How Do You Book Intra-Alaska "Milk Run" Flights?
May 6, 2015, 4:24 pm
#31
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I get the milk run... but not the combi. What do you have against the combis? They *might* be my favorite plane of all time, partly because of their uniqueness.
May 6, 2015, 9:09 pm
#32
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I actually am going to be on a milk run flight for 3 separate segments: 65 SEA-KTN, 67 SIT-JNU, and 66 JNU-SEA.
I wonder if 55 minutes is enough time to connect in JNU...
I wonder if 55 minutes is enough time to connect in JNU...
Last edited by eponymous_coward; May 6, 2015 at 9:37 pm
May 9, 2015, 5:41 pm
#33
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I'm of the age now where I want to board from a jetway and be on a plane that has First Class - not cargo! - in the front of the plane.
May 9, 2015, 11:12 pm
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In Southeast the milk run flights are indeed daily, they are not always scheduled as Combi flights daily with maybe the exception of AS61 which is the morning flight SEA-JNU-YAK-CDV-ANC.
May 10, 2015, 12:31 am
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It's probably from having too many combi flights. There are some unpleasant memories of boarding from the tarmac up the back stairs in JNU, KTN, and SIT, usually during bad weather when I lived in Southeast. Is that something you can relate to in BDL & PVD?
I'm of the age now where I want to board from a jetway and be on a plane that has First Class - not cargo! - in the front of the plane.
I'm of the age now where I want to board from a jetway and be on a plane that has First Class - not cargo! - in the front of the plane.
May 10, 2015, 8:27 am
#37
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Not true...the SE AK milk runs are daily. What varies is the equipment used.
May 10, 2015, 10:53 am
#38
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When I flew up there it was scheduled to be jet service FAI-SCC-BRW and a combi on the BRW-FAI return. They swapped out equipment on the return, so we ended up flying back on a regular jet - fine with me, as I was in F.
May 10, 2015, 11:45 pm
#39
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They sometimes have equipment chanages on the FAI-BRW route, so there isn't a 100% guarantee you'll fly on a combi (cargo jet).
When I flew up there it was scheduled to be jet service FAI-SCC-BRW and a combi on the BRW-FAI return. They swapped out equipment on the return, so we ended up flying back on a regular jet - fine with me, as I was in F.
When I flew up there it was scheduled to be jet service FAI-SCC-BRW and a combi on the BRW-FAI return. They swapped out equipment on the return, so we ended up flying back on a regular jet - fine with me, as I was in F.
May 11, 2015, 10:13 am
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Do any of you have experience booking "milk run" flights between ANC and SEA? For example, I wanted to book AS 62 which is a direct flight from ANC-SEA, but it stops in JNU, SIT, and KTN...unfortunately, it doesn't show up online during an ANC-SEA search and trying to use multi-city gives me the usual error message since it's all the same flight number. Is it possible for an agent to book it over the phone? I'm MVPG so not worried about telephone booking fees.
Part of the reason I wanted to book this other than the "fun" aspect was that there is U space on every segment so I thought it would be a good use of a gold upgrade cert
Part of the reason I wanted to book this other than the "fun" aspect was that there is U space on every segment so I thought it would be a good use of a gold upgrade cert
May 11, 2015, 11:47 am
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Jun 19, 2015, 8:06 pm
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Happy Birthday to Me
I just booked AS64 JNU-SEA via the website (!)
^^
it was about $100 more than the nonstops, but I got the day I wanted next month for considerably less than the fully refundable fare which seems to be more prevalent on that particular trip
this will be a nice way to spend my birthday -- leave 0740 on the Combi, ~6 hrs in Juneau, back home ~2130
^^
it was about $100 more than the nonstops, but I got the day I wanted next month for considerably less than the fully refundable fare which seems to be more prevalent on that particular trip
this will be a nice way to spend my birthday -- leave 0740 on the Combi, ~6 hrs in Juneau, back home ~2130
Jun 19, 2015, 8:18 pm
#43
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I just booked AS64 JNU-SEA via the website (!)
^^
it was about $100 more than the nonstops, but I got the day I wanted next month for considerably less than the fully refundable fare which seems to be more prevalent on that particular trip
this will be a nice way to spend my birthday -- leave 0740 on the Combi, ~6 hrs in Juneau, back home ~2130
^^
it was about $100 more than the nonstops, but I got the day I wanted next month for considerably less than the fully refundable fare which seems to be more prevalent on that particular trip
this will be a nice way to spend my birthday -- leave 0740 on the Combi, ~6 hrs in Juneau, back home ~2130
Jun 19, 2015, 8:54 pm
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I knew it was absent with the "connection" in JNU, but I don't recall ever seeing it showing up for the "Inside Passage" segments ... not that I'd ever looked really hard for it while in the DC area for the last 14 years ...
Jun 20, 2016, 1:15 pm
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About to do milk run SEA-KTN-WRG-PSG-JNU.
Have seat 8a. Should be a great day!
Full trip:
LAX-SEA on DL.
Overnight
SEA-KNT-WRG-PSG-JNU
connection
JNU-SEA
connection
SEA-LAX
It will be a long day!
Have seat 8a. Should be a great day!
Full trip:
LAX-SEA on DL.
Overnight
SEA-KNT-WRG-PSG-JNU
connection
JNU-SEA
connection
SEA-LAX
It will be a long day!