Originally Posted by
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No foreign owned carriiers are authorized to perform cabotage (the carriage of air traffic that originates and terminates within the boundaries of a given country by an air carrier of another country)
http://www.dot.gov/ost/ogc/subject/f...eCabotage.html
except, of course.......Virgin America
Actually, they would be allowed to pick up passengers in Anchorage if they wanted to make it other than a tech stop, but they would not be allowed to disembark previously-boarded passengers thru CIQ. In other words, they cannot sell flights between two U.S. ports.