Chugach

I took that CO flight between SEA and ANC a lot back in the day. They usually ran it with 757�s and it was a nice ride...better than the 737�s on AS. Loads were hit and miss (pretty full during peak periods or right before/after shift changes on the slope, pretty empty otherwise) and usually a lot of mail and freight in the belly.

The only time in my travel career I�ve had police board a plane and arrest a passenger was on a CO flight in ANC.

Ford Fairlane

I, for one, would welcome the details on that one!

dliesse

Typical reasons for a tag flight under normal circumstances would be (1) as now, not enough traffic to run two individual flights, and (2) to position the aircraft for maintenance or simply better utilization. My greatest experience is with UA, so that's what my examples will be. An example of the first was their old DEN-DAY-CMH and DEN-SBN-FWA flights, while examples of the second type were ORD-SMF/OAK/SJC-SFO. The latter were often used for the afternoon flights out of ORD, which arrived too late on the west coast to simply turn around but had north-south flights available out of SFO (which also is where the maintenance base is), and for the mid-morning (~1000) departures eastbound.

Chugach

I was in F, and whatever happened occurred in Y. On a 753, which we were on that night, the F cabin is pretty well sequestered from coach but when they let us deplane a couple of FA's were talking about threatening/harassing language made towards the flight attendants.

Long story short, we landed in ANC about midnight. Taxied over to N5 (when ANC was remodeling the South Terminal, they stashed CO, DL, and US over in the old North Terminal for several years), and as soon as we stopped at the gate the pilot came on the intercom and in no uncertain terms told everyone to remain seated so that they "could take care of a little bit of business". Airport police came on the plane and hauled the guy off in handcuffs...he was not pleased. As soon as he was off the plane, the fasten seat belt sign turned off and the rest of us went off into the night. This was about 2008 or 2009.

I think it's an Anchorage thing. While that was the only time I've ever seen police involved, I've had multiple instances of passengers being pulled off aircraft in ANC prior to departure due to intoxication. And I've never had it happen anywhere else.

Ford Fairlane

Thank you for that.

After the next dispensation begins (A.C.E., After the COVID-19 Era), I will defintely book some trips to ANC based on your anecdotes. The greater chance of seeing someone hauled off a plane in cuffs is hard to resist after sheltering in place alone for weeks now already.

nomiiiii

I'm booking on a SEA-JNU-GST flight (to/from) for the summer with only a 30 minute stop in Juneau and the flight number is the same. So seems like that is a regular tag flight that they've run even before this covid mess

jerry a. laska

Normal flight for SE Alaska. The flight used to pick up an agent or two in JNU to work the counter/boarding in GST for the departure (I'm assuming it may still).

Chugach

That flight has been around for decades. Nothing to worry about.

Intl359Widget

I used to work for Continental and it was tough to get on the IAH-SEA segment as a stand by but First Class was easier to get on SEA-ANC and v.v.

They'd run the Boeing 757-300 every now and the summer seasonal non-stop.

Intl359Widget

This was most likely 2009 as I recall learning about the incident occurring the same week that I was in ANC.

Toshbaf

From my experience, police in ANC would be waiting at the gate for an arriving plane from somewhere else in Alaska. Upon arrival, they'd take a man into custody. I think I saw it twice.

Mehdron

Tag flight, version 1999. I flew SEA-BTM-BZN on a Horizon Fokker 28. What's old is new.

ctporter

Im actually booked on a SEA RDU CHS tag flight, it was a direct SEA CHS when I booked it for May 2, but was changed to the SEA RDU CHS a few days ago. My return on May 3 still shows as a CHS SEA direct. It doesn't seem as if there is any time at RDU, so it will be interesting to see how it actually goes.

PV_Premier

I haven't been following the route updates or cancelations/suspensions, etc... but I'm a little surprised that MKE and DTW haven't been consolidated into a single 737 ex-SEA. Those routes always seemed a little thin to begin with. Same might be said for SEA<>ABQ/ELP.

Chugach

I am also surprised there haven�t been more tags than there already are.

Some of the obvious ones off the top of my head...

MKE/DTW
STL/MCI
AUS/SAT
ANC/FAI (existing route but surprised they aren�t running SEA-ANC-FAI instead of SEA-FAI)
LAS/RNO
PHX/TUS
TPA/MCO