Please click on "original" below to see the largest image. This was a nice advertisement with a Delta Convair 880 pictured. Apparently Delta was the first airline at Miami International Airport to have nose-loading jet bridges installed on a concourse judging from their "exclusive" claim.

The old nose-loader jet bridges remained in place for 30+ years until the Metro-Dade Aviation Department totally rebuilt and expanded the concourse (originally Concourse 1, changed to Concourse H in the mid 1970's) in the 1990's and installed new apron drive extended jet bridges. Delta had a long-term lease on most of the concourse until 1987 when the lease expired and the airport took over the concourse and assignment of all the gates on the concourse. The airport had not charged Delta overnight parking fees from day 1 of Delta moving onto the concourse until the late 1980's when I discovered the huge discrepancy. The staff in the Properties division thought that the Delta lease included the aircraft parking ramps and Airside Operations had been instructed not to write sales tickets charging Delta for parking overnight when in fact they should have been charged. Some sort of settlement was reached with Delta for the back due parking charges though I was not privy to the settlement amount or how they calculated all the past operations and charges.