The empty EAS flights are painful. Landing and coming to a full stop - checking in - and then departing as empty as you arrive is sickening. Dropping off 28 lbs of mail on a winter day is a waste of resources as well.

However Alaska does require some form of EAS. Perhaps a streamlined "no waste" version that is predicated on full or mostly full flights. A few of the towns I served may have been villages in some form or another for a few thousand years. I for one would like to see those villages continue on.