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Northwest Orient State Owned?

Aerokiwi From New Zealand, joined Jul 2000, 2410 posts, RR: 4
Posted (12 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 927 times:

Did the US Government ever own a share of Northwest Orient (or any other airline)? And did the airline fly to Europe under this name? Just curious.

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Trvlr From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4430 posts, RR: 24
Reply 1, posted (12 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 856 times:

During the period before the deregulation of the airline industry many of the majors got subsidies I think, but I am pretty sure they were not owned in any way by the U.S. government.

Aaron G.

Iflewrepublic From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 537 posts, RR: 3
Reply 2, posted (12 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 806 times:

When Northwest was known as "Northwest Orient Airlines", they flew all over the world. The word "orient" was used to reflect the fact that Northwest Airlines was a truly global airline.

Iflewrepublic.

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Tupolev154B2 From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1332 posts, RR: 2
Reply 3, posted (12 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 800 times:

Well some NWA planes also have a US at the end of the reg., i.e. N670US (which used to be the 744 World Plane).

DesertJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 7673 posts, RR: 18
Reply 4, posted (12 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 789 times:

in the late 80's/early 90's the state of Minnesota bought some of their debt to keep them headquartered in Minneapolis... so in that sense that are state owned.

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D L X From United States of America, joined May 1999, 10561 posts, RR: 53
Reply 5, posted (12 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 782 times:

A good number of the US Airways fleet has the tag US on the end as well. I assure you that doesn't mean they are owned by the government.

Also, a state forgiving debt does not make the company state owned unless it was actually an agreement to purchase a piece of the airline. NW is a publicly owned company. Anyone with stock owns a piece of the company.

Victech From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 546 posts, RR: 2
Reply 6, posted (12 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 770 times:

In fact, here is the N670US record:

N-number : N670US
Aircraft Serial Number : 24225
Aircraft Manufacturer : BOEING
Aircraft Model : 747-451
Engine Manufacturer : P & W
Engine Model : PW4000 SER
Aircraft Year : 1990
Owner Name : NORTHWEST AIRLINES INC
Owner Address : 5101 NORTHWEST DRIVE C8960 ST PAUL, MN, 55111
Registration Date : 04-Sep-1990
Airworthiness Certificate Type : Experimental
Approved Operations : To show compliance with FAR

Patches From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 280 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (12 years 8 months 3 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 767 times:

DLX is correct in this matter. I'm from Minn. and all we did was get them out of debt and stop it from going bankrupt. In return they kept all these great jobs and the hub in Minn.basically the state saved the airline, but we don't own the airline.

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