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1979 National Airlines advertisement

1979 - National becomes the first airline at Miami International to have their own Immigrations and Customs facility

Miami International Airport, Florida


Thank you to Francisco Caban for posting this image on Facebook. I cleared Immigrations and Customs at National's international facility in December 1979 when returning home on National's DC-10 flight from London-Heathrow. I also got yelled at by every Customs a-hole in the facility when leaving after clearing and stopping to take a photo of passengers in line waiting to clear. If I hadn't had my Aviation Department ID on me I probably would have been detained for hours. As I recall, National paid to have two widebody gates (F11 and F15) modified to accommodate the immigrations and customs functions so that their flights could go to Concourse F instead of crowded Concourse E and the E-Satellite. Of course, shortly thereafter Pan Am overpaid to buy National in a bidding war with Texas International and Eastern Airlines and after the purchase Pan Am shut down National's brainstorm of having separate immigrations and customs.


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