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Good looking plane. Dad flew these in the 60's. When asked which of all the airliners he flew was the most fun, he said hands down the Caravelle. It was a good handling, peppy performing small airliner.

United did a lot of people dirty in their acquisition of Continental. Shouldn't be unexpected in the corporate world, but it was far from honest. The day that the merger went from rumor to reality, Cleveland went into a panic that the Hopkins hub would be shut down. United insisted that not only would the hub NOT be shuttered, but that UAL was looking at ways to utilize CLE as a way to sidestep some of the congestion and associated delays at O'Hare particularly with the smaller RJ markets. They saw CLE as an opportunity, not a liability. Several months into the "new" United, they even marveled at how much more efficient CLE ground ops were than those at ORD. Turnaround times, baggage efficiency, ticketing, all were running circles around the stats for ORD...ORD ops management even said this in an article that was made public in an effort to reassure everyone who was skeptical about the future of CLE. Regardless, less than TWO MONTHS after these ops figures were released and lauded by UAL management, they announced the closure of hub operations, saying CLE "has been losing money for over a decade" and the airline had no choice but to eliminate the hub. It hadn't even been a year(!) since the merger was completed, but that was that, and some of us saw it coming from the beginning, despite management's adamant denial (which was clearly a smokescreen all along).

3:46 nah they had cargo operations back then. As of right now not any U.S passenger airline does cargo operations.

“Freefalling” for an aviation video? Kinda scary.

I came to Canada on one of this planes Canadian pacific DC- 8 from Lisbon on February 27 1970 with my parents ,i was 5 years old ,they both gone unfortunately,im still here

Bethune wanted more from his employees and reduced their benefits. Fuck that.

NWA was great

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Growing up in Detroit Michigan Northwest Airlines was the dominant carrier there at Detroit Metro Airport. If you ever flew into or out of Detroit you would more than likely flying a Northwest Flight. What I loved about Northwest was the employees. There was just a friendlier warmer experience when flying Northwest. They were conservate and not the most stylish carrier among the competitors Like United Braniff and Trans World, but they were highly reliable. I miss Northwest but I am glad that they became part of Delta. the two carrier synergies seem similar

Less that 5% of my lifetime flights were on Northwest, mostly out of Detroit. 90% of the mechanical delays were on Northwest. The Northwest-Republic merger was probably one of the worst.

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SENSATIONAL HEADLINE. There is nothing that didn’t also happen to other airlines! It’s called industry consolidation! The NWA/Delta merger resulted in one of the most successful airlines in the world!

Embarrassing failure? Ridiculously inaccurate claim. Neither embarrassing OR a failure. They would have survived better than Delta, which was literally saved by Northwest, a proud and very successful airline.

PAL HS 748 with modern livery of PAL looks amazing

Northwest was the reason my life changed entire directions. I walked into SFO to fly to Denver on United when I was 17, the sliding doors opened and I seen the biggest muscle monster guy in a ramp coveralls. He had new shiny black boots which the coveralls were tucked in. He had sunglasses and perfect hair. I can still to this day remember exactly how he looked. When I got back from Denver I applied to American, United, Delta and Northwest because I wanted to look just like that guy. I got hired by United the day I turned 18 and spent 11 years there. They were a very good company and I flew 212,871 miles on my travel benefits. I flew to Oahu every weekend and went to stay at United’s flight attendant hotel right on Waikiki beach. I went Christmas shopping at Harrods in London on my days off before Christmas. I went to The Hudson’s Bay company in every major Canadian city, took my mom to Italy 8 times, London, Paris, Hong Kong and I flew the Round the World flight twice and got to fly Concorde once. It’s definitely nice to have travel benefits. I enjoyed working there.

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Is that Lot 5055?

Northwest had a large presence in the upper Midwest, and it had a large presence in Asia and Europe. Merging with Delta was the best thing Northwest could have done in such a tight economy in 2008.

Malaysia Airbus A380?

The DC-3, DC-4 and Martin 404 were not turboprops

One point of clarification … NW didn’t have turboprops in the 1940s or 1950s- their Douglas and Martin aircraft were all piston powered. Their first turbine aircraft were the early 707s they acquired in 1961.

If there is no JAL pic, I will try and do planespotting of rare JAL aircrafts and post a video on RUclips because I might think they will retire soon. No copyright!

If there is a plane retiring and you want to take a picture or search and it doesn’t complete, I will try more planespotting for you and post is on RUclips. Trust me, no copyright!

Delta is a good airline. Northwest was better. Miss those guys.

I flew this airline in 2001 on their last flight

Ngl, JAS 747 would look beautiful

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Former northwest airlines attendant. Dtw and msp based. Worked for them for 5 years. Left in 2005 before bankruptcy. Sad, they used to own all their planes. Some Yahoo decided better to create a leasing company. Sell the planes to the that company and lease them back. Crested so much debt. I miss NWA. Because of all the Asia flying I did, I was introduced to another world. I still fly to Asia once a year for Vacation. A friend of mine stayed when Delta bought them. Delta voted out the union. She said she was miserable. The employees would tell on each other. Delta management would always say, that's not the Delta way. I never have and never will fly Delta. I now fly on china airlines. I saw the world because of NWA. I miss the lifestyle for many reasons. Not much money, but rewarding in otjer ways. We also had the largest dc9 fleet. I loved the dc9. I also loved working on the queen of the sky's. I Miss the 747. Few times I was on a positioning flight. I was able to sit in the flight deck. Awesome.

