I stayed at the TWA Hotel at JFK. It was pretty cool to go back to 1963
My boss bought a lifetime Executive Club pass on TWA around 1980. I think he paid only $300 (maybe $600) at the time. That’s about $1,100 to $2,200 today.
TWA went out of business in 2001. I’m not sure if American Airlines acknowledged their TWA lifetime pass perks.
Lesson learned: “Lifetime” can be short in the airline industry.
I was a travel writer for Pan Am. They flew me all over the world first class and I wrote articles about the destinations for their inflight magazine. How’s that for a terrific job? Plus, my husband was just fine staying home with the teenagers. I was gone about one week per month.
When my kids grew up, they traveled a lot too. My daughter went to Brussels for a week and came home two years later after traveling all over Europe and NorthAfrica. Picked up French, which she studied in school, and Arabic, as she was interested in ruins in North Africa. My son went everywhere including Everest Base Camp and Saudi Arabia. Ah, those were wonderful years.