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Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Louis, Kansas City, and other stops, with Ford Trimotors.
This is a list of destinations served by Trans World Airlines (TWA) at the time of its closure. [1] [2] It was taken over by American Airlines in 2001. Destinations served by Trans World Express and Trans World Connection (as American Eagle) do not appear here.
Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison; Trans World Connection; Trans World Corporation; Trans World Express; Transcontinental Air Transport; Transpacific Route Case; TWA Administrative Offices Building; TWA Corporate Headquarters Building; List of TWA destinations; TWA Flight 595; TWA Flight 5787; TWA Flight Center; TWA Hotel; TWA Moonliner
This operation was later sold by Trans World Corporation while under the leadership of Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. the CEO of TWA and the first known to receive a golden parachute employment contract. In 1983, Trans World Corporation, under Chief Executive Officer L. Edwin Smart, spun off Trans World Airlines [2] [3] to Carl C. Icahn, [citation ...
Flight 37, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 1 (N11002) narrowly averted a mid-air collision with American Airlines Flight 182, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10. [ 46 ] December 22, 1975
The TWA Flight Center was designed for Trans World Airlines by Eero Saarinen and Associates starting in 1956. It was erected between 1959 and 1962, and it operated as an air terminal until 2001. It was erected between 1959 and 1962, and it operated as an air terminal until 2001.
Tillinghast oversaw a golden era for TWA as it moved to a hub system and achieved dominance in the trans-Atlantic market, and expanded TWA's reach into the hospitality industry by way of its purchase of the Hilton Hotels chain through a newly created division called the Trans World Corporation. He was criticized for ignoring the Pacific and ...
The DC-9 involved seen in 1993, in service with USAir. Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 159 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from New York City to Los Angeles, California, with a stopover in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Kentucky, that crashed after an aborted takeoff from Cincinnati on November 6, 1967.