As an old Continental Airlines retiree, I must say I loved this video. TWA was a great airline back in my days of the 1950s and 1960s. It was my "go-to" airline for non-rev travel when I flew to Europe and I was always treated warmly and professionally. I must add that I love the "Welcome to the world of Trans World Airlines" jingle, too. The nostalgia of the 1960s this video brings to me is great. Thanks for posting.
Love TWA. My godfather was an avionics technician with them, stationed at JFK until he was packaged out with a lot of other senior employees in the mid 1980s (probably have to thank Carl Icahn for that). I have a lot of his TWA memorabilia and cherish it. Always enjoyed the "take your godson to work days" when he would take me through the aircraft in the hangars on his days off. Miss that time.
Why did America during this era have such POSITIVE ENERGY!? It’s like a parallel universe different America. But I WAS THERE - SO I KNOW THAT IT WAS REAL!
My dad worked for Continental for 40 years. I still dress up when I fly, Not only because I had to when he worked for them, but because flying is a privilege.
I just stayed at the TWA Hotel at JFK. Great experience with the original terminal mostly untouched. Even visited "Connie", their Constellation on display.
0:07 + 14:14 - Art Gilmore, whose varied credits range from announcing for "The Red Skelton Hour" and various movie trailers to playing authoritative roles on Jack Webb's "Dragnet" and "Adam-12".
@@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 part of it that and the general decline in humans saw not long ago a ybm in a wife beater getting rowdy on a plane people just can't act civil any more who dresses like that to fly ?
Last time I flew I got little more than a thinly padded seat and access to the bathroom. Tolerable for a 3-hour flight and cost me less than the 20-hour road trip would've, just figuring gas, tolls and wear and tear on my car even before adding the overnight stay halfway. I wonder what the flight would've cost in 1967, probably the same dollar figure.
TWA (Trans World Airlines) declared bankruptcy three times: 1992, 1995, and finally in January of 2001. 29:09 It was one of the best passenger airlines to fly in the world for many years. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri for sometime, then moved its offices to St. Louis and New York City in the 1970s. Originally founded in the 1930s...gave and take some years when a few other major airlines came into existence...as the decades went by into the 1970s, the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 led to several airlines corporations to start failing as well as takeovers of airline companies in the U.S. Unfortunately, TWA was one of them caught in that mess which, took away (along with PAA - Pan American Airlines) in the deregulation era of what lots of the "free world" countries experienced. What a shame! TWA was a good airline to enjoy "classy flights", such as seen in this 1967 film shown via Periscope Films.
22:54 made me jump. A bit of American social history. I guess it made sense to be clear about the policy. Good for TWA. Shame for the culture that required it.
If they saw the Negro traveler today, they'd have kept segregation in full force and nobody would've protested. Come to think of it, if they saw the vast majority of all air travelers today, Jimmy Carter would have never deregulated the airline industry. Liberalizing an institution has never produced a positive outcome.
The beginning of the long slide in quality air travel experience. Fast forward to today and nobody can say with a sane mind that air travel is better than 60 years ago.
Back when people dressed and acted with class on a plane ! Boy thats gone now ! My father was with the old Eastern airlines for over 30 years . got to ride in the Jump seat with the crew a few times .
I flew on 707s as a child. Small overhead bins suitable for hats and purses only. The worst part of flying today is people too lazy to check bags and add time to embarking and disembarking with their giant "carry on" luggage.
Great long range plans. But the CONCORDE wasn’t a long term success for several reasons. But they 747 was not only a success but has attained legendary status.
Back then, passengers were civil and for the most part gracious in manner and attire. Sure would like today's airlines to band together and institute a baned roster of the loud, cursing, inappropriately attire miscreants that ruin air travel. If they cannot behave, let them drive, walk, bicycle, or book passage on a tramp steamer. No reason for decent folk to have to suffer the out of control mannerisms of scoundrels.
I'm trying to imagine an American traveling to Hong Kong via Europe. And what was the route from Bangkok to Hong Kong during the Vietnam War? Must have been quite a detour.
Yes they did, from 1969 to 1975. The route was unprofitable and was dropped. Main problem was their lack of traffic rights to Japan, except the island of Okinawa which was still under U.S. administration then. Without the ability to stop in Tokyo they had to operate the much longer route via Honolulu with another stop in Guam. Some flights also stopped in Okinawa and Taipei. And without Japan there wasn't enough traffic to justify anything larger than the 707 while competitors like Pan Am, Northwest and Japan Airlines were flying 747s to Hong Kong via Tokyo starting in 1970/71, hours faster than the TWA route with at least 3 stops from the west coast on a 707.
They did do transpacific. 707's from Bangkok to Hong Kong to Taipei or Okinawa then on to Guam, Honolulu and finally LA. TW742 and TW744 depending on the day of the week.
