Continental Airlines to Enhance Berlin Link

Posted 24/06/2011

Continental Airlines is set to introduce a Boeing 767-400ER on its flights between Newark Liberty International Airport and Berlin Tegel from next summer’s schedule.  The US carrier launched the route on July 1, 2005 and currently uses a 172-seat 757-200ER.  However, growing demand on the route will see the widebodied model introduced from March 24, 2012 initially on a six times weekly basis but increasing to daily from April 29.

The airline is the sole operator on the route and carried an estimated 37,000 O&D passengers in the past year, with additional traffic connecting via its strong domestic and regional network to other destinations in North America and the Caribbean.  The majority of these (50 per cent of total market) are flying the route on the ‘CO’ code but around 10,000 are flying on the codes of fellow Star Alliance partners Lufthansa and United Airlines.  There is also some leakage with an estimated 14,000 passengers (approximately 30 per cent of the total market) flying on indirect services via other hubs, the most via Frankfurt and London Heathrow.

Although there is no direct competition Delta Air Lines and airberlin do provide links between Berlin and New York but offering seven and four weekly flights to John F Kennedy International Airport, respectively.  An estimated 94,000 O&D passengers flew on this route in the past year. 

Schedule:

CO096 EWR1755 – 0805+1TXL 764 D
CO097 TXL0935 – 1240EWR 764 D
NOTE: 24MAR12 – 29APR12 EWR Day x2, TXL Day x3

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