CLEVELAND, Dec. 23, 2008 – Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) i keia la ua hoolaha aku e hoolana ia i ka lawelawe hoomaha ole i kela la i keia manawa ma waena o kona hui Cleveland a me London's Heathrow Airport, ma ka la 2 Mei 2009 (hikina). ʻO ke ala hou e hoʻololi i ka lawelawe kau o kēia manawa ma waena o Cleveland a me London/Gatwick Airport.
Eia kekahi, ma muli o nā pilikia hoʻokele waiwai, e hoʻopau ka mea lawe i ka lawelawe kau mai Cleveland a i Paris/Charles de Gaulle Airport.
"Ua haʻi mai kā mākou mau mea kūʻai Cleveland iā mākou makemake lākou i ka lawelawe hoʻomaha ʻole iā Heathrow, ke kahua mokulele ʻoihana koʻikoʻi ma ʻEulopa, a hauʻoli mākou i ka hiki ke hoʻokō i nā pono o ke kūlanakauhale," wahi a Larry Kellner, ka luna hoʻomalu a me ka Luna Nui o Continental. "Ke hoʻokomo nei mākou i kēia lawelawe ma muli o kona hiki," wahi āna.
E holo ana ka lawelawe hou o Heathrow mai ka la 2 o Mei a hiki i ka la 26 o Sept. E haʻalele nā huakaʻi hoʻi mai Lākana i kēlā me kēia lā ma 8:25 am a hōʻea i Cleveland i ka hola 9:15 pm ia lā hoʻokahi.
"Ua manaʻo lōʻihi mākou ʻo ka lawelawe hoʻomaha ʻole iā Heathrow kahi mea e pono ai ʻo Cleveland a he mea ia e hoʻoikaika ai i kā mākou mau hana hoʻomohala ʻoihana. Manaʻo wau e kākoʻo ke kaiāulu ʻoihana o ka ʻāina i kēia lawelawe i hoʻomaikaʻi ʻia i Lākana ma ke ʻano e pono ai ka noʻonoʻo ʻana o Continental no ka hoʻonui ʻana i ka lawelawe i kēlā me kēia makahiki i ka wā e hiki mai ana," wahi a Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson.
E hoʻokele ʻia ka lawelawe e ka mokulele Boeing 757, e noho ana he 16 mau kaʻa i loko o ka hale ʻoihana BusinessFirst lanakila a me 159 mau mea kaʻa i ka hoʻokele waiwai.
E hoʻomau ʻo Continental i ʻelua mau mokulele i kēlā me kēia lā i Heathrow mai kāna hub Houston ma Bush Intercontinental Airport ma kahi o ʻekolu mau mokulele i kēlā me kēia lā i Heathrow mai kāna kikowaena New York ma Newark Liberty International Airport. E hoʻomau ka mea lawe i nā mokulele i kēlā me kēia lā mai ʻelua
ko Houston a me New York hubs i Paris/Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Ma waho aʻe o kāna mau huakaʻi Heathrow, hoʻohana pū ʻo Continental i ka lawelawe hoʻohui maʻalahi mai Cleveland ma Newark Liberty a i Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow a me Manchester, a me Dublin a me Shannon - e hāʻawi ana i ka lawelawe trans-Atlantic i nā kūlanakauhale ʻē aʻe ma UK a ʻO Ireland ma mua o nā mokulele ʻē aʻe.
