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133-564: Edmonton City Centre Airport ( ECCA ), ( IATA : YXD , ICAO : CYXD ) was an airport within the city of Edmonton , in the Canadian province of Alberta . It was bordered by Yellowhead Trail to the north, Kingsway to the south, 121 Street to the west, and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and Jefferson armouries to the east. It encompassed approximately 58 ha (144 acres) of land just north of

266-560: A motion for discovery , requesting searches of the hard drives of the office and home computers of union officials. Additionally, Northwest requested searches of the home computers of rank-and-file employees, including Kevin Griffin and Frank Reed. On February 8, Minnesota District Court Judge Boylan approved the request and issued the discovery order. The order required all 43 named defendants , officers and rank-and-file members to turn over both home and office computer equipment to

399-602: A 34-year hiatus, and strengthened its presence in the southwestern United States. It also began flying to the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia. On May 21, 1984, shareholders in Northwest approved the creation of NWA Inc., a Delaware corporation that became the holding company of Northwest. On October 1, 1986 , Northwest merged with Republic Airlines , also based in Minneapolis-St. Paul. It

532-668: A World War I flying ace and bush pilot, helped pioneer aviation in Alberta and Northern Canada , further solidifying Blatchford Field as the "Gateway to the North". Along with May, the Mayor of Edmonton, Kenny Blatchford , had played a key role in establishing the airport in 1927. Blatchford's son, Howard Blatchford , became a fighter ace in WWII. Wiley Post landed at the airport during both of his circumnavigations. The airport served as

665-473: A court injunction and the refusal of the mediation board to release them from bargaining which would have allowed the setting of a strike deadline. The attendants had been working under imposed pay cuts and work rules since July 2006 when a previous tentative agreement was rejected by 55 percent of the voting members. Prior to the May 2007 agreement, union leaders had expressed concern that its defeat could prompt

798-699: A day between the two cities. According to the June 24, 1968 Pacific Western system timetable, Douglas DC-6 and DC-6B passenger aircraft as well as all-cargo Douglas DC-4 aircraft were also being operated by the airline to destinations located north of Edmonton. The jet age arrived at the airport in 1969 when Pacific Western introduced Boeing 737-200 jetliners with nonstop flights to Calgary, Fort Smith and Hay River with direct, no change of plane 737 jet service to Vancouver, Yellowknife, Kamloops , Kelowna , Cranbrook , Penticton, Inuvik and Norman Wells. Several types of jet passenger aircraft were operated into ECCA, notably

931-511: A few routes outside this hub system, such as flights from the west coast to Honolulu. In the mid-1980s, Northwest operated the only U.S. flag carrier service to Glasgow , Oslo, and Stockholm , as well as service to Copenhagen (the latter three cities are due to Minneapolis's large Nordic population ). However, this was later withdrawn after several years. From April 2000, Northwest operated non-stop flights from Detroit to Milan and Rome , both were later withdrawn (from 2003 to 2005 Rome

1064-529: A group called "Envision Edmonton" organized numerous initiatives to lobby against the City Centre Airport's closure. Envision Edmonton, and other critics of the proposal, circulated a petition in 2010 which garnered over 70,000 signatures, organized protests, and supported pro-airport candidates in Edmonton's 2010 municipal election . The petition, which would have forced a municipal plebiscite on

1197-474: A group headed by Richard Lilly, a businessman from St. Paul, Minnesota , purchased the airline. In 1933 Northwest was selected to fly the "Northern Transcontinental Route" to Seattle , Washington. It adopted the name Northwest Airlines the following year after the Air Mail scandal . Northwest Airways, Inc. changed its name to Northwest Airlines, Inc. and the airline was incorporated under its new name in

1330-522: A hub in Tokyo, Japan (initially Haneda Airport , later Narita International Airport ). In response to United Airlines ' 1985 acquisition of Pan Am 's Pacific routes, Northwest paid $ 884 million to purchase Republic Airlines and then established fortress hubs at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and Memphis International Airport . With this merger, NWA established the domestic network necessary to feed its well-established Pacific routes. Lacking

1463-473: A large lake. The Town Centre and Civic Plaza will accommodate various businesses, markets, shops, and two LRT stations. Construction is currently under way on stage one of the development, which will contain up to 500 homes. Energy Centre One, a district energy sharing system , went online in September 2019; its geo-exchange field, which contains boreholes drilled approximately 150 m (490 ft) into

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1596-615: A military airbase during World War II , when it was a major stop-over on the Northwest Staging Route and hosted two British Commonwealth Air Training Plan schools. No. 2 Air Observer School (AOS), operated by Canadian Airways and Canadian Pacific Air Lines , opened at RCAF Station Edmonton on August 5, 1940. Later that year, on November 11, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) established No. 16 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS), operated by

1729-567: A new airport is built, replacing the old one, leaving the city's new "major" airport (or the only remaining airport) code to no longer correspond with the city's name. The original airport in Nashville, Tennessee, was built in 1936 as part of the Works Progress Administration and called Berry Field with the designation, BNA. A new facility known as Nashville International Airport was built in 1987 but still uses BNA. This

1862-416: A pair of CF-18 fighter jets from performing a touch-and-go landing as the ceremonial last takeoff. Shortly afterwards, ERAA placed barricades on runway 12/30 to prevent access, and markers were placed to clearly signal to pilots that it was closed. On February 21, 2015, a Pipistrel Virus aircraft C-FCDZ flying over the site of the airport suffered a propeller failure, resulting in an unplanned landing on

1995-483: A phased closure of the airport. The Alberta Aviation Museum and some non-aviation institutions were to remain, with some land transferred to Northern Alberta Institute of Technology , and the rest converted to a primarily residential development. The north–south runway, runway 16/34, was to be the first runway closed. The closure was postponed until after the Indy and Airfest events of 2010. On August 3, 2010, runway 16/34

2128-749: A reputation for refusing to adopt industry-wide fare increases that had been accepted by other airlines. This changed in March 2005, when Northwest adopted fare hikes in response to rising oil prices. Due to competition from low-cost carriers such as Southwest Airlines and the impact of paying living wages in a new contract with employees represented by the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) labor union , Northwest began to make cutbacks in early 2001 to preserve profits and executive salaries. Two small rounds of employee layoffs and other cutbacks were implemented in

