<story><title>Polar Express – How Airlines are plotting a new-route to Asia</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/north-pole-air-route/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acwan93</author><text>Does this mean Anchorage&amp;#x27;s airport is going to get increased traffic again? I&amp;#x27;d imagine planes today have the range to not need a stopover compared to the Cold War era.</text></item><item><author>Svip</author><text>SAS was the first airline to introduce a polar route in 1957 to avoid Soviet airspace, making a stop in Alaska on its way to Japan.[1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;airwaysmag.com&amp;#x2F;today-in-aviation&amp;#x2F;worlds-first-com-trans-polar&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;airwaysmag.com&amp;#x2F;today-in-aviation&amp;#x2F;worlds-first-com-tr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>&amp;gt; Does this mean Anchorage&amp;#x27;s airport is going to get increased traffic again?&lt;p&gt;Anchorage is already one one of the busiest airports in the world for cargo. During the beginning of the pandemic, it became the busiest airport in the world for that reason (while people weren&amp;#x27;t flying, cargo still needed to be flown).</text></comment>
<story><title>Polar Express – How Airlines are plotting a new-route to Asia</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/north-pole-air-route/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acwan93</author><text>Does this mean Anchorage&amp;#x27;s airport is going to get increased traffic again? I&amp;#x27;d imagine planes today have the range to not need a stopover compared to the Cold War era.</text></item><item><author>Svip</author><text>SAS was the first airline to introduce a polar route in 1957 to avoid Soviet airspace, making a stop in Alaska on its way to Japan.[1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;airwaysmag.com&amp;#x2F;today-in-aviation&amp;#x2F;worlds-first-com-trans-polar&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;airwaysmag.com&amp;#x2F;today-in-aviation&amp;#x2F;worlds-first-com-tr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kortilla</author><text>Anchorage still gets a lot of freight flights stopping for more fuel. It’s an interesting airport to plane spot at since it is quite busy with large planes despite having so few (relatively) passengers.</text></comment>