Bobcat From United States of America, joined Jun 2007, 0 posts, RR: 0 Posted (10 years 12 months 19 hours ago) and read 1322 times:
Does NW have other oddball flights like IAD-AMS?
They don't have a hub at IAD to feed pax on the flight.
However, the flight seem to operate pretty full most of the
time.
Keesje From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (10 years 12 months 17 hours ago) and read 1238 times:
KLM and NWA are a REAL alliance.
I think it doesn't matter if the tail is blue or red.
They share all cost & benefits on all Atlantic flights. They just take out the most practical options ; sometimes KLM (MEM, LA, SFO, IAH, etc.) sometimes NWA (BOS, DTW, etc.), sometimes both (MSP) ...
B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (10 years 12 months 17 hours ago) and read 1186 times:
Actually, EWR-AMS used to be operated by NWA as the first leg of the BOM flight when they first started India service in 1997. The flights ran EWR-AMS-BOM and IAD-AMS-DEL. When they switched the BOM service to DTW, the EWR-AMS route was taken over by KLM, and now returned to NWA for this summer.
PSU.DTW.SCE From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 6872 posts, RR: 29 Reply 22, posted (10 years 12 months 11 hours ago) and read 994 times:
The only "odd-ball" route that comes to mind is LAS-LAX. However, NW dropped this route. They only flew it once a day on an A320, I believe is was NW 1 & NW 2
Mah4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31118 posts, RR: 74 Reply 24, posted (10 years 12 months 11 hours ago) and read 973 times:
NW also flew TPA-MBJ up until a few months ago when it was transfered to MEM.
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25 B747-437B: I thought the TPA-MBJ service was weekends only?
26 GARUDAROD: NW58/57 MIA/AMS/MIA will switch to KL628/627 on Sept 16th. As mentioned above, the flight will operate by KL MD-11. This is good for this route as th
27 NWA Man: NW 1 LAS-LAX and the opposite flight were not oddball in any way...they were a logical extension of NW's flight 1 and 2 to and from NRT. The LAS-LAX-L
28 PW100: Indeed, as mentioned AMS is an hub for NW: Last summer NW flew no less than 13 daily departures from AMS. All revenue of all NW and KL AMS-USA flights