[re_nortex]

Just the Valentines Day news I didnt want to hear. I fly alot and US Air is about the crappiest airline around. American is just a few shades better but now I expect it to decline some taking on that fluxed up carrier US Scare.

I take a more positive viewpoint on the merger. Without a doubt, the worst airline I recall from the past quarter-century was St.Louis-based TWA.

In the amount of space available, I can't begin to enumerate the horrors of TWA ranging from lost baggage, surly stewardesses, incompetent, senile pilots (protected by seniority rules of their union bosses), late departures and so on. The best thing that ever happened to TWA was its elimination when American Airlines bought it. A lot of needless deadwood was shed when TWA was rightly euthanized. I still recall the concourses closed at Lambert (IATA: STL) when TWA was put out of its misery.

[BikerJoe]

Without a doubt, the worst airline I recall from the past quarter-century was St.Louis-based TWA.

TrailWays of the Air...

[eyedigress]

I received a free upgrade to first class with TWA once. It was sweet. Took a puddle jumper from STL to Knoxville afterwards and beer was free with about 12 folks on the plane.
No regrets here.

[Grams A]

I do have to take exception to some of your comments. I was one of the coffee, tea or me girls from 1959 to 1961. TWA was a great airline during that time. We offered awesome in-flight service and the meals prepared by the KC group were incredible. Had to quit flying when I got married. Then they moved a lot of their management to New York City and it all went downhill after that.

Got a letter several years later asking if I wanted to return as a result of some union negotiation. Took one short flight as a passenger just to check them out. Flight attendants were old, ugly, overweight, dumpy, frumpy and total grumps. Never flew on them again.

Always wished someone would publish the truth about the explosion.