The Alaska Marine Highway System on Monday released its 2022 summer schedule, making a full year of ferry sailings available for booking for the first time and allowing travelers to make plans through September 2022. The full-year schedule also provides for better-scheduled maintenance of the ferry fleet and aims to offer reliability for Alaskan businesses that wish to utilize ferry service as a component of their business model.
Sam Dapcevich with the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities spoke with KSRM:
“What’s new about this in the past, we always would take review at some point in the winter of a draft schedule for the summer. Now we’re able to push that up and release a full year’s schedule once this is adopted and finalized, which would allow for travelers to book way further in advance and it will allow for better scheduling of our maintenance on the ships and more reliability for businesses to plan around the schedule. What allowed this was Gov. Dunleavy forward funded the ferry system by 18-months and there was an increase to the ferry system budget by over $8 million. That is a big improvement, we believe.”
The Alaska Marine Highway System summer schedule covers ferry travel from May through September 2022. Reservations are available for booking at FerryAlaska.com, by calling 1-800-642-0066, or by visiting ferry terminal staff throughout the system. Fare information is available at FerryAlaska.com or from reservations agents.
Residents of the Kenai Peninsula are encouraged to provide feedback by emailing dot.amhs.comments@alaska.