2261-549: A share which sealed the deal. Northwest Airlines became a minority owner of Midwest Airlines in the fourth quarter of 2007. On September 25, 2007, Northwest Airlines received DOT approval to begin service to Shanghai from its Detroit hub beginning March 25, 2009. American, Continental, Delta, and US Airways also received new or additional China route authority to Shanghai or Beijing, and United received authority to serve Guangzhou. On April 14, 2008, Northwest Airlines announced that it would be merging with Delta Air Lines to form

2394-500: A significant presence in Europe, in 1993 it began a strategic alliance with KLM and a jointly coordinated European hub at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol . Before its merger with Delta, Northwest was the world's sixth-largest airline in domestic and international scheduled passenger miles flown and the US's sixth-largest airline in domestic passenger miles flown. In addition to operating one of

2527-401: A time it adopted the slogan "Northwest Orient: The Fan-Jet Airline". Nonstop transpacific flights became feasible with the introduction of the 707-320B/C. Northwest bought its first Boeing 747s in 1970 and soon began retiring its smaller 707s. In addition to operating the 747's on transpacific flights, Northwest briefly flew them on its busiest domestic routes as well. For years Northwest was

2660-498: A week flown with Douglas DC-6B "Empress" propliners between Edmonton and Amsterdam with these flights originating and terminating in Vancouver and was also operating local domestic service with Convair 240 prop aircraft to Grande Prairie , Alberta and Fort St. John , British Columbia. A year earlier in 1958, Trans-Canada was flying Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation and Canadair North Star (a Canadian produced version of

2793-509: Is GSN and its IATA code is SPN, and some coincide with IATA codes of non-U.S. airports. Canada's unusual codes—which bear little to no similarity with any conventional abbreviation to the city's name—such as YUL in Montréal , and YYZ in Toronto , originated from the two-letter codes used to identify weather reporting stations in the 1930s. The letters preceding the two-letter code follow

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2926-617: Is available. However, many railway administrations have their own list of codes for their stations, such as the list of Amtrak station codes . Airport codes arose out of the convenience that the practice brought pilots for location identification in the 1930s. Initially, pilots in the United States used the two-letter code from the National Weather Service (NWS) for identifying cities. This system became unmanageable for cities and towns without an NWS identifier, and

3059-523: Is different from the name in English, yet the airport code represents only the English name. Examples include: Due to scarcity of codes, some airports are given codes with letters not found in their names: The use of 'X' as a filler letter is a practice to create three-letter identifiers when more straightforward options were unavailable: Some airports in the United States retained their NWS ( National Weather Service ) codes and simply appended an X at

3192-513: Is in conjunction to rules aimed to avoid confusion that seem to apply in the United States, which state that "the first and second letters or second and third letters of an identifier may not be duplicated with less than 200 nautical miles separation." Thus, Washington, D.C. area's three airports all have radically different codes: IAD for Washington–Dulles , DCA for Washington–Reagan (District of Columbia Airport), and BWI for Baltimore (Baltimore–Washington International, formerly BAL). Since HOU

3325-543: Is not followed outside the United States: In addition, since three letter codes starting with Q are widely used in radio communication, cities whose name begins with "Q" also had to find alternate codes, as in the case of: IATA codes should not be confused with the FAA identifiers of U.S. airports. Most FAA identifiers agree with the corresponding IATA codes, but some do not, such as Saipan , whose FAA identifier

3458-416: Is used for William P. Hobby Airport , the new Houston–Intercontinental became IAH. The code BKK was originally assigned to Bangkok–Don Mueang and was later transferred to Suvarnabhumi Airport , while the former adopted DMK. The code ISK was originally assigned to Gandhinagar Airport (Nashik's old airport) and later on transferred to Ozar Airport (Nashik's current airport). Shanghai–Hongqiao retained

3591-504: The Air Line Pilots Association, International ) and shut down the airline for more than two weeks. The airline sustained heavy losses as a result, and ended 1998 in the red, after being profitable since 1993. On January 5, 2000, Northwest Airlines filed a federal lawsuit against the flight attendants' union and a number of rank-and-file employees. Along with its January 5 complaint, Northwest Airlines filed

3724-532: The Boeing 737-200 . As noted above, these 737 flights were initially operated by Pacific Western Airlines followed by its successor Canadian Airlines (formerly CP Air ) from the initial purchase of these aircraft in the late 1960s up until the merger of Pacific Western with Canadian, with the latter continuing to operate 737 flights into the airport. Pacific Western flew its "Chieftain Airbus" shuttle service between

3857-516: The Canadian transcontinental railroads were built, each station was assigned its own two-letter Morse code : When the Canadian government established airports, it used the existing railway codes for them as well. If the airport had a weather station, authorities added a "Y" to the front of the code, meaning "Yes" to indicate it had a weather station or some other letter to indicate it did not. When international codes were created in cooperation with

3990-491: The Delta Flight Museum following its retirement by Delta in 2015. Northwest was purchased in a 1989 leveraged buyout by an investment group headed by Al Checchi , Fred Malek and Gary Wilson , with KLM, and many others. To pay off the debt incurred, the new management sold many of the airline's aircraft to leasing companies, and sold property around the world, including land in central Tokyo. The expense of

4123-465: The Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. In October 2009 Delta Air Lines hired a real estate broker to put the 108-acre (44 ha) former Northwest Airlines headquarters complex for sale or lease. During that month the facility had a taxable value of $ 13.7 million. The airline marketed 36 acres (15 ha) of the former NWA facility that is located along Interstate 494 separately from the main part of

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4256-778: The Republic of China nearly ready to collapse, and its government evacuated to the island of Formosa ( Taiwan ). Northwest Airlines added Songshan Airport in Taipei , the new capital city of the Republic of China , as a stop on the Tokyo-Okinawa-Manila route on June 3, 1950, with ongoing interchange service to Hong Kong operated by Hong Kong Airways . With transpacific flights established, Northwest began branding as Northwest Orient Airlines between 1947 and 1986, although its registered corporate name remained "Northwest Airlines." NWA continuously upgraded equipment on

4389-762: The Resolute Bay Airport in the Arctic which is the second most northerly destination in Canada served by scheduled airline flights. By 1968, Pacific Western had introduced the Convair 640 , a turboprop aircraft (which the airline called the "Javelin Jet-Prop") on many of its flights from the airport and had also introduced its "Chieftain Airbus" shuttle service linking Edmonton and Calgary operated with Douglas DC-6 propliners with six round trip nonstop flights

4522-654: The U.S. Post Office Department . The airline was originally based in Detroit, Michigan . The fledgling airline established a mail route between Minneapolis and Chicago , using open-cockpit biplanes such as the Curtiss Oriole and the Waco JYM . From 1928 the enclosed cabin six-passenger Hamilton H-45 and H-47 were used. Northwest Airlines began carrying passengers in 1927; in 1928 Northwest started its first international route with service to Winnipeg . In 1929,

