Airport - Watch Order: Release Order
The Airport series defined the disaster movie genre of the 1970s, featuring spectacular airline catastrophes and star-studded ensemble casts in each film. These movies established many of the tropes that would become synonymous with disaster cinema, from dramatic personal subplots to large-scale destruction sequences.
While each film tells a standalone story with different characters and disasters, they're connected by tone, fictional airline companies, and most notably Joe Patroni (George Kennedy), who appears in all four films in various airline industry roles. The series was so influential that it directly inspired the classic parody Airplane! (1980), which lovingly mocked the genre's conventions.
Linear Timeline: Release Order = Story Order

Airport 1975
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.

Airport '77
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.

The Concorde... Airport '79
Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.
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