Those were the days....no female pilots, no businesswomen, the wife "could accompany her business travelling" husband, the only black employees were the porters.....So much has changed for the better.....but more needs to be done...
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Up, up and away, TWA! The world was such a nice place, if only we knew what air travel would become 60 years later.
As an old Continental Airlines retiree, I must say I loved this video. TWA was a great airline back in my days of the 1950s and 1960s. It was my "go-to" airline for non-rev travel when I flew to Europe and I was always treated warmly and professionally. I must add that I love the "Welcome to the world of Trans World Airlines" jingle, too. The nostalgia of the 1960s this video brings to me is great. Thanks for posting.
This video harkens back to a time when there was a concept of the Good Life.
So true!!
I visited the TWA Museum in Kansas City, MO. Great museum and wonderful people. Many if not all staff are former TWA employees.
Love TWA. My godfather was an avionics technician with them, stationed at JFK until he was packaged out with a lot of other senior employees in the mid 1980s (probably have to thank Carl Icahn for that). I have a lot of his TWA memorabilia and cherish it. Always enjoyed the "take your godson to work days" when he would take me through the aircraft in the hangars on his days off. Miss that time.
Carl Icahn was a bastard who destroyed many American companies for his own personal gain. Shame that pig is still alive.
Why did America during this era have such POSITIVE ENERGY!? It’s like a parallel universe different America. But I WAS THERE - SO I KNOW THAT IT WAS REAL!
My dad worked for Continental for 40 years. I still dress up when I fly, Not only because I had to when he worked for them, but because flying is a privilege.
Thank you for this great video!!!! This is air travel times I loved!
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ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR video!! Thanks, Peri, for this gem!
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I still find it amazing just HOW LONG it took before someone realized that wheels could be used on luggage.
Probably around the time when people had to carry their own luggage themselves, and not have a sky cap or servant do it for them. LOL
Probably around the time when people had to carry their own luggage themselves, and not have a sky cap or servant do it for them. LOL
I’ve been wondering about that!
I just stayed at the TWA Hotel at JFK. Great experience with the original terminal mostly untouched. Even visited "Connie", their Constellation on display.
0:07 + 14:14 - Art Gilmore, whose varied credits range from announcing for "The Red Skelton Hour" and various movie trailers to playing authoritative roles on Jack Webb's "Dragnet" and "Adam-12".
Great catch! Highway Patrol as well…
Back when flying was all class. Now it's all ass.
Blame deregulations.
@@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 part of it that and the general decline in humans saw not long ago a ybm in a wife beater getting rowdy on a plane people just can't act civil any more who dresses like that to fly ?
Last time I flew I got little more than a thinly padded seat and access to the bathroom. Tolerable for a 3-hour flight and cost me less than the 20-hour road trip would've, just figuring gas, tolls and wear and tear on my car even before adding the overnight stay halfway. I wonder what the flight would've cost in 1967, probably the same dollar figure.
Boy, flying is going to be great in those days!
And expensive.
Everywhere you wanted or needed to go! Loved TWA!
The 707 was the best looking plane IMO., the engines look like they are holding on to the wing!
Sweet, another one of my favorite types of videos. Great one P.F. 👍🏽😎👍🏽✈️
TWA (Trans World Airlines) declared bankruptcy three times: 1992, 1995, and finally in January of 2001. 29:09 It was one of the best passenger airlines to fly in the world for many years. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri for sometime, then moved its offices to St. Louis and New York City in the 1970s.
Originally founded in the 1930s...gave and take some years when a few other major airlines came into existence...as the decades went by into the 1970s, the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 led to several airlines corporations to start failing as well as takeovers of airline companies in the U.S. Unfortunately, TWA was one of them caught in that mess which, took away (along with PAA - Pan American Airlines) in the deregulation era of what lots of the "free world" countries experienced.
What a shame! TWA was a good airline to enjoy "classy flights", such as seen in this 1967 film shown via Periscope Films.
Unions helped kill TW, as well as EA. So did Icahn and Frank Lorenzo respectively. It's a shame. TW in particular had very good in flight service.
22:54 made me jump. A bit of American social history. I guess it made sense to be clear about the policy. Good for TWA. Shame for the culture that required it.
“Excuse me stewardess, I speak jive.”
Even the name, Trans World Airways, reads differently in 2024.
If they saw the Negro traveler today, they'd have kept segregation in full force and nobody would've protested.
Come to think of it, if they saw the vast majority of all air travelers today, Jimmy Carter would have never deregulated the airline industry. Liberalizing an institution has never produced a positive outcome.
Presumably they wouldn't have to sit at the back of the plane.
Company’s still do targeting marketing. Just the way it’s done now is different.
The 1973 oil crisis enters the conversation.
