Cargo can accept an hour or five refuelling in Anchorage or be half a day late. And cargo planes fly far fewer hours each day than passenger planes, leading to

Cargo can accept an hour or five refuelling in Anchorage or be half a day late. And cargo planes fly far fewer hours each day than passenger planes, leading to fewer movements per plane. OTOH the fact that the MD-10/MD-11 has a second life in cargo also is evidence that fuel burn isn’t the primary concern. And that’s cheaper than ever now, while being the primary operational cost. And weight (and thus fuel burn) is only one constraint, the other is volume. Anyway, this whole thing goes away by just adding a runway in Anchorage at most assuming anything like current demand. And especially after the still unresolved 737MAX saga there is very little appetite in commercial aviation towards increased aviation. We’re down to two people, that’s enough.