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.

The Stratocruiser program got a boost thanks to a government initiative offered to Northwest Orient Airlines to open new routes to Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest. The routes depended on ...

Laffey Inman fought to become the first female purser at what was then known as Northwest Orient Airlines. After her salary was cut and she was paid less than her male counterparts, Laffey Inman ...

The decades-old enigma surrounding DB Cooper, the notorious hijacker who vanished after parachuting from Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 with $200,000 in cash, may finally be unraveling.