Word: twa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Airlines are eager to have the same facilities, and American, TWA and United have all experimented with passenger telephone service. It is feasible in every way but one-the present radio frequency band available to airplanes is already overcrowded. The airlines are now working with ultra-high frequencies beyond the present band...
...only a north-south airline. To get to either coast a Denverite has a choice of flying north for 97 mi. on Wyoming Air Service to Cheyenne and United Air Lines' transcontinental route or south for 419 mi. on Wyoming Air Service and Varney Air Transport to catch TWA at Albuquerque. Though Denver and the airlines have long been aware that both could profit by altering this uneconomic situation, they have been prevented from doing so by an opposition as steep as the scarp of the Rockies which so long held back the railroads-the attitude...
Last autumn Transcontinental & Western Air infuriated its two major rivals, United and American Airlines, by cutting its fares about to railroad levels (TIME, Nov. 9). TWA took this risky step for two reasons: to counteract the usual traffic slump in winter and to counterbalance the fact that both United and American temporarily had more luxurious equipment. American got the first Douglas DC-3 sleepers last year, did not dare put an extra fare on them in the face of TWA's cuts. United, however, did add a $2 surcharge for the non-stop run from Newark to Chicago which...
...month. TWA will have the first of its DC-3's and the three transcontinental airlines will again be on a par in equipment. Last week, therefore, they sensibly agreed to compromise the rate war, profit by each other's experiments. United and American agreed to lower their rates half as far as did TWA last year. TWA will now raise its rates to that level. In addition, the three lines agreed to set up the first rate structure in air transport history with three distinct classes of travel corresponding to railroad sleepers, chair-cars and day-coaches...
...TWA has been charging $139-95, United and American...