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Article: Northwest Airlines Touts New Portland, Ore.-Tokyo Service.

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February 12, 2004
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By Gretchen Fehrenbacher, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 12--Northwest Airlines' new daily service set to begin June 10 between Portland and Tokyo will be its first new trans-Pacific operation in five years, airline executives said Wednesday.

Phil Haan, an executive vice president for the Minnesota-based airline, said the commitment to the Portland connection is unique in the aftermath of a global economic downturn, terrorist attacks, the Iraq war and the SARS scare.

While the Portland-Tokyo market is not "terribly big," Northwest's connecting routes to other Asian points from Japan, including ...

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