...plans to buy 30 new planes EAGAN (AP) -- Northwest Airlines says it will upgrade its aging fleet by purchasing 30 Airbus A-319 and A-320 planes. The planes, valued at $1.2 billion, will replace 38 Boeing 727's built in the late 1960s...

...significant. The writer says they are low-tech, low-paying jobs. Wrong. In Duluth there is a maintenance base serving Airbus A-319 and A-320 aircraft. Those jobs pay upwards of $60,000 a year. In Hibbing there is a reservation center where...