VOL. 2, NO. 6 of Trans World Airline FEBRUARY 6, 1947 TWA INITIATES EUROPEAN AIR TOURS TWA has announced arrange­ ments with Cook's Tours and The American Express Co for air trans­ portation and accommodations for tourists to Switzerland, whose famed winter attractions are now generally available to Americans for the first time since the out­ break of the war. The joint arrangement followed announcement by the U. S. State Department that passports would be issued to individual or group tourists conditional upon advance accommodations in Switzerland and guaranteed air space for their re­ turn. A maximum stay of two months is suggested by the State Department. Only U. S. airline flying direct from this country to Switzerland, TWA has arranged three types of (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1) WILSON RESIGNS AS CHAIRMAN OF BOARD Gen T. B. Wilson today (Thurs­ day, Feb. 6) announced his resigna­ tion as Chairman of the Board of Directors of TWA and as Manag­ ing Director of the airline's Inter­ national division, effective Feb. 15. He will continue as a board mem­ ber. In a letter to President Jack Frye and the Board announcing his resig­ nation, General Wilson said: "My active and full-time association with It's impossible to get away from the magnificent scenery in Switzerland—everywhere you look, there it is. This TWA and all its officers and per­ aerial picture shows Geneva nestled among its looming, snow-capped peaks, whose famed winter playgrounds are now within hours of the United States via Trans World Airline. New all-expense air tours, just announced by TWA, make sonnel, ove,r the past eight years, Switzerland a "natural" for skiiers and winter sports enth usiasts. has been one of real satisfaction. The progress of TWA from a small domestic airline in 1938 to a world REACH AGREEMENT leader in the air transport field ON TWA FINANCING JANUARY SALES CONTEST WINNERS today is extremely gratifying to me. The first step in the financing The first month of the Trans­ "I extend my best wishes to man­ program of TWA was completed said E. O. Cocke, Traffic Vice Presi­ continental Passenger Sales and agement and the employees for con­ Monday, Feb. 3, with the sale of dent. Round-Trip Contests is history. Top tinued achievement and prosperity." $5,000,000 in convertible notes to Jim Hawthorne, Director of place in Passenger Sales goes to General Wilson has served TWA Hughes Tool Co, the airline's princi­ Sales for the Transcontinental di­ Las Vegas among the districts and as full-time board chairman since pal stockholder. The program in­ vision, said: "This really demon­ to Western among regions. In the November, 1938, with the excep­ cludes the purchase of additional strate the job can be done. We Round-Trip category, Toledo walked tion of three years of active service convertible notes aggregating have adjusted the quotas to take in World War II, two years of that off with first place among districts into consideration the bad weather $5,000,000 before June 1, 1947, by and Midwest topped the regions. time as chief of transportation in the Hughes Tool Co. in the East, and we expect Central the Southwest Pacific under Gen As a part of the issuance of the In the following Passenger Sales and Eastern Regions to give the Douglas MacArthur and a year in notes in this transaction, the Equit­ list note that of the 10 leading West a better run for its money in the CBI theater in the same capacity able Life Assurance Society of the stations, seven of them were in the February." under Gen Joseph W. Stilwell. A United States, holder of $40,000,000 Western Region, the remaining Hawthorne also announced a brigadier general on inactive status, of the sinking fund debentures of three in the Midwest Region. change in the Round-Trip Contest Wilson holds numerous decorations, TWA, has agreed to modification "All stations making the first 10 rules. "From here on in there will including the Distinguished Service (Continued on Page 4, Col. 4) places did an outstanding job," (Continued on Page 5, Col. 2) Medal. STARLINER TRAMS WORLD AIRLIMI Other Editors Are Saying... TRANSPORT FLEDGLING modities which lend themselves to lighter Published Weekly at Kansas City The first postwar year has seen a packaging. To date this field has been For Employees of TWA, healthy development in a new branch of barely touched. Something of its scope The Trans World Airline transportation—the growth of air freight, can be illustrated by the type of freight now being carried by the major airlines. Republication of Contents Permissible particularly by the nonscheduled air­ lines. One of them recently shipped 100,000 Editor Jack Lovett Although the certificated companies trout eggs to Palestine and several News Editor, KC Hal Grayson have offered