AirTran JetConnect, an outsourced and defunct brand operated by Air Wisconsin
The service was attended by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, numerous other public officials, college and university representatives, Mennonite Church officials, AirTran employees, other athletes from colleges in the same conference, and fire and rescue personnel.
The demise of scheduled service for Nations Air occurred after the Valu-jet crash in the Florida Everglades created a huge backlash against small start-up carriers and the perception that they were unsafe from a standpoint of maintenance and training which grounded Valu-jet and forced them to redesign themselves through a merger and name change with AirTran, an Orlando based startup.
Frontier Airlines launched flights to Branson Airport with daily service to Denver as well as seasonal less than daily service to Milwaukee, which was formerly served from Branson through AirTran.
In connection with AirTran Airways, Grand Casinos began offering vacation packages on AirTran August 8, 2005.