Defunct regional airline of the United States (1986–2012)
Continental Connection
IATA
ICAO
Callsign
9K
9L
C5
3M
KAP
CJC
UCA
SIL
CAIR
COLGAN
COMMUTAIR
SILVER WINGS
Founded
1986 (1986)
Ceased operations
March 3, 2012 (2012-03-03) (merged into United Express)
Hubs
Cleveland
Denver–Stapleton (1986–1995)
Houston–Intercontinental
Newark
Frequent-flyer program
OnePass
Alliance
SkyTeam (affiliate; 2004–2009)
Star Alliance (affiliate; 2009–2012)
Wings Alliance (affiliate)
Parent company
Continental Airlines (1986–2011)
United Airlines (2011–2012)
Headquarters
Houston, Texas, United States
Continental Connection was the brand name under which several commuter airline carriers and their holding companies operated services marketed exclusively by Continental Airlines. As such, all Continental Connection banner carrier services were operated primarily with turboprop aircraft in contrast to Continental Express, whose flights were operated by Continental's regional jet partners, ExpressJet and Chautauqua Airlines. Continental Connection operations were merged into Continental Express in 2012.
According to the Official Airline Guide, earlier Continental Express flights, such as those operated by Royale Airlines followed by Britt Airways from the Continental hub at Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH), were operated with such turboprop aircraft as the ATR-42, Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante, Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia, and Grumman Gulfstream I during the 1980s.[1]
All flights operated by Continental Connection carriers were given full OnePass frequent-flyer credit, as if they were mainline Continental flights.
The "Continental Connection" name was discontinued and the operation was renamed United Express following the merger of Continental Airlines with United Airlines.
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was operating as ContinentalConnection on behalf of Continental Micronesia in Guam. Silver Airways was also a ContinentalConnection carrier that converted...
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the ContinentalConnection banner, though the Cessnas remained in the Cape Air livery. Cape Air also began flying flights for ContinentalConnection from...
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services in the Mariana Islands under the ContinentalConnection banner on July 1, 2004. Soon afterward, Continental Micronesia eliminated most jet services...
operating as New York Air Connection with Beechcraft Model 99's, Beech 1900C's, and Shorts 330's. New York Air was merged into Continental Airlines on February...
created in 1926 by Walter Varney who later co-founded the predecessor to Continental Airlines. In 1997, United became one of the five founding airlines of...
introduced in 1990. GP Express operated as a ContinentalConnection carrier in association with Continental Airlines at the major carrier's hub in Denver...
Continental Airlines Flight 1713 was a commercial airline flight that crashed while taking off in a snowstorm from Stapleton International Airport in...
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At 16:38 CEST (14:38 UTC), five minutes before the Concorde departed, Continental Airlines Flight 55, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, took off from the same...
second African carrier, joined on 11 July 2008. On 27 October 2009, Continental Airlines became the 25th member of Star Alliance after leaving SkyTeam...
flights to communities as AmericanConnection from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, and as ContinentalConnection from Cleveland Hopkins International...
2011 that the company was reactivating them as a codeshare operated by Continental Airlines, sparking an outcry from some in the media and the labor union...
Continental Airlines Flight 11, registration N70775, was a Boeing 707 aircraft which exploded in the vicinity of Centerville, Iowa, United States, while...
: 100 John Kenneth Stille – chemist Jay Ramsdell – commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association Spencer Bailey – writer, editor, and journalist...
Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands. It can also be referred to ambiguously...
Continental Airlines Flight 1404 was a Continental Airlines domestic flight from Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado, to George Bush Intercontinental...
Colgan Air flying as ContinentalConnection was operating two flights a day to IAH with 34-seat Saab 340B turboprops. Continental was eventually merged...
2011 that the company was reactivating them as a codeshare operated by Continental Airlines, sparking an outcry from some in the media and the labor union...
closed), which was built to accommodate Continental Express and ContinentalConnection flights. In June 1999, Continental Airlines launched flights to London's...
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could not contain diagonal beams, since these would have obstructed the connections between each of the "tubes". Therefore, the columns and the horizontal...
maintain it and was purchased by Continental Airlines in 1986. Continental'sContinental Express and ContinentalConnection affiliates served Albany until...
not sit on continental shelves. Other definitions limit the term to only refer to islands with no past geological connections to a continental landmass...
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