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Air Florida was an American low-cost carrier that operated under its own brand from 1972 [3] to 1984. During the period from 1972 to 1978 Air Florida was an intrastate airline. Until a high-profile 1982 aircraft crash in Washington DC, Air Florida was considered an early success story of U.S. airline deregulation, having expanded rapidly from ...
Air Florida Flight 90 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated from Washington National Airport (now Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) to Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport, with an intermediate stopover at Tampa International Airport.
McCoy Air Force Base was named for Colonel Michael Norman Wright McCoy (1905–1957) on 7 May 1958. [1] Seven months earlier on 9 October 1957, McCoy was killed in the crash of a B-47 Stratojet (DB-47B-35-BW), AF Serial No. 51-2177, of the 447th Bombardment Squadron, 321st Bombardment Wing.
The Air Florida operations room in back of the ticket counter at Miami International Airport in 1984. In 1972, flight attendants are ready to welcome travelers aboard an Air Florida 707 flight.
Through World War II the airport was a Civil Air Patrol facility, the location of Coastal Patrol Base 14. In 1943 the Florida legislature approved the formation of an airport authority, the Panama City–Bay County Airport and Industrial District, to manage Fannin Field, or Panama City–Bay County Airport, as it became known.
With expansion came growing pains: in the 1970s Allegheny had the nickname "Agony Air". [ 18 ] Allegheny's agreement with Henson Airlines , the forerunner to today's US Airways Express carrier Piedmont Airlines , to operate "Allegheny Commuter" flights was the industry's first code-share agreement, [ 19 ] a type of service now offered ...
The aircraft suffered a mid-air explosion due to a bomb in the baggage compartment and crashed. It was the first confirmed act of air sabotage in commercial aviation. March 31, 1931 8 0 0 1931 Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crash: Bazaar Township: Kansas: Fokker F-10
Skybus Airlines Inc. was a privately held airline based in Columbus, Ohio, United States. [2] It operated as an ultra low-cost carrier modeled after the European airline Ryanair, and aimed to be the least expensive airline in the United States.