Northwest Airlines: New Adventures in Flying

If you fly with Northwest Airlines, you seem to have an above-average chance of ending up somewhere other than your advertised destination of late. Northwest Airlines made several emergency landings recently:

• A Northwest DC-9 landed in Madison, WI on Monday due to a pressurization problem. (They really are still flying those things?)
• This weekend, spectators at an airshow in Dayton, OH were treated to an extra spectacle as a Northwest 757 made an emergency landing there after an engine failed.

Given some other recent incidents involving Northwest Airlines airplanes, you have to wonder if they are just having a run of bad luck, or more systemic problems?

For what it's worth, my family and I were stranded at PDX for nearly 12 hours last month due to a malfunction of a Northwest 757 there. Not exactly encouraging...