I'm not an expert in our Alaska operations. However, I am aware that their bypass mail system for healthy, nutritious foods is quite different from what exists in Canada. It has some benefit in the sense that cargo is tendered to whatever airline has the capacity to take the cargo, so it has a tendency to optimize use of any available aircraft going to any of the qualifying communities. There is, to some degree, some benefit in speed of delivery in that model. I also know that in Alaska, I believe, they don't have the same user-pay system, so the use of airports isn't burdened in the same way by the air carriers as it is in Canada. That's probably the extent of the value I could provide in answering your question.
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