When the New York’s Municipal Airport opened in 1939, Trans World Airlines (TWA) was one of the first carriers to sign up for space on its runways. The airport was soon renamed LaGuardia Airport, and ...

June marks 30 years since one of the most dramatic and memorable standoffs in history, when Hezbollah militants hijacked a TWA jetliner in the Middle East.

When TWA was negotiating for a spot at Idlewild, they already lined up 65 American cities with 35 points abroad. TWA and Pan Am were at the time, the nation’s only transatlantic carriers. The two ...