Yep! Owned our own Aircraft and Facilities! Paid Cash! Insulated from everything but greedy Executives and their leveraged buyouts! Makes me sick! And then all the Bankruptcy Court did is give them a fresh start at another Compay to ruin
I miss the red tail, and how the pilots would give out little plastic wings. this is the airline i grew up with, as i live in its hub in minneapolis st paul. Now i hate delta. don’t buy tickets from delta. Use AirTran or American, but not delta!!!!
I grew up in NYC hearing the call of the Gong in their radio ads…and never planning on it, I wound up working for them as a young man, leaving after 19+ years. Breaks my heart to think that through fancy financing, they were “bought” with their own money, and the Red Tail flies no more.
Northwest airlines was the main reason I wanted to be a pilot. I always had a smile going through any airport and seeing the distinctive red tail among any aircraft. Northwest will always be my favorite, no matter what. Northwest will always be missed. I -3 NWA
I believe this video is from one of the northwest managers meetings I attended, a couple weeks before merger announcement. Will always miss NWA, Delta is absolutely horrible to it’s employees and passengers.
I have some great memories of Northwest, including one of the first commercial flights I can remember (just after I turned 5), my first (and only) 747 trip, two of five trips to Europe, our first (of what would become 11) trips to Puerto Rico, the first trip to Florida after our family bought a new vacation home there…all on the red tail.
One of the greatest airline vids around! Thanks so much for posting it!
NWA took me around the world some 11 times before it merged. Still miss the red tail every time I fly across the Atlantic and onwards. Somehow, Delta is not the same…
Sad indeed. My father retired from Northwest in 1987. His last flight was Narita Tokyo to JFK.
He went from flying Corsairs over Japan in ’45 to flying 747s.
Fargo North Dakota is not the same its sad to see the red tails gone and a great gruop of employees who have been replaced by contractors who care nothing for there job.
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June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
should of merged logo to. I will miss those red tails flying in the sky
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
Yep! Owned our own Aircraft and Facilities! Paid Cash! Insulated from everything but greedy Executives and their leveraged buyouts! Makes me sick! And then all the Bankruptcy Court did is give them a fresh start at another Compay to ruin
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
WHY is it Nord West WE fly the whole time sout east ?
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
Gone but not forgotten! The sun will never set on NWA!
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
I miss the red tail, and how the pilots would give out little plastic wings. this is the airline i grew up with, as i live in its hub in minneapolis st paul. Now i hate delta. don’t buy tickets from delta. Use AirTran or American, but not delta!!!!
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
I grew up in NYC hearing the call of the Gong in their radio ads…and never planning on it, I wound up working for them as a young man, leaving after 19+ years. Breaks my heart to think that through fancy financing, they were “bought” with their own money, and the Red Tail flies no more.
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
They shouldve at least kept the tails… that would’ve been great.
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
They were a good airline.
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
Northwest airlines was the main reason I wanted to be a pilot. I always had a smile going through any airport and seeing the distinctive red tail among any aircraft. Northwest will always be my favorite, no matter what. Northwest will always be missed. I -3 NWA
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
FUCK NORTHWEST AIRLINES ITS ALL ABOUT NIGGA WITTA ATTITUDE DR.DRE IS BACK BRAPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
I believe this video is from one of the northwest managers meetings I attended, a couple weeks before merger announcement. Will always miss NWA, Delta is absolutely horrible to it’s employees and passengers.
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
I have some great memories of Northwest, including one of the first commercial flights I can remember (just after I turned 5), my first (and only) 747 trip, two of five trips to Europe, our first (of what would become 11) trips to Puerto Rico, the first trip to Florida after our family bought a new vacation home there…all on the red tail.
Thanks Northwest.
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
One of the greatest airline vids around! Thanks so much for posting it!
NWA took me around the world some 11 times before it merged. Still miss the red tail every time I fly across the Atlantic and onwards. Somehow, Delta is not the same…
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
Sad indeed. My father retired from Northwest in 1987. His last flight was Narita Tokyo to JFK.
He went from flying Corsairs over Japan in ’45 to flying 747s.
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
Hmm I think the sun *has* already set on Northwest Airlines and NWA AFA and IAM now that DL will remain non-union
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
i know
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
@ILIGANO do you really?
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
First Northwest, now Continental. Why do the good airlines have to die!
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
@CPdu2V41
Every city has merged as of January 2010
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
@aviationnutsv
Fargo was contracted out by NWA long ago. All that’s changed is who has the contract…
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
i dont know much about them but i only liked there new livery thats all i knew about them
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
I don’t think I will ever part with my piece of the red tail.
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
@ILIGANO Such a nice heartwarming story
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
Who is the man in the old, vintage closeup, he has a weathered face – I saw it on the handful of photos on the NW History Center website, also…?
June 1st, 2011 at 12:07 am
Fargo North Dakota is not the same its sad to see the red tails gone and a great gruop of employees who have been replaced by contractors who care nothing for there job.