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Jul 23, 2012 | 5:34 pm

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Originally Posted by SEA1K4EVR

Actually no, it was Delta who did it first... here's an old CNN article about it: http://articles.cnn.com/1998-03-26/t...s?_s=PM:TRAVEL

I think that article may have been a victim of a CNN search-and-replace turning "Northwest" into "Delta."

New York Times article from March 24, 1988: "In a marketing gamble, Northwest Airlines said yesterday that it would ban smoking on all its North American flights. It is the only smoking ban by a major American airline. The rule would take effect on April 23, the same day as does a Federal law prohibiting smoking on domestic flights of two hours or less."

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