(CHICAGO - October 2nd, 2006) - Continental Airport Express, Chicago's premier ground transportation provider, announces Home for the Holidays, a program offering active military personnel free rides between the airports, downtown Chicago and Lincoln Park. Home for the Holidays will run December 23 to December 26, 2006.

To participate, active military personnel must show their military I.D. to the representative at the Airport Express counter.

"All of us here at Airport Express support our hard-working troops," says John McCarthy, president, Airport Express. "We are very pleased and honored to do anything we can to simplify their long journey home during the holiday season."

Airport Express is also the preferred ground transportation provider for Great Lakes Naval Base in Great Lakes, Ill.

Founded in 1853 as the Parmelee Transportation Company, Continental Airport Express currently transports more than one million passengers annually to and from Chicago's O'Hare and Midway Airports. Its services are offered to and from downtown Chicago, as well as most Chicago neighborhoods and its surrounding suburbs. For more information visit www.airportexpress.com.

Contact: Dyana Flanigan
Hodge Schindler Communications
dflanigan@hodgeschindler.com
312.666.6662