TWA's final livery was stunning. One of the most beautiful in the skies at the time.

My father , a ground mechanic with TWA at Athens , 1947-1960.... His most wonderful times.

So sad two major airlines TWA and Olympic don't exist. In the past best airlines that we flew from Athens to New York. We will never forget you.

To think that only 10 years prior to that, TWA was the largest airline across the Atlantic. How sad must it have been to have been flight staff during this rapid decline. Carl Icahn should be ashamed of himself.

@williamelgin6873

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Carl Icahn was the killer. There was deregulation, bad management and bad contracts, but Icahn walked away with full pockets and the airline was bare bones. I remembering seething in rage with Mr. Trump kept floating Mr. Icahn's name as a key financial adviser.

@Buc_Stops_Here

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone who knows him pretty much hates him. Even recently he is trying to now to take over the relatively well run Kohl's Department store because he does not understand the Amazon return policy they have allow people to return their Amazon products they don't want to them, get their money back, and then buy a replacement or something else in the department store. This has been showing to work (and profitable) but he wants to get rid of it saying it is a stupid waste of money. Hopefully his attempt to take it over is defeated because he will load it up with debt selling the land the stores are on and bankrupting the chain.

@satsat247

2 жыл бұрын

More like Carl Icahn't

@charlescascales647

2 жыл бұрын

It was not Carl Icahn, as bad as he was, who pulled TWA out of Athens. He left in 1993. It was the cost cutter, new elected TWA CEO Gerald Gitner, the founder of People's Express, who made that decision along with decimating the international operations of a once proud global airline. He had also sold Pan Am's Pacific routes to United for peanuts when he worked at that airline.

@jayreiter268

Жыл бұрын

@@williamelgin6873 You are wrong. It was the siphoning of TWA funds to create TWA Corp. Carl just swept the FOD they left. The Corp. then divested the Airline. Carl was chosen by the IAM in fear that Lorenzo would take control. You had to be there to understand. Ask what happened to TWA Corp and the money?? Who owns Century 21, Hilton ect. now??

My father worked in the financial division of TWA for nearly 35 years. With their up-and-down history it was not an easy job, but he loved going to work every day!!

So sad,so proud I flew for TWA

Something I will always like about TWA is the fact that they kept the Original B741's until the end. Especially with the three upper deck windows.

@walternerd3147

10 ай бұрын

Same with Pan Am they never bought any new variants after the-200s, SP and kept some until the end

@bearabletable7527

8 ай бұрын

@@walternerd3147 its kinda mind blowing that By the time Airbus A330 and 747-400 came out, theres STILL airlines still use 747-100 and Airbus A300 and DC-10s.

@walternerd3147

8 ай бұрын

@@bearabletable7527 a lot of Major airlines still operates their classic 747s up until the early 2000s or converted into freighters. With good Maintenance they can be reliable but inefficient. Most -300s survived until the late 2010s mainly because it has the extended upper deck like -400

I watched another video that said American Airlines totally screwed over the incoming TWA employees after the acquisition and only 3000 remained at the time of the post. I despised American anyway and that didn't help because TWA was my favorite airline and the only one I flew until they were gone, at which point I switched to Delta and then Virgin America, which we've now also lost to Alaska. TWA is the reason I loved the L-1011. I had my Flaps 10 book for years and years and got wings visiting the cockpit - like 8 of them. I miss this airline and this era deeply. Thanks to everyone who worked there for making flying such a love for me.

I have many fond memories of my time with TWA.. We were family..

I loved flying TWA 747's to Rome Italy from NY JFK in the late 70"s and 80's, my Italian grandmother used to put on the headphones upside down on her head, she didn't know how to use them, it was fun times with her

This was incredible. So happy someone decided to video this AND then post it on here. I loved that it was also the newer livery. TWA was THE airline to Greece from JFK for many of the immigrant’s children (1st generation).

I read once that one of the reasons TWA pulled out of a lot of Europe is that some outstations had huge local staffs that couldn't be fired because of local labor laws so ending service was the only way to pare down operations.

twa flight 881 was the flight right before flight 800 in 1996. today is the 23rd anniversary or flight 800.

So many feelings and emotions, thank you for share this, hugs from México 🇲🇽

ΑΓΑΠΗΜΕΝΗ TWA....ΤΟ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΙΚΟ ΕΔΑΦΟΥΣ ΤΗΣ TWA ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΗΤΑΝ ΕΞΑΙΡΕΤΙΚΟ ΣΕ ΕΥΓΕΝΕΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΕΞΥΠΗΡΕΤΗΣΗ...ΣΥΓΧΑΡΗΤΗΡΙΑ...

@frankgrimesification

3 жыл бұрын

It's all Greek to me!

@Alaar23

9 ай бұрын

💀

So sad to see all the crew and staff take group photos knowing that it will be the last time they will all be together and shortly soon the airline will cease to exist.

A very moving video! TWA carried my family and so many other loved ones across the Atlantic so many times. Beautiful and cherished memories!

@annetteslife

3 жыл бұрын

We're on that very aircraft that went from 881 to fight 800?

Thx for sharing, As far as i know TWA flew to Athens, Greece for 33 years

Awww, beautiful footage. ❤❤✈✈

Anyone from 2021

Excuse me, 2001. I was hired as one of the “last classes of flight attendants “ in 1997.

Bellissimo video, enorme commozione e tanta passione! Onore ❤bravo il capitano con ill giro d’onore!

That music is so familiar, my wife and I went on TWA to Hawaii for our Honeymoon, a trip to Barcelona to a conference with a return from Belgium, and so many trips LGA to Chicago.

@olentangy74

8 ай бұрын

The song is titled “Yesterday when I was young “. It was originally recorded by Roy Clark and was a big hit in the 70’s and early 80’s.

