United & Continental
Jan 20, 2006 | 5:57 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NYC
Programs: AA-Million Miles++, Pan Am, Eastern, Asia Miles, True Blue, IHG Spire, Emirates, APEC & Global Entry
Posts: 116
United & Continental
Financial Times article today states "...speculation continues that United could eventually combine with Houston-based Continental."
Is this common speculation?
Hope the latter subsumes the former!
Is this common speculation?
Hope the latter subsumes the former!
Jan 20, 2006 | 6:47 pm
#2
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Washington, DC USA
Programs: UA; Amtrak
Posts: 2,002
Discussed at length, with suitable indignation from both airlines' FFs, in
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=517043
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=441218
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=441304
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=501886
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=501897
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=501897
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=463299
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=517043
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=441218
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=441304
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=501886
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=501897
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=501897
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=463299
Jan 20, 2006 | 7:58 pm
#3
Join Date: Dec 2004
Programs: UA-1K, MM, Hilton-Diamond, Marriott-Titanium
Posts: 4,497
Ua & CO
I don't think it will happen but I could always dream of all the travel possibilities my combined mileage programs would garner. I have been elite with both of them at different times and they both have good and bad points. I always found it much easier to get my rewqard tickets on UAL then on CO.