Northwest offers perks out of Toledo Express

Pretty interesting postcard in the mail: Northwest (which has a huge hub just up the road at DTW) has been bought off by the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, which operates Toledo Express Airport. NW is offering some pretty nice perks. If you fly NW round-trip out of TOL, you get 1000 bonus miles, and can qualify for elite status in half the normal time, plus you get a mileage bonus: 8 roundtrips for silver, 15 roundtrips for Gold, and 25 for Platinum, with 50%, 100%, and 125% mileage bonuses. This is a pretty good deal, especially given that parking and terminal access at TOL are much, much easier than they are at DTW. As far as I can tell, you don’t have to do anything special other than fly roundtrips TOL-xxx-TOL and use your NW WorldPerks number. Happy travels!