It is SO sad to watch this video. AA promised such a wonderful future for the TWA family, but in the end, it was the TWA employees who paid the ultimate price. Such an iconic airline was basically stapled to the bottom of the AA seniority. All those dedicated employees who had been flying way long before those at AA, left out in the cold. American Airlines screwed them over royally with no recourse.
@@nicholasscott6418 they stapled TWA pilots on the bottom of the AA seniority list. So a 30 year captain at TWA would be junior to a rookie at AA. That doesn’t do well for creating a cohesive pilot group. You should atleast keep seniority relative to your airlines size. So TWA wouldn’t be able to keep 100% of their seniority but a good portion of it. AA treated them very poorly.
@@nicholasscott6418 They did the same thing to the Flight Attendants, then furloughed them, and as far as I know, none of them were called back. There was a law passed because of this called the McCaskill-Bond act which is supposed to integrate seniority in a fair and equitable manner, unless both airlines have a union, then it defers to union rules. In the absence of a union, the fair and equitable thing applies, but there's no definition of what fair and equitable is. So in this case, someone from AA would have a different view of fair and equitable than someone from TWA.
I had 36 years with TWA and retired just before AA took over. We were sold out by the management and I had had enough. It was one hell of a ride though!
AA clearly had no intention of keeping anything TWA had. They didn't even really want the employees. I wish TWA could have continued. The airline really was a gem, and finally turning around for the better. What AA did to the TWA employees was just wrong.
And to think that all the MD-80's from both comanys will be retired soon. How sad it is to see a former mainline jet begining to start to slip into the history books... TWA all the way! Thanks for posting.
I don’t even know what my weird love of TWA is or how it even started, but man. I’m seriously miffed that we don’t have TWA anymore. I flown AA twice and wasn’t impressed. I was wishing I was with my usual carrier (Southwest) the whole time. The American flights I took weren’t bad. And the pilots hauled major ass, and got us there before estimated arrival, and I appreciate that. But I just wasn’t impressed. I was alive when TWA was still around and merged with TWA, but too young (I was 7 when they merged) and too poor to actually have been able to experience TWA. And it’s a shame. I LOVE TWA, and I don’t even know why haha. I wish TWA was still around so I could experience them more than just phone cases from the TWA Hotel and purchases on eBay haha
When American acquired TWA, I switched to Continental which is now United. I just celebrated by 22 years of being a OnePass/MileagePlus member and have flown them exclusively. I once had to take an American flight in 2006 and the service was horrible, I never tried them again.
My mother was an employee at TWA for 33 years.What AA did to them after the merger is akin to employee terrorism.So many families left adrift.God Bless to all TWA'ers and their familes.AA cares about one thing.....money.
@Doug Mammaro Agree AA handled merger terribly. But to be honest, I actually had very little sympathy for the flight attendants. Much as I was and still am aTWA buff, I found them to be as a whole the rudest and least customer oriented of all the majors I flew. Maybe it was just my bad luck, but boy did they make me furious at times. I would never have let them into AA's operation were it up to me.
@@FABAGENT More like the way Delta/Northwest handled their merger. WN/FL merger sucked because they basically dumped AirTran's planes/destinations and got rid of a competitor.
TWA was a great airline. It's end started with Carl Icahn and concluded with AA. What a great shame. Have always hated AA since I was young and saw what they did to Braniff which contributed to their demise.
Braniff was run terribly in it's final years. It used sexist advertising, head honcho Lawrence used it as his plaything for his mistress-turned-wife, then expanded haphazardly. He built himself posh corporate palaces & wasted money on expensive 747s. Then Putnam finished killing it with "Texas-class" seating & other nonsense. It's DFW base was infamous for surly customer service. Blame was always thrown at AA leadership with no evidence of illegalities carried out.
Poor TWA and all its great employees screwed by American Airlines. This whole video was a big pack of lies!I had some of the best memories of flying this wonderful airline. They were so good to me. Thank you for the good Times TWA and I miss you.
God this is beautiful. If only the words that were said didn’t turn out to be just a bunch of empty promises. I still miss the super shiny metallic sheen of the classic American birds.
