4/28/2016

From Anchorage to Port Alsworth

Just a few random photos displaying the variety of scenery you will see during the hour long flight
from Merrill Field, through the narrows, and over Lake Clark.
A flight with Lake and Pen is a lot of things (fun, safe, awesome... etc) but dull is never one of them.
If you don't believe me, I dare you to book a flight with us and find out! 

Unlocking Alaska!

4/26/2016

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...



Good thing too, since Lyle is so awesome, Bones is just following in his daddy's steps. 
Unlocking Alaska!

4/21/2016

Pilots, Planes and Procedures, oh my!

The Lake and Pen Air staff had some intense work and fun at training last week!
 Tim obviously got bored with smiling and moved on too a more dynamic (or sleepy) pose.
When it's 50 degrees in the middle of April in Alaska you just have to go outside and soak in the phenomenon. We used the excuse of needing to take photos by the plane as an opportunity to do so.  
Come join in on the fun and let our LPA employees show off their refined skills from these awesome training sessions by booking you on the best and safest flight you will ever take! 

Unlocking Alaska!

4/17/2016

LPA Gift Cards Are Here!


They're great for all sorts of occasions...
Happy Birthday!
Hairball Awareness Day - April 29
Mothers Day - May 9
"Let me help you go to the Fly-In" - May 28-29



Did you know today is National Haiku Day?
We came up with a couple about our gift cards...

Not here yesterday
Ruckus at the counter
Sold out tomorrow

Essentials for life:
Smoked Salmon, Sunshine, Planes and 
LPA Gift Cards.

Join the fun: add your own - about anything - in the comments!
1st line: 5 syllables      2nd line: 7 syllables      3rd line: 5 syllables

4/11/2016

New Staff!

Hello! Katie here. I’m the Kansan turned sailor and now recent acquisition of the Port Alsworth office here at Lake and Peninsula Airlines.
I wanted to update you because exciting things are afoot in our Anchorage office! To help you understand why I’m so excited, we’ll have to go back a little farther in my life to give this story some context. 
I grew up in Kansas since I was about ten years old. I didn’t always quite fit in. One thing that I loved to do after school was to run down to the creek behind our house and play in the mud with the frogs and pretend I was escaping from the long arm of the law. Search “every farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse,” well you know the rest. 
Every day at school I would ask a friend to come “creeking” with me. There was this one girl who would actually go with me. She was tall, slender, and graceful unlike me. My approach in life at that time was generally one speed and black and white. Even though she was on the delicate side with milky white skin and a habit of ending up in the hospital she always agreed to follow behind me in the mud, jumping over rocks and peering into large drainage pipes looking for snakes and other creatures. 
We grew distance as our paths diverged into different high schools and overseas (her to Italy, me to Greece) for years. Yet in college we somehow found each other again in the sea of rushing people, pressing issues, distance dreams and immediate desires of success. I still didn’t quite fit in. My wardrobe a bit too outdoorsy for the Kansas scene, words too blunt, and hanging out with the misfits in the swing dancing club. She was still tall and graceful. Driven in her job, multi-lingual and still with a large penchant for safety. 
Yet somehow our friendship worked. No, we didn’t go “creeking" anymore. But I dragged her out swing dancing and thrift store shopping. Class met brass and we made the best team. 
We finished college. I went to work on a schooner. She stayed in Lawrence, Kansas to become the general manager of the gym she had worked at for years. She was consumed but focused. Then a few months later I came back to the flatlands, took a “short” vacation to Alaska and never returned. 
She never forgave me for missing our lunch plans that following week, so… I asked her to come work at the new and wonderful place I had found in Lake and Peninsula Airlines. “My bosses are literally the coolest and kindest people I have ever met!” I gushed on the phone to her. “I live in an actual national park!”
She was looking for a change, but not quite the bush-living, moose-eating, snow-shoeing, berry-picking, four-wheeling, watch-out-for-the-pack-of-wolves change I had made in the last year. 
Thankfully there was an opening in our Anchorage office! 
And you won’t believe it but Lyle and Heidi saw all the wonderfulness and talent I had known for so long, and offered her the job!
AND she said YES!
So be sure the next time you stop by one of our offices in Anchorage or Port Alsworth to give our latest dispatcher, my dear friend and adventure buddy, Molly Fister a warm welcome to Lake and Peninsula Airlines!
You’re welcome to say, “You’re not in Kansas anymore, are you?” at you’re own risk. :-) 

4/08/2016

Wild Thangs

After a gorgeous, scenic bush flight who wouldn’t enjoy a wild[er] welcome like this? If you haven’t had the privilege of meeting Lyle - the owner and chief pilot of LPA, his wife Heidi - general manager of LPA, or their son Bones - pilot in training and major moose lover, then I highly suggest you come fly with us! 

Although, if you have met them I still highly suggest that flight!

Unlocking Alaska!

4/01/2016

April Giveaway!



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from our March Giveaway!