Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Elephantidae is the only surviving family of the order Proboscidea; other, now extinct, members of the order include deinotheres, gomphotheres, mammoths, and mastodons.
This in part because Delta goes directly to Sitka, while the Alaska Airlines flight usually bobs, making a stop in Juneau or Ketchikan that eats up an extra hour.
Alaska Airlines adds three more routes from Seattle. Things may be heating up again in the ongoing turf war for the Seattle market between Alaska Airlines and Delta Air Lines. On Tuesday, Alaska announced the addition of new non-stop routes starting this fall from its hub in Seattle to Nashville; Charleston, S.C.; and Raleigh-Durham, N.C.