Continental Airlines pre TI takeover?

[phx2gb]

Does anyone have flightplans for Continental in the mid-to-late Seventies or know if any might be in the works or on the back burner?

Continental will always be near and dear to my heart growing up near El Paso, but the Eighties CO plans (post TI merger and bankruptcy) do not even have the "Proud Birds with the Golden Tails" flying to cities like El Paso, Midland/Odessa, Lubbock, etc.

It would be great to see some Continental 727s parked around the rotunda of the East concourse at KELP again!

Best regards!
Greg in Phoenix

[rpm]

It's on my " to do" list. Although, I don't know when I'll get to it. Right now I'm finishing up Aer Lingus 1975 flightplans and paints. I'm also working on Aerolineas Argentinas FP's and paints as well. After that it's Delta 1975, maybe after that, if someone doesn't do it before then

RPM.

[Christian Page, RAI]

phx2gb said:

Does anyone have flightplans for Continental in the mid-to-late Seventies or know if any might be in the works or on the back burner?

Continental will always be near and dear to my heart growing up near El Paso, but the Eighties CO plans (post TI merger and bankruptcy) do not even have the "Proud Birds with the Golden Tails" flying to cities like El Paso, Midland/Odessa, Lubbock, etc.

It would be great to see some Continental 727s parked around the rotunda of the East concourse at KELP again!

Best regards!
Greg in Phoenix

I have a partially-done 1973 schedule. It includes 727s on the IAH-LAX route via ELP and DC-9s on the MCI-TUL-OKC-LAW-LBB-MAF-ELP route, which you could swap out with 727s, as they later flew that route. CO's routes through the midwest were something - the idea of flying a DC-9 or 727 between Oklahoma City and Lawton is just odd in today's world. And, to think that back then, Frontier was proposing a 737 route from Denver to Atlanta via Lawton! Today, KLAW is served by Eagle Saabs - they won't even put an ERJ-135 on the route. Times have really changed!