Word: twa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captured after hijacking a TWA airliner for $306,800 ransom in 1972, he was finally sentenced to life imprisonment...
...Louis helicopter at gunpoint, but the pilot seized her gun and killed her. Oswald's daughter Robin, 17, was shattered. She dropped out of high school but continued corresponding with Trapnell, whom a friend said she regarded as "a father figure." Last week Robin Oswald boarded TWA Flight 541 in St. Louis, then announced that she was carrying three sticks of dynamite and took over the airliner. With 87 passengers aboard, she ordered the pilot to fly to Marion. There the authorities began delicately negotiating her demand for Trapnell's release, and after ten hours the girl surrendered...
...next seat and getting the same service had paid only a fraction as much. Indeed, in August, travelers on bargain tickets accounted for precisely 56.3% of the seats sold by the airlines, compared with 44.8% the year before. Trying to appease this irritated full-fare minority, American, Pan Am, TWA and British Airways have announced new sections in coach that are designed especially to assure business travelers that, as an American ad says, "you get what you pay for." Following similar three-class plans put in earlier by Continental Airlines and British Caledonian, these airlines will maintain their existing first...
EASIER CHECK-INS. To cut the lines at the check-in counters, American and TWA are issuing advance boarding passes for return flights. These allow a traveler who has only carry-on luggage to go directly to the boarding gate to catch a flight home...
...Boeing has bagged the biggest order: a $1.6 billion bundle from United. In the past, such a big deal by United would have sent American, TWA, Eastern and others rushing to place their own orders and thus secure favorable delivery positions. And they would have been crowing about how they were going to create the biggest, all-new, best-everything fleet in the world. So what happened this time? Nothing?so far. U.S. airline chiefs are playing a wait-and-see game. They claim that they will not order new aircraft simply as a reaction to this summer's sudden...