Carl Ichan should also be banned from any activity in the airline industry, just like Frank Lorenzo.

TWA was the only airline I flew to Europe......once I flew World Airways and it was a TWA plane with the name changed.......have never flown since TWA went out of business......what a wonderful airline she was!!!

Mr. Icahn, u suck!!! Anyone who supports or believes in him is sick! Down with the corporate raider, up with the people. TWA rocks! The women who worked the L-1011's and then some!!!

Carl Ichan should be banned from buying any company to throw away people like left overs. It should be illegal to buy a company put millions in your pocket and then suck it dry. TWA employees worked hard to keep the airline afloat, God bless everyone of them.

Carl Icahn distroyed TWA, and many peoples lives. I new people that had worked for years at TWA who died of health issues because they lost their health insurance due to Icahn. He says that what he does is "Part of the game". Well explain that to the families that lost their loved ones.

To add insult to injury. American bought TWA, after promissing to Congress that they would keep TWA's employees, and honor TWA retirees benefits. Congress approved the merger on that condition. The day that the merger took place, I received a letter from American stating that I would no longer recieve my benefits. In addition, American layed off ALL of the TWA employees over the next few years, then refused to hire them back. That's what good our tax money did when we bailed American out.

I loved TWA, and especially the JFK terminal that Eero Saarinen. If you look at travel in old Hollywood movies, more often than not, TWA was the airline. Before Reagan's deregulation of the airline industry, air travel stood for elegance, class, and grace. I can remember flying as a child and dressing up because it was a big deal to travel by air. Nowadays, airline travel is worse than a cattle car. Nobody has respect for the airlines or airline travel. Icahn is scum of the earth. He ruins everything he touches for his own personal gain.
Ronald Reagan ruined air travel in this country, or maybe even the world. What did Reagan have against air traffic controllers and airlines? He is the real reason why our airlines go belly up and why we can't even get a free snack on a plane. Airlines used to have commissaries to cook all their food, and getting a pillow or blanket wasn't only for the first class passengers, but for every seat on the plane. Flight attendants were not just waiters or waitresses in the sky, they were trained professionals who didn't need to have conflict resolution skills to control passengers. They have been downgraded to "handling" passengers instead of helping them. It is a disgrace.
My father spent his life working at TWA, and I am thankful that he didn't live to see it disappear, or to see what air travel has become.

All of you are just mad because you did not or could not do what Mr. Ichan dad the intelligence to get away with. Quit hating!

If you live in St. Louis and travel often, you miss TWA sorely. I have been flying regularly (now twice a week minimum) for 30 years. All on business. And I can testify about the American takeover of TWA.

American has reduced flights out of St. Louis to the point that you have to be flying to a major city to get any service and most of the flights are on commuter jets. If you want to fly American, chances are, you will have to fly through Dallas or Chicago. But if you check the rates, chances are you will fly someone else.

I was a passionate TWA flyer, and still miss it. I was in Cairo with a friend on 9/11, having flown there business class on TWA, with no way to get home. After many calls to friends in Ambassador Clubs in the US for help, I went to the airport, talked a machine-gun-armed guard into letting me go to the TWA offices (which they said were gone), and found the lonely station manager in a space that looked like a bomb had hit. She had tried to find us (we were in Jordan) to warn us there would be no bus class flight home, rebooked us on Air France--in coach, as soon as seats became available (everyone was wanting out of the Middle East). Because we couldn't leave for days, I got to know her, told her about my novel that had just been published back home called Hidden Agenda which featured TWA and a pivital scene in an Ambassador Club. The day were were to finally leave, she punched a few keys, removing us from Air France and putting us in those First Class pods that British had just started flying. "Let American pay for it," she said as we bid her goodbye, and it was the best trip of our lives. Even whe it was gone, TWA was good to me. Every time I sip espresso from one of the old TWA First Class china cups at home, I remember it fondly, olus all the friends I made at that company, especially that wonderful gal in Cairo who gave us such a great ending. Thom Racina

I was a TWA pilot and lived through the Icahn era. Management felt Carl Icahn could save the company from going out of business. A cheap and easy fix with new cash. That failed and Carl raided the company for a lousey few bucks he later lost

We flew our daughters to and from Salt Lake City on TWA. It was the least expensive ticket we could buy to get them home from Indiana University. However, they encountered very rude TWA employees in St. Louis, more than a few times and we decided it was better to pay more per ticket and fly them home on Delta. They were always treated courteously by Delta employees. I, for one, was not surprised when TWA ceased to exist.

