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, Pan Am 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:


 * AirTran Airways
 * Air Unlimited​
 * Alaska Air Group
 * Bahamas Air Virtual
 * Braniff
 * Compass Airways
 * DanAir
 * ​ExpressJet
 * FlyAmerica Group
 * Fly Azori
 * FlyBratislava
 * Hazel Airlines
 * JaQuevis Air
 * JohnAirways
 * ​London Wings Airlines
 * Silver Airways
 * SMALL WORLD AERO
 * Smart Airline
 * Swedigian Airlines
 * Tanzanite Airways
 * Tatry Airways
 * Udom Air

Fleet
As of June 2021, the AirFlorida fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Express fleet
AirFlorida has Evergreen Air operating regional flights under the AirFlorida Express brand.

Cargo fleet
AirFlorida has plans to start cargo operations in 2021 with 10 converted Boeing 767-300ER's, to be acquired from Delta Air Lines.

Corporate fleet
AirFlorida has plans to start VIP Charter operations in 2021 with the following aircraft.

Special liveries
AirFlorida has challenged itself by creating a number of special liveries. Most notable ones include the five liveries featuring the main four South Park characters Kyle Broflovski, Stan Marsh, Eric Cartman, Kenny McCormick and Butters Stotch who's often said to be a main character although he's considered to be a secondary character. Among other special liveries, that AirFlorida plans to create are a Tampa Bay Lightning livery and a Florida Gators livery. On May 24th AirFlorida announced that it was developing a new special livery themed after the 1961 One Hundred and One Dalmatians Disney movie. This was later unveiled on June 7th. In late 2020 AirFlorida announced another special livery in development. This will be a Futurama themed livery.

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

Aircraft bases
AirFlorida bases its aircraft in the following way: