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This beautiful reproduction poster has been re-mastered from a circa 1950 advertising poster for Northwest Orient Airlines service to China.
The vibrant colors and detail of this classic image have been painstakingly brought back to life to preserve a great piece of history.
The high-resolution image is printed on heavy archival photo paper, on a large-format, professional giclée process printer. The poster is shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, and is ready for framing.
The 13"x19" and 24”x36” formats are excellent image sizes that look great as a stand-alone piece of art, or as a grouped visual statement. The 24”x36” size has a 1” white border. These posters require no cutting, trimming, or custom framing, and a wide variety of these frames are readily available at your local craft or hobby retailer, and online.
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HISTORY OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES
Northwest Airlines (also known as: Northwest Orient Airlines; NWA Inc. Northwest Airlines Corp. and often abbreviated as NWA) was a major United States-based airline founded in 1926. It was absorbed into Delta Air Lines, Inc. by a merger in 2008. The airline was referred to as Northwest Orient Airlines between 1947 and 1986. The word 'Orient' was used after the airlines expanded their route map to include flights to Asia, and was taken back out of the name after the 1986 merger with Republic Airlines.
Northwest Airlines, Inc., American airline founded in 1926 as Northwest Airways, Inc., and incorporated on April 16, 1934, as Northwest Airlines, Inc. Originally flying a mail route between Chicago and Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minn., the company expanded in subsequent decades to eventually include a domestic and international system radiating from Chicago, Minneapolis–St. Paul, and Seattle, Wash., to other points in the United States, Canada, the Far East, and Europe. Northwest’s parent holding company, NWA Incorporated, was created in a corporate reorganization in 1984. Headquarters are at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport.
From 1928 to 1933 Northwest expanded westward, city by city, through the Dakotas, Montana, and Washington state. In 1945, after serving the U.S. government in various northern and Pacific theatres of war, the airline secured an extension of its routes eastward from Minneapolis–St. Paul to New York City, via Milwaukee and Detroit, and thereby became the nation’s fourth transcontinental airline—although, unlike TWA, United, and American, it did not initially serve the California market. The following year Northwest was certified to fly to the Far East and began service in 1947; for a time, the airline used the trade name Northwest Orient. In 1958, it secured the lucrative Florida route from the Midwest.
Northwest started service to the Benelux countries and London in 1979 and 1980, respectively. In 1982 it established routes to South America and China; the latter had not been linked directly to the United States by air in more than 30 years. In 1986, Northwest purchased Republic Airlines, Inc., thereby acquiring routes to Mexico and the Caribbean.
In the early 1990s, Northwest formed a cooperation agreement with the Dutch carrier KLM, and in 1993 the two airlines began a joint operation of U.S.–Europe flights. Northwest subsequently formed other agreements with Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines.
In the early 21st century, Northwest faced increasing competition from low-fare carriers, and in 2005 it filed for bankruptcy protection. Three years later, amid rising fuel prices and a slowing economy, Northwest Airlines announced that it was merging with Delta. The new airline would be the largest carrier in the world. In September 2008 Northwest and Delta shareholders approved a deal. The following month, after the U.S. Department of Justice declared that it did not have any antitrust objections, Delta completed its $2.8 billion acquisition of Northwest.