PSU.DTW.SCE From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 6076 posts, RR: 32 Posted (2 years 1 week 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 11244 times:
Today, Saturday 1/30/10 is the last day for nwa.com and NW-coded flights.
nwa.com will be shut down at 2am EST Sunday 1/31/10 and will redirect users to delta.com. Saved links within nwa.com will redirect to delta.com
All legacy-NW flights are recoded as DL flights as of 1/31/10
All inventory has been combined into a single inventory on the DL platform.
All existing NW reservations have been migrated over to become DL reservations
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Hopefully everything goes smoothly tomorrow with the cutover system-wide to the DL platform.
NW has been very good to use with their use of technology and a very functional website. Hopefully DL will make enhancements to make the customer experience just as good.
At the same time, congrats to DL for making the transition as seemless as possible during the merger. Everything to date as gone off very well and I have been impressed with the fact that DL has methodically worked through all the tasks and spent the time to make this go off well, and not ramming the merger through quickly at the expense of the business or the customer.
Davescj From United States of America, joined Jun 2007, 2125 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (2 years 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 11082 times:
I have to say DL has done an incredibly fast job bringing hte two compaties together. That said, I'm sorry they didn't keep the NW IT platform, as it was 100% better. The good news, NW CIO got the same position at DL. Hopefully, and sooner rather htan later, she'll bring DL IT systems into the 20th century (since into the 21st century might be too much to ask for).
CaptSkibi From United States of America, joined May 2004, 144 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (2 years 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 11070 times:
RIP NW. You have served me well and for that, I thank you. We'll find out later tonight if I fly a DL flight tomorrow morning or if I take the last ever NW DTW-GRR flight.
Private Pilot, Airplane Single Engine Land / DL Gold Elite
Braniff747SP From United States of America, joined Oct 2008, 1942 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (2 years 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 10999 times:
Thanks for the heads up, "took" some stuff from the site. (Timetables, et al.)
[Edited 2010-01-30 07:15:25]
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Peanuts From Netherlands, joined Dec 2009, 1079 posts, RR: 3 Reply 7, posted (2 years 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 10692 times:
Quoting Braniff747SP (Reply 4): Thanks for the heads up, "took" some stuff from the site. (Timetables, et al.)
So did I. I'm going to miss the NWA style timetable, with the direct/nonstop flights only.(downloadable PDF)
Any chance DL will "adopt" the NW timetable style???
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AVLAirlineFreq From United States of America, joined Jun 2008, 590 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (2 years 1 week 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 10526 times:
So the question now is, when will DL truly fix their site?
KSDelta From United States of America, joined May 2009, 3 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (2 years 1 week 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 10416 times:
Does anyone know what the last NWA coded flight will be? I am referring to the last flight to land, from where to where. I imagine it will come into MSP.
Timf From United States of America, joined Mar 2003, 845 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (2 years 1 week 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 10386 times:
The flight being recognized as the last NW flight is NW2470 from LAX-LAS. This is the last departure under the NW code, although given the short length of the flight it is probably not the last arrival.
Azjubilee From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 3427 posts, RR: 34 Reply 11, posted (2 years 1 week 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 10286 times:
It has been mentioned that Delta.com will receive a complete overhaul this year. And to build on that, after the dust settles I wouldn't be surprised to see investments in new technologies to like many have said, bring the airline into the 21st century technology wise.
Ttailfan From United States of America, joined Sep 2009, 69 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 9327 times:
Quoting KingAir200 (Reply 6): For the most part. No more NW code, no more Northwest in announcements at the airport, and no more Northwest callsign over the radio.
While it is true that the NW call sign will be gone, the name will not. I have to imagine that just like NW a/c flying in DL colors having to do radio calls as "NorthwestXXXX in Delta colors" we will have to have "DeltaXXX in NW colors" for the airframes that remain (or always will be until retirement) in NW paint.
Its a sad day for many. NW has served well and its people have served well for many decades. The RIP parties will be quite emotional.
