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As one of the largest airlines in America, Northwest Airlines can be traced back as early as 1926 when it operated mail transportation between St. Paul and Chicago with two rented airplanes. Its passenger service followed closely the next year. In 1947, it started America-Asia routes and in 1986, it purchased Republic Airlines of America. In the following years, it created alliances with a variety of world-famous companies, making it possible to extend its network, and provide higher-qualified and more favorable services to millions of passengers worldwide.
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Northwest Airlines is asking for support for its request to launch new nonstop Detroit-Shanghai and Detroit-Beijing service, tapping an on-line petition drive. "The Department of Transportation plans to award a limited number of new routes to China between 2007 and 2009. Northwest Airlines is asking the DOT for authority to fly Detroit-Shanghai nonstop service beginning in 2007 and Detroit-Beijing nonstop service beginning in 2009," the airline said in a news announcement.
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On July 16, 2007, Northwest Airlines applied to the United States Department of Transportation for nonstop service between its WorldGateway hub at Detroit to Shanghai (beginning in 2007 on Boeing 747-400s) and to Beijing (beginning in 2009 on Boeing 787 Dreamliners). The other airline competing for such a route is US Airways.
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In the years before World War II Northwest directed its expansion eastward to New York. The company survived the government's temporary suspension of airmail contracts in 1934 with virtually no loss in business, and began operating mail services and passenger routes along the northern corridor. Moreover, new and modified airplanes enabled Northwest to continue operations through the winter. The planes were modified further when it became obvious that finding light-colored, downed planes in the snow was a difficult task. The tail fins of all the company's planes have since been painted a bright, contrasting red. In 1937 Croil Hunter, who had been credited with the airline's success, was named president of the company.
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[I]n 1993, Northwest began its strategic alliance with KLM, which was the largest airline partnership ever conceived at the time. This partnership eventually became the Wings Alliance. However, the alliance never grew beyond the two airlines, and is now obsolete from a passenger's perspective, because both airlines are part of the larger SkyTeam Alliance. (From a legal perspective, the Northwest/KLM alliance remains important: it has antitrust immunity, whereas the broader SkyTeam alliance merely has code sharing privileges.) Northwest gradually pulled out of its minor European destinations and once more focused its attention on the domestic and Asian markets. On 1 May 1996 Northwest began the first nonstop service from the U.S. to China, on the Detroit - Beijing route. Nonstop Detroit-Shanghai service followed in April 2000.
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Northwest Airlines is to cancel its service between Detroit and Brussels, after just two months in operation. The carrier has chosen to halt the route after much-publicised problems with pilot shortages, just one month after it reduced its planned Detroit-Frankfurt route.
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