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Article: United States: Delta looks up with NWA merger.
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- TendersInfo
- Article date:
- October 30, 2009
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Byline: kusumv03
It's been a quiet year since Detroit's longtime hometown air carrier, Northwest Airlines, was officially bought by Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines. The calm has surprised many industry experts and fliers who expected the transition from Northwest to Delta to be rife with errors -- especially given the many snag-ridden airline mergers of the past.
"They're doing a lot of things right," said aviation expert Terry Trippler of Minneapolis. "With a merger of this size, there's an expectation of surprises, that things are going to go wrong. But for the most part, they're getting it right."
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