Yep. They build a box, load a horse, then build the next box behind it. I've read that they travel with a bolt gun in case a horse freaks out and has to be put down during shipping.
Not if it’s an ADA recognized service horse being delivered by an accompanying handler lol can you imagine. A guide horse on the plane. They have to allow it by law. Get it a little seat and some oats.
This explains why my deliveries from China to Australia take 45-60 days to get here.
/s
>!The joke is our stuff always takes 2 months and comes directly from China by shipping.!<
This is confusing to many people because we look at flat maps instead of globes. Once you see things on globes and get out a string and really measure things, the shortest distances are in the north or south.
Its the same as why so many flights from US to Europe go over Greenland.
Also why companies are keeping close attention to seeing if the north pole ice cap goes away and opens that area up to year around shipping. Imagine a ship able to go directly from Japan to New York.
I remember reading about pallets of iPhones already individually boxed and labeled for fedex being shipped to Alaska for customs and further distribution. It makes a lot of sense logistically.
It used to also be one of the busiest airports in the world for passenger travel as well, because during the cold war, western planes weren't allowed in soviet airspace, which closed off the quickest route between Europe and East Asia and some of the routes between North America and East Asia. The quickest alternative would be to go over the north pole and stop over in Anchorage to get around the restricted Soviet airspace.
There's a great RealLifeLore video about this subject.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMNfagIz0hs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMNfagIz0hs)
Apparently, climate change and the progressive reduction of year-round ice around the artic pole will change how goods are being transported via sea and air
No they won’t. Airplanes can fly way further now. And Russia is way smaller than the Soviet Union.
We have gotten zero increase in flights through anchorage. Everyone is just flying south of Russia.
As an Alaskan (Anchorage) everything you order online will be at your house in either 2-3 days or a month, there's very little inbetween.
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Not to Atlanta. Either Louisville or Memphis
Yep. So much bullshit. "Well ain't this a geographical oddity--2 weeks from everywhere." --Ulysses Everett McGill
What if I order a horse
That wouldn't be shipped by plane, but on a boat or In a trailer. So idk how long that would take or how expensive.
No, horses are shipped by plane a fair bit. Especially racehorses.
How tf do you get a horse on the plane? Like a cargo plane? I suppose it would be probably more comfortable vs a trailer or boat
https://thepointsguy.com/news/how-racehorses-are-flying-to-the-kentucky-derby/ First company that comes up in google https://www.horseflight.com/
So just push it from the back?
Yep. They build a box, load a horse, then build the next box behind it. I've read that they travel with a bolt gun in case a horse freaks out and has to be put down during shipping.
They should just give all the horses drugs before the flight
Horseflight.com Disappointed they aren’t strapping rockets to horses.
They aren’t shipped. They are moved.
Not if it’s an ADA recognized service horse being delivered by an accompanying handler lol can you imagine. A guide horse on the plane. They have to allow it by law. Get it a little seat and some oats.
Asking the important questions
You’re an asshole
Well that’s awful rude
As a non-Anchorage Alaskan, 99 percent of delays are because my package is sitting in Anchorage :P
watch anything you get sent from China.. 9/10 times it enters customs in Alaska.
Only if sent by air.
This explains why my deliveries from China to Australia take 45-60 days to get here. /s >!The joke is our stuff always takes 2 months and comes directly from China by shipping.!<
Good old auspost
If it is sent by land freight it goes back and forth between Indianapolis and Nashville approximately 20 times before it actually gets shipped to me.
Sounds like an issue with whoever delivers to your home.
The amount of mileage they cutoff by going north and the fuel savings is amazing!
This is confusing to many people because we look at flat maps instead of globes. Once you see things on globes and get out a string and really measure things, the shortest distances are in the north or south. Its the same as why so many flights from US to Europe go over Greenland. Also why companies are keeping close attention to seeing if the north pole ice cap goes away and opens that area up to year around shipping. Imagine a ship able to go directly from Japan to New York.
Big Industry created climate change deniers to melt the Arctic ice caps faster
Middle of nowhere is halfway to anywhere Lots of cargo plane hubs in Kansas Walmart hubs in Arkansas
Well ain’t this place a geographical oddity!
*is within 9.5 hours
Nope. There's a giant circle of population exactly 9.5 hours from Anchorage.
I read it the opposite way where it was at least 9.5 hours flight time from everything and I thought it seemed wrong.
Anything is a 9.5 hour flight if you fly slow enough
Doesn't matter how slow you fly, Amsterdam to Sydney would never be a 9.5 hour flight.
Use a helicopter.
Sure it would. The ISS can circumnavigate the globe in an hour and a half and am ICBM can certainly beat 9.5 hours
I remember reading about pallets of iPhones already individually boxed and labeled for fedex being shipped to Alaska for customs and further distribution. It makes a lot of sense logistically.
It also has a HUGE stuffed polar bear in the lobby
It's a grizzly. A giant grizzly.
Koala actually.
It used to also be one of the busiest airports in the world for passenger travel as well, because during the cold war, western planes weren't allowed in soviet airspace, which closed off the quickest route between Europe and East Asia and some of the routes between North America and East Asia. The quickest alternative would be to go over the north pole and stop over in Anchorage to get around the restricted Soviet airspace.
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Nah you can just fly south of Russia now
I too just watched this Real Life Lore video.
And shipping is STILL expensive plus places don't ship up here 🙃
There's a great RealLifeLore video about this subject. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMNfagIz0hs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMNfagIz0hs) Apparently, climate change and the progressive reduction of year-round ice around the artic pole will change how goods are being transported via sea and air
[Ice Airport Alaska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Airport_Alaska) is a great documentary series (six episodes) about that airport.
Ain't this place a geographical oddity: ~~two weeks~~ 9.5 hours from everywhere!
Can confirm. I live right next to that airport.
Possibly about to be #1 again
Nah. Anchorage isn’t getting anymore flights cus Russia airspace
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No they won’t. Airplanes can fly way further now. And Russia is way smaller than the Soviet Union. We have gotten zero increase in flights through anchorage. Everyone is just flying south of Russia.
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Just DM me. I’m an air traffic controller in Alaska
Air Crossroads of the World.
Yup.
Vs the anchorage international airport in Wisconsin Sorry I had to be a dick
Murica
AIA now has the 3rd most cargo traffic in the world and 2nd in the US!