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Expansion of service continues at Northeast Ohios fastest-growing airport
HOUSTON, Nov. 10, 2003 Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) today announced it will further increase the breadth of its hub at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Northeast Ohios fastest-growing airport, with new nonstop service to Northwest Arkansas and to Salt Lake City, in 2004.
Beginning April 4, Continental will offer daily regional jet service between Cleveland and Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA), serving the Bentonville/Fayetteville region. Return flights from Northwest Arkansas to Cleveland will begin April 5. Services will be operated with Embraer regional jet aircraft.
On June 9, Continental will begin daily summer-season jet service between Cleveland and Salt Lake City. Return flights from Salt Lake City to Cleveland will begin June 10. Operated with 124-seat Boeing 737-700 aircraft, services are timed to connect in Cleveland to cities in the eastern and northeastern United States.
New service from Cleveland to Northwest Arkansas and to Salt Lake City further demonstrates the importance of our Cleveland hub to the Continental network and Continentals commitment to offer the services that customers are willing to buy, said a Continental spokesperson.
Service to Northwest Arkansas and Salt Lake City follows an aggressive expansion in 2003 in the number of destinations served from Cleveland. By the end of this year, Continental and its regional affiliates will have added year-round and seasonal nonstop service from Cleveland to 19 cities, including Austin, San Antonio, Seattle, and points throughout the Midwest, making Hopkins the fastest-growing airport in Northeast Ohio in terms of new cities served. Today, Continental offers more than 250 nonstop flights from Cleveland, the most since August 2001.
Continental Airlines is the worlds seventh-largest airline with more than 2,200 daily departures to 127 domestic and 96 international destinations throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. With 42,000 mainline employees, the airline has hubs serving New York, Houston, Cleveland and Guam, and carries approximately 41 million passengers per year. Fortune ranks Continental one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in America, highest among major U.S. carriers in the quality of its service and products, and No. 2 on its list of Most Admired Global Airlines. For more company information, visit continental.com.
SOURCE Continental Airlines
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