Editing Trans World Airlines (section)

===2000s===
[[File:Boeing 757-231, TWA Airlines (American Airlines) AN0200640.jpg|thumb|A TWA 757-231 in an AA/TWA Hybrid livery to promote their merger]]

TWA stated that it planned to make Los Angeles a focus city around October 2000, with a partnership with [[Envoy Air|American Eagle Airlines]] as part of [[Trans World Connection]].<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20000815062612/http://www.twa.com/about_twa/at_lax.html LOS ANGELES IS TWA'S 2000 FOCUS CITY]." Trans World Airlines. August 15, 2000. Retrieved on July 25, 2009.</ref>

====Acquisition by American Airlines====
Financial problems soon resurfaced and Trans World Airlines Inc. assets were acquired in April 2001 by [[AMR Corp]]., the [[parent company]] of American Airlines, which quickly formed a new company called TWA Airlines LLC. As part of the deal, TWA declared [[Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code|Chapter 11 bankruptcy]] (for the third time) the day after it agreed to the purchase. The terms of the deal included a $745 million payment. The bankruptcy court approved the purchase over a rival bid by Jet Acquisition Group, an investment group fronted by [[Ralph Atkin]], founder of [[SkyWest Airlines]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Mendis |first=Sean|work=Airwhiners.net|title=TWA – Two years after Chapter 11|date=2003-01-13|access-date=2013-02-22|url=http://www.airwhiners.net/whine_cheez/20030113.htm}}</ref> The total value of TWA's assets and assumed liabilities was estimated to be $2 billion.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|title=American-TWA merger could hurt isles|date=2001-01-08|access-date=2009-02-09|url=http://starbulletin.com/2001/01/08/business/story1.html|archive-date=2008-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919022000/http://starbulletin.com/2001/01/08/business/story1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> American did not claim the naming rights for the Rams' home, which eventually became the Edward Jones Dome and later [[The Dome at America's Center]].<ref name="Rams Naming Rights" />

TWA booking ended on November 30, 2001.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20011124153827/http://www.twa.com/ Home Page]", ''Trans World Airlines''</ref>

TWA Airlines LLC flew its last flight on December 1, 2001, with an MD-83 aircraft painted in a special inverted livery named "Wings of Pride" (N948TW). The ceremonial last flight was '''Flight 220''' from Kansas City to St. Louis, with CEO Captain William Compton at the controls. The final flight before TWA was 'officially' absorbed by American Airlines was completed between St. Louis and [[Las Vegas, Nevada]], also on December 1, 2001. At 10:00&nbsp;pm CST on that date, employees began removing all TWA signs and placards from airports around the country, replacing them with American Airlines signs. At midnight, all TWA flights officially became listed as American Airlines flights. Some aircraft carried hybrid American/TWA livery during the transition, with American's tricolor stripe on the fuselage and TWA titles on the tail and forward fuselage. Signage still bears the TWA logo in portions of Concourse D at Lambert St. Louis International Airport.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

American Airlines acquired some Ambassadors Clubs; other Ambassadors Clubs closed on December 2, 2001.<ref name="ClubClose">"[https://web.archive.org/web/20011214122313/http://www.twa.com/travel/ambassadors_club/index.html TWA Ambassadors Club]", ''Trans World Airlines''</ref>

TWA's St. Louis hub shrank after the acquisition, due to its proximity to American's larger hub at Chicago's [[O'Hare International Airport]]. As a result, American initially replaced TWA's St. Louis mainline hub with [[regional jet]] service (going from over 800 operations a day to just over 200) and downsized TWA's maintenance base in Kansas City. In September 2009, American Airlines announced its intent to shut down the St. Louis hub it inherited from TWA and, in October 2009, American Airlines announced its intent to close the Kansas City maintenance base by September 2010.