Assembly backs Juneau-Whitehorse flights
Published Friday, October 16, 2009
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Stumble It!JUNEAU, Alaska - The Juneau Assembly has voted to guarantee the seats on three proposed round-trip flights between Juneau and the community of Whitehorse in Canada's Yukon Territory.
The Juneau Empire newspaper reports the city is taking on the business risk. If no tickets are sold for a 40-person Air North flight, the city pays $8,800.
If one ticket went unsold, the city would only pay the price of that one ticket. If the flight sells out, the city owes nothing.
Each proposed flight departs Juneau on a Friday and returns on Sunday.
The first flight would be in early December during Juneau's annual Gallery Walk. the next is built around February's Yukon Quest sled dog race, and the third is during the Alaska Folk Festival in April.
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When I lived down there, Air North was flying three times a week to Juneau. Did that end when I wasn't looking and they had to be bribed to start it up again?
Poka, Air North only does flights to Juneau during the summer. The article is referring to winter flights, but like Chenasteamer, I don't understand this snippet either.
It looks like Juneau is trying to remedy no trains and road access. To my out of Juneau deduction it would seem Juneau picked the dates with the best possibility of filling the 3 flights; i.e. good business sense as the city would buy the unfilled seats.
Possibly the BEST thing Juneau could do would be to sponsor/support the construction of a rail spur line into the state Capitol. That would drop the prices/expense of living there thereby increasing the quality of life for the city and would also enable our legislators with another route into the city when the airlines can't see to land.
Just my 0.02.
Its not the governments business to subsidize business for business.
Such a deal... for the airline. A guarantee of sold-out flights WOW! I bet every airline would love to have that deal.
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