Archrivals Northwest Orient Airlines and Republic Airlines have agreed to merge in a $884 million cash deal that would create the nation`s third largest airline. The combination of the airlines ...

It adopted the name “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.

Delta is the leading U.S. airline in the trans-Atlantic market and has strong domestic routes, especially in the Northeast, South and West. Northwest — once known as Northwest Orient — has ...

It adopted the name “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.

A riveting tale of aviation's darkest unsolved mystery told from the perspective of the final flight attendant to leave the ...

Robert J. Wright’s first job with fledgling Minneapolis-based Northwest Orient Airlines was as a ticket agent at the front counter of the carrier’s downtown Seattle office in 1946. By the end ...

That changed with its merger into Republic Airlines, later Northwest Orient, Northwest Airlines and today Delta Airlines. It was less crowded on JetBlue, according to this 2010 commercial that ...

Josh Gates investigates the most mysterious airline disaster in American history — searching for why Northwest Orient Flight 2501 vanished, taking the lives of all 58 people on board.

Why, if Don Nyrop’s airline could close my school, I would gladly fly with them to the Orient. “Northwest Orient … Airlines.” If the wind was howling and the snow was piling up outside the ...