Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 took off from New York's LaGuardia Airport on the evening of June 23, 1950 bound for Seattle, Wash. and by all accounts, the trip's first leg was routine.

America's only unsolved hijacking happened on this day in 1971 when Dan Cooper - who became known as D.B. Cooper - hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight from Portland, Ore., to Seattle ...

As Northwest ... Orient” for advertising purposes. The airline’s Asian connections proved useful in 1950 when the U.S. government chose the airline for the Korean Air Lift mission. Northwest ...

It rebrands itself as “Northwest Orient Airlines,” though the company’s legal name remains Northwest Airlines. —1948: The airline begins painting the tails of its planes red, which has ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- It's been more than six decades since a Northwest Orient Airlines plane crashed into a Minneapolis home, killing two children inside and all 13 people on board. On Saturday ...

151; -- Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines on Monday night announced ... Northwest — once known as Northwest Orient — has been one of the leading U.S.-Asia carriers for more than half ...

A few months before aviator Charles Lindbergh made his record-breaking transatlantic flight, Northwest Airways, Inc. began carrying airmail between the Twin Cities and Chicago. Minnesota ...

All of the big carriers matched Continental’s fare hike–all except Northwest Airlines. That was enough ... leaders are saying that the business model that worked in the past–one built ...