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TWA Trans World Airlines ticket envelope / boarding jacket used July 14, 1954 from Los Angeles, with the Welcome Aboard passenger ticket and baggage check cover still inside. Jacket about 3.8 x 7.7 inches. Used condition: toning, light wear and handling marks, one small hole near the map's left edge.
Front shows the Lockheed Constellation in TWA livery, the red-and-white star seat/group tag numbered 2, and check-in entries for Flight 44 to CHI and Flight 36 to PIT (as written) with purple TWA Los Angeles Airport stamps dated July 14, 1954.
Inside: a "Fly TWA — U.S.A., Europe, Africa, Asia" world route map from San Francisco and Los Angeles through Kansas City, Chicago and New York to Shannon, Rome, Cairo, Bombay and on toward Tokyo, plus a printed list of TWA reservations offices in the U.S. and abroad. Back advertises TWA Sky-Tourist coast-to-coast and trans-Atlantic fares. Form code T-197-TWA 11-53.
The ticket cover is printed "Issued by TWA, Trans World Airlines, Inc., 10 Richards Road, Kansas City 5, Mo."
Front shows the Lockheed Constellation in TWA livery, the red-and-white star seat/group tag numbered 2, and check-in entries for Flight 44 to CHI and Flight 36 to PIT (as written) with purple TWA Los Angeles Airport stamps dated July 14, 1954.
Inside: a "Fly TWA — U.S.A., Europe, Africa, Asia" world route map from San Francisco and Los Angeles through Kansas City, Chicago and New York to Shannon, Rome, Cairo, Bombay and on toward Tokyo, plus a printed list of TWA reservations offices in the U.S. and abroad. Back advertises TWA Sky-Tourist coast-to-coast and trans-Atlantic fares. Form code T-197-TWA 11-53.
The ticket cover is printed "Issued by TWA, Trans World Airlines, Inc., 10 Richards Road, Kansas City 5, Mo."