Tower Air was a low-fare and charter airline that operated from 1982 until 2000, when it declared bankruptcy and was liquidated. The airline initially competed with People Express in the high-density U.S. domestic market, but switched to international flights in the mid-1980s.
The company won many contracts from the United States Department of Defense to transport U.S. armed personnel to overseas locations: it also flew refugees out of Kosovo in the 1990s, and was often chartered to fly groups of Muslim pilgrims to Mecca.
