Northwest Airlines

Northwest Airlines is a United States airline headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota. The airline accounts for more than 70% of passenger traffic at nearby Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.

Northwest has the IATA designation NW. Northwest Airlines' regional flights are operated under two airlines, which operate under the name Northwest Airlink.

Northwest has three major hubs in the United States and one in Japan: Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport near Minneapolis, Minnesota and Saint Paul, Minnesota; Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport near Detroit, Michigan; Memphis International Airport in Memphis, Tennessee; and New Tokyo International Airport in Narita, Japan Northwest also operates into India from Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. The airline is partnered with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Continental Airlines, and most recently Delta Airlines. Its IATA Call Code is NW.

Northwest was formerly part of the Wings Alliance and currently codeshares with SNCF French Rail to destinations in France, and Thalys International to destinations in Belgium.

If Project Bojinka wasn't discovered after an aprtment fire in Manila, Philippines, then the airline would have lost three aircraft over the Pacific Ocean flying routes from East Asia and Southeast Asia on January 21, 1995.