Suddenly, everybody wants to fly TWA. Almost the whole airline business taxis into bankruptcy court this weekend under the aegis of an American Airlines proposal to ground and gobble up 76-year-old ...

The Douglas DC-1 is perhaps one of the most consequential types of passenger aircraft to enter service. Only one prototype was produced and served Transcontinental & Western Air (later Trans World ...

The Douglas DC-3 is celebrated as a pivotal aircraft that made air travel popular and profitable, setting the stage for its predecessors, the DC-1 and DC-2. Douglas Aircraft Company (DAC) entered the ...

The crashed TWA plane, with the center vertical fin still intact, lies in the cornfield near the start of the swatch cut by debris as the craft was torn apart after striking the ground on Sept. 1, ...

Carl Icahn revealed a near-10% stake in JetBlue worth about $200 million on Monday. The activist investor said the airline's stock is undervalued and he's seeking board representation. Icahn famously ...

The wreckage of TWA Flight 800 was stored in a hangar in Calverton, New York, as investigators probed the cause of the explosion of the airliner shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy ...

When the New York’s Municipal Airport opened in 1939, Trans World Airlines (TWA) was one of the first carriers to sign up for space on its runways. The airport was soon renamed LaGuardia Airport, and ...

Trans-World Airlines said today that it has not yet decided when to fly its hijacked Boeing 707 jet out of Damascus although the aircraft has been fully repaired and flight-tested. A TWA spokesman, ...

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports American Airlines is in talks to acquire Trans World Airlines, as part of a complex deal in which American would also agree to buy significant assets from US Airways. No deal ...

With the TWA Moonliner II rocket on its side, a Belger Cartage crew prepares to move the historic replica rocket out of the Airline History Museum. Roy Inman Special to The Star It wasn’t a trip to ...

Sitting idly aboard an airliner one day in 1956, a Tennessee theater-chain owner named David Flexer was struck by how much the cabin resembled a screening room. Flexer’s brainstorm: Why not show ...