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Anchorage X
Aerosoft GmbH 2011
The airport of Anchorage
Anchorage Ted Stevens International (PANC) ist the most important
airport of Alaska and a destination for several domestic and international
carriers.
Beside Asian airline companies the German Condor and Swiss
Edelweiss Air are flying to Anchorage during the summer season. In
former times also the German LTU had flights to Anchorage from
Düsseldorf.
Domestic air traffic is dominated by Alaska Airlines, the Seattle based
homecarrier of Alaska. But also a lot of other US airlines can be seen
at Anchorage. The next important Airport of the so called lower48th is
Seattle and can be reached within a few hours.
Beside passenger traffic Anchorage is on of the most important cargo
hubs worldwide. In 2006 PANC was nominated to be the third largest
cargo airport worldwide.
The former Kulis Air national Guard base residing at the airport was
relocated to the Elmendorf AB in the north of Anchorage. But the
buildings and installations are still present.
Lake Hood: Located directly beside Anchorage International is Lake
Hood, the famous sea plane base. The lake is used by hundreds of
seaplanes flying into the Alaskan wilderness or little villages which
cannot be reached by car.
Beside Lake Hood is the landing strip Z41, used by aircrafts which are
often equipped with big tundra wheels which enable them to land at
rough landing strips.