4655-685: The United States Department of Transportation for nonstop service between its WorldGateway hub in Detroit to Shanghai (beginning in 2007 on Boeing 747-400s ) and to Beijing (beginning in 2010 on Boeing 787 Dreamliners ). The airline faced off against Delta Air Lines (which proposed Atlanta to Shanghai and Beijing), American Airlines (Chicago/O'Hare–Beijing), Continental Airlines (Newark–Shanghai), US Airways (Philadelphia–Beijing), United Airlines (Los Angeles–Shanghai and San Francisco–Guangzhou), and MAXjet (Seattle–Shanghai) in

4788-433: The "bowling shoe" by employees, featured colors of red, white, gray, and very dark blue. Also in 1989, Northwest became the launch customer of the Boeing 747-400 and became one of only two airlines in the United States to operate it until its merger with Delta in 2009 . The first aircraft it purchased was the first 747-400 to be built; it was later involved in a loss-of-control incident in 2002 and placed on display at

4921-515: The 36-passenger seat Martin 2-0-2 . In 1931, Northwest sponsored Charles and Anne Lindbergh on a pioneering test flight to Japan via Alaska, scouting what would become known as the Northwest Airlines' Great Circle route that could save 2,000 miles (3,000 km) on a New York to Tokyo flight. Northwest began to bolster the infrastructure on the domestic leg of this route during World War II when it flew soldiers and supplies from

5054-481: The April 28, 1985 Pacific Western system timetable, in addition to its nonstop flights to Calgary the airline was operating direct, no change of plane 737 jet service from the airport to the Canadian destinations of Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina , Saskatoon, Cranbrook, Fort McMurray, Kamloops, Kelowna and Penticton. Pacific Western had become an all-jet air carrier with a fleet of 737 aircraft at this time. Time Air

5187-553: The City of Edmonton decided to keep ECCA open and operate both airports. In Edmonton's 1992 municipal election , the City of Edmonton held a plebiscite, the Edmonton Municipal Airport Referendum. The result of the referendum was that Bylaw No. 10,205, which kept ECCA open to all traffic that the field could legally handle, was approved with a vote of 54%. In the 1995 election , a second plebiscite

5320-476: The DC-4) propliners in addition to Vickers Viscount turboprops on nonstop services to Vancouver, Toronto , Winnipeg and Saskatoon as well as direct, no change of plane flights to Montreal . According to the June 1, 1958, Trans-Canada Air Lines system timetable, the air carrier was also operating five nonstop departures a day to Calgary with Viscount propjets. Pacific Western was operating regional services from

5453-613: The Edmonton - Calgary nonstop route: Air Canada operating McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Series 30 jets with two flights on weekdays and Time Air operating de Havilland Canada Dash 7 turboprops with three flights on weekdays for a combined total of 23 flights every weekday operated by the three airlines. In contrast, there were only four nonstop jet flights every weekday from Calgary to Edmonton International Airport (YEG) at this same time in 1985: one flight each respectively operated by Air Canada and CP Air and two flights operated by Pacific Western. Also in contrast at this same time, there

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5586-640: The Edmonton Flying Club; this school was closed on July 17, 1942, to allow for an expansion of No. 2 Air Observer School. Upon winding down of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, No. 2 AOS was closed on July 14, 1944. On 1 October 1955, all RCAF squadrons and support units were transferred to the "new" RCAF Station Namao . Blatchford Field was turned over to the Edmonton municipal government and became

5719-529: The February 1, 1987 Continental timetable, the respective routings of these flights were YXD-YYC-DFW-IAH and YXD-YYC-IAH, and both services were operated with Continental flight numbers. By 1995, three different airlines were operating a combined total of up to 32 nonstop flights a day from the airport to Calgary according to the Official Airline Guide (OAG). Canadian Airlines International

5852-600: The National Mediation Board to recess talks indefinitely, resulting in the loss of a $ 182 million bankruptcy claim the attendants had against Northwest. With the new agreement, the $ 182 million claim was to eventually be sold for cash with an estimated pre-tax value of $ 15,000 to $ 18,000 per flight attendant. Previous to the recent agreements, Northwest provided employees with stock in exchange for concessions. For example, in 1993 Northwest pilots, ground workers, and flight attendants received stock and seats on

5985-410: The Northwest name for flights. The official final flight was Northwest Airlines Flight 2470 from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. As of 2006, Northwest Airlines Cargo was the largest cargo carrier among U.S. combination passenger and cargo airlines. NWA Cargo's fleet of dedicated Boeing 747 freighter aircraft flew from some key cities in the United States and East Asia, as well as Amsterdam, connecting with

6118-647: The Northwestern United States to Alaska. It was at this point that Northwest began painting its airliners' tails bright red as a visual aid in the often harsh weather conditions. The airline's experience with the sub-arctic climate led the U.S. government to designate Northwest as the main airline over the North Pacific following the war. In the spring of 1947, Northwest began stationing employees at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, flying them from

6251-491: The State of Minnesota. In 1939 Northwest had five daily flights from Chicago to Minneapolis ; three continued west to Seattle through North Dakota and Montana . Northwest also served Winnipeg, Manitoba , and Portland, Oregon , by spurs from its transcontinental route. By the spring of 1948, Northwest was operating three different aircraft types: the 44-passenger seat Douglas DC-4 , the 21-passenger seat Douglas DC-3 and

6384-506: The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on September 14, 2005. With Northwest's filing, four of the six largest U.S. carriers were operating under bankruptcy protection. Northwest joined Delta Air Lines (which filed just minutes before), United Airlines , and US Airways in bankruptcy. All four carriers subsequently emerged from bankruptcy protection. Northwest common stock shares dropped more than 50% for

6517-484: The U.S. For example, several airports in Alaska have scheduled commercial service, such as Stebbins and Nanwalek , which use FAA codes instead of ICAO codes. Thus, neither system completely includes all airports with scheduled service. Some airports are identified in colloquial speech by their IATA code. Examples include LAX and JFK . Northwest Airlines Northwest Airlines (often abbreviated as NWA )

6650-708: The United States via Alaska on its Great Circle route. On July 15, 1947, Northwest was the first airline to begin direct service between the United States and Japan, using a Douglas DC-4 airliner named The Manila . (All pre-war airline service to East Asia had been via Hawaii and the Philippines.) The flight to Japan originated at Wold-Chamberlain Field in Minneapolis and stopped at Blatchford Field in Edmonton , Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage , and Shemya AAF in

