Jamiel: I think you're talking about www.PlaneBusiness.Com . It has a message board identical to FlyerTalk except that it is mostly airline employees.

As a TWA customer/observer, it has a very interesting "strike-watch/proposal-review" section that apparently TWA contracted with PlaneBusiness.Com to manage. TWA employees from all over and in all job positions trade barbs about whether to accept / deny the TWA proposal.

Also there are several other threads that comment about the maintenance business of flying, facilities, what type of paint to use, etc. I found it very interesting and spent about 90 minutes digesting everything. I even signed up to post some things but decided not to post since, as a customer, I felt like I would intrude on their world.

The URL is http://www.planebusiness.com/cgi-bin/ultimate.cgi

[This message has been edited by buck (edited 06-07-1999).]

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i know some of these are old news, but i don't like seeing the twa forum
so quiet...

DOUBLE MILES
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STL-Baltimore Effective 5-1-99 to 6-30-99
STL-El Paso Effective 5-1-99 to 6-30-99
STL-Portland, ME Effective 5-1-99 to 6-30-99
STL-Richmond, VA Effective 5-1-99 to 6-30-99
STL-Washington (IAD/DCA) Effective 4-7-99 to 6-30-99
STL-Harrisburg, PA Effective 6-1-99 to 7-31-99
STL-Mexico City Effective 6-1-99 to 7-31-99
BOS-San Juan Effective 6-1-99 to 7-31-99
Mexico City / New Orleans Effective 6-1-99 to 7-31-99
Mexico City / New York (JFK) Effective 6-1-99 to 7-31-99

FREE UPGRADE
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TWQ passengers have until October 31, 1999 to earn a free
Trans World First upgrade. All it takes are five round trip flights -
- or 10 one-way TWQ segments - between March 1, 1999 and October 31, 1999,
and you'll earn a free upgrade to Trans World First service.
The upgrades are valid for six months from the date of issue and are
automatically mailed to you.


TWA AMBASSADORS CLUB - Effective 6-1-99 to 8-1-99
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New 1 year membership 10,000 miles
1 year renewal 7,500 miles
3 year membership 15,000 miles
Lifetime membership 25,000 miles

TRANS WORLD ONE
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Round Trip Between U.S. & Europe, on full CTWONE fare 15,000 miles
Effective 6/15 to 9/15/99 Promotion Code - 89663

HOTELS
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Hilton Double miles Effective 6-1-99 to 8-31-99
Hyatt Hotels and Resorts 2,000 miles Effective 6-1-99 to 8-31-99
Inter-Continental Hotels and Resorts Double miles Effective 5-28-99 to 9-6-99

CREDIT CARDS
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TWA Aviators Platinum MasterCard
or Visa card issued by MBNA
America® Bank, N.A. 5,000 miles upon activation of new cards
On-going starting 6/21/99

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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Sprint 7,500 miles On-going starting 5-26-99

MileCrazy: Thanks for the refresher. I am just about to book a flight STL - MEX and I did not remember the double miles. You just saved me about 3,500 miles. Thanks.

Regarding the MSY - MEX flight, I understand from a TWA press release that the flight originates in NY at JFK. Thus it is kind of a continuing flight that has MSY conveniently right in the middle of the route.

If you're interested, see:
http://www.twa.com/pressrelease/docu...iReleaseID=439

I was at New Orleans Airport on Friday to meet Matt Wald, and I was quite surprised to see a banner announcing the new TWA service to Mexico City. I'm always happy to see my airport getting more service, but that seemed like such an odd route! I wonder if TWA will add more domestic flights to get connecting passengers to MSY now ...

MileCrazy- Souns like you could get a part time marketing job at TWA!

somewhere else on the pages (in the Buzz) was a website very similar to this one only for airline employees. They had a TW section where they talked about this very topic-apparently New Orleans kind of recruited TW to serve the route, but the consensus was that it was a very shrewd flanking move that none of the other airlines could bother with, and would allow expansion into other countries/areas in Mexico/Central America easily (neither DL, AA nor CO would pull flights from their respective hubs to combat with TW), plus it would be something that would be non-competitive with Southwest.