EAS is on the chopping block!!!
03-20-2017 | 10:44 AM
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So, get rid of EAS other than in Alaska?
03-20-2017 | 11:22 AM
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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.
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.
03-20-2017 | 12:04 PM
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With EAS on the chopping block airlines like Great Lakes and some of the routes regionals currently fly will be eliminated.
The cost of 211 million a year for half empty flights is deserving of the cut.
Although this will increase the number of pilots in the short term I am sure in the long run it will be better for pilots by eliminating low paying airline jobs.
If the market is big enough and the feed important enough the airlines will pick up the tab and keep the route open.
The cost of 211 million a year for half empty flights is deserving of the cut.
Although this will increase the number of pilots in the short term I am sure in the long run it will be better for pilots by eliminating low paying airline jobs.
If the market is big enough and the feed important enough the airlines will pick up the tab and keep the route open.
Thank god that it's on the chopping block. MASSIVE waste of taxpayer money
03-20-2017 | 12:31 PM
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They have always been refered to as a snowmachines, natives call them sno gos, young guys call them sleds, this guys a fraud, hes not alaskan, hes a new hire based in denver flying for pen air, thats his only fight in the eas debate, he made a bad choice coming to an airline that only makes money on handouts, or he didnt have a choice, maybe penair was his only option. bottom line is most alaskans also see the waist in eas flying and would love to see it go away, next get rid of by pass mail, you guys want to see waist, google bypass mail in alaska
Say what now?
03-20-2017 | 12:38 PM
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The one railroad they do have is excellent. They offer some great vacation packages. 
https://www.alaskarailroad.com/travel-planning/packages
https://www.alaskarailroad.com/travel-planning/packages
03-20-2017 | 01:17 PM
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So yeah, if EAS is important to the state, let THEM fund it, not the lower 48.
03-20-2017 | 02:11 PM
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It's really small potatoes compared to the social entitlements and military pork.
I guess you have to start somewhere, this country has been bankrupted of generations to come.
I guess you have to start somewhere, this country has been bankrupted of generations to come.
03-20-2017 | 02:15 PM
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03-20-2017 | 02:36 PM
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03-20-2017 | 03:55 PM
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Why don't Senators and Congresmen lead by an example and take a pay cut?
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