Northwest Airlines Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Northwest Airlines

Pros – Great benefits and a lot of wonderful people to work with

Cons – Merged with Delta and most jobs moved out of state.

Advice to Senior Management – should not have merged with Delta.

Former Employee – worked at Northwest Airlines full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good employer, strong base compensation and good benefits

Cons – Could do a better job at bonus pool and profit sharing

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Northwest Airlines part-time for more than 8 years

Pros – 1) The aircrafts were fun to be on. I loved the DC9's/727's the best.
2) The people were great, from ticket counter to gate/baggage handlers. You were family with all.
3) Great environment to be in.
4) Picking flights were easy.

Cons – 1) Advertising...used to be a lot in print and TV commercials. Went from that to bleh.
2) Hard to get to A-level pay grade
3) Trying to transfer domiciles was difficult when being junior and the domicile station was senior.
4) Pay should be not in line with competition, but should be in line with having the best F/A's in the industry.
5) Difficult to shake the image of "northworst" when strikes occurred.

Advice to Senior Management – All the perks/benefits/golden parachute that top management have....shower some of that on the people that make the company what it is...you can have all the authority but if you don't care about your people they will make sure everyone else knows. Respect runs both ways.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Northwest Airlines as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – If you get in as an employee benefits are pretty decent.

Cons – If you are a contractor there is absolutely no hope for you depending on the employer you go in with. Difficult to get into NWA as they like to keep most of their contractors as contractors, not convert them to employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Northwest Airlines full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – people, travel, food, pay, management

Cons – I didn't like to be gon from home.

Advice to Senior Management – merge with Delta as soon as possible

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Northwest Airlines

Pros – Northwest was a very sucessfull company and good place to work. Industry leading technology that customers appreciated. Now a part of Delta

Cons – Northwest was a lean company and at times did not have enough front line employees or enough leadership to provide the best customer service.

Former Employee – worked at Northwest Airlines full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great benefit, great culture... I was so sad NWA has been ended due to the merger with Delta.

Cons – Union environment was not that pleasant.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Northwest Airlines

Pros – Friendly and helpful colleagues, reasonable flight benefits and amazing learning opportunities.

Cons – Overall, I did not find anything wrong with the experience. The only thing that I could maybe mention is that as a co-op, I was not entitled to overtime.

Former Employee – worked at Northwest Airlines full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Went to some pretty good international locations. Most pilots and Flight Attendants were great to work with and hotels were decent for the most part.

Cons – Cut-throat management. Drove the company into bankruptcy and hired scab mechanics. Always maintained an adversarial relationship.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Northwest Airlines

Pros – Get respect no matter what department you in.

Cons – Like any union job, lazy workers never gets fired and always gets represented by shop stewards..

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend