One of the TWA women say 'It's okay, we're going to be alright' and that was anything but the truth.

Best quality of the film. Thanks. TWA will live on in those who worked for it over the years.

I had 36 years with TWA and retired just before AA took over. We were sold out by the management and I had had enough. It was one hell of a ride though!

It is SO sad to watch this video. AA promised such a wonderful future for the TWA family, but in the end, it was the TWA employees who paid the ultimate price. Such an iconic airline was basically stapled to the bottom of the AA seniority. All those dedicated employees who had been flying way long before those at AA, left out in the cold. American Airlines screwed them over royally with no recourse.

When I think of TWA, I think of Howard Hughes. Fascinating man! TWA was a legendary airline.

20 Years ago from today the airline stopped flying sadly.

When American acquired TWA, I switched to Continental which is now United. I just celebrated by 22 years of being a OnePass/MileagePlus member and have flown them exclusively. I once had to take an American flight in 2006 and the service was horrible, I never tried them again.

AA clearly had no intention of keeping anything TWA had. They didn't even really want the employees. I wish TWA could have continued. The airline really was a gem, and finally turning around for the better. What AA did to the TWA employees was just wrong.

And to think that all the MD-80's from both comanys will be retired soon. How sad it is to see a former mainline jet begining to start to slip into the history books... TWA all the way! Thanks for posting.

what is the name of the song that plays in this video?

I don’t even know what my weird love of TWA is or how it even started, but man. I’m seriously miffed that we don’t have TWA anymore. I flown AA twice and wasn’t impressed. I was wishing I was with my usual carrier (Southwest) the whole time. The American flights I took weren’t bad. And the pilots hauled major ass, and got us there before estimated arrival, and I appreciate that. But I just wasn’t impressed. I was alive when TWA was still around and merged with TWA, but too young (I was 7 when they merged) and too poor to actually have been able to experience TWA. And it’s a shame. I LOVE TWA, and I don’t even know why haha. I wish TWA was still around so I could experience them more than just phone cases from the TWA Hotel and purchases on eBay haha

What a load of PR crapola.

Aaaaaaaaaannnnnnddddddddd... then many TWA employees (particularly females of a slightly older age) promptly got totally screwed over...

Sad thing is that every TWA employee and former Ozark got put seniority wise UNDER AA! Meaning NEW EMPLOYEE! Carl Icon DESTROYED TWA!!!

Horrible how they treated those TW folks!!!

My mother was an employee at TWA for 33 years.What AA did to them after the merger is akin to employee terrorism.So many families left adrift.God Bless to all TWA'ers and their familes.AA cares about one thing.....money.

My first time flying American Airlines, I was going from DFW to ORD, and back again. My return trip to DFW was delayed by almost 4 hours.

It got even better, as Boeing introduced the 707. The jet Age has begun! De havilland Comet: Am I a joke to you?

You want me to make to the final decision? OK, it was one of the worst airline mergers in the history of aviation.

what song is that?

TWA was a great airline. It's end started with Carl Icahn and concluded with AA. What a great shame. Have always hated AA since I was young and saw what they did to Braniff which contributed to their demise.

what an sad ending to an iconic airline. if only they didnt operate too many aircraft they will still survive

5:31 is the part most of everyone is here to see probably.

Poor TWA and all its great employees screwed by American Airlines. This whole video was a big pack of lies!I had some of the best memories of flying this wonderful airline. They were so good to me. Thank you for the good Times TWA and I miss you.

Worst merger in airline history hands down. Now the entire industry has gone to complete garbage and even the basic infrastructure of commercial aviation in America is showing signs of inexcusable deterioration.

The TWA Flight Attendants got screwed big time.

God this is beautiful. If only the words that were said didn’t turn out to be just a bunch of empty promises. I still miss the super shiny metallic sheen of the classic American birds.

American should have a Retro jet of TWA now that would be cool

AA bought TWA to remove the competition TWA put in their Focus City expansion. San Juan in Puerto Rico is American main Caribbean hub and TWA make a big expansion in 1999 adding routes that AA operates as well more routes AA didn't have because the using Miami and Dallas as connecting points. San Juan-Los Angeles was the longest domestic route non stop in a 757 operated by TWA and that route affect AA in the connections routes. American bought TWA also with the idea of majority control in JFK as the largest airline carrier in that airport and to obtain TWA terminal in Los Angeles so the removed the San Jose base to Los Angeles. St. Louis is now domestic due to the hubs in Chicago on the North and Dallas on the south so AA had no plans for that base. If there is one to blame here is TWA CEO Bill Compton to tale the money and walk away so that American absorbed TWA. I always said that DELTA was better bidder then American because all Aircrafts matches with TWA's and today AA has no TWA aircrafts but Delta does 27 of their 30 757-200

@JohnRhysMusician They said the same thing about the United Tulip.

wow i love it

6:42 And with that, TWA is no more.

5:10 I’m not 100 percent positive, but this attendant might be Betty Ong, the hero on Flight 11 that stayed on the phone for 25 min relaying vital information regarding the hijackings that day

Two great airlines, one creepy airline.

