Continental Airlines to Launch Daily Newark-Munich Service

On Saturday, March 27, Continental Airlines will inaugurate service between New York and Munich, Germany, with daily nonstop flights from the airline’s hub at Newark Liberty International Airport.

“Launching nonstop service to Munich allows us to link Continental’s New York hub to the Munich hub of our new partner Lufthansa,” said Jim Compton, Continental’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer. “It’s a great example of how joining Star Alliance is allowing our customers to seamlessly connect to a greater number of travel destinations.”

Continental will operate the nonstop daily flight with a Boeing 767-200ER aircraft, seating 25 passengers in BusinessFirst and 149 passengers in economy class. Flight CO106 will depart Newark Liberty daily at 5:30 p.m. and arrive in Munich at 7:40 a.m. the next day.

The return flight, CO107, will depart Munich’s Franz Josef Strauss International Airport daily at 9:20 a.m. and arrive at Newark Liberty at 12:35 p.m. the same day. The schedule of the Continental service complements that of Lufthansa’s existing daily New York/Newark-Munich service, which departs Newark Liberty about three hours later and Munich about six hours later.

The new flight has been timed to provide convenient connections at Munich, where Star Alliance member flights provide service to more than 95 destinations in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and at New York/Newark with an extensive network of Continental flights to more than 100 destinations throughout the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Continental operates the largest hub in the New York City metropolitan area at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Munich becomes the fourth German city to be served with daily flights to New York by Continental after Frankfurt, Berlin and Hamburg; the airline also operates daily service between Frankfurt and Houston. Munich is the 30th destination in Continental’s overall trans-Atlantic network.