Tag Archive: Continental/United merger

Delta Completes Repainting of Mainline Fleet – OPShots.net

Atlanta based Delta Air Lines has finally completed a multi-year effort to repaint its mainline fleet, a task made more complicated by the October, 2008 acquisition of Northwest Airlines.   The carrier began repainting it’s fleet of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas aircraft into a fresh new livery after emerging from bankruptcy in 2007, and with the …

Continue reading »

First Airbus with new United livery enters service | OPShots.net

The first Airbus aircraft of the recent marriage of Continental and United Airlines made its public debut on Friday, January 21 when it operated flight 279 from Chicago (ORD), to Denver (DEN), after being ferried from the paint facility in Greenville (GLH), Mississippi, earlier in the day.  From Denver, it operated a round-trip to Des …

Continue reading »

United, AA Sue Chicago Over O’Hare Plans | AVIATION WEEK

The two large hub operators at Chicago O’Hare International Airport have gone to the courts to stop the City of Chicago from financing and starting construction on the $3.36-billion second phase of the O’Hare Modernization Program. United and American airlines asked the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., to affirm that the lease arrangement between …

Continue reading »

Arbitrator sides with Continental Airlines pilots on regional jets | cleveland.com

Continental Express with United Express

The new United Airlines can’t identify its 70-seat regional jets as Continental Airlines flights, an arbitrator has ruled. The arbitrator agreed with Continental’s pilots, who argued that their labor contract requires them — not regional pilots — to fly planes of that size. The new airline is free to fly 70-seat jets from Continental hubs …

Continue reading »

Older posts «

» Newer posts