Continental Airlines Reviews

Pros

As a salaried employee, you are given many, many opportunities to work additional hours without compensation and are encouraged to go above and beyond without recognition.

Cons

If you love Good Ol' Boy networks, this is your place. Promotions and development are non-existant and the useless level of directors and senior directors are only interested in what they can do for themselves. They will never retain anyone with talent and ambition. Would like to experience the environment of other departments who nominate Continental as a great place to work.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop hiring your incompetent friends, promote your hard-working, talented employees instead of simply continuing to harvest their efforts without recognition or appropriate compensation, and be honest instead of blowing smoke about how lucky we are to work in such a great place.

Pros

Continental has a very good "corporate culture". The driving force behind it is "dignity and respect", which applies to employee to customer, management to hourly, hourly to management and employee to employee. I think it makes for a non-hostile work environment.

Cons

It is frustrating to be the "best airline" and not making a annual profit for years. But this is not a Continental problem, it is an industry-wide problem.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep looking to the employees and not just to the stock shareholders. The employees generally like working for Continental and want to be remembered and shown in their pay.

Pros

The people are great. So are the benefits. It is great being able to travel the world and get paid for it!

Cons

The pay is not that great.

Advice to Senior Management

Increase pay!

Pros

Continental has some of the best incentive programs in the industry from on time performance to attendance incentives including giving away a new car or truck every six months for perfect attendance.

Cons

It is a very rocky enviroment with the airlines losing billions of dollars since 911 and the cost of operations keep increasing provide very little monetary advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

With the merger of Continental and United and the negotiations of the Continental technicians going on, it is a good oportunity to settle the contracts and show the industry that with the merger you plan on being the best in all fields including the welfare of your employee's. With good faith leadership you can end an important steping stone leading the technicians into the new era.

Pros

A truly magnificently flexible job. Great benefits. Interesting work environment. The opportunity to meet people from all walks of life. The protection of seniority and the benefit of allowing you to change shifts, hours, days off, and travel as your years with the company grows.

Cons

Unstable industry environment makes for ulcers at an early age. Prospect of furloughs and pay cuts very real if you lack many years with the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer a better management pay scale to attract better people. Almost no one with extensive CS experience wants a mgmt job at the airport. You have managers with few years managing experienced staff. After top out pay in ten years, institute a merit program; paying those with superior job knowledge or work ethic with a merit pay increase. Those who do not qualify, get better shifts and bidding lines but unchanged top out pay.

Pros

Great place to work, great benefits, great coworkers, great time. Traveled many places, lived in many different places as a result of job

Cons

Is all this coming to an end withe the merger. I am worried that the ways of united will affect our comapny

Advice to Senior Management

Do not merge, well it is entirely too late. Who is going to bailout the employees now? Where are we going to go?

Pros

Excellent travel benefits. Great flexibility

Cons

Lower level management is not very good.

Advice to Senior Management

Change up the status quo.

Pros

Travel benefits, health care benefits, environment is probably not as political or competitive as similarly sized corporations, many highly talented colleagues with great skills to learn from.

Cons

Very low pay for most managers, vast "old boy" network, women and minorities are only marginally represented, an almost weird lack of direction that leads many employees to be unproductive while a few others seem to do all the work.

Advice to Senior Management

Seriously consider pay raises to recruit and retain talent at the middle level, encourage visibility and productivity from the vast and numerous layers of directors, senior directors, and vice presidents.

Pros

Many opportunities for growth. Large company culture, and of course, great travel benefits.

Cons

Management 100% able to take on the role of intern leader.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep an eye out for the new guys.

Pros

flexible schedules, good employees and good benefits.

Cons

They furloughed all the employees that have been there over 11 yrs or less.

Advice to Senior Management

You should have more loyality to your employees who have been here through the years.