You're situational awareness is borderline alarming! I can't understand why a commute from Hawaii to ANC to make less and be gone on longer stretches of time would be a good idea compared to a California commute that pays more and has far better quality of life on the job. According to Flightaware, Alaska runs one flight a day between HNL-ANC which is 5.5 hours long. Meanwhile, HNL-LAX has over 20 flights a day including cargo carriers doing the run. Average flight time is 5 hours. What am I missing here?