American Airlines Inc., in a surprise move, this week is to announce plans to buy financially troubled Trans World Airlines Inc., effectively ending one of the oldest names in U.S. aviation ...

Trans World Airlines said yesterday that Jeffrey H. Erickson, a long-time airline industry executive, would join the airline in mid-April as president and chief operating officer. Mr.

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 ...

Trans World Airlines Inc. survived congressional investigations in the 1930s, World War II in the 1940s, the change from propeller to jet airplanes in the 1950s and 1960s and industry deregulation ...

DALLAS (AP) -- American Airlines agreed Wednesday to acquire most of Trans World Airlines' assets for about $500 million in a complex deal that will bring an end to the financially troubled TWA ...

Arrows show the approximate locations where the TWA and United planes crashed into the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. The ...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Trading of Trans World Airlines (TWA) shares was halted for most of the day Monday after reports circulated that American Airlines would add the venerable carrier to its hangar.

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