+Trent peti Yes, but it was the Flight attendant union that stapled all the TW FA's to the bottom not AA management. People forget that when they go on their rants about this issue.
Worst merger in airline history hands down. Now the entire industry has gone to complete garbage and even the basic infrastructure of commercial aviation in America is showing signs of inexcusable deterioration.
AA bought TWA to remove the competition TWA put in their Focus City expansion. San Juan in Puerto Rico is American main Caribbean hub and TWA make a big expansion in 1999 adding routes that AA operates as well more routes AA didn't have because the using Miami and Dallas as connecting points. San Juan-Los Angeles was the longest domestic route non stop in a 757 operated by TWA and that route affect AA in the connections routes. American bought TWA also with the idea of majority control in JFK as the largest airline carrier in that airport and to obtain TWA terminal in Los Angeles so the removed the San Jose base to Los Angeles. St. Louis is now domestic due to the hubs in Chicago on the North and Dallas on the south so AA had no plans for that base. If there is one to blame here is TWA CEO Bill Compton to tale the money and walk away so that American absorbed TWA. I always said that DELTA was better bidder then American because all Aircrafts matches with TWA's and today AA has no TWA aircrafts but Delta does 27 of their 30 757-200
Jose Garcia AA had many TWA MD-80’s. The last of which are being retired the the next few months. All you had to do was fly through DFW any time in the last 17 years and see all the MD-80’s with the “TW” instead of “AA” on the registration.
1999 - "TWA said it will substantially expand it service to San Juan, Puerto Rico -- making the destination its first "focus city" -- by adding 12 daily non-stops out of new and existing gateways starting on Nov. 1. In all, TWA will operate 15 daily flights in and out of San Juan, using MD-80 and 757 aircraft." August 2017 - "American Airlines ending New York JFK-San Juan flights."
5:10 I’m not 100 percent positive, but this attendant might be Betty Ong, the hero on Flight 11 that stayed on the phone for 25 min relaying vital information regarding the hijackings that day
The company being bought out always get screwed. I'm retired now , but four times in my life the company I was working for got bought. Each time meetings were called and we were told how much we were needed and wanted. After six months to a year the layoffs started and most of the employees from the bought out company got axed. In each cash the company I was working for was doing very well. After five years the companies bought out went out of business. If you think you can buy a successful company and keep it successful with employees with no experience doesn't work. Bean counters don't understand this. GE was one of these companies buying us out. GE is close to Bankruptcy now, selling off many of their parts. If you are bought by a foreign company that has no presence in this country, it's a good thing.
This couldn’t have been a TV commercial (too long). So was this video for AA and TWA employees to get buy-in about the merger? Or was this for stakeholders and merger monopoly investigators?
Worse ever! Exactly why STL Lambert is still heart broken....oh not to mention the price on landing fees has gone up to about $9 & some change per thousand lbs. Which leads to no other airline wanting to do business there.
They should of merged with Delta, because they handled the Merger with NorthWest much more professionally, they got all of their planes, but combined the quality of both of the airlines to make one great airline and Delta treated the former NorthWest employees well by not firing a single one of them, meanwhile the AA/TWA merger was handled absolutely shitty, dumping TWA’s 747 fleet and basically absorbing TWA’s entire fleet, with American not adopting the quality of TWA, in fact, the merger made them more shitty then they already were, and the airline treated the TWA employees horribly
It doesn't really help that this merger came with VERY BAD TIMING, given American Airlines lost 2 planes in 9/11. That alone should have been enough to pause or call off the merger.
I kind of wished American became more like TWA with this merger, even go so far to rebrand as Trans American Airlines, TAA for short... Or even Trans Am.
What is happening to American by the DOJ is just Karma. They totally slaughtered the staff of TWA after the merger. I flew on TWA for many years and after the merger, I have only flown American once. It was not a great experience, I only took that flight because Continental was oversold. Now I fly United everywhere.
