Hitting its stride in the late 1970s and early '80s, Air Florida embodied the heady and sometimes reckless atmosphere brought on by the deregulation of the U.S. airline industry. From its home base in ...

Air Florida airplanes parked at a Miami International Airport hangar along Northwest 36th Street in 1984. Albert Coya Miami Herald File Florida once had a high-flying namesake airline. Air Florida ...

Eli Timoner, who founded Air Florida, turning a regional airline into an overnight international sensation, died Wednesday at the age of 92 after a long illness. In the cut-throat era of airline ...

Air Florida Flight 90 left Washington in a snowstorm and never recovered from the mistakes made before takeoff. A chain of bad decisions, missed warnings, and false engine readings pushed the 737 into ...

The midair collision Wednesday night between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter is the most severe air travel accident in Washington since a passenger jet crashed ...

As Washington was in the grip of a snowstorm 40 years ago, an Air Florida jet struggling to get out of Washington National Airport slammed into the 14th Street Bridge and plunged into the Potomac ...

Florida once had a high-flying namesake airline. Air Florida started out as a commuter company, expanded to key cities in the state, and then evolved into a full-service carrier with flights to the ...