Nonstop flights to Chicago and Newark Liberty International Airport in northeast New Jersey started in late 1946 , but nonstops did n't reach west beyond St. Louis and New Orleans until January 1962 . Nonstop transatlantic flights to Europe began in 1970 . In the late 1970s and early 1980s Air Florida had a hub at MIA , with a nonstop flight to London , England which it acquired from National upon the latter 's merger with Pan Am . Air Florida ceased operations in 1982 after the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 . British Airways flew a Concorde SST ( supersonic transport ) triserial between Miami and London via Washington , D.C. ( Dulles International Airport ) from 1984 to 1991
Air Florida Flight 90
Air Florida Flight 90
Miami International Airport