John / Billybob
Even worse for those us who live in the Bush. Here’s an example of a recent trip to Denver. Leave home at 11 a.m. Get to Fairbanks about 90 minutes later. Get on another plane to Anchorage. Arrive in Anchorage at 6:30 p.m. Wait in Anchorage for the red-eye flight to Denver, which leaves at 1:05 a.m. Arrive in Denver at 7:30 a.m.
When it’s a trip to visit Mom in Orlando, we arrive about 5 p.m. the next day Orlando time after a lovely toe-tapping visit to the Larry Craig Memorial Air Terminal in Minnesota.
The writer is spot-on concerning the jet lag from all that seat time, especially considering many flights south start in the wee hours of the morning out of Anchorage and Fairbanks.
It’s not as bad when you live in Southeast, but just flying out of Juneau is enough of an experience. (You take off at the steepest possible angle and then take a sharp turn right to avoid hitting the mountain.)
Yeah, all of us who live up here immediately thought about the travel time problems campaigning from here to the Lower 48.