Two odd incidents in the past week where stuff has fallen off a plane into people’s yards:
A 2 foot piece of metal from a Northwest DC-9 fell into a family’s yard in Wisconsin last week.  No one was injured.  Said the home’s owner: "I was coming out with the
laundry basket to hang my laundry, and [...]

I’m kinda sorry I ever brought up the AirTran/Midwest merger, as it’s a long, long story that I’m guessing few of you care about (though if you live in Milwaukee you should care about it, because if TPG buys Midwest, you can expect Northwest, which is also part of that investor group, to make sure [...]

Northwest’s summer of discontent may be over:  The carrier announced that it has reached an agreement with pilots that should keep all (most?) of their scheduled flights in their come the end of the month (this would be a stark difference from the past 2 months, when the end of the month has led to [...]

Northwest canceled 500 flights over the weekend, due either to pilots acting improperly (according to management) or pilots not being scheduled correctly (according to the pilot’s union).  For several months now, pilots have hit their 90 hour flight limit (please do not write saying that this is a small number of hours to work for [...]

In what is shaping up to be the worst flying summer in history, Northwest has canceled about 1,000 flights this week due to a number of factors, not least of which is some sort of labor action by pilots who are upset with management.  Bad weather hasn’t helped either, as a bunch of airlines have [...]

I have absolutely no idea what you’d do with it, but someone is selling a 727-200 on eBay.  It’s not in flying condition, but it’s a steal with a buy it now price of only $100,000.  Here are some photos of the plane in better times when it was flying for Northwest and Sunworld.  If [...]

American Airlines recently announced that it will launch nonstop flights from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Minneapolis, a route that is dominated by Northwest.  In a petty and vengeful move, Northwest just announced that they will launch nonstop flights from LaGuardia to Dallas, a route dominated by American Airlines.  The beauty of this is that [...]

The era of bankrupt US airlines is basically over today (well, for now), as Northwest Airlines exits Chapter 11.  If you’re a fan of airline stocks (you are crazy) you’ll be excited to know that Northwest’s shares will be listed today on the NYSE.  Passengers won’t notice anything different.

An off-duty Northwest Airlines pilot led police on a bit of a crazy chase after he drove his rented Hummer the wrong way on I-94 near Port Huron, Michigan.  Turns out the pilot had a bit of a cocaine binge, then decided to drive over the Blue Water bridge to Sarnia, Ontario.  But he decided [...]

A Northwest Airlines pilot was removed from a Detroit-bound flight at Las Vegas airport after he was swearing loudly onboard.  A bit more detail:  he was overheard swearing while talking on a cellphone in the cockpit.  After passengers complained, he started yelling (and cursing) at passengers.  Police were called in and removed the pilot (though [...]