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Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Louis, Kansas City, and other stops, with Ford Trimotors .
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Trans World Airlines (TWA) was headquartered in New York City but its main base of employment was at Kansas City International Airport (KCI) and had large operations at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) as well as St. Louis. TWA deemed Kansas City's terminals unsuitable to serve as a primary hub.
Breech Academy (also called Breech Training Academy) was a school operated by Trans World Airlines between 1969 and 1988 to train flight attendants, ticket agents, and even pilots. Management training classes were attended there by TWA employees as well as external managers and prospective managers. It was named for TWA executive Ernest R ...
2017 - Tiburzi was the Key Note Speaker at the New York Bar Associations Aviation Division in New York City. 2017 - Recipient of the "Women That Soar Award" in Dallas, Texas. 2018 - Inducted into the "Women in Aviation International Hall of Fame" in Reno, Nevada. 2018 - Appeared in American Airlines’ Celebrated Living Magazine.
The hijackings of Trans World Airlines Flight 741 – a Boeing 707 flying from Frankfurt-am-Main, West Germany, with 155 people on board including Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner – and Swissair Flight 100 – a Douglas DC-8 with 155 passengers on board flying from Zurich-Kloten Airport in Switzerland – proceed without injury to anyone, and the ...
Trans World Airlines: July 16, 1930: December 1, 2001 United States: Acquired by American Airlines. China National Aviation Corporation: August 1, 1930: July 17, 1952 Republic of China/ People's Republic of China: Merged with CATC to form CAAC Airlines. Aviaarktika: September 1, 1930: January 3, 1960 Soviet Union: Absorbed into Aeroflot.
This operation was later sold by Trans World Corporation while under the leadership of Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. the CEO of TWA and the first known to receive a golden parachute employment contract. In 1983, Trans World Corporation, under Chief Executive Officer L. Edwin Smart, spun off Trans World Airlines [2] [3] to Carl C. Icahn, [citation ...