Servicing small Alaskan Airports from Anchorage.

[Dobbins]

Has anyone ever hubbed in Anchorage?  I am creating a worldwide legacy carrier, and I currently have service to every single airport in the USA...except the Alaskan airports.  I opened up a hub at Anchorage and am serving about a dozen of the largest ones.  I am not making a ton, but they are profitable.  Here are a few details.

The current year is 1924
I am using Bristol Pullmans, 14 passengers.
Some of the rural Alaskan airports have as few as 0 passengers.

Can it be profitable to serve these airports from Anchorage?  If so, do I need a smaller plane, say 8 seats, or a larger plane with more like 30 seats?

Currently a flight from Anchorage to an airport in Alaska with 0 passengers with the Pullman will generate about $2300, which will just cover the gate cost.  I'll never make the money to cover the aircraft.

Or should I just serve them all from Seattle when cheap, small, long range aircraft become available in the 70s?

[LOT 737-300]

Has anyone ever hubbed in Anchorage?  I am creating a worldwide legacy carrier, and I currently have service to every single airport in the USA...except the Alaskan airports.  I opened up a hub at Anchorage and am serving about a dozen of the largest ones.  I am not making a ton, but they are profitable.  Here are a few details.

The current year is 1924
I am using Bristol Pullmans, 14 passengers.
Some of the rural Alaskan airports have as few as 0 passengers.

Can it be profitable to serve these airports from Anchorage?  If so, do I need a smaller plane, say 8 seats, or a larger plane with more like 30 seats?

Currently a flight from Anchorage to an airport in Alaska with 0 passengers with the Pullman will generate about $2300, which will just cover the gate cost.  I'll never make the money to cover the aircraft.

Or should I just serve them all from Seattle when cheap, small, long range aircraft become available in the 70s?

I can't speak for all the Alaskan Airports, but I think you can get a good, decent profit from ANC with an aircraft like that (don't know it's costs, so I can't say more, some more stats on the aircraft could be helpful, as the only aircraft I have good experience with are aircraft availble between the 1950s- early 1970s). For anything less than 5000, I usually go for anything in the x<20 seat range, maybe even x<15. If you can get the aircraft for under 1 mil, it is an even larger plus. I would look at first getting all the airports around the 600nm range that have more than 500 passengers first though. At least to help cover some of the costs here.