As mentioned before... the company has always, since it's inception in 1926, been called Northwest. When NW started Asia service "Orient" was added for brand recognition only. Then it was dropped in 1986 when Republic was merged into NW and NW became more of a domestic player that they were pre Republic. I have a great book on NW written in 1986, which is very acurately written. It was done quite well. Too bad my exgirlfriend has the book in MSP. I've got to get that back!!


AZJ