SkyTeam member Northwest Airlines has begun a review of its capacity plans to determine if additional changes should be made in light of unprecedented fuel prices.

Confirming the latest review Northwest VP of corporate communications Tammy Lee says: “With fuel at these prices every airline, including Northwest, needs to examine whether it has the right level of capacity in the market.”

The examination follows on the heels of announcements by American Airlines and United Airlines that they will dramatically slash capacity and reduce their fleets. And it comes two months after Northwest revealed its own plan to reduce scheduled domestic system capacity by about 5% in September.

To support this measure, Northwest will remove an additional 15 to 20 aircraft from service. Two <A href=”http://www.flightglobal.com/directory/detail.aspx?aircraftCategory=CommercialAircraftmanufacturer

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 5th, 2008 at 5:00 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.