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Alaska Air Group Reports January Traffic
2/2/2010 4:56 p.m. (PT)
Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE:ALK) today reported January operational results for its subsidiaries, Alaska Airlines (Alaska) and Horizon Air (Horizon).

Alaska Air Group Reports Fourth Quarter And Full-Year Results
1/28/2010 5:01 a.m. (PT)
Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE: ALK) today reported fourth quarter 2009 net income of $24.1 million, or $0.67 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $75.2 million, or $2.08 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Horizon Air Offering Double Miles on Flights Between San Jose, Sacramento and Spokane Starting March 26
1/26/2010 12:08 p.m. (PT)
Horizon Air is offering Double Miles for Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan members who travel on Horizon's new direct flights between San Jose or Sacramento and Spokane and between San Jose and Sacramento March 26 through May 31, 2010.

Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air Offer Incentive To Donate Frequent Flier Miles For Haiti Relief Efforts
1/15/2010 5:11 p.m. (PT)
Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air have established a program for Mileage Plan members to donate frequent flier miles to charitable groups involved in the relief effort in Haiti.

Alaska Airlines To Use RNP Precision Approach Technology At Two Alaska Airports
1/14/2010 8:16 a.m. (PT)
Alaska Airlines today will begin using Required Navigation Performance (RNP) precision approach technology to land aircraft in Adak, Alaska, and in March will use improved procedures to land in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air To Be Official Airlines Of Portland Rose Festival
1/13/2010 12:49 p.m. (PT)
Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air announced today they will be the Official Airlines of the Portland Rose Festival, the area's largest community event.

Horizon Makes Aviation History with First WAAS Flight
1/8/2010 10:42 a.m. (PT)
On Dec. 30, 2009, Horizon Air became the first scheduled-service passenger carrier to operate a flight using Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) technology. The flight, on the airline's popular Portland-to-Seattle route, was flown by one of Horizon's 76-seat Bombardier Q400 turboprops.

Alaska Air Group To Announce Financial Results
1/7/2010 1:44 p.m. (PT)
Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE: ALK), the parent company of Alaska Airlines, Inc., and Horizon Air Industries, Inc., will announce its fourth quarter and full year 2009 financial results on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010.

Alaska Air Group Reports December Traffic
1/5/2010 2:41 p.m. (PT)
Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE:ALK) today reported December operational results for its subsidiaries, Alaska Airlines (Alaska) and Horizon Air (Horizon).

Horizon Air Offers Fares Starting at $99 for Los Angeles-Sun Valley Nonstop Flights
12/31/2009 11:09 a.m. (PT)
Los Angeles - Southern California winter sports enthusiasts seeking to experience the legendary slopes of Sun Valley, Idaho, can now fly there on Horizon Air's daily nonstop service from Los Angeles for as low as $99 each way.

Horizon Air Flight Attendant Joins Relief Effort in Samoa
12/21/2009 9:39 a.m. (PT)
After the Sept. 29 earthquake and subsequent tsunamis devastated the Samoan Islands region, Horizon Air flight attendant Ty Tufono organized several 10-person teams of medical professionals to travel there and aid victims in the hospital and in villages.

Every Stop is a Volunteer Opportunity for This Horizon Air Pilot
12/17/2009 3:11 p.m. (PT)
Karl Mariotti, a Q400 captain for Horizon Air, seeks out volunteer opportunities when he's out flying a line.

Inspiring Boy Scouts with the magic of flight
11/3/2009 11:34 a.m. (PT)
Alaska Airlines and more than 70 employee volunteers helped a group of Seattle-area Boy Scouts discover the magic of flight during the carrier's first Aviation Merit Badge Day. Sponsored in cooperation with the Chief Seattle Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the event attracted a sellout crowd of more than 160 Scouts.

Fall Season Blossoms In Pink at Los Angeles Airport
10/13/2009 10:35 a.m. (PT)
Pink is the order of the day for Customer Service Agent Maykel Guerra and the check-in area at the Los Angeles International Airport. Alaska Airlines airport employees and flight attendants based in Los Angeles are seeing pink during October to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Alaska Airlines Offers Permanent Fund Dividend Sale
9/29/2009 7:20 a.m. (PT)
Alaska Airlines launched a Permanent Fund Dividend sale today, with ticket prices as low as $89 for travel to and from Anchorage and Fairbanks, as well as savings on select routes between Alaska and the lower 48 states, Canada, Hawaii and Mexico.

Alaska and Horizon Employees Assist Some 100 Veterans Flying to National Veterans' Wheelchair Games
7/22/2009 6:30 p.m. (PT)
Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air last week assisted more than 100 veterans who flew in and out of Spokane for the 29th annual National Veterans' Wheelchair Games.

Alaska tops J.D. Power and Associates rankings
6/30/2009 9:34 a.m. (PT)
J.D. Power and Associates has once again ranked Alaska Airlines highest in customer satisfaction among traditional network carriers in North America in its annual study released today. This is the second year in a row that Alaska has come out on top in J.D. Power's independent survey of customer satisfaction.

Sip and fly: Complimentary wine tastings at Board Rooms
6/24/2009 9:46 a.m. (PT)
Alaska Airlines Board Rooms may soon be a Mecca for wine lovers as well as travelers looking for a relaxing place to wait for a flight. With the recent launch of the Featured Winery of the Month program, the airline is partnering with a different Washington vintner each month to host a complimentary tasting of some of the finest vintages the state has to offer.

Alaska Airlines Becomes First Carrier Authorized To Conduct RNP Precision Approach Flight Validations
4/27/2009 9:50 a.m. (PT)
Alaska Airlines became the first airline approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct its own RNP flight validation, laying the groundwork for faster RNP procedure approvals in the future.

Yakutat Service Agent Helps Eagles Basketball Soar
4/14/2009 12:45 p.m. (PT)
When the Yakutat Eagles girls basketball team cruised to their third straight Class 2A Alaska state basketball championship in mid-March, Ramp Service Agent Charlie Russell was guiding their success.