Boeing 767-200ER

T. W.A. introduced the Boeing 767 on the Los Angeles-Washington route on 2 December 1982. The first of the Douglas DC-9-80s (MD-80s) entered service on 3 May the next year, and on 31 October 1983, the last T. W.A. Boeing 707 made its final flight from New York to Kansas City. The airline expanded its route system but in February 1984, it once again became a separate cor­poration and, in a deteriorating financial situation, T. W.A. tightened its belt (see page 90).

Another T. W.A. First

Nevertheless, and possibly overshadowing these events in a wider airline context, was another claim to firstliness that T. W.A. could add to its already impressive list of such pio­neering events. On 1 February 1985, it became the first U. S. airline to fly a twin-engined airliner, the Boeing 767, across the Atlantic in scheduled passenger service. This was under the EROPS program certificated by the F. A.A. (See page 88). Today, more Boeing 767s fly across the Atlantic than all the other aircraft types combined — and many of the latter are twin-engined too.

TWA’s 767 VARIANTS