Mesaba Airlines
Mesaba Airlines is a small American airliner company based in Eagan, Minnesota. If you haven’t heard of Mesaba Airlines, it doesn’t mean that you’re not in the know, and it certainly does not necessarily mean that you haven’t flown with them, either. If you don’t know, Mesaba Airlines actually operates under a much more household common name, Northwest Air link. IF you have flown with Northwest Airlines and needed a connecting flight, chances are that you flew a Mesaba Airlines Northwest Airline plane.

Among some of the later Mesaba Airline news, the company works under Chapter 11 protection and there has been some off and on news about a strike among Mesaba workers. Nothing has been affirmed, as Mesaba Airlines is an affiliate of Northwest Airlines--a company that is experiencing financial issues of its own.

When Mesaba Airlines was founded in late 1944, its owner Gordy Newstrom had only one small plane--nothing more and nothing less. From that, Mesaba Airlines has grown to a medium sized fleet of sixty five airplanes. It wasn’t until 1965, when Mesaba was allowed to begin flying passengers to destinations coming out of Detroit Metro airport that the airline company really started to garner much success. The ownership of the company exchanged a series of hands, from the original founder Newstrom to the Halverson family to the Swenson family, who actually turned Mesaba Airlines into a public company.

It was not until 1986 when Mesaba Airlines became an official passenger carrier for the large American airline company, Northwest Airlines, and as of late 2006 there have been whispers about Northwest perhaps even officially purchasing Mesaba Airlines for itself. There has been some cloudiness surrounding this as Northwest have filed for Chapter 11 protection in court and was millions of dollars behind in payments to their partner companies in the tune of twenty five million dollars to its partner companies, one of which was Mesaba Airlines.

Northwest Airlines has always offered great service to and from your destinations of choice, and Mesaba Airlines has always participated as Northwest Air link to get you safely back on the ground every time.