Northwest Airlines

Pros: First class service on par with other airlines. Easy upgrades through their WorldPerks program.
Cons: Older fleet of aircraft for short-haul flights.

I fly frequently out of San Diego for business, and more often than not I choose Northwest because they fly pretty much everywhere I do (and if they don't one of their partners does), and I know what to expect when the cabin doors close. I also take ...

Pros: At least we weren't hijacked
Cons: Yet we felt like hostages anyway

Northwest is a really fabulous airline to fly if you:

1) Don't really need to get where you're going.
2) Have hours and hours, possibly even days, to kill.
3) Love the insides of airports.
4) Love to make a detour through...

Pros: direct flights to Detroit
Cons: chronic lateness, screw-ups a plenty, forget about decent customer service

Since moving from Ann Arbor, Michigan to Boston in October, I’m a commuter girlfriend. I spend my weeks in Boston, and nearly every other weekend in Ann Arbor with the old ball and chain. This jet-setting lifestyle has necessitated intensifying another...

Pros: On time, beverage service above average, luggage didn't get lost.
Cons: Luggage fee, no small free snacks on board, old fleet

An overviewI could go into great detail about my personal travel habits, but I will limit what I have to say about my habits as a prologue to my review of Northwest Airlines (NWA as they choose to abbreviate their name these days).I do ...

Pros: No one can take your absolutely the worst title away.
Cons: In 15 words or less impossible

I cannnot be sure this Airline's Mission is to be anything but the worst,they possibly can. They certainly make no attempt to be customer oriented, In any way shape or form.

I flew NW again, recently, from Miami to Beijing. This involves two...

Pros: Cheap fares. Frequent upgrade to business. Exceptional service from check in representatives.
Cons: mediocre service from flight attendants

My first experience with Northwest dates back to September of 2002, when I booked an international flight from Los Angeles to South Korea. I shopped around for prices at travel agencies a few months prior to my trip and found it to be the cheapest out of ...

Pros: Great Fares, Good Service, On-Time, Clean Aircraft
Cons: None except for breakfast was a little weak.

I am writing this review on my most recent Northwest Airlines flights I have taken. They were between Los Angeles and London. I would have to say that I am surprised on how low Northwest is rated. I go out of my way to fly Northwest, because I have never...

Pros: Partnered with Mesaba Airlines. Wonderful hub in Minneapolis. Comfortable aircraft.
Cons: No in-flight entertainment.

I just got back today from a school service trip to Eagle Butte, SD. I had read the reviews on epinions and braced myself for some awful in-flight experience. It never happened. Ticket Purchase: I had nothing to do with this. My school ...

Pros: Good Fair, Good Service, Good Planes and Pilots
Cons: 2 hour delay

I am a Californian and in so being I have had many occasions to take quick jaunts on airplanes to different parts of the state since it is so big and diverse. Northwest Airlines is suited perfectly for this task as they offer many different routes to...

Pros: On time, safe, fairly priced
Cons: Maybe they don't have home cooking!

Living in the Detroit area, I find myself flying Northwest Airlines almost every time I fly as it is a hub for Northwest. Every day in this city I hear grumbling over this airline and as of this date, I can say Northwest has a perfect record with me. The...

Pros: Did not crash.
Cons: Bad service. Canceled flights. Deceptive ticketing on bereavement fares. Regularly late. Unhelpful customer service.

I have reluctantly flown Northwest a number of times in the last few years.

1st flight Friends issued frequent flyer tickets to us to attend their wedding in NC. We are on the west coast. On the return trip our flight from Raleigh to...

Pros: The Army paid for the ticket.
Cons: Some of the staff needed a personality adjustment.

A couple of days ago, I finished my Army Reserve annual training at Ft McCoy, WI. We returned home on Northwest airline leaving from Madison. Our flight was at 0740 to Chicago. We were tired and more than ready to go home.

Upon arriving...

Pros: very friendly and helpful flight attendants, tasty "special" meals
Cons: horrible customer service at gates, no help for single mother traveling alone

I will NEVER fly through the Detroit Metro Airport on Northwest Airlines EVER again! Yes, a very emphatic statement. Lots of anger pouring out in that, isn't there? This doesn't even come close to my horrible experience flying Northwest Airlines...

Pros: Smooth Flight
Cons: Freezing Cold Accomadations

The reason we flew Northwest is this is how Travelocity.com sent us for our return trip from Ft.Myers, Florida.
Yesterday, December 22, 2000 was a day to be remembered as probably the most frustration day of flying in all my born days. The very...

Pros: The plane gets off the ground... eventually
Cons: An unorganized and thoughtless company that strands their employees and customers alike.

My family and I recently flew from Washington, DC to Phoenix to visit family over the holidays. The flight out was relatively uneventful; we flew to their hub in Detroit, then on to Phoenix. Let it be known that the only food we got on the 3 1/2 hour...