Remember That Bridge To Nowhere? Here's A 2012 Version:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge

http://www.adn.com/2012/11/05/2682563/air-service-to-alaskan-island.html

Air service to Alaskan island ends despite new $75.5 million airport
By Mike Dunham — The Anchorage Daily News
Published: November 5, 2012

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Aleutian Island village of Akutan has a new $75.5 million airport -- on an island six miles across the water. Passengers will take a $100 hovercraft ride over the Bering Sea to catch their planes.

But the new airport has no planes, or at least no scheduled air service. And Akutan finds itself without regular mail.

Akutan, 766 miles southwest of Anchorage, has a year-round population of 75. But more than 1,000 seasonal employees work at the Trident Seafood fish-processing plant, described as the largest such facility in North America.

For years, air service was provided by PenAir. The small Alaska airline used a World War II-era Grumman Goose, an amphibious aircraft, to land in the harbor and taxi up a ramp on the shore of the town. The age and operational costs of that airplane led officials to start planning a new land airport in 1999.