Tower Air was a charter U.S. airline that operated from 1983 until 2000, when it declared bankruptcy and was liquidated. Initially it offered only international service, but during the mid-1980s it competed with People Express in the high-density U.S. domestic market, until that airline's demise in 1987. It was headquartered at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.
Tower Air was co-founded, majority owned, and managed by Morris ...
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Tower Air was a charter U.S. airline that operated from 1983 until 2000, when it declared bankruptcy and was liquidated. Initially it offered only international service, but during the mid-1980s it competed with People Express in the high-density U.S. domestic market, until that airline's demise in 1987. It was headquartered at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.
Tower Air was co-founded, majority owned, and managed by Morris K. Nachtomi, an Israeli citizen who had immigrated to the United States. After a 30-year career with El Al, Nachtomi joined a wholesaler and tour package operator called Tower Travel Corporation in 1981 and co-founded Tower Air one year later with Zev Melamid, Mordechi Gill, and Sam Fondlier. Arthur Fondlier, son of Sam Fondlier and the Chief Financial Officer of Tower, was a passenger in first class on Pan Am flight 103. His untimely death gave Mr. Nachtomi much more freedom in management and cost-cutting.
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