On January 7, 1981 Piedmont Airlines added Orlando as a stop on its Charlotte-Tampa route.

No cachet was provided for the inaugural mail.

This cover was carried on the inaugural Piedmont Airlines flight from Orlando, Florida to Charlotte, North Carolina (where it was backstamped) and is listed in The American Air Mail Catalogue as PI-D27N.

The Orlando Postmaster autographed the cover.

The USAir (later renamed USAirways) purchase of Piedmont Airlines was approved by the Department of Transportation. The sale was completed in October 1987. The two airlines operated separately until August 5, 1989, when all operations and schedules were integrated. Piedmont ceased to exist on August 5.

US Airways was a major American airline that ceased to operate independently when the Federal Aviation Administration granted a single operating certificate for US Airways and American Airlines on April 8, 2015.