 50% of all cargo and personnel brought to the conflict were delivered by nonscheduled airlines, with special note going to Transocean and National Overseas Airways.The non-skeds proved to be the only non-military transports capable of carrying out such a colossal effort without receiving advance warning or impacting the domestic commercial network of the United States.Financial security was not the only benefit non-skeds enjoyed from their relationship with the armed forces, however—the respect of the military gave them a crucial ally in government with the potential to counterbalance the CAB.