Eastern’s Trans-Con Eastern Airlines Eastern Air Lines, also colloquially known as Eastern, was a major American airline from 1926 to 1991. It was headquartered at Miami International Airport. From Wikipedia Eastern was bought out by Texas Air Corp. This was ran by the jerk Frank Lorenzo. Lorenzo single handily destroyed Eastern, New York Air, Peoples Express, the original Frontier, and Rocky Mountain Airways. Thousands of people lost their jobs, Lorenzo got richer.