Subsidized mail is the only thing keeping service to much of The Bush, and most anything can be sent as mail.   We don't have Sen. Stevens to protect that anymore, so it is only a matter of time before it ends.   Subsidies are the only thing keeping year-round jet service in most of Southeast as well.  With the Palin Era decapitation of the government in Juneau, even Juneau doesn't generate much traffic in winter other than during the Session.   It is only a matter of time before getting to Anchorage or Seattle from any place in Southeast between September and May is going to involve a trip in a small plane to Juneau and JNU will have at most one or two flights a day each way.  When I retired in 2006, AS 73 north to ANC and AS 70 south to JNU were The Bureaucrat Express; everyone on the plane was a director, commissioner, or direct report commuting to ANC.   Today, most of those positions are in ANC and they go to JNU, if at all, during the Session.