LONDON, April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) has won high ratings in the Skytrax Airline of the Year Survey 2004.
Continental was rated No. 1 in the Best Airline - North America category and No. 2 in the Best Airline - Transatlantic category. In the overall Airline of the Year category, Continental was ranked No. 9 -- no other U.S. airline, and only one European airline, featured in the top 10.
The survey, commissioned and undertaken by Skytrax Research of London, U.K., was conducted between June 2003 and March 2004. Over 10 million travelers of 92 different nationalities submitted completed survey questionnaires. For more information, go to Skytrax's website at www.airlinequality.com .
"This shows that customers around the world appreciate the quality of Continental's product and service," said Gordon Bethune, the airline's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "To achieve such high ratings, even in these toughest of times for our industry, is a strong endorsement of our service standards and a tribute to the professionalism of our 41,000 employees."
Continental Airlines is the world's seventh-largest airline with more than 2,800 daily departures throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Continental serves 149 domestic and 117 international destinations -- more than any other airline in the world -- and nearly 200 additional points are served via codeshare partner airlines. With 41,000 mainline employees, the airline has hubs serving New York, Houston, Cleveland and Guam, and carries approximately 51 million passengers per year. FORTUNE ranks Continental one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in America, an honor it has earned for six consecutive years. FORTUNE also ranks Continental as the top airline in its Most Admired Global Companies in 2004. For more company information, visit continental.com.
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