Ravn Alaska will stop service to two of its 12 current destinations this month. Daily service to Kenai and Aniak will end Oct. 21.
Ravn Air Group, which declared bankruptcy in 2020, reorganized, sold off some of its aircraft, and continued on. It overlaps with Grant Aviation in rural Alaska, although Grant has no current service to Aniak, which is a hub for even smaller villages in the southwest Kuskokwim River area.
Rob McKinney is CEO of FLOAT, which owns Ravn Alaska. This year he launched a new commercial air carrier for international service, called Northern Pacific Airways. The company invested $6 million into a passenger lounge project at the Anchorage Ted Stevens International Airport’s North Terminal.
Northern Pacific Airways is envisioned as a new long-haul airline serving Asia through Anchorage, but plans have been delayed by the Ukraine-Russia war and other geopolitical tensions.
The news of Ravn’s downsizing comes at the same time Alaska Seaplanes in Southeast Alaska announced it was ending daily service to Petersburg and Wrangell, two of its largest communities in Southeast Alaska.
