Posted on 08/10/2019 11:40:46 PM PDT by Texan4Life
In this video, join me for a stay at the iconic TWA Hotel and explore all the amazing features in this AvGeek friendly hotel. It has some of the coolest aviation feature include the best JFK airport spotting location.
TWA Hotel is a hotel at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York that opened on May 15, 2019. It utilizes the headhouse of the TWA Flight Center airline terminal, designed in 1962 by the architect Eero Saarinen.
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When I was young, I remember an adult joke that went something like this: The TWA stewardess asked the passenger if he would like some TWA coffee. He declined but told her he would enjoy some TWA t.
It opened in May and is already iconic???? Back in the day icons had to pay their dues first. :)
I liked the 60’s music in the background too. I noticed “Don’t make me over” & “ You better shop around”
The building has been there since the 1960’s.
I know that. Is the hotel an add on or completely integrated into the terminal building?
And add on. Seems the original terminal building is the lobby, restaurant & gift store. Watch the video
The hotel itself is completely new build, the lobby area is the old iconic TWA building. This place is a big deal for avgeeks. This guy spent a TON of money to put this together, and do it right.
Know a couple of people who have stayed there, and it is on my own list for fall.
Never forget what the “T” stands for in TWA.
Yes, it goes back even that far. We just weren’t aware of it.
Ok thanks for the info
The St. Louis Airport Hilton is also a shine to TWA.
I know a couple of them.
Consolidation, generally, has not been good for air travelers.
One of the best flights I ever had.
Bumped me to first class because military.
Lockheed L10-11 PHO-STL
Champagne and OJ
Trans World Airlines
“TRANS World Airlines”
EXACTLY - and I doubt their target market included even 0.1% of Americans back then. No wonder they went broke.
LOL! My Dad Invested in Braniff.
Only remembered by South Park.
I think it was an ocean reference, I doubt having a penis removed was on their agenda. :^)
Yea, just having fun with their name. While people do consider that era, the ‘golden age of flying’, I remember it, and I don’t. We had plane crashes at 10 times the rate of today, and we had coach air fares, adjusted for inflation and real wages, that were well above even Premium Economy, sometimes even what people pay for Business Class today.
Today it is a cattle farm.
Yes and no...it’s more that we’ve added a class of service that didn’t exist in the past, although we kept the same name (coach, or economy). And in that service we do pack in the people. What was coach back then is now Business/First Class, and the prices for that level of service, if anything, is less now (i.e., it’s cheaper to fly Business over the Atlantic/Pacific today than it was to fly coach on the same routes back then).
One reason we didn’t have our packed-in coach sections back then was very simple - we didn’t have the engines, the planes couldn’t handle that much weight. It wasn’t until the engines made their huge improvements that the airlines started packing people in (as a side note, today’s planes also go nearly 100 mph slower...due to those fuel-sipping engines).
As to myself, I like the option of either paying what I would have for coach in 1970 and flying first class, or paying far less and having much more money to spend at my destination. Like just about everyone else here, I chose the packed-in option.
But, as a tidbit - for people living on the West Coast or near NY City, you can fly today in coach to pretty much any major city in Asia for under $600 round trip, sometimes even as low as $400, and that always includes 2 checked bags, and full meal/alcohol service. In other words, it is often less to go to Asia than it is for domestic travel. Try getting those prices to those destinations, even if not inflation-adjusted, back in the ‘golden age’ of air travel!
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