Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
When United attempted a hub in Orlando
United’s Orlando Hub 1991-1995 In 1991, United Airlines which had long been an also-ran in Florida despite being the nation’s largest airline since the mid 1980’s (replacing Miami based Eastern which was by that time in terminal decline) announced they would build a domestic hub operation in Orlando. The airline intended Orlando to be the […]
Miami-Dade’s 2003 Metrorail plans…what happened?
Have a look at the plans for twenty years ago after Miami-Dade passed a transport tax. Twenty years later the lack of progress of this speaks for itself.
La Florida conversation – part 2
La Florida, the new book by Kevin Kokomoor, represents a comprehensive look at Colonial Florida. The work focuses on the central role Florida played in the origin of the United States. The book proves an indispensable work about Florida. Here is the second part of our two-part conversation with Kokomoor. You can listen to the […]
Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood Terminal 5 project now under construction
In March, we reported on the decision of Broward County to move forward with the Terminal 5 project at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The airport which covers a small footprint was the 34th busiest airport in the world in 2021, and the 9th busiest US airport for international traffic. So to say it is congested […]
Gulf Islands Seashore
Gulf Islands National Seashore is managed by the National Parks Service and contains seven different pockets in Florida and Mississippi. Below is an overview of the Florida areas in Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Escambia counties. Also included in the area are two historic forts, Fort Barrancas and Fort Pickens as well as several batteries used […]
Big Lagoon State Park
From the top of the observation tower at Big Lagoon State Park in Escambia County you can see Perdido Key as well as the entirety of the Big Lagoon heading toward Pensacola NAS.
Remembering the 1996 Florida-based rebirth of Pan Am, the most famous name in aviation
In September 1996, less than five years after the original Pan American World Airways had made its last flight (December 4, 1991 from Barbados to Miami) a new airline with the classic name took the skies. The airline was a marriage of the estate of the defunct Eastern Airlines and Florida Businessman Chuck Cobb who […]
Commercial aviation in Florida, a flashback to 2005
Below is an analysis of the number of destinations served by each airline that had a major presence in the state and some analysis of what happened to each airline since in Florida. Tomorrow we will print a list of destinations from each Florida airport served at the time. Destinations served nonstop by airline (includes […]
A conversation with Kevin Kokomoor about Colonial Florida, Part 1
La Florida, the new book by Kevin Kokomoor, represents a comprehensive look at Colonial Florida. The work focuses on the central role Florida played in the origin of the United States. The book proves an indispensable work about Florida. Today, we released the first part of a two-part conversation with Kokomoor. You can listen to […]
The Florida Squeeze 