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 ...

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 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, ...

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, ...

As the F.B.I. chief in New York, he spent 16 months investigating why Flight 800 crashed 12 minutes after takeoff, killing all 230 people on board. By Sam Roberts The National Transportation Safety ...

CHICAGO -- Bon voyage, rubber chicken. Sayonara, salisbury steak. American Airlines, the world's largest airline, and TWA, both owned by Dallas-based AMR Corp., added yet another casualty in the ...

gorkem demir/Shutterstock ; RuthAS/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 3.0 Whether it's bankruptcies, mergers or marketing mistakes, even the biggest businesses can fall and the airline industry is no exception.