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Continental Airlines is Official Airline of National Association of Hispanic Publications Annual Convention

Posted on: Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 11:55 CDT

HOUSTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) is the Official Airline of the National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP) 2009 Annual Convention and Business Exposition to be held in McAllen, Texas, March 11-14.

"Continental is proud to continue its long-standing support of the NAHP, whose member publications so often are the connection between 'homeland and new land' for Latin Americans in the United States," said John Slater, staff vice president, Latin America, Continental Airlines.

"The NAHP board of directors is extremely grateful to Continental Airlines for its continued support of our membership and our mutual goal of serving the Latino community," said Clara Padilla Andrews, president, NAHP.

The sponsorship includes a Continental MeetingWorks discount agreement for NAHP members traveling to the NAHP Annual Convention and Business Exposition in McAllen.

About Continental Airlines

Continental Airlines is the world's fifth largest airline. Continental, together with Continental Express and Continental Connection, has more than 2,800 daily departures throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, serving 135 domestic and 132 international destinations. More than 650 additional points are served via alliance partners. With more than 42,000 employees, Continental has hubs serving New York, Houston, Cleveland and Guam, and together with Continental Express, carries approximately 67 million passengers per year.

Continental offers service to 69 destinations in 23 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, including nonstop service to 29 destinations in Mexico - more than any other airline. Continental also offers nonstop service to more Central American cities (10) than any other U.S. airline and serves seven South American destinations.

A pioneer in "Latinization," Continental offers a number of Spanish-language services, including bilingual flight attendants on many flights to Latin America; bilingual airport personnel, reservations agents and signage; and a Spanish-language Web site at www.continental.com/espanol. Passengers also may make reservations in Spanish at 1-800-537-9222. Continental Airlines has been named to Hispanic Magazine's list of "100 Best Companies for Hispanics" 10 times and in summer 2008 was named to Latin Business Magazine's Diversity Honor Roll for the third consecutive year.

About the National Association of Hispanic Publications

The National Association of Hispanic Publications, Inc. (NAHP, Inc.) is a nonprofit, non-partisan trade advocacy organization representing the leading Spanish language publications serving 41 markets in 39 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with a combined circulation of over 23 million. NAHP was founded in 1982 as a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization to promote Hispanic publications. NAHP, Inc. membership includes newspapers and magazines which reach over 50% of the Hispanic households in the United States. For more information, visit www.nahp.org.

SOURCE Continental Airlines

Source: PR Newswire

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