Flights to Anchorage?

Does anyone have any suggestions for best airlines, flight times, and prices for flights from Orlando to Anchorage?

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"Best" is highly subjective. IMO, one criterion would be no more than one stop. Alaska flies non-stops to Seattle and has many frequent flights to Anchorage. American has non-stops from DFW to ANC and several flights from MCO to DFW.

I use Google Flights to help make the decision.

https://www.google.com/flights/

I use Kayak to find my flights. On that web site you can compare prices for several airlines at the same time.

Its an expensive flight for us. Limited offerings.

Living in the Seattle/Tacoma area, I fly Alaska Airlines frequently. All aircraft are 737's

There are flights from MCO to SEA. Then a layover and flights from SEA into ANC.

A short layover would get you into ANC in the very early morning hours.

Alaska Airlines is mileage partners with AA, DL, BA and others.

If choosing this airline, I'd do MCO - SEA,,, overnight at a local hotel near the airport (all of them have free shuttles) get up the next morning refreshed and continue on to ANC

Currently, prices for next May are about $400pp. (OP didn't give dates so cannot be more precise on costs)

If choosing this airline, I'd do MCO - SEA,,, overnight at a local hotel near the airport (all of them have free shuttles) get up the next morning refreshed and continue on to ANC.

Apparently, ANC is considered "international", at least in terms of connection time allowance. The AS flight from MCO arrives in the late evening and AS doesn't imposed a fare "break" for connections that are outside the normal four hours or first flight. Seems you could take any number of morning AS departures from SEA for roughly the same cost.

Interesting. Will have to try to see if HNL is the same. Learn something new every day.

Apparently, ANC is considered "international", at least in terms of connection time allowance. The AS flight from MCO arrives in the late evening and AS doesn't imposed a fare "break" for connections that are outside the normal four hours or first flight. Seems you could take any number of morning AS departures from SEA for roughly the same cost.

Maybe most of the high-yield business travel is southbound into SEA in the morning? Business and government people headed to the lower 48 (aka "The Outside") would start their travel in the morning to arrive at a reasonable hour. For the same reasons, northbound business travel would be afternoon/evening flights.

That could explain what you've noticed....AS is steering northbound leisure travelers away from the evening flights to keep the seats for higher-yield passengers, and onto flights the next morning with less demand. Just speculation.....