Continental Airlines Boeing 777-224 ER N77014 (msn 29862) (Peter Max-NYC 2000) LGW (Antony J. Best), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Continental Airlines (Houston), a wholly owned subsidiary of United Continental Holdings, Inc. (Chicago), will inaugurate a fifth daily flight from its New York hub at Newark Liberty International Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport on October 30. The airline also operates two daily flights from Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, its largest hub, to Heathrow.
The additional flight offers Continental customers a new late-evening departure from New York/Newark, while the westbound schedule now features an early-morning departure from Heathrow.
Effective October 30, Continental’s London winter schedule will be as follows (timings will be different after Daylight Saving Time ends November 7; for verification of schedules, go to continental.com):
| To London/Heathrow | ||||||
| Origin | Flight no. | Departure | Arrival | Frequency | Aircraft type | |
| New York/Newark | CO18 | 10:00 a.m. | 9:20 p.m. | Daily | 757-200 | |
| New York/Newark | CO28 | 7:15 p.m. | 6:20 a.m.+1 | Daily | 757-200 | |
| New York/Newark | CO112 | 8:15 p.m. | 7:25 a.m.+1 | Daily | 777 | |
| New York/Newark | CO110 | 10:15 p.m. | 9:25 a.m.+1 | Daily | 757-200 | |
| New York/Newark | CO114 | 11:05 p.m. | 10:15 a.m.+1 | Daily | 757-200 | |
| Houston | CO34 | 4:50 p.m. | 6:50 a.m.+1 | Daily | 777 | |
| Houston | CO4 | 7:00 p.m. | 9:00 a.m.+1 | Daily | 777 | |
| From London/Heathrow | ||||||
| Destination | Flight no. | Departure | Arrival | Frequency | Aircraft type | |
| New York/Newark | CO115 | 8:40 a.m. | 1:05 p.m. | Daily | 757-200 | |
| New York/Newark | CO29 | 9:30 a.m. | 1:30 p.m. | Daily | 777 | |
| New York/Newark | CO113 | 10:30 a.m. | 3:00 p.m. | Daily | 757-200 | |
| New York/Newark | CO111 | 11:35 a.m. | 4:05 p.m. | Daily | 757-200 | |
| New York/Newark | CO19 | 5:00 p.m. | 9:30 p.m. | Daily | 757-200 | |
| Houston | CO35 | 9:20 a.m. | 2:45 p.m. | Daily | 777 | |
| Houston | CO5 | 10:45 a.m. | 4:10 p.m. | Daily | 777 | |
Continental’s Heathrow flights are operated using two aircraft types: the 276-seat Boeing 777-200, carrying 50 passengers in the BusinessFirst cabin and 226 in Economy; and the 175-seat Boeing 757-200, with 16 BusinessFirst seats and 159 Economy seats. All Continental aircraft scheduled for its Heathrow flights feature new, flat-bed seats in BusinessFirst.
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