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From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia Trans World
Airlines (TWA) was a major United States-based airline with hubs in St.
Louis, New York (JFK), with focus cities in Kansas City, Missouri; San Juan,
Puerto Rico; and Los Angeles, California. The airline operated from 1930
until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. Prior to the buyout, TWA
was one of the largest domestic U.S. airlines operating flights to most
major U.S. cities. It also had a substantial feeder operation from smaller
mid-west cities. Beyond the U.S., TWA had a highly developed European and
Middle East network, served mainly from its hub at John F. Kennedy
International Airport. Along with Pan American World Airways, it was
considered to be a secondary unofficial flag carrier for the United States,
and it was the unofficial flag carrier of the U.S. in the 1990s, following
Pan Am's collapse.[3][4][5]
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History
1930s
Founding - TWA
TWA's corporate history dates from the July 16, 1930, forced merger of
Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T) and Western Air Express to form
Transcontinental & Western Air (T&WA). The companies merged at the urging of
Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, who was looking for bigger airlines
to give airmail contracts.
Both airlines brought high profile aviation pioneers who would give the
airline the panache of being called the "The Airline Run by Flyers." The
airlines would become known for several years as being on the cutting edge
of aviation. Transcontinental, the bigger of the two, had the marquee
expertise of Charles Lindbergh and was already offering a 48-hour
combination of plane and train trip across the United States. Western, which
was slightly older having been founded in 1925, had the expertise of Jack
Frye.
On October 25, 1930, the airline offered one of the first all plane
scheduled service from coast to coast—the Lindbergh Route. The route took 36
hours and initially called for overnights in Kansas City. In summer 1931,
TWA relocated its headquarters from New York to Kansas City, Missouri
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