Beautiful plane. Classic 747 with an original early 70's technology and look.

Loved that livery!

rip TWA

Looove your video, about TWA 😍

Awesome. Sad

Twa ended on my birthday therefore it is my favorite aitline

God bless all of those employees. I feel it too.

Damn!!! I born in April 18, 1997!!!! LLOOLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I sure do love TWA tea!

@skipphillips6457

2 жыл бұрын

You're sneaky.

Απίστευτο... Τι χρονολογία είναι το βίντεο? Εμένα Παλαιό Φάληρο και κάθε μεσημέρι περίπου στις 1200 η 1300 έφευγε η Ολυμπιακή και η TWA για Αμερική.... Θυμαμαι ότι έβγαινα στο μπαλκονι για να δω αυτά τα απίστευτα μεγαθήρια να πετάνε ήταν η στιγμή που κάνανε την αριστερή στροφή και έτρεμε το μπαλκόνι και βαρουσαν οι συναγερμοί αυτοκινήτων στον δρόμο.!

@visionist7

Жыл бұрын

Did you see the flight on the 17th of June 1996 that would crash as flight 800 from JFK that evening?

Dad: " why are you crying so damn loud?"

Um, this may have been this particular flight numbers last flight, but it was NOT TWAs last flight. Not until 2002/03 was their last flight. I flew for them in 97.

@visionist7

Жыл бұрын

Wonder if they could have survived if 9/11 hadn't happened. Realistically they would have been swallowed up either way and all trace of them purged. As time goes on fewer & fewer airlines will exist thanks to mergers & takeovers. The US government should have stipulated that merged airlines maintain separate branding & identities to prevent that but pigs might fly meanwhile

@user-e-idk

Жыл бұрын

That was their last flight to and from Greece

@eat_a_dick_trudeau

8 ай бұрын

Um... shut up sperg. It is exactly what the title explicitly states. No one asked for your biography.

TWA ALWAYS COME BACK!

Oh my god I got tears in my eyes. So sad. I also get angry when realize big companies don’t care a dam about the workers at the bottom

Station come and go for airlines these days but I think the difference is that much station activity is outsourced to 3rd parties so there are very few actual employees, especially in outlying stations.

@amath-dr7uk

7 жыл бұрын

indeed some carriers have no local employees at all..you book through internet or call center and at check in its handled by a handling agent...

@johniii8147

6 жыл бұрын

And they’re probably shouldn’t be in a small out station with one flight a day. It doesn’t make any financial sense so you get a third-party to handle the flights so you can keep the rest of your employees employed

@zacharyrosenberg4717

2 жыл бұрын

So sad.. the good part is we survived

Howard Hughes never should have sold it. He had issues with Juan Trippe of Pan Am

This livery is my favorite of ANY airline, second favorite is PAN AM's billboard,

@aerodesignmanufaktur3044

3 жыл бұрын

We have the doors from the TWA with the last livery ☺️ and in a view weeks, they have a second live as a table

Wish I had been an adult in the 60s. Everything was better then.

❤️❤️

I hope they eer bring back twa afte flight 800

How did the crew get back home from America?

@thequestioner5916

Жыл бұрын

They took another flight from a different airline

Sadly this very flight would turn to flight 800 and the rest is sad history

@KevinMeno2008

2 жыл бұрын

On 7/17/1996, N93119 (In the old paint scheme) operated TW881 then became TW800.

@robyncook5255

2 жыл бұрын

mike wallace 800 telph around Hialeah around the way there what they uncovered up there now must not of just been

@robyncook5255

2 жыл бұрын

the send offings the craft too then investing something known only a little what from

@fotiskantis

2 жыл бұрын

I was born exactly 10 years after the accident

@jochimbenschneider1915

10 ай бұрын

That TWA flight was hit by an American missile. CIA is evil

TWA 800. That's what I think of.

@calpeninsularailfan

5 жыл бұрын

yep. why? because the plane originated as flight 881, landed at JFK then was transferred to flight 800.

@jochimbenschneider1915

10 ай бұрын

That TWA 747 was deliberately downed.

A relative of mine worked as one of the flight crew managers on those round trip routes for many years. On another note, fast forward a few years, Athens has a new airport but very little has changed. They were too cheap to add about another twenty jetways which are needed so the net result is that a lot of people still are shuttled out on those cattle car busses…. On a happier note now in June 2023 it was reported in business news that Carl the crook lost 15 billion dollars of his net worth, KARMA

I find their 747s were kind of old. They should have bought some 400 series

@frankgarrett242

2 жыл бұрын

More like 767-300ER

@amuxpatch2798

2 жыл бұрын

That one was 747 100 (1969/70) production model

@visionist7

Жыл бұрын

Imagine if they had survived and bought the 8i

This Flight Turned into Flight 800, and took off From JFK, sadly it blew up and crashed.

Old Airport abandoned Athens Greece

Παλιό Αεροδρόμιο Ελληνικού -αργυρουπολης

before high tech soda machines there was social media and before social media there was twa and before twa there was 5 cent coke

@George_Costanza

5 жыл бұрын

one of the dumbest things i've ever read on youtube

@calpeninsularailfan

5 жыл бұрын

wtf does this mean

@ReubenPsychol.

4 жыл бұрын

Before 5 cent coke there was Rocky Marciano and John Wayne. And before that, Washington. George Washington. And before that Columbus. Christopher Columbus ( or as he was known in the agency: Agent 1492).

@zacharyrosenberg4717

2 жыл бұрын

And gas in 1983 in New York used to be .98 a gallon

@visionist7

Жыл бұрын

​@@zacharyrosenberg4717 yeah but New York rent was already murder compared to rent in Athens so it balances out lol

first pan am and trans world