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With this tool, airline managers reduce costs. Terms of an employee contract negotiated over years can be eliminated in months through Chapter 11. Terms of the Railway Labor Act, amended in 1936 to cover airlines, prevent most labor union work actions before, during and after an airline bankruptcy. Continental Airlines declared bankruptcy ...
A subsidiary of Continental Airlines: Continental Airlines: Texas: CO: COA: CONTINENTAL: Houston Bush: 1937: 2012: Merged into United Airlines: Continental Charters: Florida: Miami: 1945: 1954: Irregular air carrier bankrupt 1954, then bought for $20 after which CAB refused to allow it to operate Continental Connection: Cleveland Hopkins: 2012
Continental Airlines became the first airline to launch a mobile boarding pass service to London's Heathrow. The service allowed customers to receive boarding passes electronically on their mobile phones or PDAs. [76] Continental Airlines left the SkyTeam alliance on October 24, 2009, and joined Star Alliance on October 27, 2009. [77]
I know what you're thinking: "Bankrupt" and "airlines" are synonymous, and to some extent you're correct. We've witnessed more than 100 bankruptcies in the airline sector since 1990 and all ...
The competing Denver-based low-cost airline first offered to buy Spirit Airlines in 2022 but was outbid by a $3.8 billion JetBlue deal. A federal judge ultimately blocked that agreement over ...
The average salary of Continental's pilots after the bankruptcy filing was 30% to 50% lower than before the filing. [72] Senior Management also reduced their salaries to those of the pilots. [73] Continental was the first airline to largely gradually replace a pilot workforce. The pilots eventually voted their union out.
The only good news about the merger between United (UAUA) and Continental Airlines (CAL) is that it will bring Southwest (LUV) into the mix at Newark Airport, giving the carrier a much larger ...
American Airlines Flight 2232: As the March 9, 2012, flight to Chicago was taxiing from the gate at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, a flight attendant began telling passengers that the plane would have to return to the gate, then began discussing bankruptcy, her career with the airline, and saying she would not be responsible for the ...