The regional airline partners of United and Continental Airlines will no doubt face a period of some uncertainty as the major airlines prepare to merge their operations into the world’s largest international airline. Few of the airlines can know for sure how each of their operations might feel the effects of the planned merger, but it appears the various airlines that fly as United Express, Continental Express and Continental Connection can at least take some solace in the fact that United’s and Continental’s domestic networks tend to complement each other, and that the combined carrier will continue to fly to all the communities each airline now serves.
Now flying to eight domestic hubs, the combined carriers maintain relationships with 12 separate regional airlines spread across the U.S. No longer truly divided by geography, the United Express network now consists of eight partners, including Atlantic Southeast, which connects Washington and Chicago with various points east; Colgan Air, which flies out of Boston, New York
