NEWS: Continental Airlines Sports New Website Features

I'm tired of talking about US Airways and United Airlines and the general malcontent in the industry. So I went searching for some positive news...it took a while. Here we go:

Folks booking flights via the Continental Airlines website have been able add hotels, cars and vacation packages for a while. They can now add cruise packages to the list.

This is a smart move. Travel agency have made big business on cruise packages for years but they tend to use smaller charter airlines for the flight portion of the deal. So why shouldn't Continental jump into the game?

Their route structure puts them in several cruise embarkation (yes...that's really a word) points so why not try it. The cruise industry jumped at the opportunity to partner with a major airline based on the list of cruise operators working with Continental.