6783-481: The United States, because "Y" was seldom used in the United States, Canada simply used the weather station codes for its airports, changing the "Y" to a "Z" if it conflicted with an airport code already in use. The result is that most major Canadian airport codes start with "Y" followed by two letters in the city's name (for example, YOW for O tta w a , YWG for W innipe g , YYC for C algar y , or YVR for V ancouve r ), whereas other Canadian airports append

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6916-689: The West Coast, and, starting in 1958–59, Georgia and Florida from Chicago. On June 1, 1959, Northwest accepted its first turboprop , the L-188 Electra , from the Lockheed Corporation . Northwest Airlines started flying the three-engine Boeing 727-100 in November 1964; many stretched B727-251s followed. After airline deregulation in 1978 Northwest began nonstop flights to other Asian cities, returned to China in 1984 after

7049-624: The absolute maximum performance characteristics of the Boeing 737-200 jetliner due to its weight; however, the extreme wear caused by utilizing this airfield and pushing these limits was a concern. Other jet service came in the form of the British Aerospace BAe 146-200 as Air Canada Connector flights operated by Air BC on behalf of Air Canada . McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 jets in Air Canada livery operated briefly out of ECCA in

7182-418: The accounting company Ernst & Young for "purposes of examining and copying information and communications contained on the computer hard drives ." The order permitted the discovery of all data, including e-mail communications. After conducting discovery, Northwest Airlines fired over a dozen employees in early March, stating that they had engaged in a sickout . The Union filed grievances claiming none of

7315-501: The airfield during the 1970s as well as Convair aircraft ( Convair CV-580 , Convair CV-640 ), de Havilland Canada Dash 7 and Dash 8 turboprops during the 1980s. Both the Twin Otter and Dash 7 have short takeoff and landing ( STOL ) capabilities so runway length was not an issue for these particular aircraft types. Besides operating flights with 737 jets, Pacific Western also operated Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop service from

7448-488: The airport and Calgary Airport (YYC) for many years with the 737 and in 1976 was operating up to fourteen 737 200 series departures a day nonstop from ECCA to YYC in addition to operating direct 737 jet flights into the airport from British Columbia ( Castlegar , Cranbrook, Dawson Creek, Kamloops, Kelowna, Penticton , Prince George , Vancouver), Alberta ( Fort Chipewyan , High Level , Peace River ), and Saskatchewan ((Uranium City). The runway lengths at ECCA mandated

7581-606: The airport during the mid 1970s with nonstop flights to Fort Chipewyan, Fort McMurray and Peace River in Alberta as well as direct to Fort Smith and Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories . By early 1985, Pacific Western was operating eighteen nonstop Boeing 737-200 flights every weekday from the airport to Calgary via its "Chieftain Airbus" shuttle schedule linking the two cities. There were also two other airlines competing with Pacific Western at this time on

7714-767: The airport ended in fatal crashes: IATA airport code The assignment of these codes is governed by IATA Resolution 763, and it is administered by the IATA's headquarters in Montreal , Canada. The codes are published semi-annually in the IATA Airline Coding Directory. IATA provides codes for airport handling entities, and for certain railway stations. Alphabetical lists of airports sorted by IATA code are available. A list of railway station codes , shared in agreements between airlines and rail lines such as Amtrak , SNCF , and Deutsche Bahn ,

7847-516: The airport grounds using the plane's ballistic parachute . As of 2018, 212 ha (525 acres) of the former Blatchford Field is undergoing redevelopment into a medium- and high-density neighbourhood. In February 2019, the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology purchased 13 ha (33 acres) of land in Blatchford, as well as more land at the site of the former Westwood Transit Garage, to consolidate most of its operations at its main campus;

7980-525: The airport in 1959 with Curtiss C-46 and Douglas DC-4 prop aircraft to a number of Canadian destinations located north of Edmonton including Fort McMurray , Fort Smith , Fort Resolution , Fort Vermilion , Hay River , Inuvik , Norman Wells , Peace River , Uranium City , and Yellowknife . By 1964, Pacific Western had expanded its domestic service from the airport with the addition of regional flights to Cambridge Bay , Coppermine (now Kugluktuk), Dawson Creek , Fort Simpson and Wrigley as well as to

8113-440: The airport itself instead of the city it serves, while another code is reserved which refers to the city itself which can be used to search for flights to any of its airports. For instance: Or using a code for the city in one of the major airports and then assigning another code to another airport: When different cities with the same name each have an airport, they need to be assigned different codes. Examples include: Sometimes,

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8246-474: The airport was a stop on an international route operated by Northwest Airlines between the United States and Asia. According to the September 24, 1950, Northwest Airlines system timetable, the air carrier was operating Douglas DC-4 propliner service on a routing of New York City - Washington, D.C. - Chicago - Minneapolis–Saint Paul - Edmonton - Anchorage - Tokyo four days a week with continuing service to Okinawa and Manila or Taipei depending on

8379-418: The airport's former name, such as Orlando International Airport 's MCO (for Mc C o y Air Force Base), or Chicago's O'Hare International Airport , which is coded ORD for its original name: Or char d Field. In rare cases, the code comes from the airport's unofficial name, such as Kahului Airport 's OGG (for local aviation pioneer Jimmy H ogg ). In large metropolitan areas, airport codes are often named after

8512-582: The airport. Further amenities located close to the airport included shopping at Kingsway Mall , lodging at the Chateau Louis hotel, and a Via Rail train station to the north, off Bush Pilot Road. The Alberta and Edmonton office for St John Ambulance was located nearby. Proximity to the Royal Alexandra Hospital provided a link for emergency medical access by air to many of Alberta's rural communities. Four flights originating at

8645-433: The board of directors in exchange for pay cuts. As part of the agreement, Northwest was to buy back these preferred shares in 2003 but refused to do so, citing financial distress. In the summer of 2007, Northwest was engaged in a labor conflict with its pilots over a large number of end of the month flight cancellations. The pilots claimed that Northwest did not have sufficient pilots to fly its schedule; Northwest accused

8778-575: The board, including removing pillows, peanuts, pretzels, in-flight entertainment on domestic flights, and newspapers and magazines. Over 50 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 , Boeing 757 , Boeing 747 , and Airbus A320 family aircraft were withdrawn from use in an attempt to lower overall capacity and save money. Some of these aircraft were returned to service. Following many years of a pioneering and close partnership with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Northwest, along with partners KLM and Continental Airlines , joined SkyTeam , an alliance of ten airlines from around