It will be interesting tomorrow on how well this roll out goes off. The people involved in the blending of two multi-billion dollar companies with two distinctly different employee cultures have done a fantastic job of intergrating the two companies and the merger has been incredibly smooth, all things considered.
I think DL missed a good opportunity to carry on some of NW tradition with the new livery. They should have left the tail of all aircraft NW red, and used the tradition red and blue widget positioned like it is now. I think that would have both looked good and honored the history of NW, much the way that America West elements are reflected in the current USAirways livery.
To all you NW employees, past and present, I tip my hat to you all and say "Job well done!"
FWAERJ From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 2297 posts, RR: 1 Reply 13, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 8754 times:
Quoting Azjubilee (Reply 11): It has been mentioned that Delta.com will receive a complete overhaul this year.
Good thing.
As much as I like DL, the current delta.com doesn't render properly in Firefox, although it's a supported browser for delta.com. That site must have been designed for IE6, with hacks added in later for IE7 and Safari/Google Chrome.
Also, will there be Delta iPhone, Android, or BlackBerry apps to go with the new delta.com (WN has an iPhone app), and/or a desktop widget a la AA's DealFinder? Hopefully, if DL does the desktop widget, they base it on Adobe AIR so it can run on Macs and Linux and not limit it to just Windows like AA does. As a Mac user and AAdvantage member, I hate it when AA literally begs me to download DealFinder for the special offers but I can't due to the fact that I use a Mac.
KL911 From Hungary, joined Jul 2003, 4329 posts, RR: 17 Reply 14, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 8633 times:
Quoting FWAERJ (Reply 13): As much as I like DL, the current delta.com doesn't render properly in Firefox, although it's a supported browser for delta.com. That site must have been designed for IE6, with hacks added in later for IE7
IE 8 is free to download for everyone. I do agree that it would have been better for DL to use the NW website.
Timf From United States of America, joined Mar 2003, 845 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 8528 times:
Quoting Ttailfan (Reply 12): While it is true that the NW call sign will be gone, the name will not. I have to imagine that just like NW a/c flying in DL colors having to do radio calls as "NorthwestXXXX in Delta colors" we will have to have "DeltaXXX in NW colors" for the airframes that remain (or always will be until retirement) in NW paint.
Per the weekly flight ops update, the call sign will just be Delta, even for aircraft that have not been repainted yet. There is no need for "in Northwest colors".
Aeroflot001 From Argentina, joined Oct 2009, 377 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 8276 times:
Sad to see another one go in what seems to be a slow and painful process for Aviation lovers and with the official end of the website that will be a big hit.
I decided to save a picture of the website as a memory. Press the Print screen button on the top right corner of the keyboard the button should read Print Scr/Sys Req or something similar. Later paste into Paint under Programs-All Programs-Accesories.
JCS17 From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 8020 posts, RR: 50 Reply 17, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 8246 times:
I'm somewhat sad to see it go. I spent quite few nights on nwa.com waiting to see if my Elite upgrades had gone through. That said, I wasn't thrilled with the interface, and the search functions weren't that great.
I guess this is a dumb question, but after tonight will the NW code cease to exist in every GDS?
NWADC9 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 4807 posts, RR: 12 Reply 18, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 8203 times:
Quoting Ttailfan (Reply 12): I have to imagine that just like NW a/c flying in DL colors having to do radio calls as "NorthwestXXXX in Delta colors" we will have to have "DeltaXXX in NW colors" for the airframes that remain (or always will be until retirement) in NW paint.
No need. Everyone knows Northwest is now Delta.
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IflyKPDX From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 280 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 8186 times:
Booked my spring break flight today on NWA.com. A little bit sad as a NW FF since 2007, very sad to see the site go. I look very much forward to a revamped Delta.com.
KingFriday013 From United States of America, joined May 2007, 1167 posts, RR: 11 Reply 20, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 7531 times:
As of the other night, my flights this March were switched to DL flight numbers from NW. And my Pinnacle CR2 transformed into a Freedom ER4
Pilotboi From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 2366 posts, RR: 11 Reply 21, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 6698 times:
Quoting Timf (Reply 10): The flight being recognized as the last NW flight is NW2470 from LAX-LAS. This is the last departure under the NW code, although given the short length of the flight it is probably not the last arrival.
