Northwest Airlines Creates Service to Members of First Class Upgrades
An Industry First: Northwest Airlines Creates New Service to Notify WorldPerks Members of First Class Upgrades
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire/ --
Search no more. Let Northwest WorldPerks upgrade status find you. Northwest Airlines (Nasdaq: NWAC) has created WorldPerks Elite Upgrade Status Messaging, an industry-leading service, which automatically notifies its WorldPerks Elite members of the status of their domestic First Class Upgrades.
WorldPerks Elite members simply register for this innovative notification service at http://www.nwa.com/elite . When members make a domestic coach class reservation on Northwest Airlines they will receive one of the three following messages about their First Class upgrade one or two days before departure:
-- Your upgrade to First Class has been confirmed;
-- First Class is full, but you are on the airport standby list;
-- Both First Class and the airport standby lists are full, but please check at the airport for any change.
WorldPerks Elite Upgrade Status Messaging gives members the flexibility to receive upgrade information anywhere, anytime. WorldPerks members can choose to have the message delivered as a voice mail, as an e-mail or an e-mail account on an alpha-numeric pager, Personal Digital Assistant/handheld device, or mobile phone.
More information about WorldPerks Elite Upgrade Status Messaging can be found at http://www.nwa.com/elite
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. Northwest and partner KLM Royal Dutch Airlines received Air Transport World's prestigious "1997 Airline of the Year" award and, based on statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Northwest was the most on-time U.S. airline among the seven largest network carriers for the period 1990-1999. Northwest is the 2000 recipient of Air Transport World Airline Technology Management Award. Northwest's WorldPerks frequent flyer program is the highest rated U.S.-based program reviewed by InsideFlyer Magazine, the leading authority on airline free travel programs, and in 1999 was named the most preferred frequent flyer program by the readers of Time in Asia. WorldPerks received the special "Industry Impact Award" during InsideFlyer's 12th Annual Freddie Awards. In 1999, Northwest's http://www.nwa.com was chosen as best airline web site by zdNews.com and Business 2.0 and was named one of the top 500 sites by Internet World magazine.
