Jay Honeck wrote:

One main reason Ozark was able to provide passenger service into Iowa City
was the rather lucrative air mail contract.

And the mail contracts were originally intended to subsidize growth of the air
transport system. Once the airlines were big enough, they were supposed to be
"weaned" of this sort of subsidy, and, in fact, that's what Congress did.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.