Shipbucket

Wow this is so cool!

Good. If TWA is in Star Allaince (Instead of United), it should have had the Star Alliance logo between the first door and cockpit windows (Except of 747, where the logo is on 2nd deck) and Special Star Alliance Livery

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In 2013, TWA placed orders for the new Airbus A350-900 to replace the Boeing 747-400 which had up to then served the airline faithfully since 1991. But with those aircraft sitting at over 20 years old, it seemed that it was time to order their replacement. Over the last 2 decades, TWA had become a primary Airbus user, having used the A320 to replace the MD-80s and 727s, and also using the A330 to replace older 767s and for fleet expansion, as such it came as no surprise that the A350 would be added to the growing fleet. N601TW entered the fleet in early 2018 as the first of 15 A350-900s. Impressed with the aircraft's early service, a further 10 A350s are on option for a potential 25 total, and in 2019 it seemed that those further 10 would be ordered, however those plans were put on hold as the airline and the world grapple with the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic as it crippled the airline industry world wide.

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AU TWA
AU Ozark
Any random IRL TWA plane I wanna do don't judge me

Ozark Airlines
A small side project I've begun doing is Ozark Airlines, which by its merger with TWA in 1986 had amassed a sizable fleet and route system in the Midwestern United States. In real life, TWA swallowed Ozark to bolster their own domestic route system out of their main hub, St. Louis. However, since St. Louis serves as nothing but a destination from a few of TWA's hubs, Ozark remains, and in this time line resembles something like Southwest or Alaska in terms of product. I'll eventually add more history and description to this post, but I've got some A320s I'd like to showcase!

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Current Project(s):
AU TWA
AU Ozark
Any random IRL TWA plane I wanna do don't judge me

Since the 2000s, Ozark has become an wholly A320 family fleet, replacing the MD-80s by 2011. The A320 represented a new Ozark, or at least that is what the company hoped to achieve after the 2003 bankruptcy which nearly brought about the end of the airline (Ozark, along with TWA and American, each went into bankruptcy in 2003, the most since 1991). The A320 also showcased a new, simplified albeit not-well recieved livery scheme in 2005, but the airline retained the "flyozark.com" scheme from 2005-2014 despite recovering from bankruptcy in the first quarter of 2006 and being profitable since then. In 2014, with the A320neo soon to arrive in the fleet, the airline updated their long-hated paint scheme, increasing the size of the "ozark" titles and introducing the color silver to the paint pallet.

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Current Project(s):
AU TWA
AU Ozark
Any random IRL TWA plane I wanna do don't judge me

Do you think that you could try other TWA planes like the 747, both classic and -400?

Update: due to school and real life I have not had time to finish some projects I had started a few months ago, with breaks I should be able to finish the 777-200 and 747-400s so stay tuned!

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Current Project(s):
AU TWA
AU Ozark
Any random IRL TWA plane I wanna do don't judge me

TWA was one of the first customers to sign onto the 777 program in the 1990s, although it would defer its own orders until 2001, as such its first use of the 777-200 was when it took over United's 10 777s. United operated the first 777, N777UA, which became the flagship 777 of the new merged TWA-UA airline. Despite its financial troubles, United went ahead with the 777 order, which may have been a factor in its final bankruptcy a few years earlier and caused them to enter merger talks with TWA. Following the United merger, TWA took on more 777s and by the end of the 2000s it formed the backbone of the long-haul fleet along with the 747-400, 767-300ER, and A330-200/300. The 777 has proved its worth, and TWA has orders for the next generation 777-9X with plans for them to be delivered in the middle of the 2020s.

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Current Project(s):
AU TWA
AU Ozark
Any random IRL TWA plane I wanna do don't judge me

Ozark has operated the A320neo since 2015, and will replace most of their A320s and A319s to, in the future, be the backbone of their fleet. To coincide with the introduction of the A320neo, a new livery was released the following year to replace the older, what some described as "bland" paint scheme. As of 2020, Ozark has 32 A320neos in its fleet, and plans to operate over 120 by the end of the decade.

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Current Project(s):
AU TWA
AU Ozark
Any random IRL TWA plane I wanna do don't judge me

TWA ordered the 747-400 in the 1980s, and was one of the consulting airlines involved with the aircraft's design. The 747-400 was ordered to replace the aging 747-100 on many Pacific and a few Trans-Atlantic routes from New York and Chicago. TWA had been an early 747 operator, and had been the flagship aircraft of the fleet alongside the L-1011, so it was a logical order for the airline to meet its growing needs. The 747-400 entered service in September 1989 in the Twin-Stripe scheme that had been used since the mid-1970s on a flight from Chicago to New York. The first international flight occurred a week later with a flight from New York-JFK to London-Heathrow, which was one of TWA's most profitable routes. The 747-400 was mainly used on Trans-Pacific routes out of Los Angeles and San Francisco, to places such as Tokyo or Sydney. By the late-1990s, TWA was operating a fleet of 35 747-400s, and was the only US operator besides Northwest Airlines and United. When TWA and United merged, its 747-400 fleet grew to 46. The 747-400 continued to serve for another 19 years until the last one was retired in April 2019 after 30 years of service with the airline. It has since been replaced by the A330, 777, and A350, and ended TWA's nearly 50 year operation of the 747.

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Current Project(s):
AU TWA
AU Ozark
Any random IRL TWA plane I wanna do don't judge me