Continental also decided recently to describe the food service on all its domestic flights - but not on transcontinental trips - as snacks, rather than meals.

Southwest mainly flies from secondary airports; most transcontinental trips require one or two stops.

Fares for the transcontinental trips are $4,990 to $7,450 a person in double occupancy, including side trips and most meals.

Stevens passed the winter in New York and contributed sketches of his transcontinental trip to Outing, a magazine.

On July 7, 1929, it began the first transcontinental trips.

But DeWolf is hoping the transcontinental trip will draw attention to recent safety advances in both design and flying technique.

Defending its dominance at Newark, Continental offers generally cheap coach fares, especially on transcontinental trips.

Russell had remained at the office to transmit a progress report and clear up the mountain of paperwork that accumulated during a transcontinental trip.

In real time, it might as well be a transcontinental trip.

Until midsummer, both airlines had limited flights on the coupons to 2,000 miles, and charged a premium for those who wanted to make transcontinental trips.