Yes it was a totally different experience back then. People would dress up to go flying and even to go on a cruise back then. I miss those days now more than ever before.

Well it was also before they crammed as many people into a plane as possible to maximize profits and it was still somewhat comfortable to fly classes other than first.

+MrKwelrich Wonderful story, thanks for sharing!!!!

GREAT STORY AND GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR WONDERFUL✨😍 PARENTS NOW AND ALWAYS,,, AMEN AMEN AMEN🙏🙏🙏!!!

Very cool story! At that time, TWA had the contract to manage and conduct tours of the Kennedy Space Center :-)

Sorry to hear your mom was a whore

Sadly, much like America.

My dad was on a hijacked TWA plane from New York to Chicago ending up in Paris. I remember calling TWA corporate headquarters that morning. They were not too helpful other than confirming he was on the flight.

I think flight 800 did twa in

Tranefine I'd love to make a Pan Am and TWA revival someday

Carlmaster96 eastern is back so why don’t you go ahead but you need $$$

Worked at TWA...protested the Vietnam War. Attended Hunter College in the Bronx. Went to see shows at the Fillmore East. I want a time machine !!

too bad kinda you should use safe airlines

Of course, it was once owned and run by Howard Hughs

The Royal Ambassador service was top notch. Pan AM didn't have domestic flights!

With some Convair 880 mixed in.

Yes it was indeed wonderful. I started in 1975 and did my 26 years until the very last day.

Yes I agree with you it was an event to go flying somewhere. I remember my grandparents and parents would dress up to board the plane. Such a different world we live in today.🤔

Were

*When America was white.

MAGA!!

With boring ass white people?

So when America used older slower jets that made more pollution? I’m a democrat and I live TWA, but I don’t see how this is our fault. Things change

ZnenTitan And the west was The West

Tristan Banal the song was written by Jimmy Webb which was tilted Up, Up, and away.

Me tv must have gotten this from me, as I made it..it's a FAKE commercial using the jingle hooked up to pieces of a 20 minute TWA travelogue.

+cameraman655 Wow, would love to find that! Love Nilsson anyway. :-)

Cool. Which did you like better? I missed the Convair, but TWA 707s were my first commercial flights in 1973 as a 9-year-old.

I'll keep my eyes open for those.

No, don't recall that National campaign; we might not have had in the LA area though. The first National campaign I recall was "I'm National, fly me" voiced by stewardesses (seems I recall that one causing it's share of jokes!). This TWA campaign and United's "Fly the Friendly Skies" with the song "Come Fly with Me" were my two all-time favs, music-wise. Next would be Pan American's "Pan Am makes the going great". Also loved the bird riding the tail of the Western planes, saying "Western Airlines... the ooooonly way to fly!". No catchy jingle, but cute and funny. Airline commercials definitely declined in the 1970s, but there was one campaign I loved, which was Eastern's "You Gotta Believe -- Fly Eastern!" in the mid-1970s. Would love it if someone found and posted one of those As it is, you can hear the jingle in the 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor". Terrific, driving, optimistic theme (even features bongos!). In the movie, it's in the scene where Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway get to her apartment, and while he's waiting for the 5:00 news, he's looking at samples of her photography on the walls. The Eastern commercial is briefly seen, with a tired businessman looking up at the skies and seeing a jet winging overhead, and wondering why he's "down on the ground while they're up in the sky?". Definitely one of the all-time greats of airline commercials; and the best post-1960s one.

Widely regarded within airline advertising circles as the best all-time airline music is Eastern Airlines', "Number One To The Sun", as sung by the famous Brazilian artist, Astrud Gilberto. Look up, "The Music of Eastern Airlines", on KZfaq and there it is. It's from the mid-1960's and I think you'll agree, too, that it's gorgeous orchestrations were the best ever for advertising an airline. None better, imo.

Carl Ichan and Frank Lorenzo killed two classic airlines, TWA and Eastern.

Do airplane tires ever blowout? Like if the tire lands in a pothole on the runway? Or do they make sure runways never have potholes?

You bet they had more room. And they were a lot more friendly back then.

I flew the 707's as a passenger from the early 1960's to TWA's VERY LAST FLIGHT on Oct. 31, 1983 JFK-ORD-MCI! Flew them all over the USA & Europe and Around-The-World in 1974. Also flew AA, PA & Royal Air Marroc,. FANTASTIC AIRPLANE!!!!!!

Ai Jim Thompson 1 second ago Air to Air photography mostly done by now retied United 747 Capt. Clay Lacy with his fleet of photo planes.

a damn good one!

John Graf Obviously no such thing is chemical spraying.

I would like to point out that the video is unavailable as the channel that uploaded it was deleted.