What do I remember about TWA??? Having worked for TWA nearly 30 years I remember FUN!!!....even under the most difficult circumstances, as a family unit, we managed to find some humor. TWA Personnel were so family oriented. We all worked together and traveled together and had the best times of our lives. TWA was the very best there was and ever will be. Everything about TWA was class. Once Upon a time wll never come again!

All I hope for Mr. Ichan is a very slow and painful death....soon.

Lets hope that Carl and Fred pass away slow and painfully.

In the 60's and 70's, while in the military, TWA was my airline of choice. Back then, the TWA name stood for excellence in operation and professionalism. But that seems to also be a thing of the past. I lost track of how many round-trip flights I made with TWA from Rome to JFK and then from Newark to Tulsa. In my 22 years of military service I was involved with aviation in a flying status. Since the end of TWA I've not flown and I doubt I ever will. I refuse to be treated like cattle. TWA is but a memory but for me its good memories.

I started a national consulting business and flew TWA out of STL at least twice a month for years. I got to know the ground and flight crews and enjoyed them tremendously. They were great people who genuinely cared about their company and passangers.

I was horrified to watch one man's greed (Ichan) utterly destroy so many lives. May God be just with his soul. After 9/11 finished the company, I decided to retire.

When I need to fly now, I fly "cheap". Service is a thing of the past, so why pay for what no longer exists.

as a retired 29 year vet of TWA, I read the story with obvious keen interest; and while thought and memory provoking....I wondered-"will anybody really care?". I was gratified to see that there were many gratious comments. My heartfelt thanks to my fellow TWA comrads who worked long and hard and sometimes even perished to get passengers and packages "from point A to point B'. They are the real heroes of this all too short trip down memory lane that included for me CMH, PIT, STL, MCI, SFO, LAX, LHR, MXP and LGA & JFK.

TWA flew me on my first trip to Europe in 1962. Everyone was dressed in lovely clothing and exhibited excellent manners. The passengers were all treated with courtesy and friendliness. No pushing, shoving, muscle shirts, cutoffs, flip flops, huge suitcases filled with "kitchen sinks", and riff- raff enough to think you are travelling on Tobacco Road.
Today, unless you can afford to fly first-class, you are subjected to all kinds of indignities. Airline food is a thing of the past. Lucky to get some water.
If trains only crossed the Atlantic and Pacific!!!!

To the person who says we should have been as smart as Mr. Ichan, apparently you did not work at TWA. You did not lose most of your pension. Mr. Ichan sucked the life out of TWA and my father who worked there for over 30 yrs. TWA was a wonderful company - it is so missed by many.

I started my airline career with TWA back in 1982. I worked in several different TWA stations and Cities during that time and was with them all the way to the end with AA taking over. For those of us who lived through the Icons and Lorenzos, we know all to well of the sacrifices (many personal) that employee's had to endure. I agree that it's nice to hear so many positive comments about TWA. I know so many, (myself included), who were literally sick to see it come to such an end. In the end though, I can honestly say that I can't totally put it of on "Good Ole American Capitalist or Capitalism" altogether. If memory serves me correctly, TWA's unions weren't the best friend any of us could have. At the end of the day, if the truth get's told, the union was in bed with the company. This, (along w/800), was the final nail in TWA's coffin. Since my departure from TWA, I have since worked at AA, DL and NW. After NW filed bankruptcy I decided to call it quits! The industry isn't and will never be the same. Very sad :-(