Travel Suggestions
- Do NOT book your commercial flight early the next morning. The later the better. Better still, the day after that,
- Book a refundable/changeable ticket for your return flight home, and
- Purchase travel insurance.
Weather delays are always possible in the backcountry with bush planes.
The more cushion you give yourself before a committed departure flight home, the better.
Definitely don’t try to book something out on the evening of our return. Or the next morning. We be back by then, but there are so many moving pieces to these trips, it’s much better to not have the stress of having to re-arrange flight schedules. Even if it’s just for something simple like road construction delays or flat tires, or a healthy travel schedule is one with some slack built into it.
UPDATE:
We’re seeing more and more flight delays, connections missed, luggage lost, etc with major airlines. Typically, we can’t NOT re-schedule things on our end if you’re a day late, and sometimes even a 1/2 day late, into Alaska (we try, but it’ll be somewhat trip-dependent). As suggestion these last few years is to try to arrive in Alaska at our trip departure town 2 full days before our scheduled departure. Not one. TWO. That buffer just really helps avoid the chaos that unravels when things domino.
