TWAHistory.com

Here’s the TWA schedule from December of 1994. Unfortunately, TWA stopped showing the route map with ‘lines’ showing the flights, so this one is just the cities server. Bummer.

BUT…

TWA did start to show flight numbers, and the equipment operating that flight. So that’s a plus. And since it’s the Holidays, and I’m a nice guy, I’ve included the equipment listing scanned at a higher resolution, so you can read it.

We’re heading out of town for the Holidays, so I probably won’t update until later next week. Enjoy!

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Here is the safety card from a TWA 727-231 (International). I believe the only difference between a regular 727-231 and an international version is the inclusion of life rafts aboard the aircraft. (Anyone have any idea on that, if so, leave a comment!)
This is the later version (early 90’s) of the safety cards, after they switched from the ‘plastic’ ones with the 1960’s drawings on it. I kinda liked those, but these definitely have more information on them than those.

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Here’s part 2 of 3 of TWA commercials featuring Peter Sellers.

Dig those 747 cabin colors.

Once again, thanks to TWAviator for providing these.

I received some comments that said, “Wow. Love the new website, but why is the header so generic?”

Well, it’s a long story.

Basically, before I created this website, I actually made a really cool header with a tail of a TWA DC-9 and the name of the blog. It looked really nice.

Then I was thinking, “Did I take this picture?” Well, it turned out, that I didn’t.

The picture that I used is actually located here, at airliners.net.

It’s very similar to a picture I took at STL of a DC9 tail, so I assumed it was mine.

Wrong.

I actually noticed before I put the site ‘live’, so no, I didn’t get sued or anything. But in the meantime, I put up the ‘generic’ header that you have been seeing.

Well, now I have a spiffy banner that has the classic late 1970’s - early 1990’s logo that TWA had. I have to admit, it’s my favorite. I’m sure that’s just due to me flying TWA a lot during that time in my youth, so that’s the color
scheme I attach to.

If you notice any weirdness on the website, please let me know!

Any comments?

Here’s the front page from the TWA Skyliner, TWA’s internal newspaper. I always enjoyed reading them after my father was done, as it always included interesting stats, or a look at a certain TWA station. Also interesting was reading the letters from passengers. During the Icahn years, it was pretty depressing to read most of them.

According to the front page, the main thing that was going on at TWA was that they were going through approvals to get service to the Soviet Union. I believe they got it later that year. It didn’t seem to last too long, though.

Also noted was the selling of TWA’s Chicago-Heathrow route to American Airlines.

Skyliner, of course, also being the name TWA called their 747’s.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a newspaper sized scanner, so it’s not the whole front page. Any hints on how to scan this stuff?

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Here’s a picture of the TWA Moonliner in front of “Rocket to the Moon” at Disneyland:

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Thanks to Gorilla’s Don’t Blog for this image.