#TBT: Would you wear a paper uniform for your job? For 8 months in 1968, TWA flight attendants had to wear special uniforms for their "foreign accent" flights. Check it out in this excerpt from Nine PBS's 2001 documentary Sky High: The Story of TWA. | Nine PBS

80 years ago today, our union was founded by eight women at United Airlines! On August 22, 1945 a small group of what were then known as stewardesses formed the Air Line Stewardess Association (ALSSA) — the first union for Flight Attendants. Today, as the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, we’ve grown to 55,000 Flight Attendants at 20 airlines. Flight Attendants have joined together in AFA to fight for fair compensation, job security, and improved quality of life through organizing, bargainin

The wreckage from the 1996 TWA Flight 800 crash investigation will be scanned into a 3-D model before it is dismantled and destroyed through a decommissioning process. The Paris-bound flight crashed soon after takeoff off from JFK Airport in New York, killing all 230 aboard. The victims included 16 students and 5 chaperones from the French Club at Montoursville Area High School in Pa. https://trib.al/Jypr5KO | PennLive.com