NWAFCU Introduces Wings FinancialFCU

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. - (03/30/04)-- NWA FCU has created a newdivision–Wings Financial FCU–to reach out to allairline employees under the TIPS charter it received in December.Primarily serving employees of Northwest Airlines, its expanded FOMis open to the entire airline industry. "We were finding that otherairline employees weren’t comfortable doing business withNWA; it felt like being in business with a competitor," explainedNWAFCU’s John Wagner. "Wings Financial Federal Credit Unionis a distinct but complementary brand." NWAFCU has been in atrademark dispute with Northwest Airlines ever since the sponsorcompany asked the credit union to pay naming fees to retain theNorthwest-related name last spring (CUJ Daily 04/29/03), but Wagnersaid the new WFFCU brand is not related to the dispute but theexpanded membership. All members will be able to use both NWAFCU-and WFFCU-branded facilities interchangeably. The first Wingsfacility opened at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International AirportMonday.