Thanks to the decreasing quality and increasing frustration of air travel, plus shows like ABC's Pan Am, 2011 has been a year for much interest in the heyday of "glamorous" travel—aka the dawn of the Jet Age.

We've already spent some time investigating a 1960s in-flight menu from United, ticket prices on American and even the airline back in 1959, but now we're going to focus on TWA for a moment.

In the 1960s, if you wanted to take a 12-day tour of California including flights from either Chicago or NYC, the cost was only $279 or $339, respectively. That's crazy to think of now, but although prices have changed, the travel style really hasn't all that much. This week, we'll be peeking inside a brochure for this trip, to see exactly what you could get for that cash in 1964:]]> JetSetCD 2011-11-18T10:00:02-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/11/14/224918/78

Thanks to the decreasing quality and increasing frustration of air travel, plus shows like ABC's Pan Am, 2011 has been a year for much interest in the heyday of "glamorous" travel—aka the dawn of the Jet Age.

We've already spent some time investigating a 1960s in-flight menu from United, ticket prices on American and even the airline back in 1959, but now we're going to focus on TWA for a moment.

In the 1960s, if you wanted to take a 12-day tour of California including flights from either Chicago or NYC, the cost was only $279 or $339, respectively. That's crazy to think of now, but although prices have changed, the travel style really hasn't all that much. This week, we'll be peeking inside a brochure for this trip, to see exactly what you could get for that cash in 1964:]]> JetSetCD 2011-11-17T11:45:01-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/11/14/224540/29

Thanks to the decreasing quality and increasing frustration of air travel, plus shows like ABC's Pan Am, 2011 has been a year for much interest in the heyday of "glamorous" travel—aka the dawn of the Jet Age.

We've already spent some time investigating a 1960s in-flight menu from United, ticket prices on American and even the airline back in 1959, but now we're going to focus on TWA for a moment.

In the 1960s, if you wanted to take a 12-day tour of California including flights from either Chicago or NYC, the cost was only $279 or $339, respectively. That's crazy to think of now, but although prices have changed, the travel style really hasn't all that much. This week, we'll be peeking inside a brochure for this trip, to see exactly what you could get for that cash in 1964:]]> JetSetCD 2011-11-16T11:31:15-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/11/14/22434/154

Thanks to the decreasing quality and increasing frustration of air travel, plus shows like ABC's Pan Am, 2011 has been a year for much interest in the heyday of "glamorous" travel—aka the dawn of the Jet Age.

We've already spent some time investigating a 1960s in-flight menu from United, ticket prices on American and even the airline back in 1959, but now we're going to focus on TWA for a moment.

In the 1960s, if you wanted to take a 12-day tour of California including flights from either Chicago or NYC, the cost was only $279 or $339, respectively. That's crazy to think of now, but although prices have changed, the travel style really hasn't all that much. This week, we'll be peeking inside a brochure for this trip, to see exactly what you could get for that cash in 1964:]]> JetSetCD 2011-11-15T12:13:20-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/11/13/234333/05

Thanks to the decreasing quality and increasing frustration of air travel, plus shows like ABC's Pan Am, 2011 has been a year for much interest in the heyday of "glamorous" travel—aka the dawn of the Jet Age.

We've already spent some time investigating a 1960s in-flight menu from United, ticket prices on American and even the airline back in 1959, but now we're going to focus on TWA for a moment.

In the 1960s, if you wanted to take a 12-day tour of California including flights from either Chicago or NYC, the cost was only $279 or $339, respectively. That's crazy to think of now, but although prices have changed, the travel style really hasn't all that much. This week, we'll be peeking inside a brochure for this trip, to see exactly what you could get for that cash in 1964:]]> JetSetCD 2011-11-14T17:14:58-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/10/16/22910/552

For years, the old TWA Flight Center at New York's JFK International Airport has taunted us. Situated right in front of the new-ish JetBlue Terminal 5, the Eero Saarinen-designed masterpiece was so close and yet, so far.

Opened in 1962 and closed in 2001 after TWA went bust and was taken into American Airlines, Terminal 5 is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places and undergoing slow renovations (that's what happens when you've got asbestos and close proximity to functioning flights). It's not been open to the public since, save for a few short months in 2004 for an art exhibition. This weekend, however, the Open House New York event flung open the doors for four hours and half the city showed up to check out this historical gem.]]> JetSetCD 2011-10-17T12:24:22-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/2/7/10170/54422

What's the big news on the airport front this morning? Oh, just that New York-JFK could be getting a new hotel...inside of the old, landmark-protected TWA Terminal 5. The building, designed by Eero Saarinen and opened in 1962, is an architectural and design gem of the Mad Men-era, one that has outlasted (and outshined) other similar fancy airport buildings (ah hem Pan Am Worldport).

Anyways, the TWA Flight Center is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and thus has been able to escape the wrecking ball. JetBlue even went and built their giant, shiny T5 at JFK behind it, but left enough buffer space between the two buildings for contractors to envision a hotel. There's no takers on the project just yet, which would ideally be a high-end, boutique hotel set just behind the Terminal, utilizing the iconic original structure as a sort of juiced-up hotel lobby, and we don't think there ever will be. Here's why: ]]> JetSetCD 2011-02-07T11:37:02-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/