News Release
Continental Express Begins New Service Between Huntsville and Houston
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, October 1, 1999 -- Continental Express, the regional airline subsidiary of Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL and CAL.A), begins new service from Huntsville International Airport to its hub at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport today.
The new service to Houston provides passengers with convenient connections to cities in the West as well as Latin America.
These new flights bring NASA in Huntsville directly to NASA in Houston with easy connections to Ellington Field, which is only a few miles from Houston’s NASA site.
Continental Express provides service from Huntsville to its Houston hub three times daily using the new 50-passenger regional jet, Embraer ERJ-145 known as the ExpressJet. The flights from Huntsville depart at 6:45 a.m., 1:05 p.m. and 5:55 p.m. and arrive in Houston at 8:35 a.m., 2:55 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. respectively. The flights from Houston depart at 10:45 a.m., 3:35 p.m. and 9:40 p.m. arriving in Huntsville at 12:35 p.m., 5:25 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. respectively.
Continental Express serves more than six million customers annually. As a regional air carrier to Continental Airlines, Express offers more than 900 daily departures to more than 90 cities from its hubs in Cleveland, Houston and Newark. Continental Express offers advance seat assignments and OnePass frequent flyer miles which can be redeemed anywhere in the world Continental and its partner airlines fly.