Company Watch - Northwest Airlines.Aug 13, 2007 Mesaba Airlines Mesaba Airlines is an American regional airline based in Eagan, Minnesota. The airline operates under Mesaba Aviation, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwest Airlines. All of its flights are operated under the name Northwest Airlink for Northwest Airlines. , a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Northwest Airlines, will build an $11.8 million maintenance facility at Des Moines International Airport Des Moines International Airport (IATA: DSM, ICAO: KDSM, FAA LID: DSM) is a public small hub primary located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Des Moines, a city in Polk County, Iowa, United States. . The complex will handle scheduled MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. for the carrier's Bombardier CRJ CRJ redirects here. For other meanings of CRJ see CRJ (disambiguation) The Bombardier CRJ (Canadair Regional Jet) is a family of regional airliners manufactured by Bombardier, and based on the Canadair Challenger business jet. 200s/900s and is expected to be completed by the 2008 third quarter. The site was chosen because of its proximity to Mesaba hubs in Memphis and Minneapolis/St. Paul. Aug 9, 2007 Northwest Airlines will serve as the charter airline for the Super Bowl XLI Super Bowl XLI was the 41st championship game of the modern National Football League (NFL). The American football game was played on February 4 2007 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, a suburb of Miami, following the 2006 regular season. Kickoff was at 6:27 p.m. champion Indianapolis Colts Northwest Airlines' Air Line Pilots Assn. MEC MEC Ministério da Educação (Ministry of Education) MEC Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain: Ministry for Education and Science) MEC Mountain Equipment Co-Op ratified the new work rules agreement reached with management last week as part of the carrier's effort to reduce high levels of flight cancellations it has attributed in part to "pilot absenteeism". NWA NWA Northwest Airlines (ICAO code) NWA Northwest Arkansas NWA National Wrestling Alliance NWA National Weather Association NWA National Works Agency (Jamaica) NWA Network Analyzer said the agreement is "economically neutral," with the premium pay it has agreed to reinstate for pilots flying more than 80 hr. per month "offset by the value of work rule changes and grievance settlement." Aug 8, 2007 Northwest Airlines told travel agents that it will suspend its Detroit-Brussels service in mid-month, citing "operational challenges" with the cockpit crew of the Boeing 757-200s that operate the route. NWA launched the service in early May. It previously said it would drop its second Detroit-Frankfurt frequency in order to free up 757 pilots. Aug 7, 2007 Northwest Airline said the new pact was "economically neutral" with the premium-pay costs offset by the work rule changes and the grievance settlement. Northwest suffered the high cancellation rates at the end of the last two months, blaming the problem on "pilot absenteeism." The Air Line Pilots Association, however, said absenteeism is not the problem. Rather, it said, the cancellations resulted from the airline having too few pilots to work the hectic summer flying schedule. Work rules the pilots agreed to during the carrier's 20 month bankruptcy, which ended in May, often required pilots to spend more time in the air. Aug 6, 2007 Northwest Airlines' Pilot Union Approves Deal. The union representing pilots at Northwest Airlines approved a deal that seeks to prevent late-month spikes in the airline's flight cancellations such as those seen in June and July. Saturday's vote by Northwest Airline Pilots Association confirms the tentative accord reached on August 1, said Northwest and its pilot union. The agreement makes contractual changes on several work rules pertaining per·tain intr.v. per·tained, per·tain·ing, per·tains 1. To have reference; relate: evidence that pertains to the accident. 2. to international flying and settles an outstanding grievance. In exchange, Northwest will reinstate premium pay of 50 percent for all pilots flying more than 80 hours a month. Aug 6, 2007 Northwest Airlines pilots, whose absenteeism caused the fifth-largest US carrier to cancel thousands of flights, has approved a contract that pays them overtime and a $1,000 bonus for perfect attendance through Sept. 3. The Airline Pilots Association on Saturday ratified an agreement that will give its members overtime pay of 50 percent for flying more than 80 hours a month as of Aug. 1, as well as the attendance incentive of 15 percent of earnings up to as much as $1,000, the company said. 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