I don't work for Continental, so it makes no difference what you say about them. Honestly I couldn't care less what you, or anybody says about any airline. I work for the airlines part-time, while finishing school. It isn't exactly a career job for me, and whether the airline stays in business, or not, while I hate to see other people lose their jobs, doesn't have a major effect on me. For what I make, I can go get a job at Taco Bell, and probably make more.
With that said, your opinion of Continental is taken, and understood. My only point is that choosing not to fly Continental will not prevent this from happening, again, on another carrier, nor will it result in Continental losing a customer. There is somebody else right now, who is having the same, or a similar problem with Delta, or some other airline, who will fly Continental next time, and you will fly the airline that person had the problem with, next time. Nobody lost a customer, the names just changed. The airlines realize this little phenomenom, that exists within the airline industry, thus one of the reasons they aren't pressed to change. They don't lose customers, the customers just switch around from one airline, to the next. The trick I've said all along, for airline customers to press the airlines to change, is to simply stop flying, period, on no airline. The whole, "I'm not flying this airline again", doesn't really work.
In conclusion, I say this. You go through the same security line, and pay the same facility charges, for that particular airport, whether you fly to and from that airport on Continental, or another airline. The problem you had with Continental, is not limited to Continental. Is my purpose to stick up for Continental, as it may seem? No. Again, I don't care who you fly, or don't fly. I just think it it foolish, in this day and age of airline travel, to spend more money to avoid flying one airline, only to risk the same problems, or others, on another airline. Being as though there is no regulation, I say go with the cheaper fare, whoever that may be (even Continental), take a bus, take a train, or just simply drive, and avoid flying altogether, on any airline.
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