{"id":5880,"date":"2010-06-14T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/continental-airlines-announces-first-time-flights-to-africa\/"},"modified":"2014-08-07T06:41:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T06:41:25","slug":"continental-airlines-announces-first-time-flights-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/continental-airlines-announces-first-time-flights-to-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Continental Airlines Announces First-Time Flights to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Continental plans non-stop flights between Houston and Nigeria<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Continental Airlines has announced plans to begin daily nonstop flights between Houston and Lagos, Nigeria, the carrier\u2019s first destination in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Continental said the addition makes Houston one of only four cities in the world \u2013 and only one in the Western Hemisphere\u2014to offer nonstop service to every inhabited continent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The airline anticipates the route\u2019s success to be increased by additional traffic flows as a result of its pending merger with United Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new service is scheduled to commence in November 2011 pending government approval.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <\/em><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Continental plans non-stop flights between Houston and Nigeria &nbsp; Continental Airlines has announced plans to begin daily nonstop flights between Houston and Lagos, Nigeria, the carrier\u2019s first destination in Africa. &nbsp; Continental said the addition makes Houston one of only four cities in the world \u2013 and only one in the Western Hemisphere\u2014to offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168838,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions\/97168838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}