Loser Plays League total PR job to try and make it sound like TWA employees wouldn’t get totally screwed! “Sorry That You’re CEO ran you’re airline into the ground but Don’t worry YOU’LL BE OK”
God that intro song sucks big time. What was the worst merger of all time was this merger. Living in St. Louis I appeared to be the only person at the time that saw the writing on the wall. There was NO WAY American was going to make St. Louis a hub after the merger with Chicago and Dallas already hubs. Then they started cutting back on flights and eventually now this airport is a joke. If it wasn't for Southwest we'd have nothing to fly out of here or be nothing more than a regional airport at best. I loved TWA! Before moving to St. Louis I was living in Denver, Co and I flew them all the time out of the old Stapleton International Airport. To bad TWA was gone by the time DIA - Denver International Airport was completed. Now that's an airport.
The merger wrecked everything for St Louis. Just east of St Louis is an airport called MidAmerica airport. That was supposed to be a major airport with dozens of gates. It was to help alleviate some of the crowds at Lambert. But when the merger happened, the demand at Lambert disappeared. So now, MidAmerica's Terminal is mostly deserted.
@@jh.4770 I agree - I've seen that airport. I drove over there one Saturday and parked anywhere as I was one of 7 cars in the parking lot. In the main terminal there was no one. I don't mean to say it was sparse of people I mean there was NO ONE around. I wandered around for a few minutes then left because it was just too weird to be there without anybody in sight. Hey Lambert just got Lufthansa last week with non-stop service to Frankfurt. So I give them credit there trying. It doesn't help that for some reason Lambert has one of the highest landing fees in the country. It doesn't make sense. But then again that's St. Louis politics probably all over that decision.
Well in the 80's, airlines suffered, in the beginning it was pan am to fall in the early 90s. And after him it was the fight to the fittest, its was either fly or die. and the worst was the best, TWA. Yes it sad, but it could have been much worse. Imagine if both airlines made it to 9/11, they would have been hit for sure. Anyways it was a great airline with great run rip TWA, you will be missed
TWAB707 TWA 800 was blown up by a fuel pump spark there was also a super constellation that crashed into a United Airlines DC-8 once there are about 27 TWA crashes in its History so yeah ALL THE PLANE CRASHES
One of the TWA women say 'It's okay, we're going to be alright' and that was anything but the truth.
Best quality of the film. Thanks. TWA will live on in those who worked for it over the years.
It is SO sad to watch this video. AA promised such a wonderful future for the TWA family, but in the end, it was the TWA employees who paid the ultimate price. Such an iconic airline was basically stapled to the bottom of the AA seniority. All those dedicated employees who had been flying way long before those at AA, left out in the cold. American Airlines screwed them over royally with no recourse.
The shame of American Airlines...the way they stapled TWA to the bottom. How could they live with themselves...so shameful. Its disgusting
@@ryanmatthew511 Im not familiar with the AA TWA merger could you please explain to me what exactly happened to the TWA employee?
@@nicholasscott6418 they stapled TWA pilots on the bottom of the AA seniority list. So a 30 year captain at TWA would be junior to a rookie at AA. That doesn’t do well for creating a cohesive pilot group. You should atleast keep seniority relative to your airlines size. So TWA wouldn’t be able to keep 100% of their seniority but a good portion of it. AA treated them very poorly.
@@ryanmatthew511 thats terrible a really unprofessional move on AA, AA was never the same after Robert Crandall left
@@nicholasscott6418 They did the same thing to the Flight Attendants, then furloughed them, and as far as I know, none of them were called back. There was a law passed because of this called the McCaskill-Bond act which is supposed to integrate seniority in a fair and equitable manner, unless both airlines have a union, then it defers to union rules. In the absence of a union, the fair and equitable thing applies, but there's no definition of what fair and equitable is. So in this case, someone from AA would have a different view of fair and equitable than someone from TWA.
I had 36 years with TWA and retired just before AA took over. We were sold out by the management and I had had enough. It was one hell of a ride though!
When I think of TWA, I think of Howard Hughes. Fascinating man! TWA was a legendary airline.
20 Years ago from today the airline stopped flying sadly.
AA clearly had no intention of keeping anything TWA had. They didn't even really want the employees. I wish TWA could have continued. The airline really was a gem, and finally turning around for the better. What AA did to the TWA employees was just wrong.
