Alaska will use larger jet on southbound flight this summer

Alaska Airlines will use a larger aircraft on southbound Flight 64 for a couple of months this summer, adding about three dozen more seats to the capacity of the daily flight that goes from Anchorage to Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan and Seattle.

While the additional seat availability will help Wrangell travelers book a ticket on the day they want to fly, the need to bring in the larger aircraft was triggered by all the flyers from Prince of Wales Island communities who board in Ketchikan, said Scott Habberstad, the airline’s Anchorage-based sales and community marketing director.

“In...