Northwest Airlines Adds Best Western International to its WorldPerks Program

Northwest Airlines announced today that Best Western International has become a new WorldPerks hotel partner. Best Western is WorldPerks’ 29th hotel partner. WorldPerks members will earn 250 Bonus Miles with each qualifying stay at any Best Western hotel in North, Central and South America beginning July 1, 2000.

“WorldPerks members have been asking for more ways to earn Bonus Miles and we’re listening,” said Russ Hinckley, managing director WorldPerks marketing and international advertising. “As one of the world’s largest hotel chains, Best Western hotels are everywhere Northwest Airlines flies and provides thousands of more places to earn WorldPerks Bonus Miles.”

Customers can learn more about this offer from the WorldPerks Frequent Flyer Center at Northwest’s award-winning web site (www.nwa.com).

Best Western International is the world’s largest hotel chain with more than 4,000 hotels in 86 countries and territories. It is a membership association consisting of independently owned and operated hotels. The association provides marketing, reservations and operational support to its member hotels. For reservations call (800)-WESTERN or contact a travel professional.

Northwest offers the lowest award redemption level for free travel with just 20,000 miles needed for a roundtrip ticket. Northwest Airlines is the world’s fourth largest airline offering more than 2,600 daily departures with hubs at Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, Tokyo and Amsterdam. With its travel partners, Northwest serves more than 750 cities in 120 countries on 6 continents. Northwest and partner KLM Royal Dutch Airlines received Air Transport World’s prestigious “1997 Airline of the Year” award and, based on statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Northwest was the most on-time U.S. airline among the seven largest network carriers for the period 1990-1999.

Northwest is the 2000 recipient of Air Transport World Airline Technology Management Award. Northwest’s WorldPerks frequent flyer program is the highest rated U.S.-based program reviewed by InsideFlyer Magazine, the leading authority on airline free travel programs, and in 1999 was named the most preferred frequent flyer program by the readers of Time in Asia. WorldPerks received the special “Industry Impact Award” during InsideFlyer’s 12th Annual Freddie Awards. In 1999, Northwest’s nwa.com was chosen as best airline web site by ZDNet.com and Business 2.0 and was named one of the top 500 sites by Internet World magazine.