8911-455: The buyout was so great that in 1993, following several years of losses due to industry overcapacity and a traffic downturn following the Gulf War , Northwest threatened bankruptcy to force three years of wage cuts upon its employee groups. Northwest subsequently made its first profit since 1989 on the backs of its workers. Also in 1993, Northwest began its strategic alliance with KLM , which

9044-594: The carrier's cargo hub in Anchorage, Alaska ( Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport ), facilitating the quick transfer of cargo between large cities on both sides of the Pacific. NWA Cargo also transports freight aboard the passenger fleet of Northwest Airlines to more than 250 cities worldwide. Delta announced that the NWA Cargo hub will be shut down by the end of 2009. As of early 2008, NWA's largest cargo client

9177-580: The city centre of Edmonton. The airport was originally called Blatchford Field , named for former mayor Kenneth Alexander Blatchford . His son, Howard ("Cowboy") Blatchford , became a noted fighter pilot in World War II. It later was known as the Edmonton Municipal Airport , then as Edmonton Industrial Airport , and then Edmonton City Centre Airport (ECCA), finally ending as Blatchford Field at Edmonton City Centre Airport. Over

9310-491: The city of Edmonton reinvested its revenue from this sale into the development of Blatchford. The Blatchford area will be broken into five boroughs: Blatchford West, Blatchford East, Blatchford Park, Civic Plaza, and Town Centre. Blatchford West, the first borough to be developed, will have more than 6,000 townhouses and apartments, while Blatchford East will have more than 4,000 townhouses and apartments. Blatchford Park will be around 49 ha (120 acres) in size and will include

9443-502: The code SHA, while the newer Shanghai–Pudong adopted PVG. The opposite was true for Berlin : the airport Berlin–Tegel used the code TXL, while its smaller counterpart Berlin–Schönefeld used SXF; the Berlin Brandenburg Airport has the airport code BER, which is also part of its branding. The airports of Hamburg (HAM) and Hannover (HAJ) are less than 100 nautical miles (190 km) apart and therefore share

9576-449: The commercial Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport. During this period, in about 1942, the aerodrome was listed at 53°34′N 113°31′W  /  53.567°N 113.517°W  / 53.567; -113.517 with a variation 25 degrees E and elevation of 2,185 ft (666 m). The facility was listed as being a Department of Transport and RCAF Aerodrome and had three runways, listed as follows: A weather station

9709-489: The company would begin to trade on the NYSE under the ticker NWA. Initial trading on a "when-issued" basis began on May 21, 2007, and regular trading began on May 31, 2007. Also on May 18, 2007, Northwest Airlines was cleared by a federal bankruptcy judge to emerge from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection on May 31, 2007, ending Northwest's 20 months of difficulty trying to slash costs. On July 16, 2007, Northwest Airlines applied to

9842-406: The company. After numerous negotiation sessions, no agreement was reached, and the company began hiring permanent replacement workers. In mid-October, after permanently hiring about 500 non-union workers, Northwest made a final offer to the union. The offer would have saved 500 union jobs and offered four weeks of severance pay to terminated employees. This offer was worse than the original declined by

9975-449: The day of the week. By the late 1950s, three Canadian-based airlines were providing primary scheduled passenger air service at the airport: major air carriers Canadian Pacific Air Lines (which would become CP Air) and Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA, which would become Air Canada ) as well as regional air carrier Pacific Western Airlines (PWA). In 1959, Canadian Pacific was operating international service to Europe with four nonstop flights

10108-603: The earth, is located under the lake in Blatchford Park. Work to extend the Metro line of Edmonton's LRT network to Blatchford began in June 2020, and it is expected to open in 2024 or 2025. The first residents moved into Blatchford in November 2020. In 2022, it was announced that Hangar 11, a historic building at the former airport, would be redeveloped into a mixed-use space. Planned uses include retail, commercial, restaurant, event and housing. On April 22, 2024, Hangar 11

10241-524: The employees' sick calls were false. The effect on intra-airline email use was marked: postings critical of Northwest Airlines by employees dwindled, and the majority of messages after the search were posted anonymously . On August 20, 2005, after months of negotiations, an impasse declared by the NMB and a 30-day cooling off period , the over 4,750 Northwest aircraft mechanics , janitors, and aircraft cleaners represented by AMFA went on strike against

10374-834: The end. Examples include: A lot of minor airfields without scheduled passenger traffic have ICAO codes but not IATA codes, since the four letter codes allow more number of codes, and IATA codes are mainly used for passenger services such as tickets, and ICAO codes by pilots. In the US, such airfields use FAA codes instead of ICAO. There are airports with scheduled service for which there are ICAO codes but not IATA codes, such as Nkhotakota Airport/Tangole Airport in Malawi or Chōfu Airport in Tokyo, Japan. There are also several minor airports in Russia (e.g., Omsukchan Airport ) which lack IATA codes and instead use internal Russian codes for booking. Flights to these airports cannot be booked through

10507-411: The fate of the airport, was found to fall below the requirements because less than 10% of Edmontonians signed it, and it was not filed within 60 days of city council's decision to close the airport. The petition contained approximately 100,000 signatures when it was filed, but city staff determined that almost 30,000 of them did not belong to eligible electors. On July 8, 2009, the city council decided on

10640-517: The first clear-air turbulence forecasting system in 1957, important since the airline flew many northern routes over turbulence-prone mountain areas. Northwest remained a leader in turbulence prediction, providing TPAWS (turbulence prediction and warning services) to other airlines. During the regulated era, Northwest's domestic network was mainly along the northern transcontinental route through Chicago, Minneapolis, and Seattle; New York and Detroit were added in 1945. Northwest also served Hawaii from

10773-557: The first three letters of the city in which it is located, for instance: The code may also be a combination of the letters in its name, such as: Sometimes the airport code reflects pronunciation, rather than spelling, namely: For many reasons, some airport codes do not fit the normal scheme described above. Some airports, for example, cross several municipalities or regions, and therefore, use codes derived from some of their letters, resulting in: Other airports—particularly those serving cities with multiple airports—have codes derived from

10906-425: The following format: Most large airports in Canada have codes that begin with the letter "Y", although not all "Y" codes are Canadian (for example, YUM for Yuma, Arizona , and YNT for Yantai , China), and not all Canadian airports start with the letter "Y" (for example, ZBF for Bathurst, New Brunswick ). Many Canadian airports have a code that starts with W, X or Z, but none of these are major airports. When