air express service for some thousand poultry eggs to Europe. The News Edtior, WA Tom Bell time, they did not enter the cargo field same line has shipped gold bullion, with News Editor, NY....Gordon Gilmore on a large scale until 1944. It was their a resultant saving in interest by reason News Editor, I NT....Eugene Warner non-certificated competitors who, in an of speedy delivery. Machine parts and News Editor, BW Ken Fletcher amazingly short time, succeeded in build­ machine tools are part of the pay loads News Editor, CG Bob Helmer ing up an industry from practically of air freight. News Editor, LA....Clancy Dayhoff nothing to a point where they now em­ There is ample economic justification News Editor, SF Bill Cullenward ploy, in toto, almost as many planes, for expansion in the field of airborne Editorial Ass't Gay Richards with as much capacity, as the scheduled cargo. Contracts tailored to suit the for­ Issued Thursday of each week certificated lines. warder's requirements would assure by the Publications Department of The reason for this expansion is not operators the capacity loads needed News Bureau, Eldon R. Frye, Man­ difficult to find. Thousands of army further to reduce ton-mile costs. If air Roslyn Cook, TWA Ticket Agent, ager. Contributions and navy aviation-trained personnel had freight catches up with its manifest examines the slip of paper RDO Al should be in hands the opportunity of buying, through the destiny, it will become a full-blown Hadad placed in a bottle and tossed of the editor not lat­ government's surplus disposal program, industry in the not-too-distant future. in the Atlantic Ocean seven years ago er than Friday of the $100,000 planes for but a fraction of Chicago JOURNAL OF COMMERCE, as Al points to the spot where it was preceding week. Ad­ their original cost. Jan. 6. found by a German soldier after the dress all contribu­ Many of these operators, however, al­ evacuation of Dunkirk. Then a mer­ tions to The Star­ though seasoned flyers, are neophyte chant marine, Hadad wrote his name liner, Kansas City, Mo. Requests businessmen. A survey has indicated that TONIC FOR JITTERS and address on the paper, tossed it for Starliner pictures should be more than half are losing money and Those of us who get the airplane over the ship's rail. He'd given up addressed to The Editor, Starliner, that several were not quite sure whether jitters from reading about the crashes expecting to hear of it, but the Ger­ KC. they were going in the red or not. But overlook the fact that the percentage of man soldier who found it near Quend- Plage, France, carried it for seven MEMBER SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION through their unquestioned initiative air casualties to total passengers carried OP INDUSTRIAL EDITORS they have shown conclusively the busi­ is really very low compared with past years and, after his recent release ness possibilities inherent in air cargo. years. But the life insurance companies from a war prisoners' camp, sent it to No one, aside from the writers of are not so careless with statistics. The Hadad, now in Chicago. CUSTOMERS FIRST! the Sunday supplements, envisions a Institute of Life Insurance reports that TWA's tradition of courtesy be­ flying coal-carrying freight train in the currently 98% of a representative group longs to all of us, yet Hostesses and foreseeable future, but that new markets of life insurance companies will issue JOHN BAILEY TO Transportation Agents have been re­ await the air-borne commodity, if this policies at standard rates to passengers PARIS SALES POST porting increasing laxity on the part new highway to world trade is efficient­ on scheduled commercial airlines in the of employees and members of their ly handled, is abundantly clear. United States, compared with 87% a Royal R. Jordan, European Re­ families using non-revenue pass trans­ Generally speaking, the goods most year ago. The companies surveyed rep­ portation. Chief complaint is the gional Traffic Manager, this week adaptable to air transport are perish­ resent more than 80% of the total life announced the appointment of John failure to observe the common cour­ ables, lightweight or small units, ur­ insurance business. tesies of permitting customers first gently needed goods and those com­ Boston HERALD, Jan. 28 Bailey as Passenger Sales Manager entry and first choice of seats on the for Europe, with headquarters in plane. Paris. The hard-working boys and girls who have to make a career of "being An 11-year TWA veteran, Bailey nice" to customers at TWA ticket A TALENTED YOUNG MAN IS ANWAR was District Traffic Manager at counters and on the planes don't like signed that post to enter his own Chicago before joining the Inter­ to see their efforts spoiled by the business.