The only way to get into King Salmon is to fly. In the summer when all the fishermen and tourist are flying in by great numbers two airlines come in: Alaska and Pen Air. During the winter we are down to just Pen Air. There are two flights a day, one in the morning and the other in the evening. Most flights right now are called triangle flights meaning that you leave here and fly to Dillingham than on to Anchorage making flight time 2 hours and 20 minutes where as a flight from here to Anchorage is 1 hour 10 minutes.
Now you have to add in the weather. Which is always tricky. This weekend there were blizzards in both Anchorage and King Salmon so both airports were shut down. Anchorage was up and moving quite quickly but not here. My neighbor was suppose to leave on yesterdays morning flight. We had a blizzard on Saturday cancelling all flights. The airlines called her and let her know that her flight yesterday morning were canceled but she was booked on the evening flight. Yesterday afternoon she took her luggage to the airport to check them in and see how the flights were going. Now she had to face the other problem with Pen Air. Plane and Staff problems.
She was told that the weather was fine but that the flight had been delayed till 1 am do to maintenance problems with the airplane. Now she started to worry as her connecting flight in Anchorage leaves at 6am. She was told to call back at 7:30 to see where things stood. At 7:30 she was told good news. The flight would be leaving at 11:30 and she should be back to airport by 11. I drove her to the airport and never got a call to come pick her up so I am assuming she got on. Now I just have to hope that I make my flights on Thursday as I leave here on the morning flight and my connecting flight to Seattle is at 2 pm. No wonder one of the biggest topics in Alaskan politics is transportation.
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