11039-597: The form of " YYZ ", a song by the rock band Rush , which utilizes the Morse code signal as a musical motif. Some airports have started using their IATA codes as brand names , such as Calgary International Airport (YYC) and Vancouver International Airport (YVR). Numerous New Zealand airports use codes that contain the letter Z, to distinguish them from similar airport names in other countries. Examples include HLZ for Hamilton , ZQN for Queenstown , and WSZ for Westport . Predominantly, airport codes are named after

11172-508: The former Republic Airlines headquarters building, located on the property of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport , as well as Building J located in Eagan. Before the headquarters were in Eagan, they were on the grounds of Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport. A recurring issue in Northwest's history was its troubled labor relations. In 1998, Northwest walked away from the bargaining table, locked out its pilots (represented by

11305-487: The international air booking systems or have international luggage transferred there, and thus, they are booked instead through the airline or a domestic booking system. Several heliports in Greenland have 3-letter codes used internally which might be IATA codes for airports in faraway countries. There are several airports with scheduled service that have not been assigned ICAO codes that do have IATA codes, especially in

11438-746: The largest domestic route networks in the U.S., Northwest carried more passengers across the Pacific Ocean (5.1 million in 2004) than any other U.S. carrier, and carried more domestic air cargo than any other American passenger airline. Regional and commuter airline flights for Northwest were operated under the name Northwest Airlink by Big Sky Airlines , Eugene Aviation Services, Express Airlines I /II, Fischer Brothers Aviation , Mesaba Airlines , Northeast Express Regional Airlines , Pacific Island Aviation , Pinnacle Airlines , Precision Airlines , Simmons Airlines and Compass Airlines via respective code sharing agreements. Northwest Airlines

11571-848: The largest foreign airline serving Japan. In 1951, Northwest became involved with the founding of Japan Air Lines (JAL) by leasing airliners and crewmembers to the new airline. In 1952, United States and Japan ratified a regional bilateral aviation treaty, under which Northwest and Pan American World Airways became the two U.S. airlines in Tokyo. These carriers also received fifth freedom rights to carry passengers from and via Tokyo to other Asian destinations such as Seoul , Busan , Taipei , Kaohsiung , Manila , Beijing , Shanghai , Guangzhou , Hong Kong , Bangkok , Kuala Lumpur and Singapore . Northwest also flew passenger routes from Japan to Guam and Saipan , U.S. possessions in Micronesia . Northwest's meteorologists, led by Dan Sowa, pioneered

11704-415: The late 1990s and early 2000s, Northwest enjoyed profits and focused on improving technology to increase convenience and reduce costs. The airline offered airport self-service check-in kiosks starting in 1997 and had more than any other airline. Northwest was the first large U.S. airline to offer internet check-in to passengers, with service from December 2000. During the early 2000s decade, Northwest acquired

11837-538: The merger, the airline dropped Orient from its branding. One major reason for the merger was that Northwest's unique position as a domestic and transpacific carrier had been challenged in 1985 when United Airlines acquired the Pacific Division of Pan Am . Northwest continued to use the pre-merger Northwest Orient livery (minus the word "Orient") until a new livery and identity (designed by Landor Associates ) were adopted in 1989. The new livery, nicknamed

11970-479: The mid 1980s but left due to field / weight limitations. Time Air and its later brand of Canadian Regional operated Fokker F28 Fellowship twin jets, while Echo Bay Mines operated a private passenger / cargo Boeing 727-100 , a combi aircraft trijet, from the field for several years. Time Air previously operated Fokker F27 Friendship , de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter and Short 330 turboprop aircraft from

12103-478: The months before the September 11 attacks . Following the attacks, Northwest was forced to make dramatic changes to its business structure through major employee layoffs and other cost-cutting measures. The retirement of costly and aging aircraft such as the Boeing 727 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40 were accelerated as new aircraft went into service. In addition, the airline pursued options to reduce costs across

12236-612: The name of the airport itself, for instance: This is also true with some cities with a single airport (even if there is more than one airport in the metropolitan area of said city), such as BDL for Hartford, Connecticut 's B ra dl ey International Airport or Baltimore's BWI, for B altimore/ W ashington I nternational Airport ; however, the latter also serves Washington, D.C. , alongside Dulles International Airport (IAD, for I nternational A irport D ulles) and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA, for D istrict of C olumbia A irport). The code also sometimes comes from

12369-414: The need for a longer set of runways . It became clear that it would be economically and in many cases physically impossible to accommodate modern jet aircraft at ECCA. With no ability to expand the runways, a search began for a site for construction of a new international airport. Edmonton entered into fifty years of airport debates shaped by issues of logistics, transportation, and regional disparities. To

12502-585: The north and several destinations in Florida in the south including Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Tampa. On July 8, 1960, Northwest placed the Douglas DC-8 into service, offering the shortest flight times to East Asia, but within a year the airline was negotiating the sale of the five DC-8s. Northwest retired the last of its Boeing 377 Stratocruisers that September. The airline purchased several Boeing 720 Bs in 1961, and 1963 several new Boeing 707 -320Bs; for

12635-485: The north of the city, a World War II military base (now CFB Edmonton ) had been built at Namao by the United States Army Air Forces . In the 1950s, the base was expanded to handle Strategic Air Command military bomber aircraft, including the longest runway in Canada. Leduc, Alberta , located 14 nautical miles (26 km; 16 mi) south by southwest of downtown Edmonton , was chosen as

12768-403: The offer. On October 9, 2006, AMFA leadership and Northwest reached an agreement. Under the settlement, all AMFA workers still on strike as of that date were converted to lay-off status with five weeks of severance pay (ten weeks if they resigned from Northwest). However, these employees had a right-of-recall to their old jobs. The settlement was approved on November 6, 2006. On May 30, 2007, it

12901-416: The one they are located in: Other airport codes are of obscure origin, and each has its own peculiarities: In Asia, codes that do not correspond with their city's names include Niigata 's KIJ , Nanchang 's KHN and Pyongyang 's FNJ . EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg , which serves three countries, has three airport codes: BSL, MLH, EAP. Some cities have a name in their respective language which

13034-433: The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Northwest then served these routes via Tokyo. The airline sought government approval to restore nonstop Detroit–Shanghai service in March 2007 but lost its bid to United 's Washington –Beijing route; however, before their merger with Delta Air Lines , Northwest received tentative authority to restart nonstop Detroit–Shanghai service starting March 25, 2009. Through

