GCI and Alaska Airlines announced in a press release that they will donate one million air miles per year for three years to Alaskan cancer patients traveling for treatment, in partnership with the American Cancer Society.
Cancer treatment on its own can be an enormous obstacle for those battling the disease, but for people in rural Alaska, traveling to get to the treatment is an added complication. These three organizations are coming together to try to break down those travel barriers and make cancer treatments more accessible.
“In the state of Alaska it’s very important to be able to provide that travel for their communities and our neighbors,” Thompson said. “We serve 19 communities here in the state of Alaska and only three of those are accessible by roads. So when we were looking at this program, one of the the things that we thought to ourselves is how do we make it easier for Alaskans to be able to get the treatment that they need in state and out of state.
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