Word: twa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common sense and Bureau of Air Commerce rulings all big three transcontinental airlines (United, American and TWA) share much alike in safety measures, leaving competition to comfort, equipment and fares. Claiming to be first on such things as coast-to-coast passenger service, transcontinental overnight service, and general deluxing, TWA last year turned its attention to fares, reduced them about 15%. So loud and prolonged was the outcry from United and American that after six months the three compromised on a middle rate between the new low and the old high-well justifying TWA's snort that "whatever...
...obtain these fares passengers are required to begin their outward journeys from any point on either Saturday or Monday and return anytime, any ship, within 15 days. Examples: Round Trip Rail, Pullman TWA Columbus-New York $46.40 $45.15 Albuquerque-New York 166.00 163.95 New York-Los Angeles...
...reckoning the rail cost, meals en route and tips at journey's end are not included, TWA carries passengers from Los Angeles to New York in 16 hours, provides free meals en route and no tips are necessary; by rail in standard trains the journey takes about 77 hours and generally requires some $10 extra for meals, $2 in tips...
...Lindbergh Line" and added for good measure, "TWA First." For eight years nearly every page of the company's publicity has prominently mentioned "The Lindbergh Line" while in most of its 44 ticket offices the helmeted head of Colonel Lindbergh looked confidently skyward...
Significance-. In 1933 TWA pioneered the single most successful civil aircraft in aviation's history-the Douglas DC-2, famed the world over for performance, beauty, reliability and now the stand-by of most big U. S. airlines. Next year, again months ahead of its competitors, TWA will take the skies with eight new Boeings-four-engined, high altitude airplanes that will seat 33, sleep 25 passengers. The problem confronting TWA is not drawing business from competitors but to obtain a new class of air travelers to fill the eight four-engined giants they will have in service...