In Chapter 11 bankruptcy since last week, Northwest Airlines has announced plans to add 1400 flight attendants to the 400 pilots it's planning to lay off by January. The airline is also looking to outsource all flight attendant positions on international flights and planes with less than 100 seats to local, non-union flight attendants. The Professional Flight Attendants Association says the outsourcing proposal could cost the jobs of thousands of the airline's 9,800 flight attendants. Outsourcing has also cropped up as a central issue in the ongoing strike by the mechanics at Northwest.