This was not a merger, it was entirely liquidation
And to think that all the MD-80's from both comanys will be retired soon. How sad it is to see a former mainline jet begining to start to slip into the history books...
TWA all the way! Thanks for posting.
I don’t even know what my weird love of TWA is or how it even started, but man. I’m seriously miffed that we don’t have TWA anymore. I flown AA twice and wasn’t impressed. I was wishing I was with my usual carrier (Southwest) the whole time. The American flights I took weren’t bad. And the pilots hauled major ass, and got us there before estimated arrival, and I appreciate that. But I just wasn’t impressed. I was alive when TWA was still around and merged with TWA, but too young (I was 7 when they merged) and too poor to actually have been able to experience TWA. And it’s a shame. I LOVE TWA, and I don’t even know why haha. I wish TWA was still around so I could experience them more than just phone cases from the TWA Hotel and purchases on eBay haha
When American acquired TWA, I switched to Continental which is now United. I just celebrated by 22 years of being a OnePass/MileagePlus member and have flown them exclusively. I once had to take an American flight in 2006 and the service was horrible, I never tried them again.
What a load of PR crapola.
That's for sure
Sad thing is that every TWA employee and former Ozark got put seniority wise UNDER AA! Meaning NEW EMPLOYEE!
Carl Icon DESTROYED TWA!!!
he may of destroyed twa but not their legacy, TWA shall live on.
What can you expect from a jeu
Aaaaaaaaaannnnnnddddddddd... then many TWA employees (particularly females of a slightly older age) promptly got totally screwed over...
My mother was an employee at TWA for 33 years.What AA did to them after the merger is akin to employee terrorism.So many families left adrift.God Bless to all TWA'ers and their familes.AA cares about one thing.....money.
@Doug Mammaro Agree AA handled merger terribly. But to be honest, I actually had very little sympathy for the flight attendants. Much as I was and still am aTWA buff, I found them to be as a whole the rudest and least customer oriented of all the majors I flew. Maybe it was just my bad luck, but boy did they make me furious at times. I would never have let them into AA's operation were it up to me.
what is the name of the song that plays in this video?
It got even better, as Boeing introduced the 707. The jet Age has begun!
De havilland Comet: Am I a joke to you?
Horrible how they treated those TW folks!!!
And NOW AAL is going to shut down and vanish.
You want me to make to the final decision? OK, it was one of the worst airline mergers in the history of aviation.
Too bad this didn't happen after the WN/FL merger where they could have seen how a merger was done with class and dignity :)
@@FABAGENT More like the way Delta/Northwest handled their merger. WN/FL merger sucked because they basically dumped AirTran's planes/destinations and got rid of a competitor.
It wasn't a merger; it was a liquidation.
TWA was a great airline. It's end started with Carl Icahn and concluded with AA. What a great shame. Have always hated AA since I was young and saw what they did to Braniff which contributed to their demise.
Actually, it’s end started with Howard Hughes.
Braniff was run terribly in it's final years. It used sexist advertising, head honcho Lawrence used it as his plaything for his mistress-turned-wife, then expanded haphazardly. He built himself posh corporate palaces & wasted money on expensive 747s. Then Putnam finished killing it with "Texas-class" seating & other nonsense. It's DFW base was infamous for surly customer service. Blame was always thrown at AA leadership with no evidence of illegalities carried out.
I hate AA with a passion.
Poor TWA and all its great employees screwed by American Airlines. This whole video was a big pack of lies!I had some of the best memories of flying this wonderful airline. They were so good to me. Thank you for the good Times TWA and I miss you.
My first time flying American Airlines, I was going from DFW to ORD, and back again. My return trip to DFW was delayed by almost 4 hours.
Lol~~~You should have take Grey Hound much better!
5:31 is the part most of everyone is here to see probably.
God this is beautiful. If only the words that were said didn’t turn out to be just a bunch of empty promises. I still miss the super shiny metallic sheen of the classic American birds.
The TWA Flight Attendants got screwed big time.
