Bye bye Continental
Jan 29, 2009 | 8:33 pm
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 66
Bye bye Continental
I got this in my email today:
Nothing we didn't already know, but at least some formal info.
In June 2008, Continental announced plans for extensive commercial cooperation with United Airlines and Star Alliance, linking our networks and services worldwide to deliver new benefits to our customers. We pledged to keep you informed of developments and would like to provide you an update.
Regarding SkyTeam, Continental intends to end its participation in the SkyTeam Alliance after the last scheduled flight on Oct. 24, 2009.
We continue to work through the details of our planned exit from SkyTeam and entry into Star Alliance, but anticipate our participation in Star Alliance will begin promptly after we leave SkyTeam. We are committed to providing our OnePass members with opportunities to earn and redeem miles over an extensive network.
We will be working hard with our good partners at SkyTeam, and our future good partners at Star, to make the transition from SkyTeam to Star Alliance as smooth as possible.
You can expect to receive updates from us as we continue to develop our participation in Star Alliance. Remember the most current updates may be found at continental.com.
As always, many thanks for flying Continental. We appreciate your business.
Sincerely,
Mark Bergsrud
Sr. Vice President, Marketing Programs and Distribution
Regarding SkyTeam, Continental intends to end its participation in the SkyTeam Alliance after the last scheduled flight on Oct. 24, 2009.
We continue to work through the details of our planned exit from SkyTeam and entry into Star Alliance, but anticipate our participation in Star Alliance will begin promptly after we leave SkyTeam. We are committed to providing our OnePass members with opportunities to earn and redeem miles over an extensive network.
We will be working hard with our good partners at SkyTeam, and our future good partners at Star, to make the transition from SkyTeam to Star Alliance as smooth as possible.
You can expect to receive updates from us as we continue to develop our participation in Star Alliance. Remember the most current updates may be found at continental.com.
As always, many thanks for flying Continental. We appreciate your business.
Sincerely,
Mark Bergsrud
Sr. Vice President, Marketing Programs and Distribution
Jan 30, 2009 | 12:11 am
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Bye bye, Continental! Good luck for your future where you will be in Star Alliance end of 2009. You're gonna need it? That's why we haven't flown on CO for a long time since by my last trip FLL-PHX on CO back in mid-2002. So this is obvious where CO will be joins into Star along with AC, LH, OS, BD, NZ, OZ, UA, US, CA, NH, SA, MU, EI, and etc.