Northwest Airlines Flight Service Attendant Wing.
This wing was used by a male flight attendant who was lead on domestic flights.
He was lead regardless of seniority and ahead of any female flight attendant. This system was done away with approximately 1965.

St. Paul, MN 1926-2008

Northwest Airlines was founded on September 1, 1926, by Colonel Lewis Brittin, under the name Northwest Airways. The airline was originally based in Detroit, Michigan. Like other early airlines, Northwest's focus was not in hauling passengers, but in flying mail for the U.S. Post Office. Northwest Airlines began carrying passengers in 1927. In 1929, a group headed by Richard Lilly, a business person from St. Paul, MN purchased the airline. Northwest Airways, Inc. changed its name to Northwest Airlines in 1934 and the airline was incorporated under its new name in Minnesota. Northwest Airlines common stock began to be publicly traded in 1941. When transpacific flights were established, Northwest began to advertise itself as Northwest Orient Airlines, although its registered corporate name remained "Northwest Airlines". On May 21, 1984, shareholders in Northwest approved the creation of NWA Inc., that became the holding company of Northwest. On October 1, 1986, Northwest merged with Minneapolis-St. Paul based Republic Airlines. Northwest dropped the word Orient from its brand name after the merger. Northwest was purchased in a 1989 leveraged buyout by an investment group. Also in 1993, Northwest began its strategic alliance with KLM. Following many years of a pioneering and close partnership with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Northwest, joined Sky Team, a airline alliance of ten airlines from around the world, on September 15, 2004. The airline continued to hemorrhage money, however. On September 14, 2005 Northwest was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. On May 18, 2007, Northwest Airlines was cleared by a federal bankruptcy judge to emerge from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection on May 31, 2007. Northwest Airlines merged with Delta Airlines on October 29, 2008. The combined airline uses the Delta name and branding.

 
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