Continental Airlines, down hill all the way to catch United Airlines
Continental Airlines is United at last. I make no bones about it, I was a fan of Continental Airlines. They had a policy (even on International Services) of operating into Regional Airports and although there was always a marginal premium to be paid, the benefits far outweighed the disadvantages. I became a fan when they introduced a regular service into Bristol (BRS) from Newark NJ (EWR) in 2005. Although I frequently traveled between Dallas-Ft. Worth (DFW) and the UK using direct flights on American Airlines, British Airways and even British Caledonian and Braniff in earlier times the misery of the journey in the UK, to and from Gatwick (LGW) and later Heathrow (LHR) in both summer and winter were and still are too much. So from 2005 I flew into and out of Bristol on Continental. Although that meant clearing Customs and Immigration at Newark, the flight was never more than seven hours, I never had to 'stack' over central England and the journey to the airport took les...