Continental to Athens!

[fly.mcs]

Continental Airlines has announced it will begin service from Newark to Athens! Here's the flight info:

CO104 EWR-ATH (Beginning June 7, 2007)
Departs 17:30
Arrives 10:20 (next day)
Equip: B767-200
Flight Duration: 9h 50m

CO105 ATH-EWR (Beginning June 8, 2007)
Departs 12:20
Arrives 16:30
Equip: B767-200
Flight Duration: 11h 10m

This news is pretty exciting! I hope to one day fly Continental to visit my home.

[AirtrafficController]

cool looks like continental continues to dominate EWR

[tsnamm]

BOM has also been announced for Oct 1 moving up a month....

[stuart schechter]

The new name for EWR is "Welcome to Newark's Continental Airport!"

[njgtr82]

this was announced a while ago http://nycaviation.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ght=athens (http://nycaviation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4964&highlight=athens)


The new name for EWR is "Welcome to Newark's Continental Airport!"
CO did 58% of the ops at EWR last year

[stuart schechter]

this was announced a while ago http://nycaviation.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ght=athens (http://nycaviation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4964&highlight=athens)


The new name for EWR is "Welcome to Newark's Continental Airport!"
CO did 58% of the ops at EWR last year


That was the point. CO keeps EWR alive in a sense. 58% is a great number for a thriving airline.

[tsnamm]

its been that way ever since CO bought People Express...that's one of the major reasons foreign carriers go there...to gain access to CO's transferring hub traffic....

[HALCYON]

Athens' summer is just GR8!

HALCYON :D

[HALCYON]

Good to see CO in ATH.

HALCYON

[PHL Approach]

Blah, way to copy us Conti! The funny thing is they'll probably kick us up and down the street on this route lol