Dad and i and another pair or two went to Alaska to fish yearly. The flight to Seattle was ok, nothing special. Remember as a kid riding in the back of the station wagon? Like that.
But leaving Seattle on an old dirty half seats, half cargo smaller commercial jet was the beginning of the adventure!
In Anchorage we had to wait a couple hours for a flight back down to Yakutat, the famous Situk River and super Capt. Mark.
Once the gate agent woman was so rude as to tell us to "just sit!"
One time my duffel was sent way out to the Aleutian islands for 3 days;To me, no accident, just pure hostility. My raingear, dop kit, and clean clothes...no excuse!
Another time most of our checked 70# boxes of halibut, silver salmon and red sockeye salmon was checked baggage "lost" by Alaska Airlines; We finally were retail price fully reimbursed, and the fish we bought lasted us a year almost as planned, it just wasn't the fish we spent $1000s to catch and swat mosquitos almost as big as...
On one trip I expected to see Brown bears across the 20-40ft wide Situk River, so i called Alaska to ask if I could bring $35 big can of pepper spray and holster.
"Sure you can, as long as you declare it and put it in your checked bag. No problem. We do it all the time."
Just to be sure I called back twice and got the same story from Alaska reservation clerks.
At the airport I told the guy at the front check-in counter.
By the time I walked to the gate, "it was confiscated" the gate agent told me!
What!?
Not enough?
I caught a last minute flight to Hawaii to be with someone, and Alaska wasn't my first second or third preference.
Sure enough, the long narrow plane was a boring decor of white walls and blue seats.
And the Flight Attendants mostly hid in the back kitchen for the 5hr daytime flight.
Southwest crews are almost always in a better, more fun mood; I've only been on 1 uncleaned plane flight.
One carrier has tropical decor partitions ,,, and Navy blue seats.
JetBlue use to have leather biz seats for Everyone and happy crews.
United may have to change it's name after dragging an MD off a plane for his overbooked seat.
The old guy on the Alaska plane tail is Not that interesting.
So what am I missing???
