Earl Malpass
57:30 - 58:13
“If you saw that graph there where all the flights to— from Merrill Field to 200 rural communities, remote communities, uh, the impact that we have statewide”
- Speaker
- Earl Malpass
- Timestamp
- 57:30 – 58:13
- Transcript
- Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 15, 2026
From the transcript
It's important that everyone understands. If you saw that graph there where all the flights to— from Merrill Field to 200 rural communities, remote communities, uh, the impact that we have statewide, uh, when you start thinking about not only the The community is coming in for— they're going to do grocery shopping. We already know the first place that the— after the phone lands at Merrill Field, the first place it goes to is the highest number of departures goes right to Costco. And then it's— we know that the— then they go— next one down is the McDonald's and Wendy's and stuff like that. So we're tracking all that that kind of stuff.
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