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Fun with Math - Alaska Airlines
By John Maki
March 06, 2006
Monday PM
Recent Alaska Airline Web Special Fares:
Ketchikan to Petersburg - $169.00
Los Angeles to Calgary, Canada - $149.00
Ketchikan to Petersburg - 109
miles
Los Angeles to Calgary - 1,189 miles
Ketchikan to Petersburg - $1.55
per mile
Los Angeles to Calgary - 12.5 cents per mile
Alaska Airlines profit 2005
= $55,000,000.00
(Seattle Times - January 26, 2006)
John Maki
Ketchikan, AK - USA
About: John Maki has lived in Ketchikan since April 2005, and
finds math fun.
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