Alaska Airlines Announces Kids Fly Free to Disneyland® Resort Just In Time For Holiday Giving

Give the gift that’s sure to please the kids, and your budget, with an Alaska Airlines Southern California Vacation package where "Kids Fly Free" to Disneyland Resort. The popular promotion, whereby kids ages two to 11 fly free to Southern California, is now on sale for travel from January 4 through June 29, 2005. Packages must be booked by March 21, 2005.

For additional savings, guests traveling between January 4 and April 28, 2005, can also get "Kids Play Free" or "Adults At Kids Prices." This means that kids ages three to nine can receive a 3-days-or-longer Disneyland Resort Park Hopper ticket with the purchase of an equivalent 3-days-or-longer accompanying Disneyland Resort Adult Park Hopper ticket. Or, adults can buy their multi-day Disneyland Resort Park Hopper Tickets at kids’ prices.

Alaska’s packages include round-trip airfare, hotel accommodations, Disneyland Resort Park Hopper tickets providing unlimited access to Disneyland Park and Disney’s California Adventure™ Park on the same day, and airport transfers via Karmel Shuttle, where kids ride free.

Additionally, since Alaska’s Southern California Vacation packages can now be booked via the carrier’s website alaskaair.com, the airline also is offering 1,500 Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Bonus Miles per passenger for online bookings.

  Sample package fares (for one adult and one child):

   From               To Southern California
   Oakland            $429
   Seattle            $499
   Portland           $523
   Spokane, Boise     $536
   Medford, Eugene    $562
   Vancouver, B.C.    $718 (in CAD*)
   Anchorage          $734
   Calgary            $764 (in CAD*)

  *Price in Canadian dollars based on rate of exchange of 1.19 on 11/24/04.

Prices shown: Valid for travel between 1/4/05 and 4/28/05 and based on airfare for one child and one adult for off-peak travel. Prices also include 4 nights lodging at the Holiday Inn Buena Park with 4th night free (based on availability through May 26, 2005) and 5-day Park Hopper® Bonus Ticket with free child and airport transfers on Karmel Shuttle (ages 2-11).

Kids Fly Free (KFF) offer: Valid for one child age 2-11 per adult 18 years or older. KFF is not valid with any other promotional airfare offer. KFF valid for purchase between: 12/08/04 and 3/21/05 and valid for travel between 1/4/05 – 6/29/05. Day/Time availability: off-peak fares available Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Fares higher on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Blackout dates apply, see alaskaair.com for dates. Prices and rules subject to change without notice and other restrictions may apply. All terms and conditions of Alaska Airlines Vacations packages apply. Not included in the above price on a per-person basis (including child): Airport Passenger-facility charges of up to $18 (amount depends on itinerary), federal segment tax of $3.20 per segment (takeoff and landing) on your itinerary and September 11th security fee of $2.50 per enplanement (up to $10). And from Canada the following additional fees apply: U.S. user immigration fee of $7 from Canada, Airport improvement fee (varies by airport) from Canada. Canadian security fee of $9. Fares can fluctuate with bank exchange rates at time of purchase. Fares are nonrefundable. All prices are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated.

Kids play free offer: One free child (ages 3-9) Disneyland® Resort Park Hopper® Bonus Ticket is included with the purchase of an adult (ages 10+) Park Hopper® ticket of 3 days or longer. Only one free child ticket per qualifying adult ticket purchased at regular price. All Park Hopper® tickets include admission to both Disneyland® Resort Theme Parks and must be used within 13 days after first use, first day of use of these promotional tickets must occur by 4/28/05.

Packages are available from most Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air cities along the West Coast and in Alaska and Canada. Book now for best selection at www.alaskaair.com, or call Alaska Airlines Vacations at 1-800-468-2248.

In addition to Disneyland® Resort in California and Walt Disney World® Resort in Orlando, Alaska Airlines Vacations offers packages to Canada, Alaska, California, the desert Southwest, New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Nevada, Mexico and more. Packages are available in conjunction with travel on Alaska Airlines and its sister carrier, Horizon Air, who together serve 80 cities in Alaska, the Lower 48, Canada and Mexico.

For more news and information, visit the Alaska Airlines Newsroom on the Internet at http://newsroom.alaskaair.com/.

SOURCE: Alaska Airlines