Continental Airlines is pretty sweet

Today I flew out to my new client out in Houston TX. This client is a little unusual because I have to fly out on Sunday evenings. No matter really, my wife understands this is the needs of my client. Besides I get more hotel points this way anyway because I stay an extra night. I don't get any points with Avis anymore because I'm not renting a car and I may start to get Marriott points because I should be staying at the Courtyard Marriott but they don't have any rooms available so I'm staying at the Hilton which is fine by me.

OK so anyway, to get to and from Houston, I'm using Continental Airlines as my carrier. First off I'm allowed to shove all my miles to Delta which is pretty awesome although I may want to rethink that since miles don't expire with Continental unlike Delta which expires every two years or so. Second, its a direct flight to Houston. That is a huge plus in my book because I don't have to hurry around an airport to rush off to a connecting flight. It's just a straight shot and then I'm heading to ground transportation to get my butt to the hotel. Third, they offer better snacks than all the other airlines I've flown so far. They offered me a turkey sandwich for a measly two hour flight. Thats pretty unheard of really in this day and age. Normally you would have to pay for that sorta stuff on airlines like American and Northwest. At the most on Delta you'll get some peanuts and a drink. And finally, the planes seem to be generally newer than the other airlines. The ultra huge carriers like American (MD 88's?? come on how ancient are those?), Delta (older Boeing 737-400's) or Northwest (Airbus A320's from the early 90's), Continental is using some later model 737-800's which is NICE!

If I didn't have to connect in Atlanta for so many of my flights, I'd go ahead and switch my rewards points to Continental from Delta. We'll see how things work out though over the course of the next month or so. Well, more later this week after I get to experience all that Houston TX has to offer. Btw, I'm not really IN Houston, I'm in a suburb but if I'm lucky I'll actually make it to Houston one of these days.