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Alaska Airlines

About the Company

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. the airline has grown leaps and bounds from a miniscule local airline to an airline carrying more than fourteen million passengers. Linious McGee founded the airline in the year 1932 with the help of a used 3-passenger prop plane back in 1931.Alaska Air Group, Inc. is the holding company of Alaska Air, which is the 10th largest airline in the U.S. but having the youngest fleet. Horizon Air is a subsidiary of Alaska Air which also carries around 4 million passengers a year. Alaska Air is the biggest wholesaler of vacation packages to Disneyland in the U.S.

Flight statistics

Alaska Air has a fleet of more than 115 planes and going to more than 59 destinations. The airline carries more than fourteen million passengers in the year 2006 which was 2.5% of the total passenger traffic in the U.S. The busiest route on its map is the Los Angeles, CA to Seattle, Washington constituting about 1 million passengers a year and the next is Las Vegas, NV to Seattle, WA with 690,000 passengers a year.

Major Hubs

Seattle, WA - Tacoma International Airport
Anchorage, Alaska - Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
Portland, OR - Portland International Airport
Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles International Airport

Major Destinations

The airline flies to more than ninety cities which include both domestic and international destinations.

Domestic Destinations

Alaska – Adak ,Anchorage, Barrow, Bethel, Cordova, Deadhorse/Prudhoe Bay, Dillingham Dutch Harbor, Fairbanks, Gustavus , Juneau, Ketchikan, King Salmon, Kodiak, Kotzebue, Nome, Petersburg, Sitka and Wrangell

Arizona - Phoenix and Tucson

California - Burbank, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Ontario, Orange County, Palm Springs, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose

Colorado - Denver

District of Columbia - Washington, D.C.

Florida – Miami, Orlando

Hawaii - Honolulu Service starts October 12, 2007

Lihu'e - Service starts October 28, 2007

Idaho - Boise

Illinois - Chicago

Massachusetts - Boston

Nevada - Las Vegas and Reno/Lake Tahoe

New Jersey - Newark

Oregon - Portland

Texas - Dallas/Fort Worth

Virginia - Arlington

Washington - Seattle and Spokane

International Destinations

Canada - Calgary / Banff, Edmonton, Kamloops / Sun Peaks, Kelowna, Vancouver, Victoria and Whistler

Mexico – Cancun, Guadalajara, Ixtapa / Zihuatanejo, La Paz, Loreto, Los Cabos, Manzanillo / Costa Alegre, Mazatlan, Mexico City and Puerto Vallarta

Partners

Airline Partners

Frequent flyers on Alaska Airline can earn mileage miles also on its fifteen partner airlines namely Alaska Airlines, Air France, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Era Aviation, Horizon Air, KLM, LAN Chile, Northwest Airlines, PenAir and Qantas.

Car Partners

Alaska Airline frequent travelers can earn points when they rent a car though their car partners Avis, Alamo, Budget, Dollar, Hertz, National, and Thrifty.

Hotel Partners

Apart from earning miles on its partner airlines and car rental services the members can also earn miles when they stay in their partner hotels which are Hyatt, Crown Hotels International, Coast Hotels and Resorts, Fairmont Hotels, Delta Hotels, Hilton Honors, Marriot and Wyndham.

About the Website

The airline has a pretty eye catching website loaded with all the features that a visitor is looking for on an airline website. The visitors, who are looking to book a flight online, can do so, on homepage and can search flights by schedule, price and lowest prices for next day or a day earlier. The homepage also provides the facility of booking cars, hotels, vacations and cruises. The homepage also has link to deals page where visitors can find the best of deals. It also has a web check-in feature on the homepage using which passengers can print the boarding ticket in advance. The homepage also contains mileage plan login area which is the frequent flyer program of Alaska Airline. Overall the website has everything that a good airline website should have.