Northwest Airlines is the last of the top five U.S. carriers to shed billions of dollars of debt and exit bankruptcy. To get back into the black, Northwest had to slash pay and benefits for its ...

NEW YORK - Bankrupt Northwest Airlines Corp. advised workers to fish in the trash for things they like or take their dates for a walk in the woods in a move to help workers facing the ax to save ...

As pilot speaks, FAA says "emergency suspension or revocation" is possible. Oct. 23, 2009— -- One of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who were out of contact with air traffic controllers for ...

Northwest Airlines Corp. said Wednesday that it will cooperate with Labor Department investigators looking into its underfunded pension plan. The department is investigating "whether any person ...

Pilots at the nation's third- and fourth-largest air carriers -- Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp. -- moved a step closer to striking yesterday after failing to reach separate ...

For more than an hour, air traffic controllers didn't hear from the cockpit. Oct. 22, 2009— -- Two pilots of a Northwest Airlines flight Wednesday were apparently so distracted that they ...

ATLANTA — Delta Air Lines has reached an agreement with Northwest Airlines to take over Northwest and create the world’s biggest carrier. The boards of both companies gave the deal the go ...

As Northwest Airlines, Inc., the company became a major international carrier before financial troubles forced its merger with Delta Air Lines, Inc. in 2008. Minnesota entrepreneur Colonel Lewis ...

NEW YORK — Northwest Airlines received approval today to emerge from bankruptcy, freeing it to move out of court protection from its creditors and into an industry besieged by higher fuel costs ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Northwest Airlines Corp. filed a plan to exit bankruptcy as an independent company on Friday, aiming to give fresh stock to some creditors and raise capital from investors ...