Other specifications included the capacity to carry 12 passengers and a range of 1,080 miles. Specifications included the ability to fly the high altitude route between Winslow, Arizona, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, with one engine inoperative. TWA was forced to sponsor the development of a new airplane design. TWA needed a replacement aircraft, but the first sixty modern all-metal Boeing 247s were promised to Boeing's sister company United Airlines (both were subsidiaries of United Aircraft and Transport Corporation).
As a consequence, all of the airline's Fokker F.10s were grounded and later scrapped. The cause of the crash was linked to the wooden wings, one of which failed in flight. The crash killed all eight on board, including University of Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne. On March 31, 1931, the airline suffered after the 1931 Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crash near Matfield Green, Kansas. : 14–16 DC-1, DC-2 and DC-3 TWA coast-to-coast schedules and route map, September 1933 In summer 1931, TWA moved its headquarters from New York to Kansas City, Missouri. The route took 36 hours, which included an overnight stay in Kansas City. On October 25, 1930, the airline offered one of the first all-plane scheduled services from coast to coast. TWA became known as "The Lindbergh Line", with the "Shortest Route Coast to Coast". TAT had the marquee expertise of Charles Lindbergh and was already offering a 48-hour combination of plane and train trips across the United States. The airline brought high-profile aviation pioneers who would give the airline the panache of being called "The Airman's Airline". The companies merged at the urging of Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, who was looking for bigger airlines to give airmail contracts to. TWA's corporate history dates from July 16, 1930, and the forced merger of Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT), Western Air Express (WAE), Maddux Air Lines, Standard, and Pittsburgh Aviation Industries Corporation (PAIC) to form Transcontinental & Western Air (T&WA) on 1 Oct. History 1930s Founding: TWA Lindbergh Line DC-2 TWA continued to exist as an LLC under American Airlines until July 1, 2003. American laid off many former TWA employees in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks. In January 2001, TWA filed for a third and final bankruptcy and was acquired by American Airlines. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, an architectural icon designed by Eero Saarinen, and completed in 1962. Its main transatlantic hub was the TWA Flight Center at John F. The airline later developed its largest hub at St. TWA was headquartered at one time in Kansas City, Missouri, and planned to make Kansas City International Airport its main domestic and international hub, but abandoned this plan in the 1970s. TWA became saddled with debt, sold its London routes, underwent Chapter 11 restructuring in 19, and was further stressed by the explosion of TWA Flight 800 in 1996. Carl Icahn acquired control of TWA and took the company private in a leveraged buyout in 1988.
Hughes gave up control in the 1960s, and the new management of TWA acquired Hilton International and Century 21 in an attempt to diversify the company's business.Īs the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 led to a wave of airline failures, start-ups, and takeovers in the United States, TWA was spun off from its holding company in 1984. Howard Hughes acquired control of TWA in 1939, and after World War II led the expansion of the airline to serve Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, making TWA a second unofficial flag carrier of the United States after Pan Am. With American, United, and Eastern, it was one of the " Big Four" domestic airlines in the United States formed by the Spoils Conference of 1930. Louis, Kansas City, and other stops, with Ford Trimotors. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Trans World Airlines ( TWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until 2001 when it was acquired by American Airlines. Twa.com ( Archived at the Wayback Machine)
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