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"California. The Vacation State that's good all year" TWA timetable c. 1950 #FindYourPark #NPS100 This tweet was posted on August 25, 2016.
"Compare the Time! Compare the Cost! Here's Proof: You save dollars ... save days via TWA Sky Tourist" #TWA #SkyTourist #TransWorldAirline This tweet was posted on August 05, 2017.
#Continental was one of three U.S. airlines, along with Pan American World Airways and TWA (Trans World Airlines), to launch Boeing 747 jumbojet service in 1970. Did you ever fly on a Continental Airlines 747? #WidebodyAV This tweet was posted on October 18, 2019.
#OnThisDay in 1937, Transcontinental & Western Air established a base at San Francisco Airport. #SFOHistory #TWA This tweet was posted on September 05, 2017.
#OnThisDay in 1940, the first #TWA (Trans World Airlines) #Boeing 307 #Stratoliner inaugurated transcontinental service. #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 08, 2017.
#OnThisDay in 1959, a #TWA #Boeing 707 inaugurated jet service at San Francisco International Airport. @flySFO #SFOHistory #avgeek #jetage This tweet was posted on March 20, 2017.
#OnThisDay in 1959, the inaugural #jet aircraft service departed from #SFO. Operated by #TWA (Trans World Airways), this first #Boeing #707 flight officially launched SFO into the jet age. This tweet was posted on March 20, 2018.
#OnThisDay in 1959, the inaugural #jetliner flight from SFO to New York departed. Operated by #TWA (Trans World Airlines), this first #Boeing 707 flight officially launched #SFO into the #jetage. Have you ever flown on a Boeing 707? #avgeek This tweet was posted on March 20, 2019.
#OnThisDay in 1959, the inaugural #jetliner flight from SFO to New York departed. Operated by #TWA (Trans World Airways), this first #Boeing 707 flight officially launched #SFO into the #jetage. Have you ever flown on a Boeing 707? #avgeek This tweet was posted on March 20, 2019.
#OnThisDay in 1970, the first Boeing 747 widebody #jumbojet operated by #TWA (Trans World Airlines) departed from San Francisco for New York City. #ThrowbackThursday #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on April 05, 2018.
#OnThisday in 2001, the ceremonial last Trans World Airlines (#TWA) flight departed from Kansas City, Missouri and landed in St. Louis. This tweet was posted on December 01, 2016.
#OnThisday in 2001, the ceremonial last Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight departed from Kansas City, Missouri and landed in St. Louis, Missouri. The flight was flown on a McDonnell Douglas MD-80. What are your favorite memories of #TWA? #avgeek #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on December 01, 2020.
#Onthisday in 1961, the first regularly screened movie on a scheduled commercial jet flight was shown on a TWA Boeing 707. Other airlines, such as Pan Am, followed suit soon after. What was the last movie you watched on an airplane? This tweet was posted on July 19, 2019.
#Onthisday in 2001, the final Trans World Airlines (#TWA) flight departed from Kansas City, Missouri and landed in St. Louis, Missouri. What is your favorite TWA memory? #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 01, 2017.
#TWA hostesses in training and a teacher are shown here applying makeup in 1942. #WomenInAviation #WomensHistoryMonth #AvGeek This tweet was posted on March 15, 2017.
@acooper1975 @AirlineReporter @flySFO The first TWA Boeing 707 service was on their NY-SF route. Read more here: https://t.co/NnPrNCY24j This tweet was posted on March 21, 2017.
A 1968 TWA catalog offers an array of flight bag fashion. "Starstream" gets our vote for best name! #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 19, 2013.
A typical roundtrip fare on TWA in 1933 from LA to SF was $34.11, or more than $600 today. #TravelTuesday This tweet was posted on October 14, 2015.
After a long battle with the C.A.B. & Pan Am, TWA was awarded an airline route to Europe in 1945. #TravelTuesday This tweet was posted on October 20, 2015.
