747400sp From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3301 posts, RR: 2 Posted (5 years 11 months 4 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 3252 times:
In the 80s I only remember TWA having one 747 coming into LAX, and that was the flight from LHR. I know a lot of TWA flight between LAX and JFK was L1011s, but I was just wondering if they had a regular 747 flight on LAX-JFK route during the 80s. If not, did TWA use any A/C other than L1011 on the LAX-JFK run during the 80s?
Laxintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22024 posts, RR: 51 Reply 1, posted (5 years 11 months 4 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 3239 times:
The 8am morning LAX-JFK (TW840 if I remember) was almost always a B747.
In addition for a long while (after sale of LHR routes) a 10am'ish LAX-STL-LGW operated using a B747.
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PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 10 Reply 2, posted (5 years 11 months 4 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 3228 times:
I flew TWA flight 840 LAX-JFK in August, 1987.
I booked this flight specifically to fly on a 747.
Pan Am also offered 747 LAX-JFK until its demise.
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747400sp From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3301 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (5 years 11 months 4 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 3222 times:
Quoting Laxintl (Reply 1): The 8am morning LAX-JFK (TW840 if I remember) was almost always a B747.
Yes in was flight 840, but thought they just up graded to a 747 in the 90s.
Rwy04LGA From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 2142 posts, RR: 7 Reply 5, posted (5 years 11 months 4 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 3045 times:
My wife and I flew on a TWA 747 from JFK-LAX in April 1986. We connected to Air New Zealand 747 to AKL via HNL. We went to see Halley's Comet as is was not very visible from the northern hemisphere. The trip included stays in CHC, MEL, SYD, and NAN. The return flight from LAX was on a TWA L-1011.
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Rwy04LGA From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 2142 posts, RR: 7 Reply 6, posted (5 years 11 months 4 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 3006 times:
The LAX-JFK flight was 840 and the JFK-LAX flight was 847. That was also the flight number of the hijacked TWA in Athens. After being flown to Beirut, USN diver Robert Dean Stetham was beaten and killed by terrorists on June 14, 1985. His body was dumped on the tarmac.
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Quickmover From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 2464 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (5 years 11 months 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 2915 times:
ContinentalEWR From United States of America, joined May 2000, 3762 posts, RR: 15 Reply 8, posted (5 years 11 months 4 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 2793 times:
Wrong. The hijacked TWA flight in June 1985 was TWA Flight 847, operating CAI-ATH-FCO.
A bomb exploded aboard a TWA 727-200 operating FCO-ATH a year later. This was TWA 840.
Halls120 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (5 years 11 months 4 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 2762 times:
Quoting 747400sp (Reply 3): Quoting Laxintl (Reply 1):The 8am morning LAX-JFK (TW840 if I remember) was almost always a B747.
Yes in was flight 840, but thought they just up graded to a 747 in the 90s.
IIRC, in the mid 70's, AA, UA and TW each offered at least one 747 daily to LAX.
Rwy04LGA From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 2142 posts, RR: 7 Reply 11, posted (5 years 11 months 4 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 2600 times:
Quoting ContinentalEWR (Reply 8): Wrong. The hijacked TWA flight in June 1985 was TWA Flight 847
BigGSFO From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2755 posts, RR: 7 Reply 12, posted (5 years 11 months 4 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 2579 times:
Quoting Quickmover (Reply 7): I believe they flew 747s on STL-LAX as well.
Yes. After the Heathrow deal with AA, TW 720/721 routed LAX-STL-LGW-STL-LAX with a 747.
IIRC, TW08, LAX-JFK that departed around 4:00PM was operated with a 74L for a few years too.
MarkATL From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 539 posts, RR: 10 Reply 13, posted (5 years 11 months 4 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 2564 times:
When I was in the Army in Germany I went home in March of '88. I flew TWA FRA-JFK-LAX and LAX-JFK-FRA, all the flights were on 747s.
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FLYGUY767 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 14, posted (5 years 11 months 4 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 2539 times:
I can remember as late as 1996 TWA operating the 747's to the West Coast.
MXP-JFK-SFO 842/843
?-JFK-LAX 840/841
The summer of 1996 was the rebirth, and the death of TWA. I can recall reading a article in TWA in-flight magazine in early 1996 enroute JFK-MXP on the 767-200. The article was that there was a big summer ahead for TWA and that Europe was going to be almost all 747's. In fact I remember flying one month and a day after 800. It was a 747-100 "Star of Madrid" it arrived from SFO (late-a TWA trademark), and was going to transport us to Malpensa. That was a great summer until that horrible night in July.
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