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Old Sep 27, 2015 | 12:13 pm
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Originally Posted by Chugach
Looks like they flew an extra section Saturday to make up for it. I posted this earlier but I think they're going to have lots of nights where they don't even leave SEA due to the range limitations on the CR7 in case of needing to divert to ANC or back to SEA when JNU weather closes in.

They should have used the E-jets, IMO. Pretty similar capacity and the legs to get up to ANC in case of a diversion.
Extra range won't help them land in JNU. I do wonder if they've been putting passengers on AS flights, that don't have the same weather issues that DL has.
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