AirFlorida

IATA: FL, ICAO: FLA, Callsign: AIRFLORIDA

**Air Florida Inc**., stylized and branded as **AirFlorida** is an American international airline based in Orlando, Florida. With a fleet of 299 aircraft, it serves over 3000 destinations in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, North America and South America. The airline is named after the real Air Florida that existed between 1971 and 1984.

## History

The airline was founded on May 26th, 2018 by what was at that time Gator Enterprises (now AirFlorida Group) owner Kyle Bell who currently serves as the CEO of both AirFlorida and the AirFlorida Group.

Later, on December 22nd, AirFlorida announced plans to simplify its fleet. These plans included the retiring of both older and newer aircraft. Specifically the ATR-72, Airbus A320, A320neo, A321, A321neo, A330, Boeing 767, Boeing 777, Boeing 737-700ER, Bombardier CRJ-900, Bombardier CRJ-1000, Bombardier DASH-8 and the Embraer E190-E2. These we’re replaced by the new Airbus A220, Boeing 737-500’s, Boeing 737-800’s, Boeing 737-MAX 8’s, Boeing 737-MAX 9’s, Boeing 787 Dreamliners and the Embraer E-Jet series.

The airline began significantly expanding in 2020, when it established four new airlines: ČSA Czech Airlines, Pan Am, Travel Service, AirTran Airways and also co-founded Adria Airways with Aldi Airlines.

#### **SkyWayz Alliance**

On May 26th the airline joined the SkyWayz Alliance along with ČSA Czech Airlines, Pan Am, Travel Service and AirTran Airways. On October 1st 2020, AirFlorida Group had revived another airline - Braniff. This was indicated by an Instagram post featuring the Braniff logo.

In the fourth quarter of 2020, AirFlorida announced, that it will transtition to an All-Boeing fleet by late 2021 by retiring its remaining Airbus A220 aircraft, leaving Braniff as the only airline of the AirFlorida Group to operate Airbus aircraft.

In early December 2020, AirFlorida announced that it had agreed to acquire Key Konnect from Elevate Air.

On December 31st 2020, AirFlorida announced in a statement on its Twitter page, that was leaving SkyWayz Alliance. The full statement reads:

*"It is with a heavy heart that we announce our immediate resignation from the SkyWayz Alliance due to our displeasure towards the unfair treatment of the founder FlyBratislava by other members. At this time we are entering the transfer portal and are looking for a new home."*

#### **Fusion Alliance**

AirFlorida and Braniff applied for membership in the Fusion Alliance on the same day they had quit the SkyWayz Alliance and were approved to enter the next day, when they were admitted into the alliance. After a little over two months, AirFlorida decided to leave the Fusion Alliance and subsequently return to the SkyWayz Alliance on March 15.

#### **SkyWayz member again**

AirFlorida returned to the SkyWayz Alliance on March 15th, 2021.

On March 21st, 2021, AirFlorida announced that it had acquired 5 used Boeing 737-300's and 5 used Boeing 737-400's from undisclosed airlines and plans to acquire 4 Boeing 777-300ER's and 8 Boeing 777-200LR's from Asiomerica.

#### **Second SkyWayz quit**

AirFlorida left the SkyWayz Alliance for a second time by joining AirTeam on June 6th, 2021.

## Ownership

AirFlorida is a part of the AirFlorida Group, a large international airline group, that also owns Braniff, Continental Airlines and AirTran Airways.

## Destinations

As of May 5th 2021, AirFlorida operates passenger and cargo flights from its hubs in Daytona Beach, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, Fort Myers, Gainesville, Key West, Miami, Orlando-International, Orlando-Melbourne, Orlando-Sanford, Sarasota-Bradenton, Tampa and West Palm Beach to, North and South America, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean and the Middle East. The airline’s route network includes over 120 destinations. Following is a list of destinations the airline flies to according to its scheduled services. It also includes cities served by the airline's former subsidiary and AirFlorida Express.

### Passenger Destinations

AirFlorida currently operates passenger flights to over 200 destinations in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

### Cargo Destinations

AirFlorida operates cargo services under the AirFlorida Cargo brand on the following routes.

## Codeshare agreements

AirFlorida has codeshare agreements with the following airlines:

* Air Israel
* AirTran Airways
* Braniff
* Continental Air Lines
* Duvia Air
* FlyBratislava
* Locair
* Smartwings
* Spark Airways
* Wakanda Airlines

## Fleet

As of August 2023, the AirFlorida fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Configuration legend:

 **Y** | Main Cabin

### Express fleet

AirFlorida has AirTran Airways operating regional flights under the AirFlorida Express brand.

### Cargo fleet

AirFlorida has plans to start cargo operations in late 2023.

### Corporate fleet

AirFlorida offers VIP Charter flights with the following aircraft.

### Special liveries

AirFlorida has challenged itself by creating a number of special liveries.

### Historic fleet

AirFlorida has in the past operated a large number of aircraft of many types including:

## Incidents and Accidents

* On May 11th 2021, a Boeing 737-800 operating AirFlorida flight 1632 bound for Orlando, successfully made an emergency water landing off the shores of St. Lucia, after a birdstrike with a large flock of seagulls resulting in the total engine failure of both engines. All passengers survived. The details of the accident are still being investigated by the NTSB and Continental Airlines (AirFlorida).

## Gallery

Former AirFlorida/SkyWayz Alliance logoCurrent AirFlorida logo