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4:30 pm August 28, 2005: Last Continental Airline Flight Leaves New Orleans

2005-08-28 4:30 pm

The last Continental Airlines plane leaves New Orleans with 54 empty seats. Continental has flown 10 of its 12 flights today. Twenty extra employees, flown in earlier to help process customers, are on the last plane out. [Wall Street Journal, 9/2/2005]