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Save Up To $350 With Starwood Hotels & Resorts

When you purchase an NWA WorldVacations air and Starwood Hotels & Resorts package to Mexico or the Caribbean, you'll save up to $350! Get out and enjoy all that these tropical destinations have to offer! Use promo code:WV8008 Book by:Mar 1, 2008 Travel between:Feb 23 - Aug 31, 2008.

You'll save:

• $100 on packages of $1,199 - $2,799
• $200 on packages of $2,800 - $5,499
• $350 on packages of $5,500 or more

Vacation packages include:

• Roundtrip air transportation
• Choice of accommodations
• Hotel taxes
• Roundtrip transfers between airport and hotel
• Luggage handling at hotel
• Maid and/or bellman gratuities
• Assistance of a local host or toll-free number for assistance
• Up to 2,500 WorldPerks® Bonus Miles in addition to credited flight miles

Northwest Airlines: Save big on holiday travel

This holiday season, Northwest Airlines is offering reduced airfares for holiday travel throughout the U.S. 48 and between the U.S. 48 and Canada. Reduced airfare tickets must be purchased no later than December 20, 2007 for travel on select dates by January 7, 2008.

Sample each-way reduced airfares for holiday travel on Super Off-Peak Days*+:
Chicago - Minneapolis/St. Paul	$56
Detroit - Baltimore	$59
Detroit - Chicago	$59
Memphis - Orlando	$69
Los Angeles - Las Vegas	$99
Memphis - Phoenix	$139
Indianapolis - Palm Springs	$159
Boston - San Francisco	$179
Lansing - San Diego	$179

Northwest Airlines Fare Promotion

Northwest apologizes to their passengers

Northwest Airlines CEO Doug Steenland apologized yesterday to their many passengers that were inconvenienced this summer by their flight cancellations — cancellations that he blamed mostly on increased pilot absenteeism.
Northwest promises to fix cancellation problems

Northwest cancels more flights again

Four days in a row Northwest Airlines canceled more than 10% of its flights because of a pilot shortage, there are concerns that this could be repeated in late July and late August.

"Joe Brancatelli, who runs the business travel advice website JoeSentMe.com and is a freelance USATODAY.com columnist, is advising readers not to book flights on Northwest in the latter half of July or August, heavy summer travel months when Northwest crews can again be expected to run up against monthly limits on their work hours." Read more on USATODAY.

Northwest Airlines Customers Can Now Make All Transactions Using Mobile Devices

Northwest Airlines announced customers can now purchase tickets, check-in for flights, and complete any transaction on its nwa.com website via hand held devices and wireless browsers, such as Blackberrys and Treos. Before, only a portion of nwa.com features were available to mobile devices.

 

"Travelers accessing nwa.com or mobile.nwa.com using Personal Data Assistants (PDAs) and web-based cell phones are now able to view nwa.com in its entirety in a low-graphics, mobile format. Northwest is the first airline to provide its complete web site in this format for mobile users. Customers using mobile devices can easily navigate through nwa.com and enjoy all of the features and functionality available on the full-graphics site including shopping for flights, purchasing tickets, checking in for flights, changing reservations, selecting seats and more.
“Northwest Airlines remains committed to improving our customers’ travel experience by expanding nwa.com functionality options to anyone, anywhere, using any web-enabled device,” said Al Lenza, vice president distribution and e-commerce.

Northwest has partnered with Usablenet, Inc. to create a dynamic view of existing web content and services that is specialized for viewing by users of Blackberry, Treo, PDAs, and web-based cell phones. The new technology automatically detects the browser type and provides on-the-fly content in different formats that allows nwa.com to function for all mobile devices without the need to change the original code.

All Northwest-owned nwa.com web pages are available on the mobile site in English. Northwest plans to offer additional languages in the future.

Northwest Airlines is one of the world’s largest airlines with hubs at Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, Tokyo and Amsterdam, and approximately 1,400 daily departures. Northwest is a member of SkyTeam, an airline alliance that offers customers one of the world’s most extensive global networks. Northwest and its travel partners serve more than 900 cities in excess of 160 countries on six continents."