It seems NW2470 is landing as I type. Maybe pulling off the runway.
So this leads to the next question: What will be the last NW flight left in the air? When will the Northwest callsign be used last?
WestWing From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2068 posts, RR: 9 Reply 22, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 6677 times:
Quoting Pilotboi (Reply 21): What will be the last NW flight left in the air?
As I said in the other thread it looks like NWA 248 DTW to AMS scheduled arrival is 10:20 UTC.
Two other flights to AMS from MSP and MEM just before that one.
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Centrair From Japan, joined Jan 2005, 3588 posts, RR: 24 Reply 24, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 6530 times:
I really hope DL integrates the best of NWA.com. NWA had a nice clean design. NWA allows you to reserve children & seniors online. DL told me to call a res center.
Farewell my friend. Provided me with 99% of my trans-pac flying since 1993 and domestic since 1983.
Yes...I am not a KIX fan. Let's Japanese Aviation!
25 KingFriday013: It's 2:02 AM EST on January 31, 2009. Delta.com is up... and so is nwa.com. The site lives on? -J.
26 71Zulu: Don't think so because the site still says it is Jan 30. I tried to check the Colt's plane for Monday but can't check flights on Feb 1st. I did find
27 Flashmeister: Actually, I just now noticed that the NWA logo has disappeared from skyteam.com, although I don't know that this is necessarily a new development. Any
28 Kiwiandrew: Ages ago , it actually disappeared before CO did .
29 Flashmeister: Interesting... I never noticed it until now. We're going to see some other interesting artifacts from this changeover, I suspect. For example, when a
30 DocLightning: At 12PM PST NWA.com is no longer online.
31 MSPNWA: nwa.com is now down. I just snipped it a few minutes before it disappeared. Good-bye, my favorite airline website.
32 Flashmeister: Just saw this too... and now it's redirecting to Delta. C-ya, NWA...
33 DocLightning: For a moment it "Server Did Not Respond" and now it redirects to Delta.com.
34 MSPNWA: Yep, I can confirm. As I typed my last post it was showing no connection to the server. By the time I wrote a couple sentences, it was directing to d
35 KLASM83: Indeed. Did one more flight search for old times, then hit the 'refresh' button. Goodbye NWA. I'm glad I screencaped that one last time...
36 Flashmeister: Hmm... I'm not sure that they really thought this site transition through completely. The most basic nitpick: the new green link toward the top of the
37 Cslusarc: Isn't 12 am the same as Midnight and 12 pm the same as Noon?
38 BNE: So long www.nwa.com and I am not that surprised that I wasn't the only one to take a screen shot picture.
39 KingFriday013: Here's the best I could get, but nwa.com will never die! http://web.archive.org/web/20080822064513/http://www.nwa.com/ -J.
40 Flashmeister: For those that want to take one last gander at nwa.com, browse Google's cached version of the page. Limited time only, folks.
41 Pilotboi: Isn't this an eerie feeling: http://flightaware.com/live/fleet/NWA Goodbye NWA
43 Peanuts: So, where is the new DL PDF timetable, reflecting ALL flights???
44 Timf: The timetable is updated the first of every month, so look for it tomorrow.
45 WestWing: Slightly OT, but I'm asking here because people who posted in this thread are very likely to know (I miss widgetheads !). The Wikipedia entry for Delt
46 71Zulu: This site http://www.mspspotters.net/merger/northwest-airlines/ gives you paint updates.
48 Dinker225: NWA9929 landed at PDX shortly after midnight. It turned around about 40 minutes later as Delta. Sure was wierd calling the flight Northwest for the la
49 PSU.DTW.SCE: I flew DEN-DTW this morning (1/31/10) on DL 2336. (A former NW A319) It was one of the launch flights this morning and everything in DEN was working j
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