Ozark Air Lines

Ozark Air Lines

IATA OZ	ICAO OZA	Callsign OZARK
Founded		September 25,1950 thru October 26,1986
Hubs		Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport
Fleet size		DC9-10: 7 DC9-30: 36 DC9-40: 3 MD80: 4
Destinations		Ozark Mainline Cities: 57 Ozark Midwest Cities: 21
Parent company		Ozark Holdings, Inc.
Headquarters		St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Key people		Laddie Hamilton (President 1950-1959) Joseph A. Fitzgerald (President 1959-1963) Floyd Jones (Acting President 1963-1964) Thomas L. Grace (President 1964-1971) Edward J. Crane (President 1971-1986) Lester L. Cox (Chairman of Board 1972-1986)
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Ozark Air Lines is a former commercial airline that operated in the United States from 1950 until 1986, when it was purchased by Trans World Airlines.

In 1998, the rights to the airline's name were purchased by William E. Stricker of Columbia, Missouri. Starting in February 2000, the reformed Ozark Air Lines provided service from Columbia Regional Airport to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Chicago. A year later the company ceased operations and sold its assets to the now-bankrupt Great Plains Airlines, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [1]

[edit] Trivia

Starting in the mid to late 1960's until the late 1980's Ozark Airlines Reservations Department utilized a special toll-free WX telephone prefix in New Jersey which could be reached only in certain areas of the state by dialing 0 and asking the New Jersey Bell operator to connect to Ozark's WX number which was WX-8300. The number could not be dialed directly by the customer and was only available to certain telephone exchanges where WX was available. The Former Bell System telephone companies completely phased out the WX service in the early 1990's.