Love NW ✈️

For those that say Continental was the bad airline just because Smisek messed up the merger, let’s make an analogy. When Dennis Muilenberg was at Boeing, he maintained the culture that Boeing inherited from MD. But that does not mean either came from MD since he has been at Boeing since before the MD merger. MD is to United as Smisek is to Muilenberg.

DHC 6 twin otter still operating by Maswings

Didn't Feldman start frontier

1 of 2 airlines to operate the 747- *400* !?!?! What!?!! Just going to a plane graveyard would show more than 10 liveries on the 747-400

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“Become one of two airlines to operate” (the 747-400. What drugs are you on or what is your information source? You just have to look at a graveyard photo in Arizona or type 747-400 into google to see WAY more than ‘two’ airlines operated the 747-400.

There’s no such pronunciation of profitability as “Profittabikity” it’s pronounced “profit-a-biliry”

Yes. Bethune was a great CEO. I was flying CO regularly in those days and loved it. Customer Service was great!

Yeah...NW was class act, but biggest crash not totally their fault. Pilots dufased up flaps, had it nearly back in control, when attacked by illegal Avis lightpole on airport grounds. Politics allowed permit issuers, inspectors, elected Officials, & of course Avis escape, while NW held the bag!! Mid 90's had deal over G.R. Mich where best pilot in world boinked for 3 yrs before cleared name & made whole, but overall employee trust in airline had already flown the coupe!! Deal over G.R. happened as on trip to Lansing for MDOT, pickup was racked by severe downdraft, but when got control there was NW Liner stationary on approach w/150 knot headwind about to become 150 knot tailwind when hit that windshear! W/zero lift, it woulda been, "Good night & adieux my hot Spanish Ladies", as flat plummet into ground unsurvivable, but behind Door #2, Capt had insane Highway Worker on I-96 in Orange Pickup! My own hot section tweaked as truck picked up & slammed back down on pavement, then was accelerated to 85MPH, spied Liner, ID'd world of hurt, no traffic on I-96, lights & beacons on, shot up thru side window, pointing finger way up towards Capt, while slalomed the 40' across lanes & shoulders to get Capt's attn! When saw huge plume of exhaust from Liner's butt, & wheels comin' up, I ducked back into cab, watched Liner hit downdraft plummeting straight down in flat plummet into woods, but then slowly re-emerged above treeline, although looked like bird flappin' wings!! Still headed for Lansing, I turned off lights, looked around for POlice, but none the wiser, so resumed trip. Halfway there, this wierd lookin' NW Liner overflew me, did a slow U-Turn, & back it came at freeway level gently waggling wings, & when passed, this crazy Capt waving piece of paper on side window sayin' "Thanks", so I flipped on beacon for, "No Problem"! Fast fwd to Nov 1996, Mom & Dad on way to winter home in FLA, but Dad had heart attack in Hamilton Indiana. Missus & I broke, but somehow drove down there from Cadillac MI. 3 days later, Dad pretty much recovered, so Missus drove van home w/loan from Mom for gas, I drove folks down to Tampa, Mom gave me plenty of money for airline ticket home, so dropped myself off to TPA, Mom drove across Bay, and they were 2nd homed!! It was week before Thanksgiving, so airlines had just tripled airfares. I was ski-rooed as short, but nice SWA Ticket Agent somehow got Love from airline ok'ing reduced fare of all I had minus $7 for Pilot's Lounge burger, tax, & tip!! Wow, what could go wrong now!! Ashamed, in tattered work clothes, I got seat back of lounge, ordered, & 4 pilots landed on last table available, & right across from me. Dang, then I really felt underdressed!! They were pair of NWA Pilots, & pair of SWA Pilots. Older NWA Pilot was holding Windshear Danger training for SWA Pair at request of NWA 1st Ofcr friends of all! NWA Capt thought he was back in G.R. Mich, splained background, but could not remember order of, nor even his emergency actions that saved the Liner. Disguised as bum, I said, "You went full gas/flaps, gear up, nose down, then flat plummet straight down disappearing into woods, Capt!" It must have been sore subject for him, as upon glance up, Capt was already vaulting table, & grabbed me by neck growling, "And just how in the hell would you know that"?? I gasped, "I was that ahole Hwy Wkr you just mentioned, I have MDOT ID"! Capt glanced a bit at ID, then asked if would like to sit with them. I declined, as had no food for 3 days, & burger just arriving. Capt shouted, "You look like a T'Bone Man to me, Waitress will give burger to someone that needs it", as jammed me into one of their chairs. I guess I had changed tables, as 2 parties already arguing over original in The Lounge!! Well anyways, chance meetings with this Captain are quite exciting!! I scribed all of above etc onto Capt's extra dinner napkin, & 1st thing Monday AM, he had it to NTSB Administration Building, Washington D.C. Director grabbed it, checked it all out, everything legit, so proceeded to make everything right!! NWS at G.R. Airport given 1st available Doppler Radar, Capt made whole, and Investigators got brand new definition for, "Physically Impossible"!! Sorry to bore Y'all, but that's what really happened!!! Overall, NWA class outfit, just in wrong spot at wrong time!!!

Should've been used a sad song

Still so upset they retired the a330s. It’s my favorite livery on the a330

You’re telling me they used dc-8s and 707s from New York to Asia??????? I

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this plane caused a learjet 45 to crash

I flew on Northwest more than any other airline and it was my favorite airline. Last time flying with Northwest was in 2009.