Alaska Seaplanes is the only commuter airline service in competition with Alaska Airlines in Southeast Alaska.
“It was the difficult decision that came, it came after much deliberation — months and months of deliberation,” he said. “[I] think this is probably the hardest decision I’ve been involved in personally in my 30 plus years of aviation and Southeast. It just was not our plan to leave.”The airline offers twice-daily flights between Petersburg and Juneau, which allow residents to take day trips to the capital.
“With Wrangell and Petersburg, it’s just bottom line, the traffic and the ridership didn’t grow as we’d hoped,” said Ramseth. “One challenge that Wrangell and Petersburg have compared to most of our other communities is that we don’t carry any mail or UPS, and we don’t have so much cargo into those communities,” he said. “So that affects the bottom line too.”
The closure is indefinite, although Ramseth says he would love to be able to serve Wrangell and Petersburg again in the future if factors change.
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