In June 1989, Wings Holdings (later Northwest Airlines Corporation) acquired NWA Inc. at a cost of approximately $3.5 billion. Struggling with debt from the buyout, Northwest sought financial aid ...

Northwest Orient Airlines menu, c.1970. The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 ended government control of airlines. Northwest continued to thrive in the more competitive market.

It rebrands itself as Northwest Orient Airlines. 1960 Moves into new headquarters at Wold-Chamberlain Field (now Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport). 1970 Introduces the Boeing 747 jumbo ...

It's a Northwest mystery that has never been solved. A man who called himself "Dan Cooper" paid cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle at the Northwest Orient Airlines counter at the Portland ...

Northwest Airlines says it needs a little more time. The nation's fourth-largest carrier says it hopes to have a plan to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of the year. The airline faces a January ...

Northwest Airlines Corp. on Monday predicted a “modest profit” for the year as it reorganizes in bankruptcy, but also said it will lose money through the end of the year. And its profit ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For more than a decade, Northwest Airlines repeatedly failed to follow federal safety orders but wasn't held accountable by the Federal Aviation Administration, according to a ...

On the night before Thanksgiving in 1971, Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 - a Boeing 727 owned and operated by Northwest Orient Airlines - while it was flying from Portland ...

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 was a DC-4 prop-liner that flew daily transcontinental routes connecting the east coast of New York City to the far west coast of Seattle, Washington when it ...

For some northeast travelers, this gritty Pittsburgh-based carrier will forever be known as "Agony Airlines," though it actually comes from blue-blood stock, founded by members of the DuPont family.