Trent peti ALL of former TWA and Ozark got SCREWED!
+Trent peti Yes, but it was the Flight attendant union that stapled all the TW FA's to the bottom not AA management. People forget that when they go on their rants about this issue.
I screwed a TWA Flight Attendant big time.
Worst merger in airline history hands down. Now the entire industry has gone to complete garbage and even the basic infrastructure of commercial aviation in America is showing signs of inexcusable deterioration.
THIS WAS A HOSTILE TAKE OVER by AA against TW disguised as a merger!
what an sad ending to an iconic airline. if only they didnt operate too many aircraft they will still survive
TBH it would of been better if they bought less of the same aircraft and ordered the 747-400 and Airbus A330
wow i love it
what song is that?
6:42 And with that, TWA is no more.
or those asking about the song, its a similar tune to coca cola's "always coca cola" jingle
Thumbs up just for the song
@JohnRhysMusician They said the same thing about the United Tulip.
AA bought TWA to remove the competition TWA put in their Focus City expansion. San Juan in Puerto Rico is American main Caribbean hub and TWA make a big expansion in 1999 adding routes that AA operates as well more routes AA didn't have because the using Miami and Dallas as connecting points. San Juan-Los Angeles was the longest domestic route non stop in a 757 operated by TWA and that route affect AA in the connections routes. American bought TWA also with the idea of majority control in JFK as the largest airline carrier in that airport and to obtain TWA terminal in Los Angeles so the removed the San Jose base to Los Angeles. St. Louis is now domestic due to the hubs in Chicago on the North and Dallas on the south so AA had no plans for that base. If there is one to blame here is TWA CEO Bill Compton to tale the money and walk away so that American absorbed TWA. I always said that DELTA was better bidder then American because all Aircrafts matches with TWA's and today AA has no TWA aircrafts but Delta does 27 of their 30 757-200
Jose Garcia AA had many TWA MD-80’s. The last of which are being retired the the next few months. All you had to do was fly through DFW any time in the last 17 years and see all the MD-80’s with the “TW” instead of “AA” on the registration.
1999 - "TWA said it will substantially expand it service to San Juan, Puerto Rico -- making the destination its first "focus city" -- by adding 12 daily non-stops out of new and existing gateways starting on Nov. 1. In all, TWA will operate 15 daily flights in and out of San Juan, using MD-80 and 757 aircraft."
August 2017 - "American Airlines ending New York JFK-San Juan flights."
@@alfajorNYC hope American goes bust!!!!
Hateful people worse than Lorenzo
And Delta actually cares about customer satisfaction, just like TWA, American cares about one fucking thing; money
American should have a Retro jet of TWA now that would be cool
phicao12 They did.
Don't they still have it?
They do have one. I’ve seen it. But they should be ashamed of it because of how they destroyed the airline and the lives of their employees.
apex.aero/2015/12/03/heritage-livery-flies-again-american-airlines-retro-rollout
2:06 that TWA livery logo has to be photoshopped on there 🤣
Two great airlines, one creepy airline.
@JohnRhysMusician just cause it's the "Silver Bird" don't mean it's iconoc.....just sayin. it may be to you but it's not exactly Pan Am status is it?
Cool
5:10 I’m not 100 percent positive, but this attendant might be Betty Ong, the hero on Flight 11 that stayed on the phone for 25 min relaying vital information regarding the hijackings that day
name tag is too blurry to confirm it.
that's not her
Think about all the TWA employees that had envested in company stock. Gone.
The company being bought out always get screwed. I'm retired now , but four times in my life the company I was working for got bought. Each time meetings were called and we were told how much we were needed and wanted. After six months to a year the layoffs started and most of the employees from the bought out company got axed. In each cash the company I was working for was doing very well. After five years the companies bought out went out of business. If you think you can buy a successful company and keep it successful with employees with no experience doesn't work. Bean counters don't understand this. GE was one of these companies buying us out. GE is close to Bankruptcy now, selling off many of their parts. If you are bought by a foreign company that has no presence in this country, it's a good thing.
