> > I thought an airline couldn't even carry staff if they didn't have > > traffic rights? > yes I thinks JAL,KAL and Singapore have flights NYC to Anchorage > (ANC)-Tokyo /Singapore/Seoul > (depending on which airline we are talking about > and I belive all of them have a crew based in ANC JAL used to have pax flights between NYC and Tokyo that stopped in ANC. No local traffic rights between ANC and JFK, but non-revs could fly it. Great nonstop service. Now JAL flight numbers 5 and 6 fly overhead ANC nonstop between the two bigger cities. Korean at times has had pax flights from ANC to the east or midwest that non-revs could board. Singapore just has freighters through ANC so no pax opportunities. All 3 have major freighter operations via ANC where crew changes occur, but as far as I know, Singapore doesn't base any in ANC.