Unalaska grasps for solutions to stifling price of airfare
The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages
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The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages
The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, fuel costs spiked across the nation, inciting a rise in air travel costs. Then a slew of factors compounded the problem: inflation, bad weather, pilot shortages and loads of people traveling sent those prices even higher. And in Unalaska, 800 air miles from Anchorage, nestled between the Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, those costs are landing a hard blow.