The Star Alliance Gets Even Bigger

This is the same United Airlines that walked away from Chile,El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela. This management is a mess. They should be fired.

This is the same management that spends $15,000 a month in Detroit to deliver bags that could not be carried on regional jets. The 737's and A320's were replaced by RJ's. The bigger jets carry bags and freight. It sounds like a real team of idiots.

United is a very BAD airline if not one of the worst ones. It should leave Star Alliance and go down the drain!!!

Congratulations. It is indeed a good decision as Continental will be with Star Alliance, which interests many of Continental's customers.

You hit it right on. United needs to let Continental's management team run things then maybe this whole mess could work. Keep United's ideas out of the picture.

CO is the last legacy airline brand in the states still associated with a modicum of quality. One hopes that CO will not devolve to UA's operational standards in this alliance.

On the other hand, should United Airlines fail and liquidate, this positions Continental to be the primary US-based member of the world's leading airline alliance.

The Star Alliance should stop all flights to countries that send and encourage illegal aliens to the United States.

My condolences to the Star Alliance and all of her customers. Continental Airlines’ has no problem bluntly lying, cheating and stealing from its passengers. What they bring to the table is the knowledge (from its past flyers) that the neighborhood has gone substantially downhill.

James Underwood,

This is counterintuitive position, much like the position of the US government on illegal aliens from Mexico. Stopping flights to these countries will discourage business, reduce economic development and therefore keep the population living in poverty. Escaping poverty or political prosecution is the reason people leave their country and enter the US illegally. Increasing economic development in countries such as Mexico is not a quick fix to the influx of illegal aliens, but it’s the only lasting one. This country needs to quit being so myopic.

This deal with United I think started when Gorden B., the ex-CEO of Continental, started to work for United.

I agree with James Underwood.

It's about time we got serious about all the illegal Canadians coming across the Seattle/Detroit/Buffalo borders and stealing American jobs.

Mordo,

I mean moron! Even if there were jobs available in your crumbling economy, I can assure you that Canadians aren’t going to be queuing up to steal them. People like you are an indication of a scary problem in America: ignorance.

You are worried about a couple of hundred Canadians (which by the way I find courteous and intelligent) coming across the border to work? There are more Americans in Canada at the moment.

Get a grip, United is a horrible Airline.

a major step down substituting quantity for quality. united is the worst airline next to american and nothing good can be gained from this ill conceived plan.

UNITED IS THE WORST! AS A PLATINUM LEVEL FLYER ON CONTINENTAL I AM REALLY WORRIED!

UNITED NEEDS TO FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY AND BE DONE.

ENOUGH SAID.

Jeff, I think Mordo was being sarcastic. I'm guesssing you're Canadian. You've got us beat at so many things. Why don't ya'll get over the insecurity and ligthen up?

agree with United being the worst airline today, Ohare can not handle the flights and is a terrible connection in the winter months. Both united and american are disasters

I think United should start to look at the other airlines in the airlines like Singapore, Lufthansa and ANA, and learn how they provide a quality service. They should just scale back on the number of flights they do and focus on key routes providing a high quality and consistent service. THey need to do this for both international and domestic routes.

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We flew United from Philadelphia to Singapore and returned from Hong Kong only weeks ago. We generally fly US Airways (dominant in Philadelphia) and took United because of the Star Alliance. The "food" was vile and the planes cramped. United has the unique ability to make US Airways an almost pleasant experience.