Originally Posted by
SNAnghbr
Little article about cold bay. Doesn't really add a lot to what is already known except that AS is in the process of moving equipment to the airport. Not sure how? Would that be by AS freighters or can you access cold bay by road.
https://www.kucb.org/post/alaska-air...d-bay#stream/0
Originally Posted by
ezak
No road access there, but it’s possible by boat, which might be the best way depending on how big the equipments are.
Most heavy equipment (really, most everything) coming out to the chain, including Cold Bay, comes on barges from Seattle. The state ferry also calls at Cold Bay (out of Homer and Kodiak) for rolling stock.
In the long-ago days of Reeve Aleutian (RAA RIP, my signature) there was a bunkhouse, cafe and shop run by the old Flying Tigers air cargo company at Cold Bay. Reeve used CDB as a hub, flying out to DUT, KQA. KVC, SDP, KFP, IKO and other villages on the chain. Adak and Shemya were served by a Electras (and later by 727s) out of ANC, and only stopped at CDB when weather or irregular ops forced it. CDB was not a terrific place to be stuck; trust me, I know. Oh how I know.