb detonated in a lavatory en route from Chicago to Kansas City, leading to the plane crashing in a field. All 45 people on board died.

The debris from a Continental flight on a runway in Paris in 2000 is partly blamed for the crash of an Air France Concorde which killed everyone on board the Air France flight.

News on Continental Airlines:

Interesting Fact:

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