Acker’s Gamble: Air Florida 1979-1982

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Acker’s Gamble: Air Florida 1979-1982

03-30-2019, 07:27 PM

Air Florida, under the leadership of Ed Acker, was one of the pacesetters in the new deregulated world of US aviation and briefly it looked like they were made of the right stuff. In the first of a three part series I start with the good years:

Acker’s Gamble: Air Florida 1979-1982

https://www.yesterdaysairlines.com/airline-history-blog/ackers-gamble-air-florida-1979-1982

With deregulation of the airlines in the USA the expectation was that an intrastate airline like Air Florida would be a force in the new post-regulation world and for a while that was true enough. The story of Air Florida is forever intertwined with the

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