CO/UA Receives FAA Single Operating Certificate on 30 November 2011 [Updated Title]
Dec 1, 2011, 4:50 am
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I am happy to see the merger has progressed to this important milestone, and in fact noted it in a link on G+.
However, along with the Tulip and the name of the FF program, I do not care a whit about the chosen ATC callsign, whether it alternately had ended up Continental, UCH (say it like "Ouch"), or Varney.
As long as I can still hear whatevertheycallit on Channel 9.
However, along with the Tulip and the name of the FF program, I do not care a whit about the chosen ATC callsign, whether it alternately had ended up Continental, UCH (say it like "Ouch"), or Varney.
As long as I can still hear whatevertheycallit on Channel 9.
Dec 1, 2011, 9:02 am
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Dec 1, 2011, 9:17 am
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Dec 1, 2011, 10:49 am
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We (FlightAware) had some pains yesterday because various airline systems still consider them to be CO flights from a ticketing perspective (which are codeshared on UA and operated with the UA callsign) while in ATC-world it's all UAL. We have it fixed now so all flights natively operate as UA and there's a CO codeshare for every flight.
Dec 1, 2011, 12:44 pm
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We (FlightAware) had some pains yesterday because various airline systems still consider them to be CO flights from a ticketing perspective (which are codeshared on UA and operated with the UA callsign) while in ATC-world it's all UAL. We have it fixed now so all flights natively operate as UA and there's a CO codeshare for every flight.
Dec 1, 2011, 3:47 pm
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Dec 1, 2011, 4:22 pm
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I took 2 flights today on what I really consider to be Continental flights. However, when going to input them into my flightmemory I was stumped on what airline to put. I suppose it's somewhat a personal preference right now but what would you do?
Dec 1, 2011, 4:23 pm
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They are still operating as two separate carriers, and as such, input it as CO.
Dec 1, 2011, 4:55 pm
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Dec 1, 2011, 5:01 pm
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When CO crews are on UA flights, and UA crews are on CO flights, then I'll consider it a single airline. Calling CO, the phone hold music even says that they're operating as United and Continental...