Effective immediately: If you have a Continental credit or debit card you and everyone traveling on your itinerary (up to 9 passengers) get to check 1 bag for free!
If you are a Onepass member and have a primary Continental credit/debit card saved to your profile the checked bag fee will be automatically waived for you and everyone traveling with you. Otherwise you can just give your active credit card to the ticketing agent and they will waive the fee for you at the the airport.
Additionally, Scott O’Leary, the managing director of customer experience over at Continental, reports that even secondary cardholders will qualify for a free bag for them and all of their companions by showing a ticketing agent their Continental credit or debit card. However secondary cardholders will not be able to have the charge automatically waived by saving the card to their Onepass profile.
Major kudos goes out to Continental for figuring out a way to differentiate themselves and bring back free checked luggage for non-elite travelers!
So which credit card should you get? Continental has a travelbank credit card with no fee for 1 year and a $29 fee for subsequent years, it is definitely not worth using that card for spending, but it will pay for itself if you fly Continental at all. Also if you sign up for the regular $85/year credit card they will often waive the fee for you, and even if they won’t they can downgrade you to a no annual fee card that earns 1 mile per $2 spent. A horrible deal for spending to be sure, but a great card to hang onto if you ever fly on Continental and are not elite!
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