A continent pass is a product and service of an airline alliance

Airline alliance

An airline alliance is an agreement between two or more airlines to cooperate on a substantial level. The three largest passenger alliances are the Star Alliance, SkyTeam and Oneworld. Alliances also form between cargo airlines, such as that of WOW Alliance, SkyTeam Cargo and ANA/UPS Alliance...

. For a relatively low price the traveler can travel freely using all intra-continental flights the airline alliance offers on that continent

Continent

A continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with seven regions commonly regarded as continents—they are : Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.Plate tectonics is...

. There are restrictions on the number of miles and/or the number of flights as well as the number of stops the traveler can make. Travelers can benefit from the extensive networks airline alliances offer and can earn reward points

Loyalty program

Loyalty programs are structured marketing efforts that reward, and therefore encourage, loyal buying behavior — behavior which is potentially beneficial to the firm....

 for each mile they fly by participating in the alliance's frequent flyer program

Frequent flyer program

A frequent flyer program is a loyalty program offered by many airlines. Typically, airline customers enrolled in the program accumulate frequent flyer miles corresponding to the distance flown on that airline or its partners. There are other ways to accumulate miles...

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See also

• e-ticket
• InterRail - a similar pass for European railways
• open-jaw ticket
  Open-jaw ticket
  An open-jaw ticket is an airline ticket in which a traveler returns to the airline from a city other than the one in which they arrived, or in which the final destination is not the same as the original departure city. The trip between these two cities is then made over land, sea or with a...
  
  
• round-the-world ticket
  Round-the-world ticket
  A round-the-world ticket is a product that enables travellers to fly around the world for a relatively low price. RTW tickets have existed for some time and in the past were generally offered through marketing agreements between airlines on several continents...