Welcome to the South Florida Aviation thread - 2022 edition. Please continue to post your news and discussions below.

Link to 2021 edition:
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Emirates going daily to Miami:
https://www.thenextmiami.com/emirates-p ... h-america/

I was looking at Flightradar24, and there is an Avelo 738 N803XT at MIA right now (2/8/22 5:30pm est) flew in from PHX and a Breeze E190 on final from ATL (N110BZ) operating as MXY6325. Any idea what these birds are doing here? Charters? Maintenance?
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Aer Lingus have announced the return of DUB - MIA from October 2022, 3x weekly.

DUB 15.30-19.45
MIA 22.00-11.15

FI sent 2x 752 here, to operate Cuban charters:




A nice change of aircraft scenery as Santa Barbara went defunct and of course, we retired all of our 752s at the onset of the pandemic.

lpdal wrote:

FI sent 2x 752 here, to operate Cuban charters:




A nice change of aircraft scenery as Santa Barbara went defunct and of course, we retired all of our 752s at the onset of the pandemic.

Nice photos, thanks for sharing them with us!

N62NA wrote:

lpdal wrote:

FI sent 2x 752 here, to operate Cuban charters:




A nice change of aircraft scenery as Santa Barbara went defunct and of course, we retired all of our 752s at the onset of the pandemic.

Nice photos, thanks for sharing them with us!

No problem! I was just thinking that, in the eight years I have worked at MIA, I’ve seen a lot of airlines that have gone defunct that used to fly here:

1. Santa Barbara (Venezuela)
2. Avior (Venezuela)
3. InselAir (Curaçao)
4. TACA (El Salvador)
5. Centurion Cargo (United States)
6. LASER (Venezuela)
7. Air Berlin (Germany)
8. MiamiAir (United States)
9. Eastern Airlines - the recent reboot (United States)
10. SwiftAir (United States)
11. TransAero (Russia)
12. Alitalia (Italy)

I’m sure there’s more that I’m missing, but it’s just weird to see an airline flying around your workplace and then find out months later that it’s gone.

I didn’t see it anywhere else, but the Eagle operation at MIA is all 175 now. All the 145s have been moved elsewhere or decommissioned.

MAH4546 wrote:

Air France will go double daily year round starting at the end of March.

In May, American Eagle will resume daily service to Columbia, resume Saturday service to Huntsville and begin new Saturday service to Chattanooga.

Are the Saturday only services designed to cater to people going on cruises?

dfwjim1 wrote:

MAH4546 wrote:

Air France will go double daily year round starting at the end of March.

In May, American Eagle will resume daily service to Columbia, resume Saturday service to Huntsville and begin new Saturday service to Chattanooga.

Are the Saturday only services designed to cater to people going on cruises?

Not necessarily. While cruises may be part of the demand for those flights, there are also connections to Caribbean tourist destinations. A decent chunk of those people will be on weeklong vacays in Montego Bay, Punta Cana, Barbados, Antigua, etc.

MAH4546 wrote:

American is finally launching non-stops from Miami to Asheville. Saturday service begins June 4th for the summer months

Ah AVL, my old sleepaway camp stomping grounds! Camp Rockmont!! I would fly FLL-ATL-AVL on DL, with the second flight being on ASA’s ATR42 and later CR2s

Echo 11 at MIA has been removed, and the new jetbridge is being installed. E11 was the last stationary (IE-non wheeled, non-moving) jetway at MIA.

lpdal wrote:

Echo 11 at MIA has been removed, and the new jetbridge is being installed. E11 was the last stationary (IE-non wheeled, non-moving) jetway at MIA.

The last relic of the "Super 80's" expansion?

Monitoring MIA departures lately and it’s been booming even overtaking CLT for the past month or so in terms of take offs and landings.Can’t wait to overtake MCO as Florida’s busiest for passengers.MCO benefits for being a one airport town SFB is relatively insignificant compared to how FLL dilutes Miami’s numbers and even so MIA still overtakes MCO in daily flights and right there in passengers 40 mill for MCO and 38 for MIA.

Whats happening in MIA today? It looks like almost all of the flights tonight on AA, and some other airlines, are severely delayed

maverick4002 wrote:

Whats happening in MIA today? It looks like almost all of the flights tonight on AA, and some other airlines, are severely delayed

Likely weather related.

MIA was hammered by late afternoon thunderstorms that resulted in delays for 4+ hours, and several MIA bound flights diverted to TPA, RSW, and MCO. The storm affected turnarounds for peak evening European and South America departures so it was a mess of an evening for passengers, crew and ground staff.
I watched the storm and airport activity on PTZtv.com which is a LiveCam link to several cruise ports, beaches, city and airport locations. For instance, the Maho Beach cam on St. Maarten is actually the airport, along with a separate cruise pier and beach view. I literally watched a family member's plane taxi and takeoff from SXM on Saturday from an airport fence location.

maverick4002 wrote:

Whats happening in MIA today? It looks like almost all of the flights tonight on AA, and some other airlines, are severely delayed

We had a lot of very active weather conditions here in South Florida yesterday. Things started moving again around 6:30pm local time.

Summer is here in South Florida!

Echo 11 is nearing completion at MIA

MAH4546 wrote:

Air France is further boosting Miami service. Effective November 1, it will operate 19 weekly flights to Paris. The new flight will use a 777-200 operating daily except Monday and Wednesday.

The existing frequencies will be operated by 77W and 359.

Wow. They must be doing extremely well to MIA right now. That was a once daily flight pre-pandemic. When does AA return to MIA-CDG (if it hasn’t already)?

Edit: I’m guessing this also coincides with French Bee starting flights. This may also be a way to run them off the route.

The Red Air MD has been relocated successfully and now repairs to MIA airport infrastructure begin.

Also I found an Antonov AN12 on the cargo ramp while doing a work run, pictures here soon.

MAH4546 wrote:

Looks like American will go daily to Tel Aviv starting end of October. With DFWTLV plans cancelled guess they are just moving that capacity onto MIATLV.

What happened to DFW-TLV?