{"id":255299,"date":"2026-05-02T11:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255299\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:39:16","slug":"where-have-all-the-airlines-gone-south-florida-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255299\/","title":{"rendered":"Where have all the airlines gone? South Florida failures"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the demise of Spirit<\/a>, the company joins other South Florida-based airlines that have halted operations and disappeared.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look:<\/p>\n

Silver Airways \"A A Silver Airways plane taking off from Fort Lauderdale airport in 2019. Jose A. Iglesias Miami Herald File <\/p>\n

Fort-Lauderdale-based Silver Airways<\/a> hut down in 2025 after unsuccessfully trying to sell itself. Silver flew in Florida, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico and other Caribbean airports. Silver Airways had a hub in Fort Lauderdale and also flew to Tampa, Tallahassee, Key West and Pensacola .The airline filed for bankruptcy in December 2024.<\/p>\n

Eastern Airlines \"Eastern Eastern Airlines jets and \u201cFly Eastern\u201d signs in Miami. C.W. Griffin Miami Herald File <\/p>\n

Miami-based Eastern shut down in 1991 after filing for bankruptcy two years earlier. The company had a landmark headquarters building on the northern flank of Miami International Airport, and many of its employees lived nearby in Miami Springs and Virginia Gardens. The airline\u2019s name has lived on through the charter flight market.<\/p>\n

Miami Air International<\/p>\n

The charter flights company ceased operations in 2020 after filing for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

National Airlines \"Janet Janet Morgan celebrates the end of a National Airlines strike in the 1970s. Albert Coya Miami Herald File <\/p>\n

Miami-based National Airlines, with orange-trimmed planes, a sun on the tail and suggestive TV ads, was a precursor to the flash and brash of Miami decades later. In 1980, National merged with Pan Am, with the airline operating those routes until it ceased operation sin 1991. The \u201cNational\u201d name later surfaced on a cargo flight company, but without the familiar colors and logo of its heady passenger days.<\/p>\n

Air Florida \"Air Air Florida airplanes parked at a Miami International Airport hangar along Northwest 36th Street in 1984. Albert Coya Miami Herald File <\/p>\n

Miami-based 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 Northeast and even Europe. The orange, blue and green planes, with the distinctive \u201cAF\u201d logo on the tail were all over the Miami airport from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s. The airline declared bankruptcy before being absorbed by another airline in 1984. Air Florida\u2019s problems started after a 1982 plane crash into the icy Potomac in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the demise of Spirit, the company joins other South Florida-based airlines that have halted operations and disappeared.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-255299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}