Continental – United update

With a little more than eight months gone since the merger of Continental Airlines (CO) and United Air Lines (UA) the company is able to report that half of the combined mainline fleet now features the new shared livery.  

As of 8 June, the airline has completed repainting 351 aircraft in the combined colour scheme.  There are also aeroplanes in the Star Alliance colours and with the heritage themes such as the FriendShip Airbus A320 and the Blue Skyway Boeing 737-900ER.  The airline says it expects to finish the entire CO fleet and all the UA narrow bodies by 30 June 2012, and the last of the UA wide bodies in 2013.     

At Heathrow, its main European centre, the combined flight operation now offers 17 flights every day.  Currently United operate four daily services from the Star Alliance Terminal 1 to Washington, DC; three to Chicago; two to San Francisco and one to Los Angeles.  Continental is still in T4 with twice daily Houston services, and five New York/Newark flights.  Newark is also served non-stop from Manchester (twice daily), Edinburgh (twice daily), Belfast, Birmingham and Glasgow (all daily).  In the Irish Republic the New Jersey airport has services twice daily from Dublin and 11 times weekly from Shannon. www.united.com

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