EAGAN, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northwest Airlines (NYSE:NWA) today is retiring its last 747-200 from scheduled revenue service. The 430-seat aircraft, which most recently operated NWA’s Tokyo ...

The aircraft has 376 seats. The plane, tail number 6314, was delivered to Northwest Airlines in 1999 and lasted ... Delta and United both ended 747 scheduled passenger service in December.

The hulking aircraft flew its first scheduled service for the airline several weeks ... With that, Delta welcomed the 747 back into its fold. With Northwest, Delta acquired 16 passenger 747-400s ...

A generation came to learn the aircraft’s quirks ... eventually created the best-selling 747 model, the -400, which was delivered first to Northwest Airlines in 1989. This started the fleet ...

The most successful variant, the 747-400, began its operational life with Northwest Airlines in Jan-1989. A total of 724 aircraft of this variant have been delivered, just over half of the total for ...

Atlanta-based Delta (NYSE: DAL) inherited 30 of the double-decker aircraft in its 2008 acquisition of Eagan-based Northwest Airlines, including 16 of the fourth-generation 747-400 jets that let ...

Northwest merged with Delta in 2010 ... but a continuing long-time operator of its 747 aircraft is Korean Airlines. KAL currently operates the Boeing 7478i. Interestingly, a spokesperson told ...

the 747 never really played the same important role for the major U.S. carriers. United Airlines and Northwest Airlines (now part of Delta Air Lines) long ago retired the last of their aircraft.