Continental Airlines launches daily nonstop services between New York and Stockholm

Continental Airlines is to begin daily nonstop flights from its New York-area hub at Newark Liberty International Airport to Stockholm, Sweden from 2 June 2005.

This is the third of six trans-Atlantic routes Continental is launching from New York this year. The carrier inaugurated service to Bristol on May 19 and Belfast on May 26. Following the addition of Stockholm, Continental will inaugurate services to Hamburg on June 9; Berlin on June 30 and Delhi on Nov. 1.

“The Stockholm service is another example of how the strength of Continental's New York/Newark hub is enabling us to give our customers nonstop access to new destinations across the world,” said Jim Summerford, Continental’s vice president of Europe, Middle East and India.

Flight CO68 departs New York/Newark daily at 6 p.m. and arrives at Stockholm/Arlanda at 7:55 a.m. the next day. Flight CO69 departs Stockholm/Arlanda daily at 9:25 a.m. and arrives at New York/Newark at 12:10 p.m. the same day. Flight times are approximately seven hours and 55 minutes traveling east and eight hours and 45 minutes westbound. The Stockholm flights have been conveniently timed to connect at New York/Newark with an extensive network of service throughout the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

Continental’s flights from New York/Newark to Stockholm will be operated with a 172-seat Boeing 757 aircraft carrying 16 passengers in BusinessFirst cabin and 156 in economy.

Sweden, with a population of nine million, is the largest of the Nordic countries and the 12th largest economy in Europe. There are more than 1,200 U.S. owned companies in the country, and more than 300,000 Americans visit Sweden every year.

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