3:32
Oh you poor thing...little did you know what you had coming :(
This couldn’t have been a TV commercial (too long). So was this video for AA and TWA employees to get buy-in about the merger? Or was this for stakeholders and merger monopoly investigators?
This was a promotional video that was sent to TWA employees after the merger, promising them that their jobs were secure
this Was NOT A merger THIS was a acquisition in the Way american acted
Of all the things I could say about this video, I'll just shut up and save myself.
Beautifully done corporate video. Ultimately, St. Louis was the biggest looser.
Worse ever!
Exactly why STL Lambert is still heart broken....oh not to mention the price on landing fees has gone up to about $9 & some change per thousand lbs. Which leads to no other airline wanting to do business there.
WN is doing quite well in STL TYVM and just expanded there actually.
One good Airline (TWA) And one Horrible airline (AA) Makes A horible airline
AA backstabbed TW by selling a merger when it was a HOSTILE TAKEOVER & LIQUIDATION!
Screw AA glad I left for DL
211jump You made a great choice
Love DL based at JFK
Well then as a customer I think you did Crappie American Airlines I wish TWA bought YOU
I know... But they couldn't afford it
Get wreck aa i loved twa
They should of merged with Delta, because they handled the Merger with NorthWest much more professionally, they got all of their planes, but combined the quality of both of the airlines to make one great airline and Delta treated the former NorthWest employees well by not firing a single one of them, meanwhile the AA/TWA merger was handled absolutely shitty, dumping TWA’s 747 fleet and basically absorbing TWA’s entire fleet, with American not adopting the quality of TWA, in fact, the merger made them more shitty then they already were, and the airline treated the TWA employees horribly
@jesus105 Yeah, now i hear dc-3 and dc-6
What a shame. Shame on you AA. You didnt even need STL.
It doesn't really help that this merger came with VERY BAD TIMING, given American Airlines lost 2 planes in 9/11. That alone should have been enough to pause or call off the merger.
They should of merged with Delta
I kind of wished American became more like TWA with this merger, even go so far to rebrand as Trans American Airlines, TAA for short... Or even Trans Am.
lol close your eyes and just listen... no no you are not in 1986 and this is not an ozark - twa merger add
AA executed a HOSTILE TAKE OVER & LIQUIDATION at TW disguised as a merger glad I left for DL
The Ozark TWA merger was sooth & fair as silk
i thought there was more than one in the 90s.
Airline mergers are like when schools come together in a new school,
What’s the song
Holy crap. I love this song. What is the name of it.
well did you all know that eastern airlines is coming back?
Steven Roberts no. It’s not.
Eventually, jetBlue and Southwest will put AA out of business. Delta and United too.
Yes too I should start twa 2
What is happening to American by the DOJ is just Karma. They totally slaughtered the staff of TWA after the merger. I flew on TWA for many years and after the merger, I have only flown American once. It was not a great experience, I only took that flight because Continental was oversold. Now I fly United everywhere.
To think nearly every plane in that video was a dc9 or md80! But soon that aircraft will leave american!:(
What was the song name!!!!
Bingo was his name-o. They had it coming and I don't feel sorry for any of them. What goes around comes around.
It never worked out, the TWA employees got screwed by AA management.
6:13 Right Guy = American. Left Guy: Random Person pointing at a better example of a Merger.
Yeesh this was 2001 not 1986. Who the heck wrote that wretched jingle?
7 minutes of BS, but that song was good.
1 great airline (TWA), one crappy future.
Loser Plays League total PR job to try and make it sound like TWA employees wouldn’t get totally screwed! “Sorry That You’re CEO ran you’re airline into the ground but Don’t worry YOU’LL BE OK”
Yup, music was great and I loved the old footage of the TWA/AA planes but this is definitely just a PR piece, TWA employees of every kind got screwed.
