NORTHWEST AIRLINES REPORTS DECEMBER AND YEAR-END TRAFFIC

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NORTHWEST AIRLINES REPORTS DECEMBER AND YEAR-END TRAFFIC

*Travel News Asia*	*Date: 6 January 2001*

Northwest Airlines announced today that it flew 6.04 billion revenue passenger miles (RPM) in December, an increase of 5.3 percent from the 5.74 billion RPM in the previous year. Available seat miles (ASM) increased 2.5 percent from 8.21 billion ASM in December 1999 to 8.42 billion ASM in 2000, producing a 1.9-point increase in load factor from 69.9 percent to 71.8 percent.

Cargo ton miles (CTM) systemwide were down 2.3 percent from 1999's 222.5 million CTM to 217.3 million CTM in December 2000.

NORTHWEST AIRLINES TRAFFIC SUMMARY (000 omitted)

System Scheduled Service

System	December-00	December-99	% Change
ASMs	8,415,236	8,206,257	2.5%
RPMs	6,043,775	5,738,417	5.3%
LF	71.8%	69.9%	1.9 pt.
CTMs	217,340	222,455	-2.3%
Enplaned Passengers	4,472,434	4,509,800	-0.8%

Domestic Scheduled Service

Domestic	December-00	December-99	% Change
ASMs	4,984,179	5,121,452	-2.7%
RPMs	3,444,936	3,514,007	-2.0%
LF	69.1%	68.6%	0.5 pt.
CTMs	66,815	71,286	-6.3%

International Scheduled Service

International	December-00	December-99	% Change
ASMs	3,431,057	3,084,805	11.2%
RPMs	2,598,839	2,224,410	16.8%
LF	75.7%	72.1%	3.6 pt.
CTMs	150,525	151,169	-0.4%

Atlantic Scheduled Service

Atlantic	December-00	December-99	% Change
ASMs	1,148,614	863,115	33.1%
RPMs	827,608	605,526	36.7%
LF	72.1%	70.2%	1.9 pt.
CTMs	26,464	19,983	32.4%

Pacific Scheduled Service

Pacific	December-00	December-99	% Change
ASMs	2,282,443	2,221,690	2.7%
RPMs	1,771,231	1,618,884	9.4%
LF	77.6%	72.9%	4.7 pt.
CTMs	124,061	131,186	-5.4%

Year-to-Date System Scheduled Service

System	YTD-00	YTD-99	% Change
ASMs	103,356,335	99,445,801	3.9%
RPMs	79,128,117	74,168,279	6.7%
LF	76.6%	74.6%	2.0 pt.
CTMs	2,501,078	2,335,527	7.1%
Enplaned Passengers	58,721,689	56,113,978	4.6%

Year-to-Date Domestic Scheduled Service

Domestic	YTD-00	YTD-99	% Change
ASMs	61,659,211	60,361,253	2.2%
RPMs	44,978,465	42,752,158	5.2%
LF	72.9%	70.8%	2.1 pt.
CTMs	770,088	719,293	7.1%

Year-to-Date International Scheduled Service

International	YTD-00	YTD-99	% Change
ASMs	41,697,124	39,084,548	6.7%
RPMs	34,149,712	31,416,121	8.7%
LF	81.9%	80.4%	1.5 pt.
CTMs	1,730,990	1,616,234	7.1%

Year-to-Date Atlantic Scheduled Service

Atlantic	YTD-00	YTD-99	% Change
ASMs	13,581,561	11,905,816	14.1%
RPMs	11,180,359	9,616,920	16.3%
LF	82.3%	80.8%	1.5 pt.
CTMs	276,766	212,434	30.3%

Year-to-Date Pacific Scheduled Service

Pacific	YTD-00	YTD-99	% Change
ASMs	28,115,563	27,178,732	3.4%
RPMs	22,969,353	21,799,201	5.4%
LF	81.7%	80.2%	1.5 pt.
CTMs	1,454,224	1,403,800	3.6%

Northwest Airlines is the world’s fourth largest airline offering more than 2,600 daily departures with hubs at Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, Tokyo and Amsterdam. With its travel partners, Northwest serves more than 750 cities in 120 countries on 6 continents

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