Alaska can be a pretty interesting place to travel around in. Once you get out of the “big cities” (“big” being used in a fairly loose sense here) of Anchorage and Fairbanks, there are only a certain small number of places you can go by car. When you’re trying to get around a state as big as Alaska (more than twice the size of Texas) and most of the towns aren’t accessible by road, unless you’re planning on training for the Iditarod, your best bet is flying.
Because of this, aviation plays a huge part in Alaskan transportation, with six times more pilots per capita and 14 times as many airplanes per capita as the rest of the U.S. That’s a lot of airplanes, and a lot of flights.
And it’s also a lot of Alaskans that aren’t very happy about the proposed flight restrictions of CAPPS II.
Washington DC bureaucrats think we need their permission before we can get on a plane.
We think they’re wrong. They don’t understand that up here in Alaska, we use airplanes the way you use taxis.
And that’s why we, a group of Alaskans, are turning to the US District Court for help.
(via Mike)
iTunes: “Rasta Rave” by Aar from the album Zoo Rave 1 (1992, 5:32).