flights between Miami and the Bahamas and soon between New York and Havana,
In 1920, a Florida
entrepreneur, Inglis Uppercu, began to offer international passenger flights
from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba. He later added other routes including
flights between Miami and the Bahamas and soon between New York and Havana,
picking up passengers at stops along the way. He even extended his service to
the Midwest, flying between Cleveland, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan. His
Aeromarine Airways' 15 flying boats, dubbed “airborne limousines,” made more
than 2,000 scheduled flights and carried nearly 10,000 passengers. But one of their
planes crashed off the coast of Florida, four passengers drowned, and
Aeromarine Airways went out of business in 1924.