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Two months after the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 with Pan Am on October 26, 1958, National Airlines became the first U.S. carrier to operate domestic flights using the Boeing 707 ...

Northwest Airlines today announced that it retired the last aircraft of its Boeing 727 fleet from scheduled service when flight 560 arrived at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from ...

After decades as a mainstay of Northwest Airlines’ fleet, the DC9 will be phased out this year. In a note to pilots this week, the Eagan-based carrier said it will operate 68 DC9s by the end of ...

Northwest announced it placed a firm order for 24 A330-300s, with a list price of $3.25 billion.

Rolls-Royce (R-R) has agreed to finance advance payments for Northwest Airlines’ purchase of 18 Trent 1000-powered Boeing 787 aircraft while the US major continues restructuring under Chapter 11 ...

The airline is sticking with orders already in progress for 120 narrowbody Boeing 737-900ERs. The 787-8 Dreamliners had been on Delta’s order book since the Northwest Airlines deal.