While at home going through some old books containing pictures of me and my family from the late 2000s to early 2010s from when we first came to live in the US 
from Colombia 
I stumped across these 10 pictures my dad took while in Miami 
and it really surprised me, I found 10 photos of Miami International Airport activity from at least 15 years ago and it got me really nostalgic, I remember as a young boy living in Cali waking up early on a Saturday morning begging my parents to take me to the airport to see the American Airlines chrome Boeing 757-200 take off.
Since I know this forum has its dedicated fan base to old retro aircraft and liveries, I thought to myself why not share them. I edited them slightly to match the quality of todays standards but either way, here they are!
Early in the morning during reverse ops, my dad caught this TAM Boeing 777-300ER from São Paulo, Brazil
not sure if anyone remembers TAM but they took over the Brazilian aviation market after the fall of Varig and remained on top until they merged with LAN from Chile 
creating modern day LATAM.
Now an airline we are all familiar with, US Airways A320 service up to Philadelphia which was one of their biggest hubs and even after the American Airlines merger, still remain as one of their most important hubs.
Now THIS aircraft in particular 100% has its fandom and in all for it, it’s absolutely GORGEOUS
American Airlines chrome Boeing 757-200 coming in this evening from Asunción, Paraguay 
a route that has unfortunately since been terminated on an aircraft that has also since been retired 
Since we’re going through memory lane already, this is the AA chrome B752 operating the flight ME and the rest of my family first arrived into the 305
from Cali, Colombia on and my dad had to do the honors and take this picture welcoming us into the land of the free.
Back to my dad alone at MIA in the early morning, here is the other half of LATAM, LAN or more specifically LAN Peru
Boeing 767-300ER service from the Peruvian capital of Lima, let me know down below, do you miss LAN and TAM being separate or do you prefer LATAM?
In the afternoon now, here is an American Airlines Boeing 737-800 coming in the from Boston.
Back to the morning once again, another AA B738 heading out into the morning gloom to Havana, Cuba
with the tower and modern day LATAM hangar in view.
From the sunrise to sunset
here is another chrome livery, American Airlines Boeing 777-200ER heading out to London Heathrow, UK 
the B772 is still prominent in AAs fleet even around 26 years after their introduction to the point I gave them the nickname “old reliable”
From old reliable, here is old UNreliable as even though a few examples were newer than some B772s, American threw out the B767-300ERs like this one coming from New York JFK
at the start of the pandemic along with their famous 757s. Flights between Miami and JFK, however, are far away from the scrap yard and are still successful till this day even seeing their biggest aircraft, the Boeing 777-300ER occasionally.
Wrapping up my late night finds is another lame old Boeing 737-800 heading off to Caracas, Venezuela
another route that has since ended for the most upsetting reason as the country continued to get more troublesome during that period 
hopefully the situation improves so we can get connections to CCS once again.
That will be it regarding my dad’s captures of MIA from the late 2000s to early 2010s, if you liked this topic let me know in case I decide to dig through more of his old photo books. Stay tuned for my upcoming IRL trip for spring break where I’ll head back to Colombia and as always between now and the next time, see you in the sky! 
