Trip Report: EWR-AMS
Now that Continental is part of Star Alliance, I've started considering Continental flights. And since I was already in New York, the convenience of the nonstop Newark (EWR) - Amsterdam (AMS) flight made it a no-brainer to book.
Continental flies the Boeing 757-200 on this route. At 7 hours, t's definitely the longest flight I've been on in a narrow-body airplane. For reference, this is the type of aircraft United flies from Chicago or San Francisco to San Diego. But Continental has outfitted these planes with winglets (you can see the upward curving thing on the end of the wing in the pic below), and is now flying them from the US to Europe.
Continental doesn't have Economy Plus, but it does have Video On Demand in Economy class. That's a nice feature, but unfortunately out of 40 movies I couldn't find a single one I wanted to watch!
Dinner service was very similar to United's. Salad, hot main course, brownie, roll. The salad was okay - iceberg lettuce with cucumber slices, shredded cheese, and red cabbage. My main course - Chicken Parmesan - was lukewarm, and really needed a lot more of that red sauce for flavor. The cookies and cream brownie was tasty, and the roll was decent.
Breakfast was also just about the same as United's on eastbound Europe flights, only Continental bothers to heat up the croissant. It was nice to have fresh fruit - for some reason I wouldn't have been surprised if it had been fruit cocktail.