13167-556: The pilots of calling in sick to create the problem. Following the Republic merger in 1986, Northwest primarily operated on a hub and spoke route system with hubs in Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Tokyo. Under the KLM joint venture started in 1993, the two carriers established an Amsterdam hub where transatlantic routes operated by Northwest linked with European, African, and Asian routes operated by KLM. Northwest also operated

13300-407: The property, as the airline considered the property to be excess. Terry Kingston, the executive director of the real estate brokerage firm Cushman & Wakefield , stated that there had been some interest in the Northwest Airlines property from other parties. Northwest was the only occupant of the four-story headquarters building. Employees remaining in the Minneapolis area were moved to Building C,

13433-660: The route at this same time. In its final years, before closing in 2013, the airport was mainly used for air charter , general aviation , flight training and medevac ( air ambulance ). In addition, from 2005 to 2012, the airport was annually converted into a race track for the Edmonton Indy Champ Car race. In 2008 Champ Car merged with the Indy Racing League , and became the IndyCar Series . The NASCAR Canada Series also raced at

13566-533: The route competition. On August 12, 2007, Northwest Airlines became a passive investor in the purchase of Midwest Airlines by TPG Capital . The airline stated that while it was an investor, it would not participate in any management or control of Midwest Airlines . However, on August 14, 2007, AirTran Airways raised their offer for Midwest to $ 16.25 a share, 25 cents more than the TPG offer. But soon after on August 17, 2007, TPG Capital raised their offer to $ 17.00

13699-506: The same first and middle letters, indicating that this rule might be followed only in Germany. Many cities retain historical names in their airport codes, even after having undergone an official name/spelling/transliteration change: Some airport codes are based on previous names associated with a present airport, often with a military heritage. These include: Some airports are named for an administrative division or nearby city, rather than

13832-526: The second time in three days following the news, largely because the stock is generally cancelled as part of the bankruptcy process. In the following weeks, Northwest Airlink carriers Mesaba Airlines and Pinnacle Airlines both announced that Northwest Airlines had missed payments to them for their Airlink flying. Northwest also announced plans to shrink its Airlink fleet by over 45 aircraft. Mesaba Aviation filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on October 13, 2005. Northwest announced on May 18, 2007, that shares of

13965-490: The site for the Edmonton International Airport ( IATA : YEG , ICAO : CYEG ) which opened in 1960. It was initially decided that ECCA would be closed in 1963, upon completion of a new passenger terminal at Edmonton International. However, the issue was reexamined by consultants, and particularly in view of the unforeseen development of regional airliner service at ECCA, especially to Calgary ,

14098-533: The speedway between 2007 and 2010, and again in 2012. Beginning with the July 2011 event, the track layout was reconfigured to use a more northeasterly section of the airport, including runway 16/34 (which had been permanently closed). The fate of Edmonton City Centre Airport (ECCA) was fiercely debated for decades, beginning in the 1950s. To accommodate demands for ever-increasing range, new generations of jet aircraft became increasingly larger and heavier, resulting in

14231-500: The station code of Malton, Mississauga , where it is located). YUL is used for Montréal–Trudeau (UL was the ID code for the beacon in the city of Kirkland , now the location of Montréal–Trudeau). While these codes make it difficult for the public to associate them with a particular Canadian city, some codes have become popular in usage despite their cryptic nature, particularly at the largest airports. Toronto's code has entered pop culture in

14364-440: The transpacific routes. On June 22, 1949, Northwest received its first double-decker Boeing 377 "Stratocruiser" , enabling more comfortable accommodations and faster transpacific flights. The Stratocruiser began flying from the West Coast to Honolulu in 1950 and to Tokyo via Alaska on September 27, 1952. 　 In 1954, Northwest Orient purchased Douglas DC-6Bs and started flying them to Tokyo and Manila. In January 1960, Northwest

14497-515: The two-letter code of the radio beacons that were the closest to the actual airport, such as YQX in Gander or YXS in Prince George . Four of the ten provincial capital airports in Canada have ended up with codes beginning with YY, including: Canada's largest airport is YYZ for Toronto Pearson (as YTZ was already allocated to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport , the airport was given

14630-493: The union, which would have saved over 2,000 jobs and offered 16 weeks of severance pay. On October 20, 2005, AMFA announced that it would not allow its members to vote on the offer, citing that parts of the contract would violate the union's commitment to its members. Finally, in late December 2005, Northwest made what it termed its "final offer" to the union. The agreement would have terminated all striking workers and given them rights to unemployment compensation. The union voted down

14763-529: The use of two letters allowed only a few hundred combinations; a three-letter system of airport codes was implemented. This system allowed for 17,576 permutations, assuming all letters can be used in conjunction with each other. Since the U.S. Navy reserved "N" codes, and to prevent confusion with Federal Communications Commission broadcast call signs , which begin with "W" or "K", the airports of certain U.S. cities whose name begins with one of these letters had to adopt "irregular" airport codes: This practice

14896-608: The west side of the airfield off Taxiway A. On-site amenities included the Alberta Aviation Museum, two hotels, and a cafeteria in the Edmonton Flying Club 's building. A flight school was operated at Centennial Flight Centre. Private air ambulances used the Esso Avitat hangar to store their ground support units. A Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service (STARS) air ambulance was also based at

15029-582: The western Aleutian Islands . The flight continued from Tokyo to Lunghwa Airport in Shanghai and then to Nichols Field at Manila . A flight between Tokyo and Seoul ( Gimpo Airport ) began on October 20, 1947, and Naha Airport in Okinawa began to be a stop on the Tokyo to Manila route on November 16, 1947. Northwest service to Shanghai was suspended in May 1949 because of the civil war in China, with

15162-464: The world's largest airline. The merger was approved on October 29, 2008. The CEO during the merger of Delta and Northwest was Richard Anderson who was Northwest Airlines CEO from 2001 to 2004. The combined airline uses the Delta name and branding. On October 1, 2009, Northwest WorldPerks merged into SkyMiles . On January 31, 2010, Delta completed the merge of the reservation systems and discontinued using

15295-486: The world, on September 15, 2004. This was partially a result of Air France merging with KLM, forming the Air France-KLM group. Northwest continued to hemorrhage money, however. Despite far-reaching money-saving initiatives, the industry-wide history of inflated executive compensation forced Northwest to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the first time in its 79-year history. The filing took place in

15428-457: The years, the IATA airport code "YXD" continued to be used for the airport by all of the airlines serving the airfield. The airport was closed in November 2013, and as of 2018, the land was being redeveloped by the City of Edmonton as a planned community called Blatchford . The airport has a rich aviation history, being the first licensed airfield in Canada (1926). Characters such as Wop May ,

