Continental Airlines Reviews

Pros

Great company to work for and there is much room for advancement. Everyone is great to work with and enjoys it.

Cons

Be prepared to be gone for long periods of time. Especially in the 1st year at least. Away from family/friends.

Pros

Health, life insurance and airline benefits are good.

Cons

Poor management and seniority system of hiring and firing facilitate unfairness towards employees.

Pros

The people are very easy to work with and the benefits are good. There are good opportunities for career advancement if you know where to look. All around, a good company to work for.

Cons

Because it's an airline, Continental usually pays below market for its management employees. People who do not love the job, industry or the benefits sometimes left for higher-paying industries, especially when the job market was hot.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to focus on employees' suggestions to improve the company from the bottom up. Both the insights and the buy in of front line employees is critical.

Pros

great Benefits, large network, very bright employees

Cons

Political environment, upward growth non existent

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it up!

Pros

Used to be culture, coworkers, benefits,teamwork at all levels, pride in our service.

Cons

Now, loss of culture, lack of teamwork, no trust, management arrogance, condescending attitudes, no one listens.

Advice to Senior Management

An old fashioned housecleaning at headquarters needs to happen. Smisek should have kept operations CO instead of finance.

Pros

The benefits are very attractive. You also have an opportunity to grow.

Cons

You might not have time for yourself.

Advice to Senior Management

They need to improve on the equipment used.

Pros

exciting industry
wonderful company
energetic co-workers
flight benefits
proud to work for the company
great story about worst to first

Cons

pay a bit low for the city
industry fluctuates too much
recent business merger left a lot of good people stranded

Advice to Senior Management

retain as many CO people as you can in order to make the merger work. don't forget our core values.

Pros

Used to be fun and flight benefits used to be good

Cons

Terrible Management. United Merger has ruined the company. Terrible promotion practices.

Advice to Senior Management

Get back to the Gordon Bethune Era

Pros

Most of the people are friendly and decent to work with.

Cons

No room for career advancement or growth unless you know the right people, your credentials don't matter.

Advice to Senior Management

Work to develop your employees, successful employees means a successful company.

Pros

Good benefits (pension + 401K match), Decent Salary, Nice Co-Workers, Decent Medical benefits, and a pretty good pay scale compared to the industry as a whole

Cons

Sometimes management seems to play favorites and promote people without actively posting that a job is available; workload can be kind of high depending upon the day/weather/etc.

Advice to Senior Management

When you merger your company, don't give the company you're merging with every single thing they ask for if you're going to be the person who is in charge of the company once the merger is complete.