Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
OTOH, preCovid-19, DL had seasonal flights from ANC to other hubs such as MSP. For the OP, this would add options for travel to the eastern half of the USA and to Europe. The two daily MSP nonstops in the summer (IIRC generally flown with 757s) seemed fairly conveniently timed, including redeyes. Depending on the route, avoiding SEA when traveling east from ANC could save some time, but people will have different opinions about trying to break up trips with a connection in the middle versus picking a shorter flight combined with a longer flight.
MSPANC is operated 1x daily in the winter, scaling up to probably 3x in peak season (SEAANC tops out at around 7x daily for DL and there might be a couple seasonal SLCANC flights). I still think the OP might have issues with connection times. Objectively speaking, it's a hard sell when AS is running 3x more flights (during the summer cruise season it's basically operating SEAANC as a shuttle running 20x daily or more), but again, there's a reason why DL needs to undercut AS on price here. AS absolutely dominates the Alaska market.