There was a time, long before Deregulation, when Herman and the NWA logo flew together in harmony. One of these moments is immortalized here in a hallway at the Duluth airport on February 10, 1952 – Northwest had long since ceased its seaplane connection from Duluth Harbor to Minneapolis and it wasn’t until this point when nonstop flights finally started to allow connections at MSP.
There were frequent passenger train routings between the Twin Ports and Twin Cities at the time, so the appeal of a flight was to allow for faster access to points beyond. Hence, WIS advertised the coast-to-coast reach of Northwest. By Fall 1952, WIS would be operating three DC-3 roundtrips daily on the route, with a flying time of one hour.
