northwest airlines

Northwest Airlines began its existence in 1926 as an air mail carrier from Minnesota/St. Paul to Chicago. Since then, the Twin Cities airline has grown into one of the largest passenger carriers in the world.

Over the decades, Northwest Airlines expanded its operations overseas, beginning flights to Tokyothere shortly after World War II, which lead to global expansion throughout the 1950s and 60s. By the 1980s, Northwest purchased rival Republic Airlines, helping grow its domestic share. In 1991, Northwest and KLM began a partnership, offering direct flights between their two headquarters. Northwest's ledger, though was clouded after 9/11, rapidly descending the airline into quarterly losses and ultimately leading the airline to file for bankruptcy in 2005.

In October 2008, Northwest Airlines was purchased by Delta Airlines after receiving final clearance from federal regulators, just over six months after informally agreeing to the deal. Changes from the new combined airline, thought to now be the largest in the world, are to be noticed by fliers in early 2009.

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• Delta joins the ranks of "cashless cabins"

  
  Gadling — Authority: 690
  Filed under: North America , United States , Airlines , Transportation , News , Central America , Caribbean I cant remember the last time I paid with cash for a drink on a domestic flight. Even on my last few international flights, I pulled out the plastic when it was time for a nerve-calming vodka-cran. So ...
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• Controllers Were Slow to Notify Defense Command of Errant Jet

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Air traffic control supervisors delayed nearly an hour in notifying Norad that a Northwest Airlines jetliner was not responding to radio calls.
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• FAA says air traffic controllers were late on the NWA overshoot

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 684
  The military says fighter jets were ready to intercept Flight 188, but didnt get the go ahead from air traffic controllers, the FAA says.
  3 days ago

• The LG Weekly News Roundup: 11.12.09

  
  The Lost Girls — Authority: 126
  by Molly Fergus LG Travel News Editor Missed the big travel stories of the week? And the weird, wacky and insignificant ones? Weve got your round-up right here.... ****************************************** Riding the free rails Way to go, Amtrak! The broke and sometimes busted train service is finally ...
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• Our Capacity for Interruption or . . . How We Get Away with Daydreaming

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  At least the two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew 150 miles past their appointed runway didnt claim "daydreaming" as a distraction. Instead they asserted that they were caught up in doing business on their laptop computers. Daydreaming is often blamed for such space outs and missed external cues: a shift in a ...
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• Asleep At The Wheel!

  
  Ed Hinerman On Life Insurance — Authority: 126
  Airline pilots have been given a free pass by life insurance companies for a long time. The companies have assumed that if you are good enough to fly one of those big things for a real airline company, aviation won’t be an underwriting issue. New question on those applications should go something like, “Have you ...
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• Greyhound bus driver heads wrong way: Wheres a GPS when you need one?

  
  Gadling — Authority: 690
  Filed under: Stories , Transportation , Budget Travel Greyhound bus drivers generally dont make national news. Pilots who overshoot airports, however, end up having their story told over and over again on about every entertainment vehicle there is. How many places did you hear or read about the Northwest ...
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• Northwest pilots appeal license revocation

  
  Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority: 148
  The Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles are appealing the revocation of their licenses to fly. read more
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• Northwest Airlines pilots appeal loss of pilot certificate

  
  AIRLINE BIZ — Authority: 556
  The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that the two Northwest Airlines pilots suspended after flying past their destination last month have appealed the FAAs decision to take away their pilot certificates. Timothy Cheney of Gig Harbor, Wash., and Richard Cole of Salem, Ore., filed their appeals Wednesday, ...
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• Walmarts nuclear blunder: Retailer mishandled radioactive exit signs

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Energy , Company News , Technology , Economy , Home Depot , Delta Air Lines , Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. , Wal-Mart Stores , Green On Oct. 28, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission cited Walmart ( WMT ) for improperly disposing of nuclear material. The items in question were exit signs that ...
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  delta - which became the world’s biggest carrier when it bought northwest airlines in october 2008 - lost $161m in the third quarter, compared with $50m a year earlier, despite sales rising by 32% to $7.6bn.us airways lost $80m, compared with the $866m it haemorrhaged cheap ugg classic crochet boots between july and ...
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• Ask The Captain: What Was Going On With Those Northwest Airlines Pilots?

  
  YourLifeIsATrip.com — Authority: 116
  Got a question? Ask the Captain! Do you have a question about airline saftey, flight etiquette, jet lag, or air travel in general? Submit your question and look for answers in a future column. Answering your questions in our NEW ASK THE CAPTAIN column is, Michael Wiggins, a retired airline pilot who has ...
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• Pigeons accused of attacking NWA plane after MSP takeoff

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 684
  Well, if theres any flock of birds worth sucking into an engine and spitting out into little shreds, we vote pigeons.
  2 weeks ago

• Things that make you go hmmmm...

  
  Runway Girl — Authority: 531
  Boeing has far more important things to worry about than deciding what in-flight connectivity it will choose for the 787. Shouldnt it focus on getting the twinjet into the air first? That was the seemingly logical viewpoint expressed by many observers after learning that the airframer has issued a request for ...
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• Bye Bye October. Grumpys Alternative News.

  
  Grumpy Old Ken — Authority: 113
  October, politicians still whingeing , banks still raking it in, and times are still hard; but who cares. There was enough to distract from the humdrum if you looked closely. People never cease to amaze. Plenty of idiots for a start. The young woman driving on the M4 at ninety miles an hour and trying to inject ...
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• NWA188 Not Dying Addendum

  
  Get the Flick — Authority: 132
  For those that didn’t already overdose on the story below -- NWA188 - The Story That Won’t Die -- you might be interested in an article I wrote for AVweb about the NMAC mentioned . Say Again? #35: Lessons Unlearned ”According to the FAAs analysis, the first error occurred when a controller failed to ...
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