Continental already came out with a statement today refuting this article. Seems the attorney for the plaintiff in a suit against Continental got hold of one of many pre merger announcement network scenarios meant to be for internal use only and leaked it to the Plain Dealer. The Plain Dealer chose to run it as a front page story seemingly trying to capitalize on Cleveland's large constituency of doom and gloomers. I think, if anything, this article will force Jeff to maintain the current level of service in CLE for several more years before finally putting to bed this hub. It is unfortunate as CLE has some of the nicest employees in the CAL system.