On Aug. 16, 1987, Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed mere minutes after takeoff beneath the Interstate 94 overpass on Middlebelt Road near Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

Extremist internet forums discussed blowing up planes three weeks before the Detroit attempt – and have also discussed ways of using deadly biological agents onboard planes. A private Israeli ...

Northwest has sought $1.4 billion in annual labor savings as it reorganizes in bankruptcy court. Flight attendants are the last union at Northwest, the nation’s fifth-largest carrier by the standard ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Northwest Airlines Corp. said Wednesday it will lay off 1,400 flight attendants by January as it shrinks in bankruptcy, just months after it re-hired some of them. The flight ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld an injunction preventing Northwest Airlines Corp.'s unionized flight attendants from striking while the carrier moves through ...