Bored (yes I should be doing my training CD, but) and ran across this. I used to watch the "Banana Boats" go past AZ State when I was a kid and my goal was to be a Hughes pilot someday. Guess you can say I made it.

But, looking at the route map, can you imagine how little we would need Alaska if Republic would have had the balls to run a western airline?



and what about combined with this one?



I've always been interested in the "what could have been" in history.