Gotta love 🐴🐴🐴! Those Pratt Whitney's! The romance of travel as it used to be!
Oh, yes!
Very optimistic decade is those dynamic and stylish 60s… But 22:55 is something special 😅😅😅
That was still a relevant issue in ‘67, it’s amazing how far we’ve come.
The beginning of the long slide in quality air travel experience. Fast forward to today and nobody can say with a sane mind that air travel is better than 60 years ago.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi I can, it's several orders of magnitude safer. The experience is lacking sometimes, but it's much safer.
I will never get to experience this type of world and it is heartbreaking
Back when people dressed and acted with class on a plane ! Boy thats gone now ! My father was with the old Eastern airlines for over 30 years . got to ride in the Jump seat with the crew a few times .
TWA went "All-Jet" about the same time the TV Networks went "All-Color"
Howie Hughes owned this outfit
Hughes' own hubris ended a great run of ownership of TWA.
I took a TWA-arranged, two-week tour of Italy in the early 80s. It was well done.
loved TWA! last flight on it was 747 LAX-HNL..several times flying to Europe with TWA in the 70's and into 90's
Gear up for trans 2024
On a side note: do airlines today have jingles?? I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s, and remember the airline commercials. TWA was my first airline!
I flew on 707s as a child. Small overhead bins suitable for hats and purses only. The worst part of flying today is people too lazy to check bags and add time to embarking and disembarking with their giant "carry on" luggage.
And no Concorde either. And no US. Supersonic. Dreams.
[Dr. Rumack suddenly enters the comment section] I just want to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you. [exits comment section]
Time capsule!!
Great long range plans. But the CONCORDE wasn’t a long term success for several reasons. But they 747 was not only a success but has attained legendary status.
Smoking or non-smoking?
Originally Transcontinental and Western. The Lindbergh line. Sadly missed.
5:50…oh the irony…which flew longer and carried more passengers? Oh and what came on time? The Queen ☺️
I hired on with TWA 10/30/1989 😃
Those days aren't coming back anytime soon.
I bet you this CEO talking could have never imagined Frontier Airlines.
I miss that America. When it used to be the lighthouse of the Western Hemisphere. Oh, by the way, Masison Ave. helped a lot.
Back then, passengers were civil and for the most part gracious in manner and attire.
Sure would like today's airlines to band together and institute a baned roster of the loud, cursing, inappropriately attire miscreants that ruin air travel.
If they cannot behave, let them drive, walk, bicycle, or book passage on a tramp steamer. No reason for decent folk to have to suffer the out of control mannerisms of scoundrels.
And still no TWA supersonic jet..guess they didn't make their 67 moola goal
They were waaay ahead of the times.
What was the strike he refers to?
I'm trying to imagine an American traveling to Hong Kong via Europe. And what was the route from Bangkok to Hong Kong during the Vietnam War? Must have been quite a detour.
TWA/ Trans World Airlines.
Pan American World Airways.
That America isn’t coming back.
16:11 "We have clearance, Clarence." "Roger, Roger."
@2:44, Is the man David White (Larry Tate on Bewitched)?
No
An airline for trans people. Ahead of its time. Amazing.
They never did a trans Pacific service.
Yes they did, from 1969 to 1975. The route was unprofitable and was dropped. Main problem was their lack of traffic rights to Japan, except the island of Okinawa which was still under U.S. administration then. Without the ability to stop in Tokyo they had to operate the much longer route via Honolulu with another stop in Guam. Some flights also stopped in Okinawa and Taipei. And without Japan there wasn't enough traffic to justify anything larger than the 707 while competitors like Pan Am, Northwest and Japan Airlines were flying 747s to Hong Kong via Tokyo starting in 1970/71, hours faster than the TWA route with at least 3 stops from the west coast on a 707.
@@viscount757 ok.
They did do transpacific. 707's from Bangkok to Hong Kong to Taipei or Okinawa then on to Guam, Honolulu and finally LA. TW742 and TW744 depending on the day of the week.
Spoiler alert. Super sonic service would never happen, and in a little over 30 years from when this was made, TWA would be nonexistent.
Oh man. No sense in me watching the rest of the video now.
If this b to b film was aimed at travel agents why would they care about TWA's air freight program?
Seemed aimed at TWA employees...
6:40 Yikes!
What's "Yikes!" about that particular spot in the video?
@@Nunofurdambiznez Air travel is...exploding."
Those were the days....no female pilots, no businesswomen, the wife "could accompany her business travelling" husband, the only black employees were the porters.....So much has changed for the better.....but more needs to be done...
Would you like steak 🥩 or fish 🐠?
Shitty uncomfortable seats
Didn’t happen.
15:56 "First time?"... "No, I've been nervous lots of times."
25:17 Could we perhaps have used some word other than "impact" when boasting about our jets? I mean, think of the subconscious suggestion.