Mountain Flying Service

Mountain Flying Service is an air service based in Haines and Skagway in northern Southeast Alaska, at the top of the Inside Passage. It describes itself as the original Glacier Bay flightseeing company, with more than 24 years of flying in the park, and it is owned and run by a husband and wife team. It flies a single de Havilland DHC 2 Beaver, which it says has been fully rebuilt with many new components and fitted with ADS B traffic alerting.

Its summer flightseeing tours cross Glacier Bay National Park from Haines or Skagway, over tidewater glaciers, icefields and the Fairweather Range, with options for remote and beach landings. The company says its flights focus on how the landscape was formed, its wildlife and its human history, and that it has flown more than 60,000 passengers.

The company also flies charters between Skagway, Haines, Gustavus, Juneau, Sitka and Yakutat, and runs air taxi service across the region, carrying passengers and gear to remote spots. In spring, it supports mountaineering and ski expeditions in the St. Elias, Fairweather, Chilkat and Chilkoot ranges, including ski base camps.

It also flies fishing charters and cargo. The owner pilot has flown commercially since 1992 and has run rivers in Glacier Bay National Park, experience the company draws on in its tours.