Farewell Northwest Airlines..An End to an Era

The only people that win in a merger are the upper level managers that grace themselves with multi-million dollar bonuses!

The rest of us have to figure out how this thing is actually going to work.
 
Awe, they didn't have a clip of that Air exercising video they make you watch on the long haul flights before your inflight entertainment is turned on...I believe they called it Airobics...or something like that
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
. . .like what was recently said at a recent M&G.

". . .they're dead. Dead, they're Delta now, get over it!"
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Oh....Northwest will be back.....as some fly-by-night, cheap-ass, low-qualed regional that wants to use the name.

Same that happened with PanAm, PSA, Piedmont and Republic.........
 
Screaming_Emu said:
Awe, they didn't have a clip of that Air exercising video they make you watch on the long haul flights before your inflight entertainment is turned on...I believe they called it Airobics...or something like that
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I seriously hate having to go through that before the IFE is turned on. It is torture looking at the "Airobics" performed by a couple of Minnesota moms in their mom jeans and their retro look. I have tried doing a search on youtube for that video to no avail. Worst thing ever created :D
 
Cool video.
I always enjoyed my flights on NorthWest.
I like the red tails.

I have a lot of good trips that started and ended with NW.
When Bernie Hahn jumped ship I started to think it was the beginning of the end for that airline.
 
Do you mean Pan Am 1-4 or the 5th iteration of "we're bringin' it BACK"? :)
 
Doug Taylor said:
Do you mean Pan Am 1-4 or the 5th iteration of "we're bringin' it BACK"? :)
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Exactly! It'll just be back again......somewhere.

I mean, can't airlines leave well enough alone? Can't PSA, PanAm just be remembered as the legacies they were, instead of having to be resurrected into half-ass operations?
 
Well this sucks. I have always flown on NWA. Always had a great flight. The pilots were always nice to me. I remember when i was about 5 or 6 we were boarding the plane, It was taking a while and i kept peering into the cockpit. The flight engineer noticed me and invited me into the cockpit. He let me look around, As i did i was in awww.:drool: Then he gave me a pair of wings! (they were fake but as a little kid who wanted to be a pilot i felt like a million bucks!):nana2: Anyways Ill miss NWA!
 
It kinda sucks. I hated NWA management with a passion, but I loved the airline for its rich aviation history. Northwest was the oldest airline in the country still operating under its original name. The very first ALPA council, NWA Council 1, was the NWA council in MSP. I always loved how they kept the airmail history alive, too. The unifrom wings were still old airmail wings. Sad to see that history all go. I was in the NWA MEC office today in MSP, and they had a huge poster of the airmail wings with signatures from all of the NWA MEC volunteers. I hope the DAL MEC finds a good place for it in the new office. Don't throw away all of that history.
 
Flying out of MSP right now, sad to look around at the loss of NW. My uncle retired out of the 744 at NWA, my Aunt was a FA for Hughes Airwest (NWA aquired Hughes) and a very very close family friend also retired from NWA on the 744 with a very high seniority number.

They were my role models for attempting to make this career mine and it's a sad thought since in a way growing up looking at all of the pictures of NWA planes hanging on the walls in their houses brought a family richness into it.

Secretly one of only the very few airlines I wanted to work for to keep the history going.
 
My first ever airplane ride was on one of these in 1959... Seattle to DCA in something like 11 weeks... just kidding - but it DID take a while and there were a LOT of stops. Mergers can't remove memories.

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What a time to fly. Big recips, a professional engineer who could make those -4360s behave and a Capt didn't have to argue with a gate agent over fuel.

I guess I like old ugly machines but this one must have commanded some presence on the ramp with those 4 big radials growling.
 
ctab5060X said:
Not to mention a complete bar on the lower level of the airplane! :nana2:
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So you can have one on the way up to the cockpit and one on the way down headed for the hotel.

When I started, it was not uncommon for a Capt to start a 3-4 day trip with a quart of scotch and take none home. And about half (at least) smoked. It was a different time
 
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