2:06 that TWA livery logo has to be photoshopped on there 🤣

or those asking about the song, its a similar tune to coca cola's "always coca cola" jingle

One good Airline (TWA) And one Horrible airline (AA) Makes A horible airline

The company being bought out always get screwed. I'm retired now , but four times in my life the company I was working for got bought. Each time meetings were called and we were told how much we were needed and wanted. After six months to a year the layoffs started and most of the employees from the bought out company got axed. In each cash the company I was working for was doing very well. After five years the companies bought out went out of business. If you think you can buy a successful company and keep it successful with employees with no experience doesn't work. Bean counters don't understand this. GE was one of these companies buying us out. GE is close to Bankruptcy now, selling off many of their parts. If you are bought by a foreign company that has no presence in this country, it's a good thing.

Think about all the TWA employees that had envested in company stock. Gone.

What a shame. Shame on you AA. You didnt even need STL.

What was the song name!!!!

Worse ever! Exactly why STL Lambert is still heart broken....oh not to mention the price on landing fees has gone up to about $9 & some change per thousand lbs. Which leads to no other airline wanting to do business there.

@JohnRhysMusician just cause it's the "Silver Bird" don't mean it's iconoc.....just sayin. it may be to you but it's not exactly Pan Am status is it?

Of all the things I could say about this video, I'll just shut up and save myself.

this Was NOT A merger THIS was a acquisition in the Way american acted

Well then as a customer I think you did Crappie American Airlines I wish TWA bought YOU

It doesn't really help that this merger came with VERY BAD TIMING, given American Airlines lost 2 planes in 9/11. That alone should have been enough to pause or call off the merger.

Thumbs up just for the song

This couldn’t have been a TV commercial (too long). So was this video for AA and TWA employees to get buy-in about the merger? Or was this for stakeholders and merger monopoly investigators?

Beautifully done corporate video. Ultimately, St. Louis was the biggest looser.

What’s the song

3:32 Oh you poor thing...little did you know what you had coming :(

@jesus105 Yeah, now i hear dc-3 and dc-6

lol close your eyes and just listen... no no you are not in 1986 and this is not an ozark - twa merger add

Eventually, jetBlue and Southwest will put AA out of business. Delta and United too.

I kind of wished American became more like TWA with this merger, even go so far to rebrand as Trans American Airlines, TAA for short... Or even Trans Am.

7 minutes of BS, but that song was good. 1 great airline (TWA), one crappy future.

well did you all know that eastern airlines is coming back?

What is happening to American by the DOJ is just Karma. They totally slaughtered the staff of TWA after the merger. I flew on TWA for many years and after the merger, I have only flown American once. It was not a great experience, I only took that flight because Continental was oversold. Now I fly United everywhere.

Cool

It never worked out, the TWA employees got screwed by AA management.

Yeesh this was 2001 not 1986. Who the heck wrote that wretched jingle?

To think nearly every plane in that video was a dc9 or md80! But soon that aircraft will leave american!:(

I think AA / TW had good intentions but got scrapped because of 9/11. Unlike United and Continental which really fucked up.

God that intro song sucks big time. What was the worst merger of all time was this merger. Living in St. Louis I appeared to be the only person at the time that saw the writing on the wall. There was NO WAY American was going to make St. Louis a hub after the merger with Chicago and Dallas already hubs. Then they started cutting back on flights and eventually now this airport is a joke. If it wasn't for Southwest we'd have nothing to fly out of here or be nothing more than a regional airport at best. I loved TWA! Before moving to St. Louis I was living in Denver, Co and I flew them all the time out of the old Stapleton International Airport. To bad TWA was gone by the time DIA - Denver International Airport was completed. Now that's an airport.

i thought there was more than one in the 90s.

6:13 Right Guy = American. Left Guy: Random Person pointing at a better example of a Merger.

Airline mergers are like when schools come together in a new school,

Holy crap. I love this song. What is the name of it.

Bingo was his name-o. They had it coming and I don't feel sorry for any of them. What goes around comes around.

All the plane crashes? really? other than 800 which was not a crash, as we were blown out of the sky what all are you speaking of?

Well in the 80's, airlines suffered, in the beginning it was pan am to fall in the early 90s. And after him it was the fight to the fittest, its was either fly or die. and the worst was the best, TWA. Yes it sad, but it could have been much worse. Imagine if both airlines made it to 9/11, they would have been hit for sure. Anyways it was a great airline with great run rip TWA, you will be missed

that entire add was BS, basically all TWA employees got screwed and lied too.

Don’t mind the video find out the real facts the truth hurts twa was a lot better than a could ever be

As someone who grew up in the 90s, the only thing I remember about TWA was hearing about all the plane crashes

Feel the Freedom or Feel the rip off by American Airlines

AA fucked TWA

American has always saved a huge amount of money on their livery......well overdue for an update...

Does anyone know the song at the end?

1:18.......6:42

Ended up being a huge waste of money for AA

I think AA's intentions were initially good but 9/11 really disrupted the AA / TWA Merger scenario.

Get ready US Airways, you're next. Bye bye Phoenix, and possibly Philly.

he says bc-3 and 6. Its dc-3

the biggest lie ever I worked for TWA hence worked for them till laid off in 2003

If I were a struggling musician, singer or songwriter, I think I'd quit music if I had to resort to doing these dreadful corporate rock songs.

What's all the hate? TWA chose to do this also

AA is my favorite airline DO NOT HATE ME OK

Funny how American got crappier the more airlines they merged with

all lies

I do not know who hijacked my account name to make a comment on this AA-TWA merger. This comment was posted 6 months ago by, who knows.

The worst merge ever! AA never took advantage of the routes...

Wow that song is "over the top" bad. Really really bad.

I do not fly American for a reason and the litany of lies in this Propaganda piece is the reason.

“TWA” The Worst Airline.