Airline-dle
Puzzle #17 was Northwest Airlines.
Northwest Airlines was a trunk carrier and a major airline in the United States that operated from 1926 until it merged with Delta Air Lines in 2010. The merger made Delta the largest airline in the world until the American Airlines–US Airways merger in 2013.
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What the record says
Puzzle 17 ran on 28 Jul 2026 and the answer was Northwest Airlines, played with 6 guesses against 5 columns. On the record: Country - United States; Region - North America; Status - defunct; Alliance - SkyTeam. The numbers: Founded - 1920.
Beyond the grid the record adds Callsign - NORTHWEST; Codes - NW / NWA; Ceased operations - 2010.
Airline-dle builds its record from OpenFlights - Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 and Wikidata - CC0 1.0 (region, founding decade, alliance, hub, headquarters). The description above comes from the same place the game credits on every reveal: English Wikipedia summary excerpt, CC BY-SA 4.0. The puzzle itself is still playable in the archive, and every answer that has been and gone is listed on the past-answers page.
How it scored
- Country
- United States
- Region
- North America
- Status
- defunct
- Founded
- 1920
- Alliance
- SkyTeam
Also on the record
- Callsign
- NORTHWEST
- Codes
- NW / NWA
- Ceased operations
- 2010