If you've been around a while, you may recall an airline named Trans World Airlines (TWA), which operated from 1930 to 2001, until it was merged into American Airlines. TWA began service in Kansas ...

At New York JFK Airport, there is the TWA Hotel, which brings to life the TWA Flight Center historic terminal. The terminal, completed in 1962, was a nod to mid-century design, and was hailed as a ...

Whether it's bankruptcies, mergers or marketing mistakes, even the biggest businesses can fall and the airline industry is no exception. From Pan Am to Alitalia, these are the stories behind some of ...

When United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collided in midair above the Grand Canyon on a June morning in 1956—the spinning props of the United DC-7 slicing into the fuselage of ...

This 1962 cover image depicts the Trans-World Airlines terminal building at JFK Airport in New York, featuring a distinctive wing-shaped, thin-shell concrete roof. It was designed by Finnish-American ...

The head of Trans World Airlines in the late 1950s, Ralph S. Damon, was a forward thinking visionary corporate leader, willing to take chances. For his company’s new world-class airline terminal at ...

The aircraft was a Trans World Airlines jet. The destination was Paris. And the date was Oct. 29, 1955, when the first commercial flight from O’Hare International Airport took to the skies. Chicago ...