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Alaska Airlines is an airline based in SeaTac, Washington State, USA, near Seattle. Has grown from a small regional airline into a company carrying more than 12 million passengers a year.
Its operational bases are in the International Airport and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Anchorage Ted Stevens Anchorage, Alaska. It also conducts significant operations in the Los Angeles International Airport and Portland International Airport. It has two business units: Horizon Airlines and Alaska Airlines itself.
Alaska Airlines' reputation of providing excellent service has given it high marks in publications like Travel + Leisure and Condé Nast Traveler. It is considered one of the pioneers in implementing technology. It was the first to sell tickets from your own website, to allow the shipment record for flying from internet and install automatic self-registration kiosk to get the pass to the airplane at the airport. Alaska Airlines was also the first to introduce digEplayer, portable entertainment system that provides movies, according to the tastes of the passenger, TV shows, cartoons, music and information of the destination city. Has historically been one of the air carriers largest on the West Coast of the United States and in the state of Alaska, with a strong presence in Seattle, Portland, the Bay Area of ??San Francisco and the Metropolitan Area Los Angeles (serving all of the five major airports in the Los Angeles and three in the Bay Area). With the acquisition of Boeing 737 aircraft art from 1999, Alaska began to cover most long-haul flights. In 2000, began operating between Anchorage and Chicago. In 2001, the airline was awarded the "slot Exemptions" by the Department of Transportation to operate a nonstop flight from Reagan National Airport in Washington (DCA) to Seattle, which was suspended after only a few days because the attack of September 11 of that year on the World Trade Center in New York. However, services were resumed the following year, with an additional flight from Washington National Airport to Seattle, which opened in 2004 and a nonstop flight between Washington National and Los Angeles. Other long-haul flights from Seattle began in 2002, including operations in Boston, Miami and Newark. In October 2007, Alaska Airlines plans to begin service to Hawaii, making a nonstop flight from Seattle to Honolulu and Anchorage as well as a service to Lihue, Kauai from Seattle. The regional airline subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air, is closely integrated into the operations of it, sharing many routes between the two. Alaska and Horizon Air are subject to the same parent company, Alaska Air Group. The frequent flyer program airline is called "Mileage Plan". Alaska Airlines is not part of any of the three major airline alliances, but in agreement with the airlines' Mileage Plan "include prominent members of SkyTeam, such as Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines, KLM and Air France, and members of Oneworld, including American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Qantas