Northwest Airlines To Increase Nagoya-Manila Service

Expanded Schedule Enhances Northwest’s Position as the Philippines Leading International Carrier

Northwest Airlines has announced that it will increase service between Nagoya, Japan and Manila, the Philippines from four weekly flights to daily service beginning April 1, 2001. The flights will be an extension of Northwest’s Detroit-Nagoya nonstop service which will expand from four weekly flights to daily service on the same date and will strengthen Northwest’s position as the leading international airline serving the Philippines.

Northwest will operate Boeing 747-400 aircraft on the route featuring its enhanced World Business Class service. Northwest and its partner KLM Royal Dutch Airlines recently announced a new World Business Class service providing more than 50 percent additional leg room, improved seat recline, upgraded food service and many other improvements.

With the expanded service to Manila, Northwest will operate 21 weekly flights between the United States and the Philippines – far more service than any other airline between the two countries.

“The Philippines has been an important market for Northwest for more than 50 years,” said Philip Haan, executive vice president-international, sales and information services. “We offer convenient one-stop schedules to Manila via continuing service from Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, Japan. Northwest offers the most flight choices for the business and leisure traveler.”

Manila was one of the original destinations served by Northwest when it became the first airline to link North America to Asia via the “Great Circle route” across the Pacific in July, 1947. Northwest serves 15 major destinations in the Asia/Pacific region with its fleet of 36 Boeing 747 passenger aircraft.

Northwest Airlines is the world’s fourth largest airline offering 2,600 daily departures with hubs in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Detroit, Memphis, Tokyo and Amsterdam. With its travel partners, Northwest serves more than 750 cities in nearly 120 countries on six continents. Northwest and partner KLM Royal Dutch Airlines received Air Transport World magazine’s prestigious Airline of the Year Award in 1997. Based on statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Northwest is the most on-time airline of the decade among the seven largest network carriers and is the 2000 recipient of Air Transport World’s 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 magazine 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 zdNews.com and business 2.0 and was named one of the top 50 sites by Internet World magazine.