Great Plains Airlines

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Great Plains Airlines was a regional airline headquartered out of Tulsa, Oklahoma USA with a hub in Oklahoma City. The airline was founded in 2001 but filed bankruptcy and ceased operations in 2004 after a bid for assistance through the Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB) was rejected. The airline's foundation was based upon giving Oklahoma non-stop flights to a number of destinations, ultimately to business centers on the east and west coasts, but poor management and increased competition into the Oklahoma market killed the airline.

To assist in starting the airline, the operating certificate was purchased from Ozark Airlines, an airline not related to the original Ozark Airlines, but a small airline operating Dornier 328JETs. The airline also took over operations of Ozark's two aircraft. ^[1]

The airline had several signature items, including Krispy Kreme donuts on breakfast flights, and the paintwork on the vertical stabilizers (tail) of their aircraft would change color from blue to purple depending on the viewing angle.

The airline's IATA code was ZO.