I used to commute ATL-SEA. It wasn't bad as far as commutes go because it had 7-day per week AS service once daily, and about 6 months of the year it went to 2 flights/day. Also, if you live in a city where mainline Alaska flies you will get commuter status which bumps all other non-revs except management and 'must travel' personnel. The commute to ANC would be rough as it's, depending on your originating city, a 4 hour flight to Seattle then a 3+ hour flight to ANC (and in the summer months these flight are ALL packed to the gills... read oversold). You might look into FedEx and UPS jumpseat flight options from your home airport as well. It would offer more choices... possibly. No matter how you look at it, East Coast to ANC would be a brutal commute on the schedules that AS works. Doing it more than twice per month would, I'd imagine, be exhausting. When I left last month, ANC and PDX were still taking over a year to hold for new hires. That stuff changes on a dime everywhere except AS. As was said earlier, expect LAX or SEA.