Non-Stop: A Turbulent History of Northwest Airlines

by Jack El-Hai

From its earliest flights in 1926, carrying mail and occasionally a solo passenger to Chicago, to its acquisition by Delta in 2010, Northwest Airlines soared to the heights of technological achievement and business innovation--and sunk to the depths of employee discord, passenger dissatisfaction, and financial bankruptcy. Its story, rich in singular successes and failures, also has the sweep of the history of American business in the twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816674450
• ISBN13: 9780816674459
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 3.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 11.3" x 10.3"