It’s the end of the line for Northwest Airlines’s last Everett-built 747-200. The Minnesota-based carrier retired its final 747-200 from service today, following a flight from Tokyo to Seattle ...

Northwest began operating the 747-200 in 1975, when the airline took its first delivery of the new model jumbo jet. Northwest's 747-200 passenger fleet peaked in size at 22 aircraft in 1997.

Northwest Airlines told the Air Line Pilots Association the airline will close Honolulu and Minneapolis Boeing 747-200 bases in November after Northwest stops flying -200s from those cities.

With that, Delta welcomed the 747 back into its fold. With Northwest, Delta acquired 16 passenger 747-400s, two passenger 747-200s (used for charter), and 12 747-200 freighters.

Planespotters.net lists Laurinburg-Maxton Airport as being home to the former Northwest Airlines Boeing 747-100. The Jumbo is registered N603US, has MSN 19780, and line number 45. It was one of ...

A Chicago-bound Northwest Airlines 747 out of Tokyo and another jumbo jet came within a scant 400 feet of one another as they averted a collision that could have claimed nearly 700 lives, the ...

In 1971, a man going by the name of D.B. Cooper jumped from a Northwest Airlines 747 over Washington state, carrying $200,000 in ransom money from the airlines, and two parachutes. Jo Weber tells ...

When Delta Air Lines bought Northwest Airlines for $2.6 billion last year, it inherited a hodgepodge of 436 planes that included everything from Airbus A330s to Boeing 747s and even some ancient ...