15561-731: Was DHL International. In December 2007, NWA announced that DHL International would terminate its cargo agreement with the airline effective late 2008. According to NWA Chief Financial Officer Dave Davis, the loss of its largest cargo client would bring significant changes to the division. Further changes to the NWA Cargo division continued into 2009 as it was merged into the Delta Cargo service. NWA Cargo ended all operations on December 28, 2009. On July 30, 2010, Northwest pleaded guilty to one count of felony price fixing for fixing prices for cargo shipping via NWA Cargo. Immediately before Northwest ceased being an independent airline, its headquarters

15694-594: Was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1926 until it merged with Delta Air Lines in 2010. The merger made Delta the largest airline in the world until the American Airlines–US Airways merger in 2013. Northwest was headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota , near Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport . After World War II , it became dominant in the trans-Pacific market with

15827-564: Was also a minority owner of Midwest Airlines , holding a 40% stake in the company. Northwest Airlines was founded on September 1, 1926, by Colonel Lewis Brittin, under the name Northwest Airways , a reference to the historical name for the Midwestern United States that derived from the Northwest Territory . Like other early airlines, Northwest's focus was not in hauling passengers, but in flying mail for

15960-569: Was also operating nonstop flights into the airport from other locations besides Calgary in 1985 including Grande Prairie and Peace River with these services being flown with Convair 640 turboprops as well as with the Dash 7 . The airport also had service to the U.S. during the mid 1980s. In 1985, Pacific Western was operating direct, no change of plane Boeing 737-200 jet service to Seattle via intermediate stops at Calgary and Vancouver. In 1987, Continental Airlines in conjunction with Pacific Western

16093-528: Was announced that the flight attendants narrowly agreed to concessions and became the last major workgroup at Northwest to agree to new contract terms. The deal was approved by a vote of 2,966 to 2,862. Union leaders said that 90.5 percent of eligible voters cast ballots. The new contract would provide Northwest with $ 1.9 billion in annual cuts through 2011. Negotiations with attendants had been ongoing and contentious for several years. The flight attendants were unable to strike during negotiations because of

16226-427: Was closed to air traffic with a Notice to Airmen being issued at 3:00 am that morning. Closure of the remaining runway, runway 12/30, was announced at an Edmonton City Council meeting on September 26, 2013. Licenses for scheduled air service were not renewed. On the afternoon of November 30, 2013, the last aircraft to leave the airfield was a Cessna 172 , owned and piloted by a local resident. Weather prevented

16359-438: Was destroyed by a fire. The field elevation was 2,202 ft (671 m). Due to the airport's location in the central portion of the city, there were both curfew restrictions and noise abatement procedures. The field maintained 24/7 operations, with the strictest noise regulations in effect from 10:00 pm to 7:00 am local time. For private and corporate aviation, there were two fixed-base operators (FBO) on site, located on

16492-545: Was established in 1937. Over the years since then, its site witnessed increasing influence by the urban heat island effect. By the mid-1970s, "Edmonton Municipal A." (as it was listed in the Monthly Record of Meteorological Observations in Canada ) was regularly recording some of the longest frost-free periods in the Prairie Provinces , with the first fall frost often not coming before October. In 1950,

16625-502: Was in Building A, a facility in Eagan , Minnesota, near Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and the intersection of I-35E and Interstate 494 . The 266,899-square-foot (24,795.7 m ) building in the complex, which housed about 1,000 Northwest employees, was built in 1985. The building had a large "N" painted on the roof. After Delta and Northwest merged, Delta moved the Eagan headquarters employees to other offices in

16758-409: Was only one nonstop flight a day operated on the weekdays from Edmonton International to Calgary with this service being flown by CP Air. Other airlines serving ECCA as this time were Norcanair with Fairchild F-27 turboprop service nonstop from Lloydminster and direct from Saskatoon , and Southern Frontier Airlines with nonstop Beech 88 commuter turboprop service from Cold Lake . According to

16891-404: Was operating flights between ECCA and Calgary with Boeing 737-200 jetliners while Time Air flying as Canadian Partner on behalf of Canadian via a codeshare agreement was operating Fokker F28 jets and Dash 8 turboprops. Air BC operating as Air Canada Connector on behalf of Air Canada via a code sharing agreement was flying British Aerospace BAe 146-200 jets and Dash 8 turboprops on

17024-403: Was operating transcontinental Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop service nonstop between New York City and Seattle with these flights being part of the airline's service between New York City and Asia with Douglas DC-7C aircraft being operated on the transpacific legs from Seattle and was also operating Electra propjet flights between Minneapolis/St. Paul, Milwaukee and Chicago Midway Airport in

17157-550: Was operating two flights a day to Texas with direct service to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport ( Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex , DFW) and George Bush Intercontinental Airport ( Houston , IAH). Pacific Western operated the Edmonton-Calgary portion of the service with Boeing 737-200s and passengers then transferred to Continental operated 727 100 Series jetliners in Calgary for the flights to Texas. According to

17290-401: Was put forth to the citizens of Edmonton asking if the bylaw should be repealed on the basis of consolidating all scheduled traffic at Edmonton International. Determination of whether or not to close the airport was not given as an option. 77% of voters approved the proposed version, and in June 1996, the consolidation process was finalized. After city council voted to close the airport in 2009,

17423-435: Was served only during the summer season). In 2009, under the banner of Delta , service to Rome was then resumed for the summer season. In 1991, Northwest began service to Australia, after United and Qantas began non-stop flights to the continental U.S. using the newly introduced, long-range 747-400. Northwest routed its Sydney–New York flight through Osaka, which raised Japanese protest because less than 30% of passengers on

17556-424: Was the largest airline merger at the time and caused operational issues which led the combined carrier to have an on-time performance of just 42 percent in its early days. Through the merger, NWA adopted Republic's three-hub domestic network centered around Detroit, Memphis, and Minneapolis-St. Paul. The combined airline became particularly strong in the first two cities, with a market share of over 80% in each. After

17689-563: Was the largest airline partnership at that time. This partnership eventually became the Wings Alliance , but the alliance never grew beyond the two airlines. Northwest gradually pulled out of its minor European destinations and focused on domestic and Asian markets. On May 1, 1996, Northwest inaugurated the first-ever nonstop service from North America to China, Detroit – Beijing . Nonstop Detroit–Shanghai service followed in April 2000. These nonstop services were suspended in 2002 due to

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