He soon upgraded to the copilot’s seat and was working on 737s by the mid-90s. “It was very rewarding and challenging flying.”. “It was pretty windy across Southeast, really windy in Ketchikan.

Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Marcus says: April 6, 2020 at 10:53 am . Alaska Airlines has several routes nicknamed the “milk run,” but they all mean the same thing: short-hop flights between several communities. “A lot of folks, their final flight they’ll take the family to Maui and come back, one leg, into Maui or something like that,” he said adding, “And I always want to do the milk run. We’d get off in every station. #TotalityAwesome pic.twitter.com/CIKrrEKuFG, — Alaska Airlines (@AlaskaAir) August 21, 2017. The best flight is from Cordova to Petersburg.

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It’s just so beautiful, and it was just such a wonderful capstone to my career.”. Andersen was promoted to captain with the airline in 2000 and then instructor in 2003.

He was responsible for hiring and training some of the airline’s top-level instructors. History.

That’s something a flight instructor and pilot misses out on during a long career.

Russ has been with Alaska since 1990, and he’s an old pro on the Milk Run. Andersen is excited to spend more time with his wife, a retired flight attendant, and his family.

In the last week of April, a captain and senior flight instructor finished off a nearly 30-year-career with Alaska Airlines the same way he started it – flying the “milk run” through Southeast Alaska. The milk run route is well known for its short, bumpy flights, hard landings and notoriously bad weather of the Southeast rainforest. John “Hal” Andersen, 60, says that challenging flight is what hooked him on the airline. And so I had the great privilege on Monday and Tuesday, did five legs up to Anchorage and then Tuesday five legs back down to Seattle. His experience, and that of countless commercial and local pilots before him, is compiled in manuals for flying the milk run. She’s with her boyfriend and friends, and she’ll start talking about being a little girl and flying with Daddy on the milk run, because in the summer she would fly the milk run with me and stay on the layover in Anchorage and come back.

Andersen is  excited to spend more time with his wife, a retired flight attendant and other family members.

Andersen had the chops for this kind of challenge. And he plans to return to Alaska. And it was just the best day.

During his career, Andersen estimates he’s probably been on tens of thousands of flights.

But it was also Andersen’s choice for his last flights.

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The milk run route is well known for its short, bumpy flights, hard landings and notoriously bad weather of the Southeast rainforest. “For instance, we know that if you’re going into Petersburg you don’t want to come down the (Wrangell) Narrows with a strong — you know, on the approach to landing to the east, because the turbulence is really bad down there,” he explained. The milk run route is well known for its short bumpy flights, hard landings and notoriously bad weather of the Southeast rainforest. In Alaska, we call this the “milk run” this is commonly done on an Alaska route from Anchorage to Southeast Alaska to Seattle.

We’d get off in every station. In that job he was several layers removed from the line pilots who fly daily airlines routes.

Officially Andersen’s last day on the job was flying from Seattle to Phoenix on April 29.

It was a good workout. The milk run route is well known for its short bumpy flights, hard landings and notoriously bad weather of the Southeast rainforest. His experience and that of countless commercial and local pilots before him is compiled in manuals for flying the milk run.

In that job he was several layers removed from the line pilots who fly daily airlines routes. I mean things might not work out in practice that on paper should work. “My young daughter, she still tells as an adult, and it’s fun to watch her when I’m with her. Andersen had the chops for this kind of challenge. In the last week of April, a captain and senior flight instructor finished off a nearly 30-year career with Alaska Airlines the same way he started it — flying the “milk run” through Southeast Alaska. I’d show her the big bear or wolf or whatever’s in the lobby, and take her out on the ramp and say, ‘OK, here’s Wrangell, here’s Petersburg, here’s Ketchikan,’ and it’s a great joy when your adult children tell their friend about their childhoods and that’s a theme of it.”. It was pretty windy across Southeast, really windy in Ketchikan. Those routes bring in groceries, cargo and passengers to the panhandle and send out the region’s bountiful seafood catch. It was a good workout,” Andersen said. 60-year-old John “Hal” Andersen says that challenging flight is what hooked him on the airline. Hal Andersen. “There’s an opportunity to know a different world and see the world and travel,” he said. Andersen was promoted to captain with the airline in 2000 and then instructor in 2003. Meet today's #GreatAmericanEclipse pilots, Capt. He was responsible for hiring and training some of the airline’s top level instructors. “Of course the real hook the first time is the challenge of flying into these airports with the weather and the terrain and the short runway,” Andersen said.

But he also looks back fondly on the life it gave his family.

Having lived in Alaska for 45+ years, I wouldn’t willingly take the milk run.

In 1992 he left the Air Force for the job with Alaska Airlines, starting as a flight engineer on 727s. He also wanted to make sure I had a chance to see everything that was going on. And so I had the great privilege on Monday and Tuesday, did five legs up to Anchorage and then Tuesday five legs back down to Seattle. In American urban culture, a milk run came to describe the distribution of milk bottles by the milkman.On his daily route, the milkman simultaneously distributed the full bottles and collected the empty bottles from a previous delivery and would then return with the empty bottles back to the starting point.. Flying isn’t all in the past for Andersen. Your email address will not be published. on 72 Hours With Alaska: The Northern Part of the Milk Run, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), 72 Hours With Alaska: The Northern Part of the Milk Run. The route was also the first training flight Andersen did with the airline back in 1992. And it was just the best day.

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We walked by as the “igloos” from Anchorage were being unloaded with new ones from Cordova ready to go, probably full of fish. All rights reserved. He also was an engineer for the airline and helped improve navigational support for the flights.

“There’s an opportunity to know a different world and see the world and travel,” he said.

But it was also Andersen’s choice for his last flights.

That’s something a flight instructor and pilot misses out on during a long career. On the Final ‘Milk Run’ of Alaska Airlines’ Unique 737-400 Combi Paul Thompson. In 1992, he left the Air Force for a job with Alaska Airlines, starting as a flight engineer on Boeing 727s. He joined the Air Force, where he flew big tactical airlift planes, C130 Hercules Aircraft, which required landing short on remote runways.

He can still give tips to his grandson, who is working to be a pilot. During his career Andersen estimates he’s probably been on tens of thousands of flights. Steve Fulton and Capt.

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Flying isn’t all in the past for Andersen. “We have wind limitations in Wrangell and very extensive wind limitations in Juneau and even wind limitations in Petersburg based on the direction and velocity of the winds because of that very local micro climatology.”.

Officially, Andersen’s last day on the job was flying from Seattle to Phoenix on April 29.

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Flying our visual routes between Petersburg and Wrangell down.

“A lot of folks, their final flight they’ll take the family to Maui and come back, one leg, into Maui or something like that,” he said adding, “And I always want to do the milk run.

“We have wind limitations in Wrangell and very extensive wind limitations in Juneau, and even wind limitations in Petersburg based on the direction and velocity of the winds because of that very local microclimatology.”. Those routes bring in groceries, cargo and passengers to the Alaska Panhandle and send out the region’s bountiful seafood catch.

“For instance we know that if you’re going into Petersburg you don’t want to come down the (Wrangell) Narrows with a strong, you know on the approach to landing to the east because the turbulence is really bad down there,” he explained. The “milk run” from Juneau to Anchorage includes stops in Yakutat and Cordova. “It was very rewarding and challenging flying.”. And he plans to return to Alaska. May 4, 2020 by Joe Viechnicki, KFSK - Petersburg. Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site. But it was also Andersen’s choice for his last flights. The southeast milk run you can often find available as the lowest price mileage ticket.

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