Alaska families struggle to return home due to flight delays

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Several Alaska families are among the many people across the country and world struggling to get home due to delayed and canceled flights, caused by poor weather conditions and staffing issues brought on by the omicron variant of COVID-19.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alicia Miner flew out of Bethel on Sunday thinking she would soon be in Ohio, visiting her family to introduce them to her 4-month-old son.

Clarice Freitas was finally able to return to Anchorage on Wednesday, after discovering her flight was canceled on Dec. 26 from Washington after visiting family in Pullman for the holidays. “We were able to rent a Jeep Wrangler at a different rental office later that night,” Freitas said. “We were lucky we found the because the roads were icy and slick driving to Spokane.”

 

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To change the subject, I wonder how Alaskans feel about our Senate President calling Arizona home during an interview with Channel 11?

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