Well, shoot! I had been planning on writing an ADN opinion piece on the outrageous airfare prices that people out in the villages have to pay just to get to the nearest hub and writing letters to our Alaskan delegation in DC and here in our state about it. So much for whining, huh? I have wondered why airfare costs so much out here these days? Yeah, I know that it's rural-rural and that it costs more to offer services in remote places...but really, $1,000+ dollars just to fly you and your kid to the hub hospital, RT? And, that's just airfare. And just to the hub. It's about $2000 if you have to fly into Anchorage. And, that's not including housing, meals and travel in the city. The numbers just didn't seem to add up. So, if this becomes reality, we can expect them to go even higher?  Whoa!