And it was repeated again after the crash of TWA Flight 800 the year after.
Following deregulation in the 1970s, major carriers like TWA and United stopped serving smaller cities.
"You can tell when someone has a grasp of the subject, " says TWA Chairman Gerald Gitner.
Nearly two dozen lawsuits have been filed against TWA on the part of several families.
Operations ceased entirely in 2001, and the TWA terminal has since been deemed a National Landmark.
He is also a big stakeholder in Four Seasons Hotels, TWA, Motorola, Apple Computer and Euro Disney.
So few can imagine what kind of event could have destroyed TWA Flight 800 in an instant.
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Pilots for bankrupt Trans World Airlines oppose a possible buyout financed by former TWA Chairman Carl Icahn .
The obstacle: the U.S. insists on greater access for Continental, Delta and TWA, including at London's lucrative Heathrow.
American Airlines announced in January it was buying the assets of TWA, which is now operating as its subsidiary.
In 2001, American Airlines acquired the assets of bankrupt TWA using this approach.
In the rush to action after the TWA and Olympic tragedies there were calls here for tougher anti-terrorism measures.
The announcement means that the TWA name will be gone by the end of the year, said spokeswoman Julia Bishop-Cross.
He's picked over scruffy companies ranging from airline TWA to American Can.
The AMR layoffs will affect employees at American, TWA and American Eagle.
The TWA terminal has been grounded as an accessory for JetBlue Airways.
Remember TWA Flight 800, the one that exploded over Long Island Sound?
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In 1956, TWA commissioned Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect and industrial designer, to design its flight center at Idlewild (renamed JFK in 1963).
And that was all before the short, tragic flight of TWA 800 which promises to make airline travel take longer, but presumably end more happily.
"Effective October 7, American will operate all JFK flights from the AA terminals with AA airplanes, " said Chairman Bob Baker in a statement to TWA employees.
Corpses helped solve the mystery of the crash of twa Flight 800 (the fact that most passengers' bodies remained intact suggested there had been no bomb).
Alan Alda's unctuous, unprincipled Owen Brewster, the senator who went after Hughes on Trippe's behalf when TWA tried to break Pan Am's stranglehold on international routes.
Families of Flight 800's victims stand to recover millions in damages if it can be proven that negligence by TWA or Boeing caused a mechanical failure.
An e-mail went out to them the next morning, with an astounding 25% of the targeted crowd either taking the TWA offer or booking another Caribbean flight.
He moved into News Corp. at a time when its stock was temporarily depressed, and besides struggling TWA, he owns a slice of Motorola, another somewhat depressed stock.
Over the past 20 years he has backed some serious dogs, such as Eastman Kodak and TWA. High-profile media investments (Time Warner and News Corp.) turned in middling performances.
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Mr. Nulty has a collection of more than 400 airplane models plus old ads and posters, TWA first-class menus from 1960s and paper dresses worn by TWA flight attendants.
The company, in a statement, said it will continue "an all-out effort" to get all 712 American planes and all 169 TWA planes outfitted with the reinforced doors by early November.
One warrant for these attacks was issued in 1999 for Imad Mugniyah, a Hezbollah military commander also responsible for the 1983 US Embassy bombings and the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847.
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