Category Archives: Star Alliance

Continental Airlines’ new CEO Jeff Smisek tries to make the company profitable

Continental Airlines Boeing 737-724 WL N13720 (msn 28939) (Star Alliance) IAH (Jeffrey S. DeVore) (first CO -700 in Star Alliance colors), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

Continental Airlines’ (Houston) new CEO (since January) Jeff Smisek is trying to make his company profitable again. He is making some significant changes.

Read this interesting profile:

www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6932510.html

Copyright Photo: Jeffrey S. DeVore. CO put the first Boeing 737-700 painted in the Star Alliance livery into revenue service yesterday. 737-724 N13720 (msn 28939) prepares to taxi to the runway bound for New Orleans.

Continental paints its first Boeing 737-800 Star Alliance logojet

Copyright Photo: Brian Rowland.

Continental Airlines (Houston) has painted its first Boeing 737-800 in the Star Alliance color scheme. The first revenue service should be on flight CO 1723 (Houston) IAH-ONT today (January 20). Boeing 737-824 N26210 (msn 28770) was ferried yesterday (January 19) from Amarillo (AMA) to IAH as COA 9971 after it was repainted into the Star Alliance livery.

Photos are welcome.

Continental introduces its first Boeing 777 Star Alliance logojet

Continental Airlines (Houston) has painted its first Boeing 777 in the Star Alliance color scheme. Boeing 777-224 ER N78017 (msn 31679) was painted at Hong Kong and went into revenue service between HKG and Newark as flight CO 98 yesterday (December 1).

Continental Airlines’ first Star Alliance logojet is now flying

Continental Airlines Boeing 757-224 WL N14120 (msn 27562) (Star Alliance) MAD, originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

Boeing 757-224 N14120 (msn 27562) arrives at Madrid.

ANA Group reports its fiscal 1Q financial results

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News link:

finance.yahoo.com/news/ANA-Financial-Results-for-the-iw-1368307904.html?x=0&.v=1

Continental wins DOT antitrust immunity

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Continental Airlines (Houston) has received an approval from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for antitrust immunity for its growing relationship with United Airlines and the Star Alliance.

Press Release:

finance.yahoo.com/news/Continental-Airlines-Receives-prnews-4282669965.html?x=0&.v=1

Aegean Airlines to join the Star Alliance

Aegean Airlines (Athens) will join the Star Alliance. The company will soon start the integration process which is expected to take around 12 months. Aegean is expected to become the 26th member.