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Northwest Airlines Flight Service Attendant - StanWing.Com ...  On October 1, 1986, Northwest merged with Minneapolis-St. Paul based Republic Airlines. Northwest dropped the word Orient from its brand name after the...
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Northwest Airlines Files - Regional Airlines  [citation needed] Northwest Airways, Inc. changed its name to Northwest Airlines, .... On October 1, 1986, Northwest merged with Republic Airlines, also based in ... pre-merger Northwest Orient livery (minus the word "Orient" until a new livery and ... Northwest gradually pulled out of its minor European destinations and once...
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Northwest Airlines - Wikipedia  Northwest Airlines Corp. (often abbreviated as NWA) was a major United States airline founded in 1926 and absorbed into Delta Air Lines, Inc. by a merger. Approved on October 29, 2008, the merger made Delta the largest airline in .... On October 1, 1986, Northwest merged with Republic Airlines, also based in...
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theairloomproject | 747 HISTORY  A short history of the 747 within Pan American World Airways, Northwest Airlines, ... After logging more than 61 million miles, Ship 6301 flew its final flight on September ... On October 1, 1986, Northwest merged with Republic Airlines, also based in ... Northwest dropped the word Orient from its brand name after the merger.
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1989 - Northwest Airlines / Northwest Orient Airlines Timetables ...  On October 1, 1986, Northwest merged with Minneapolis-St. Paul-based Republic ... Northwest dropped the word Orient from its brand name after the merger. ... Northwest gradually pulled out of its minor European destinations and once more...
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Alaska Airlines Ends 30-Year Prayer Card Tradition | TIME.com  Jan 26, 2012 ... Alaska Airlines to stop handing out prayer cards to passengers Seattle Times; Alaska Airlines ends decades-old prayer card tradition ... Since 2006, when the airline stopped serving food on trays to customers in coach, the cards were only ... The concern wasn't only based on religion; the cards also gave...
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Partisan Rancor Flares In Debate To Rename Washington National ...  Congress passed legislation to rename Washington National Airport in honor of President Reagan on Feb. 5, the day before his 87th birthday. President Clinton...
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Hijacking of Flight 305 by D.B. Cooper: CASE CLOSED!  On the afternoon of November 24, 1971 a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper ... $200,000 in twenty dollar bills and two parachutes upon landing in Seattle. ... The hijacked airliner took off from Seattle at 7:40 p.m. with the flight crew ... Shortly after that L.D. Cooper disappeared and was not seen by the family again.
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Air Force One | The Museum of Flight  The first presidential jet plane, a specially built Boeing 707-120, is known as SAM ... other Air Force aircraft, carried the call sign Air Force One when the president was aboard. ... In 1962, SAM 970 was replaced by a newer Boeing VC-137C. ... The Museum Of Flight, 9404 E. Marginal Way South, Seattle, WA 98108-4097.
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United Airlines - Wikipedia  United Airlines, Inc., commonly referred to as United, is a major American airline headquartered ..... United resurrected its popular "Fly the Friendly Skies" slogan in September 2013. Until September, 2013, the slogan, adopted after the merger of...
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Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Request - National Transportation Safety ...  The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent federal ... Since its creation in 1967 as an accident investigation agency within the newly created US ... All US civil aviation accidents and certain public aircraft accidents ..... non-governmental organizations engaged in transportation safety advocacy at the.
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The History of the Exclamation Point | Smart News | Smithsonian  Aug 9, 2012 ... Hamilton, Ohio, changed its name to Hamilton! in 1986. But complaining about ... An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own jokes.
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Report: Hornets to change name to New Orleans Pelicans in 2013 ...  Dec 4, 2012 ... The Pelicans were an old New Orleans baseball team. ... something cooler, then if Vancouver gets the nba back, they should reclaim the name:...
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Amid Much Rhetoric, Reagan Airport Is Approved - tribunedigital ...  February 05, 1998|By William Neikirk, Washington Bureau. ... bills to rename Washington National Airport in honor of former President Ronald Reagan, who will turn 87 Friday. ... parties for their efforts in delivering this wonderful gift in time for my husband's 87th birthday." ... "This is not about honoring his service," said Rep.
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TRANS CANADAAIR LINES, LTD. (TCA): Canada (1937-1964)  Sep 9, 2015 ... Vancouver to Winnipeg L-10A cargo service begins on February 1, 1938, with a ... At the same time, daily Halifax to Sydney flights are inaugurated. ... Port Arthur to Duluth on September 16, and Victoria to Seattle on November 1. ... A DC-4M-1 with 6 crew and 11 passengers is lost when its fuel tanks take...
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The Big Apple: You are now free to move about the country ...  Jul 4, 2008 ... Southwest Airlines began in 1967 as a low-cost airline based in Dallas, serving Houston and San Antonio. It is now one of the largest airlines in...
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Aviation History Archives - Page 3 of 7 - Airchive - Airways Magazine  N717JL, the 717 that flew AirTran's final flight departs Tampa Monday December 29, .... are not happy to see the beloved AirTran brand be switched to Southwest. ... later became known as the 717 when Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas. ...... the two companies formed 80 years ago when KLM flew its first DC-2 in 1934.
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I BROKED IT by outofculture  Pull Request #1  petekinnecom ...  + "question": "'When it began on Pan Am & Qantas in the late '70s, it was basically a roped-off part of the economy cabin with free drinks'",. + "value": "$800",.
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The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware  Page 8  May 20, 1977 ... I have been asked if I intend to fly back to New York. ... Swinging the club back, he caught me on the back of the head. ... following is a reprint of Lindbergh's own account of his flight, as published first in The New York Times on May 23, 1927. ... As you know, we (that's my ship and I) took off rather suddenly.
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Northwest Airlines Corp facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia ...  Under new management the airline formed a holding company, Northwest ... In 1992 Northwest and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines applied to the United States ... The alliance nearly doubled the pair's share of transatlantic traffic, to 12 percent. ... At approximately $2 billion, its debt had been reduced to half the 1993 level.
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From the Archives: Air Force One and Presidential Air Travel ...  Aug 18, 2014 ... Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first sitting President to fly on an airplane when, ... The Sacred Cow did not have a pressurized cabin, so when it flew at high ... The Independence  named for Truman's hometown in Missouri ... President Eisenhower flew aboard two aircraft while in office, Columbine II and...