God that intro song sucks big time. What was the worst merger of all time was this merger. Living in St. Louis I appeared to be the only person at the time that saw the writing on the wall. There was NO WAY American was going to make St. Louis a hub after the merger with Chicago and Dallas already hubs. Then they started cutting back on flights and eventually now this airport is a joke. If it wasn't for Southwest we'd have nothing to fly out of here or be nothing more than a regional airport at best. I loved TWA! Before moving to St. Louis I was living in Denver, Co and I flew them all the time out of the old Stapleton International Airport. To bad TWA was gone by the time DIA - Denver International Airport was completed. Now that's an airport.
ccwalker050 TWA was around for another 6 years after DIA opened in Denver.
The merger wrecked everything for St Louis. Just east of St Louis is an airport called MidAmerica airport. That was supposed to be a major airport with dozens of gates.
It was to help alleviate some of the crowds at Lambert. But when the merger happened, the demand at Lambert disappeared. So now, MidAmerica's Terminal is mostly deserted.
@@jh.4770 I agree - I've seen that airport. I drove over there one Saturday and parked anywhere as I was one of 7 cars in the parking lot. In the main terminal there was no one. I don't mean to say it was sparse of people I mean there was NO ONE around. I wandered around for a few minutes then left because it was just too weird to be there without anybody in sight. Hey Lambert just got Lufthansa last week with non-stop service to Frankfurt. So I give them credit there trying. It doesn't help that for some reason Lambert has one of the highest landing fees in the country. It doesn't make sense. But then again that's St. Louis politics probably all over that decision.
Well in the 80's, airlines suffered, in the beginning it was pan am to fall in the early 90s. And after him it was the fight to the fittest, its was either fly or die. and the worst was the best, TWA. Yes it sad, but it could have been much worse. Imagine if both airlines made it to 9/11, they would have been hit for sure. Anyways it was a great airline with great run rip TWA, you will be missed
TWA still Exists in 9/11 however it was killed 3 months after 9/11 as it retired Dec 1 2001
Don’t mind the video find out the real facts the truth hurts twa was a lot better than a could ever be
I think AA / TW had good intentions but got scrapped because of 9/11. Unlike United and Continental which really fucked up.
As someone who grew up in the 90s, the only thing I remember about TWA was hearing about all the plane crashes
1973-96: 6 TWA plane crashes
1970-2004: 13 AA plane crashes
1972-2001: 11 UA plane crashes
1973-2015: 7 DL plane crashes
1:18.......6:42
that entire add was BS, basically all TWA employees got screwed and lied too.
American has always saved a huge amount of money on their livery......well overdue for an update...
Does anyone know the song at the end?
All the plane crashes? really? other than 800 which was not a crash, as we were blown out of the sky what all are you speaking of?
TWAB707 TWA 800 was blown up by a fuel pump spark there was also a super constellation that crashed into a United Airlines DC-8 once there are about 27 TWA crashes in its History so yeah ALL THE PLANE CRASHES
AA fucked TWA
Feel the Freedom or Feel the rip off by American Airlines
he says bc-3 and 6. Its dc-3
Accents
I think AA's intentions were initially good but 9/11 really disrupted the AA / TWA Merger scenario.
Get ready US Airways, you're next. Bye bye Phoenix, and possibly Philly.
USAir bought American Airlines. USAir was bought by America West (PHX based).
Ended up being a huge waste of money for AA
the biggest lie ever I worked for TWA hence worked for them till laid off in 2003
What's all the hate? TWA chose to do this also
Chose?
Railroaded into!!!!!!!!
Concorde Aviation Theres a difference in chose and be forced TWA was forced to merge with American
No, Carl Icahn chose to fill his pocket books.
It was AA or Liquidation anyways
AA is my favorite airline
DO NOT HATE ME OK
If I were a struggling musician, singer or songwriter, I think I'd quit music if I had to resort to doing these dreadful corporate rock songs.
I do not know who hijacked my account name to make a comment on this AA-TWA merger. This comment was posted 6 months ago by, who knows.
all lies
Funny how American got crappier the more airlines they merged with
US Airways made them worse
The worst merge ever! AA never took advantage of the routes...
Wow that song is "over the top" bad. Really really bad.
It's so clichéd, and it doesn't even make sense.
I do not fly American for a reason and the litany of lies in this Propaganda piece is the reason.
“TWA” The Worst Airline.