Continental Airlines News Archives

Put volume was heavy last Friday on Continental Airlines, Inc. , with 9,395 contracts crossing the tape -- amounting to 2.87 times the stock's usual daily volume.

Recent service fee and domestic fare increases by Continental Airlines suggest the world's fifth largest airline believes that pricing power has shifted from the consumer back to air carriers.

Filed under: Good news , Industry , AMR Corp , Contl Airlines'B' , UAL Corp , Options , Technical Analysis American Airlines shares are rising today along with most other major airlines this morning after the International Air Transport Association said international passenger demand rose 0.3% year-over-year in September , the first month of growth ...

Oct. 28 -- Hunter Keay, an analyst at Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton and Julie Hyman about the possibility of a merger between Continental Airlines Inc.

Continental Airlines Inc. will add more fees for specific products and services to help return to profit, according to President Jeff Smisek, who becomes chief executive officer on Jan.

Continental Airlines and ANA have signed an Alliance Agreement allowing both carriers to strengthen cooperation just after Continental's joining the Star Alliance on October 27, 2009.

American Airlines Inc. said Tuesday it remains hopeful it'll get a decision on its joint business agreement with its Oneworld partners by a Saturday deadline, but it acknowledged that there may be a delay.

Continental Airlines on Tuesday officially joined the Star Alliance, a move it says will give passengers more options and the airline more places to expand.

Air Canada president Calin Rovinescu says customers will gain access to scores of new destinations while the airline pockets new revenue after Continental Airlines joins the Star Alliance partnership on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Continental Airlines switches teams. After months of preparations, the Houston-based carrier will leave its SkyTeam alliance with Delta Air Lines and others and become part of the Star Alliance, a global network headed by United Airlines.

Option volume skyrocketed on Continental Airlines, Inc. on Wednesday, after Jeff Smisek, the airline issue's chief operating officer, called the firm's third-quarter earnings report "nothing to brag about and very disappointing." During the course of the session, the security saw roughly 8,400 puts and 8,650 calls cross the tape, virtually tripling ...

Continental Airlines today reported a third quarter 2009 net loss of $18 million .

A lawyer has entered a not guilty plea for a private security guard at a New Jersey airport who is accused of threatening President Barack Obama.John Brek said nothing when he appeared via video in a Newark courtroom Thursday.

A Continental Airlines 737 sit at a gate while another jet lands. WHAT'S NEXT? Answers to questions on Continental Airline's exit from SkyTeam on Saturday and membership in the Star Alliance beginning Tuesday.

Reg Milley, president and CEO of Edmonton Airports, announces the resumption of non-stop air service between Edmonton and Houston, Texas, on Continental Airlines, on Aug.

AMR Corp., the parent company of American Airlines and American Eagle, said Wednesday that it swung to a third-quarter loss on a tough year-ago comparison.

Airlines value premium travelers above other customers, letting them board first, eat a meal, and order a cocktail without whipping out a credit card.

Stock futures pointed to a lower opening on Wall Street Wednesday as third-quarter earnings reports once again set the market's mood.

Continental Airlines Inc. lost money in the third quarter as business travelers stayed home, causing a nosedive in airline revenue.

Updated at 5:07 p.m. ATLANTA -- A federal judge Monday tossed out a Continental Airlines Inc.

AirTran Holdings Inc., operator of discount carrier AirTran Airways, reports third-quarter results on Wednesday.

Meyer says the Continental Airlines flight was a military charter en route to Baltimore with 120 passengers and crew on board.

A plane carrying military personnel from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has made an emergency landing at a South Florida airport.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters President Jim Hoffa is in New Jersey today.

American Airlines raised fares by as much as $16 roundtrip on many U.S. routes, prompting Delta Air Lines Inc., Continental Airlines Inc.

Continental Airlines will start charging customers traveling in the Asia-Pacific region for their second checked-in bag, pending final federal government approval.

A report of smoke in the cockpit led a Continental Express commuter jet with 38 passengers and a three-member crew on board to make an emergency landing at College Station's Easterwood Airport.

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer says the company got the wrong impression from early positive feedback on Vista and won't make the same mistake with the software's successor, Windows 7. Ballmer established a process for gathering feedback from computer makers, and he's personally surveying customers - along with his teenage ...

Based on the aggregated intelligence of 140,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS , the Fool's free investing community, Continental Airlines has received the dreaded one-star ranking .

There isn't much suspense around the upcoming third-quarter earnings reports from U.S. airlines - most big carriers likely finished in the red - but a recent uptick in travel may indicate a recovery is about to take off.

Continental Airlines on Wednesday announced it will add new flights from Honolulu and Maui in the spring.

A Michigan man has been arrested at Bush Intercontinental Airport on child pornography charges, federal officials said today.

Continental Airlines is set to introduce its first newly configured Boeing 777-200ER with its BusinessFirst flat-bed seat by the end of October.

It is no secret that Investment Guru Mohnish Pabrai is having second thoughts on his investment in regional airline operator Pinnacle Airlines Corp.

Most airline passengers know to check that their flight's running on time before heading off to the airport.

Airline stocks were climbing Friday after Continental Airlines reported traffic growth for the first time in more than a year.

Continental Airlines and United Airlines yesterday announced that Continental will move its Tokyo operations to the South Wing of Terminal 1 at Narita International Airport starting Nov.

Take it back. That's what general counsel Jeffrey Zimmerman, of Hertz Global Holdings Inc., has demanded from a research firm that put Hertz on a list of companies "likely to go bankrupt or suffer severe financial distress." First Zimmerman wrote a letter to the chief executive of Audit Integrity, the New York research firm, accusing the firm of ...