The Alaska service to the Russian Far East was done (at one point) with 727-200 Advanced. My girlfriend at the time took a routing of LAX-SEA-ANC-GDX-VVO with her dad who lived in L.A -- this was summer of '95, I think. It was a summer-only route; they didn't do it in the winter at all, and apparently they liked having that 3rd engine as an added measure of safety. VVO is a long-time port, big city, major airport, full services. No range problems; ANC-GDX is about 2000 miles, GDX-VVO much shorter, and the official (commercial) range of the -200 Advanced is 2800 miles. GDX = Magadan VVO = Vladivostok -- Michael C. Berch mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Aug 28, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Matthew Montano wrote: > Prior to the 737NGs, I can't imagine Alaskan had any aircraft to get > from ANC to anywhere civilized in Russia. > > It is one heck of a long way and very deceiving on a Mercator > projection map. > > I know Alaskan serves a couple of posts on the Aleutian islands, but I > do believe they are seasonal. > > Matthew > (Disconnected as I write this) > > On 28-Aug-04, at 12:19 AM, Alireza Alivandivafa wrote: > >> They used to fly SEA-ANC-Russian Far East. Though the route changed, >> they >> always flew to Vladivastok and Magadan, along with a few other places >> over time. >> They had MD-80s doing it for a while, which is when they found out >> they >> don't do well in the conditions and limited their cold flying and >> shoot them to >> Mexico. I believe they flew 732 flights toward the end. >> >> In a message dated 8/27/2004 12:58:44 PM Central Daylight Time, >> DZTOPS@xxxxxxx writes: >> Alaska airlines flew (or flys?) from Alaska to Siberia I think--just >> a short >> westbound trip--not what you were probably thinking of.