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Thanks to ampicoab at YouTube, we have a video that documents the last flight of TWA’s 727.

Of course, a little trivia: This plane is the one that was involved in the infamous TWA Flight 840 hijacking in Athens.

Here is TWA’s January 1994 schedule.

Not a lot noteworthy, as far as I can tell, but a couple of things:

• This was back when they had “TWA Comfort Class”, with more room in coach.  Didn’t fly a lot during this time, but I did a couple of times, and there was more legroom.  Also the 767’s had the foot rests in coach; not bad.
• A couple of ‘one-off’ flights out of the PHX base that I noticed, since that is where I lived.  They removed the red-eye to STL.  They also removed the Flight 731 from JFK to LAS, and changed it to continue on to SAN.     Returned in the morning.
• SAN also had it’s red-eye to STL stop in LAS before continuing on.

For awhile, they had the flight from JFK->PHX  continue on to LAX as a 767.  I would use that to take the red-eye from LAX->STL.  Made for a long trip!

As always, click on the images for larger versions.

Coming off the heals of the recent post of TWA’s L1011 Safety Video, I present the TWA 747 Safety video, courtesy of ptarr767.

According to this post at the AirlinersGallery.com, the Museum of Flight in Washington State has purchased the TWA DC-2.

Copyright Photos: N1934D carries a fake (and larger) NC1311 registration. The official FAA N1934D registration is seen in a smaller scale on the rear fuselage. It is now on display at the museum. (Joe G. Walker)

Good to see that a classic plane will have a great home!

I present TWA’s L-1011 Safety Video..

By the way, for those of you looking for a decent “YouTube-like” service, but with better quality, I recommend Vimeo. The quality of the video is not degraded unlike YouTube.

Well, we’re back from Southern California, and had a great time.  Got to hang out with the wife for our 7th wedding anniversary, went to Disneyland to ride the new Finding Nemo Submarine Ride, went deep-sea fishing, and also went to the LA Airline Memorabilia show.

I did pick up a few TWA items.  Mostly schedules, though.  They did have some nice TWA models, though.  I had my eye on a TWA L1011, and even had purchase authority from the wife, but really wouldn’t have space to display it in my current office, so it will just have to wait until I have a bigger house.

Today’s update is TWA’s schedule from May 1992.  The major news in this one is TWA’s announced service to Moscow, via Brussels.  Not sure how successful this was, though, since it didn’t seem to stay around too long.  According to a TWA Skyliner issue I have talking about it, it was using a 727-232.

I’ve included the handy-dandy gate maps that they included in the back of this schedule.

As always, click for a larger image.

and boy, are my arms tired. Okay, stupid joke.

The wife and I arrived today in Los Angeles.  We’re actually going to be staying by Disneyland until Monday, doing the LA thing:  Disneyland, deep sea fishing, and eating at some great restaurants.

Just wanted to give a shout-out if anyone else is going to be going to the Los Angeles Airline Memorabilia Show on June 9th.  Still hoping to pick up some more TWA schedules there, and see what else I can find.

If anyone else is going to be there, leave a comment and maybe we can say “Hey!”

Today we have a TWA schedule from April of 1995.

It seems around this time TWA decided to stop marking routes between TWA cities, but to instead just show the cities that TWA flies to.

As a child, I always enjoyed looking at the lines; it reminded me of the places I could go, nonstop, from my city.

I’ve also included the  “Flight Itineraries” pages.

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Yep, still alive. With the heat coming in beautiful Arizona, you start to find yourself slowing down.

Here is a commercial on YouTube from 1997. This commercial definitely shows the optimism TWA and its employees had for their future.

Also, for those of you planning on attending the Los Angeles Airline Memorabilia Show on June 9th, 2007, I was planning on making a trip out there. Hopefully pick up some more items to feature on this website.

Thanks to SkyLiner747 at YouTube for this video.

Here is the front page of the TWA Skyliner employee newsletter from September 1994.

What’s going on in this issue?  Well, the big news is the rollout of the “Wings of Pride” airplane, sponsored and paid for by the employee owners of TWA.

Paid for by voluntary contributions from employees, it costs $233,000 a month.  Not cheap.

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