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Here is a TWA schedule from October 1992.

Interesting things about this schedule:

• After TWA (or rather, Carl Icahn) sold off the London-Heathrow routes.  All trips to London now are via Gatwick.
• This includes the infamous Atlanta hub.  Not sure how long this lasted, but according to this New York Times article, it seems to have been until at least  October of 1993.  (If anyone has any comments about the TWA Atlanta hub, please leave a comment!)
• On the back of the schedule, they have an advertisement for their frequent flyer program.   They say that you can get free travel within the US at 20,000 miles.  Looking at American Airlines website today, this would take 50,000 for an unrestricted ticket.
• 35,000 miles for the Middle East or Europe.  Today on American?  You’re looking at 100,000 for unrestricted.  Gotta love inflation.

I’ve just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, so thumbnails aren’t working right now.  Click below to see the pictures.

TWA October 1992 Schedule – Cover

TWA October 1992 Schedule – Route Map

TWA October 1992 Schedule – Back Cover

I know I’ve mentioned TWA’s Terminal 5 a few times, (see the entries here and here), but this time is a homemade video, by former TWA flight attendant Steve Kornman, that is very interesting.

This video is over 15 minutes long, and is well done. Get some popcorn and check it out!

Man, you gotta love the Holidays.

Of course, after all that, it’s time to go back to work, and that means trying to catch up.   That is where I find myself right now.

While reading this thread on airliners.net, the topic of TWA’s order of the Airbus A330 came up.  TWA was actually one of the first to order the plane, but of course, never recieved it.

In the thread, a link to transportarchive.org.uk includes this image of the A330 in old TWA colors. I remember seeing this picture, or one very similar, in an issue of Skyliner.  Of course, I don’t know where that issue is, of course.

(Click for a larger image.)