Originally Posted by LAXRuss
If I recall, that may have been a period in the early 90's when they operated three class service on some transpacific routes but only had Executive Class and Economy on the transatlantic routes.
NWA did operate 3 class service in the early 90s. For some time, they also had 3 class service between DTW and AMS on one of the daily flights which was operated by a 744. The other DTW-AMS flight had 2 class service as they were operated by DC10s.
As an aside, KLM also had 3 classes of service and they called their first class Royal Class. In the early days of the NWA-KLM codeshare agreement, NWA would literally sell the left hand side of the aircraft front to back and KLM the right hand side. I remember non-revving from MSP to AMS in Royal Class and it was very nice...caviar, champagne, roast duck...ah, those were the days.
Funny thing is that NW employees were allowed to fly in Royal Class but KLM employees were not (other than 747 captains and pursers with something like 20 years on the job). Talk about some ticked off KLM gate agents checking in NW non-revs: "This is not possible !"