Airlines have customarily used landmarks to advertise their destinations. How many San Francisco landmarks can you recognize? #TWA #SanFrancisco #1960s Image: TWA (Trans World Airlines) stationery card, San Francisco, early 1960s. Gift of Daniel Kusrow 2018.061.052 This tweet was posted on July 12, 2019.
All buttons are embossed with the designer’s “V” on this 1971 #TWA plum dress suit by fashion designer #Valentino. #FashionInFlight This tweet was posted on June 28, 2017.
Around the same time, in 1962, TWA opened their iconic terminal, the Trans World Flight Center, designed by Eero Saarinen, at New York International Airport, later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport. #DefunctThursday #AvGeek #TWA This tweet was posted on December 15, 2022.
As rival United Air Lines had exclusive rights to the Boeing 247, TWA (Transcontinental & Western Air) turned to Douglas Aircraft to develop an improved competitor. The Douglas DC-2 was developed in the early 1930s and introduced in 1934. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on February 10, 2021.
Before people carried around cell phones in their pockets that automatically updated to the current time zone, airlines gave out convenient time converters to passengers on international flights. Have you been to any locations on this card? #52Objects #Timezones #TWA #AvGeek This tweet was posted on February 13, 2023.
By the end of the decade, flight attendant uniforms became cool and chic rather than regimented and conservative. This exhibition features some of the wilder uniforms made between 1967–74 for Braniff, Northwest Orient, Pan American, TWA, and United. #FlightPatterns #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 04, 2022.
Can you believe it has been 20 years? On December 1, 2001, the final Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight departed from Kansas City, Missouri, and landed in St. Louis. #avgeek #OTD This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.
Celebrations christening airplanes have their roots in christening events held for ships. This TWA (Trans World Airlines) Boeing 747-131, was christened the “City of San Francisco” by diplomat and former child star, Shirley Temple Black on April 5, 1970. #52Objects This tweet was posted on March 27, 2023.
Colorful hand-made #TWA cabin welcome signs not only identified the crew and communicated other essential information to passengers as they came onboard, but they conveyed something far more memorable: a sense of hospitality, character, and trust. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on March 30, 2021.
Created for TWA by knitwear maker Dalton Apparel, this uniform was introduced in the summer of 1968 and worn until 1971. #FashionInFlight This tweet was posted on November 04, 2016.
Credited as one of the first to introduce pant suits for women, this 1974 TWA uniform by Stan Herman in lightweight wool was part of a popular mix-and-match set worn until 1977. #StanHerman This tweet was posted on September 17, 2021.
Designated "Star Stream" by TWA, the 707 proved to be a fast, reliable, intercontinental and transcontinental workhorse and was operated by the airline until the early 1980s. #AviationEvolutions #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 24, 2018.
Designed in complete secrecy under Lockheed’s chief research engineer, the 049 Constellation developed into an extremely fast, highly advanced, & revolutionary large-capacity airliner with a unique dolphin-shaped fuselage and distinctive tripletail. #DefunctThursday #avgeek #TWA This tweet was posted on December 01, 2022.
During the late 1930s, TWA, under the leadership of its visionary controlling shareholder Howard Hughes, requested that the Lockheed Aircraft Company of Burbank, CA, produce a fast, large-capacity, pressurized airliner. #DefunctThursday #avgeek #TWA This tweet was posted on December 01, 2022.
From 1978 to 1984, Ozark flew DC-9s almost exclusively as they phased out their older aircraft. In 1986, Ozark was purchased by Trans World Airlines (TWA). #DefunctThursday #Ozark #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 07, 2022.
Happy 90th birthday to Valentino Garavani, who was born #onthisday in 1932 in Italy! Rome-based fashion designer #Valentino brought his passion for color to #TWA in 1971 with a uniform collection that included men’s wear and pants for women. #AvGeek #uniform This tweet was posted on May 11, 2022.
Happy 93rd birthday to Stan Herman! Herman was born #onthisday in 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City. The fashion designer counts several airlines including TWA (Trans World Airlines) among a long list of large companies for which he has created uniforms. #StanHerman This tweet was posted on September 17, 2021.