The perfect gift guide for the traveler in your life
Whether you’re spending the holidays at home this year in your favorite holiday sweater or flying Alaska to somewhere special, we have gift ideas for the travel lover in your life!
Give the gift of travel this #GivingTuesday to help veterans, children and great causes take flight
Join us and our Mileage Plan members in giving back, spreading kindness, and showing how together we can be a force for good on Giving Tuesday through our CARE Miles program.
Alaska’s Fantasy Flight brings out the kid in everyone and shows how kindness is the best gift of all
As someone who aged out of foster care, Tash Haynes, understands how powerful magical moments can be for children who are often over looked. Fantasy Flight helps them feel seen, heard and loved and gives us all hope. It reminds us how acts of kindness, big or small, can be the best gift of all.
Watch Alaska Airlines surprise college students with the “Gift of Travel” to fly home for the holidays
Alaska Airlines recently flew college students home for the holidays, many of whom are facing housing insecurity and 36 planes full of food to help stock the shelves of local food banks.
How Seattle Mariners’ Julio Rodriguez can score you a flight on Alaska Airlines
Baseball is back! And we’re adding Seattle Mariners’ Center Fielder Julio Rodriguez (aka J-Rod) to our roster as his official airline. Fans can score Alaska flights whenever he hits a home run at T-Mobile Park.
Season’s first Copper River salmon arrives in Seattle
The smell of fish was in the air early on the morning of May 16, as Alaska Air Cargo delivered 24,100 pounds of the season’s first shipment of Copper River salmon to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The Copper River salmon’s arrival marks the beginning of the summer salmon season and is highly anticipated by seafood lovers throughout…
Dog’s best friend: Alaska Airlines honors Iditarod mushers who provide best care
Mushing over 1,000 miles in the frozen Alaska wilderness is no easy feat. At the Iditarod Awards Banquet in Nome, Alaska, the mood is one of excitement and accomplishment as rookies, veterans and fans of the Last Great Race pour into the Nome Recreation Center to celebrate the culmination of the 2016 Iditarod. It’s no…
Aviation Day: 1,000 kids get a behind-the-scenes look at Alaska Airlines
Fly a flight simulator with a pilot, turn a wrench on a jet engine with a mechanic, evacuate an aircraft with a flight attendant, students had the opportunity to try their hand at all three at the eighth annual Alaska Airlines Aviation Day today. More than 1,000 Seattle-area youth gathered at the Alaska Airlines hangar…
Why we’re proud to celebrate pride
By Tammy Young, Alaska Airlines’ vice president of human resources Over the last several years, conversations about race relations, educational and pay equity, marriage equality, income inequality and social justice have dominated the headlines. These important themes have made their way from the airwaves to corporate boardrooms to dinner conversations and into our culture. Seattle…
Alaska offering family assistance for those impacted by Orlando shooting
By Andy Riffle, Chad Gabagat and Kevin Larson, Alaska Airlines GLOBE employee group As employees of Alaska Airlines, with a collective 30 years between us, we’ve always been proud to work for a company that is committed to supporting the communities it serves. As the leaders of GLOBE, Alaska’s resource group for LGBT employees and supporters,…
Celebrating a century of innovation at Boeing
3 p.m. June 30, 2016 update: Broadcast quality b-roll and photos of Alaska’s June 30 Boeing centennial event are available for download at the bottom of this post. By Brad Tilden, Alaska Airlines CEO This summer, The Boeing Company celebrates its 100th anniversary. With its Commercial Airplanes division based in Seattle, the company traces its beginning…
25 students experience a once-in-a-century flight
Twenty-five fourth and fifth graders recently had the flight of their lives. They were part of a select group of people invited to be on the very first passenger flight of a brand new Alaska Airlines 737-900ER with a special paint job celebrating Boeing’s 100th birthday. The students were part of a summer camp at the Museum…
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