747400sp From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3023 posts, RR: 3 Posted (8 years 6 months 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 1772 times:
I remember TWA using a 747 on a flight from Europe, and I know they used them on the LAX-JFK- Milan or Rome route in the 90's. But I would like to know that flights did they fly 747 on that departed LAX.
Dutchjet From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 7864 posts, RR: 61 Reply 4, posted (8 years 6 months 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 1696 times:
TWA operated 747-100s on routes out of LAX to:
JFK - at one time 3 or 4 departures per day.
ORD - at one time 2 or 3 departures per day, some continuing to JFK.
STL
BOS
LHR
CDG
and, if I remember correctly, to MCI for a very short time.
Not all of the above cities were served with the 747 at the same time; I dont not believe that TWA's around the world flights were ever fully upgraded from the 707 to the 747. TWA did have 2 westbound departure out of LAX that went to HNL, Guam, then one flight went to Okinawa, Tapei and HongKong, and the other went to Hong Kong, Bombay and on to Europe and New York; both operated with the 707 until discontinued. TWA dropped the service in the mid-1970s, during a fuel crisis, when it and Pan Am divided the world up and decided not to compete with eachother on certain routes (Pan Am dropped Paris and some other European cities at that point.)
Mbmbos From United States of America, joined May 2000, 2448 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (8 years 6 months 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 1692 times:
In the early seventies, TWA tried many different strategies to put their 747s to profitable use. Here are a few routes out of LAX that existed (some were short-lived):
N960AS From Switzerland, joined Apr 2000, 461 posts, RR: 9 Reply 6, posted (8 years 6 months 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 1591 times:
I flew a TWA 747-100 on TW0840 from LAX to JFK and onward to Rome/FCO in December 1996. I returned in Jan. 1997, FCO-JFK-LAX was also a 747-100 as TW0841. That was morning flight to JFK. The noon-time flight was flight 881 which went on to TLV and I believe was also a 747-100. The red-eye was a 762 I think.
I think the TWA flight from SFO to JFK, TW0842 went on to Milan. The JFK-SFO portion may have been operated by a 762 though. This is in the mid-90's though. But looking at old time tables TWA seemed to keep the same flight numbers on routings on many transcons through JFK and off to Europe.
ContinentalEWR From United States of America, joined May 2000, 3762 posts, RR: 17 Reply 7, posted (8 years 6 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 1436 times:
The first departure of the day from LAX to JFK on TWA was a 747-100 and it was flight 840. The first departure from San Francisco to New York was TWA flight 842 and it operated with an L1011.
The routes were:
TWA 840 LAX-JFK-FCO
TWA 841 JFK-LAX-FCO
TWA 842 SFO-JFK-MXP
TWA 843 MXP-JFK-SFO
TWA flight 884 was the flight that operated to TLV, not 880. TWA 880 was a flight that originated in New Orleans and connected through JFK to Athens.
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