Alaska Airlines makes the “Top Ten” for safety

those living further east might consider Alaska for flights to Hawaii, Mexico, Alaska

Alaska has flights not involving the west coast, for example seasonally Minneapolis >> ANC. Having done that 6 hour flight on Delta in coach, I would pay a little more for the comparatively fabulous Alaska coach seat, as I noted here.

Lola, I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of Alaska Airlines. I’ve flown them for over 20 years and have been very pleased with the flights. Surprisingly, their fares lately to Hawaii and Texas have been better than Hawaiian (now partners w/Alaska) and Southwest. For many years, my family took advantage of their credit card program using the Companion fare. Nowadays, I travel solo mostly so don’t take advantage of that benefit but for 15 years, we totally enjoyed the discount on the second person traveling the same itinerary. And, yes, their seating is more comfortable than other airlines in my experience.

I too am a fan of Alaska Airlines. We have been flying with them for ages and have never had an issue that I can remember. We are headed to Alaska in a few weeks and used miles on Delta , so am bummed that we are not in Alaska, but oh well.

I’m in Fairbanks at present, even in January at sub zero temperatures. Have grandchildren, will travel! We have the Alaska Airlines Visa card that we use as our main cc. We fly DFW to FAI usually twice a year using miles and also the companion fare. We fly their version of main cabin extra for the legroom. I will say the flight attendants seem friendlier than other airlines and their fruit and cheese platters are pretty darn good!

I found Alaska Airlines very satisfactory going to London, had a 5 hour layover in SEA-TAC, a good airport for a long layover. All in all, a good experience. What surprised me was the duration of the flight from SEA-TAC to London was shorter that I had expected.

I suspect that the Seattle-London flight mentioned above was a code share. Perhaps with British Air or AA. Up until the recent merger with Hawaiian Air they only had narrow body aircraft that are incapable of nonstop flights to Europe. But it’s also possible that my memory is faulty. ;)

What surprised me was the duration of the flight from SEA to London was shorter that I had expected.

Tailwinds will do that.

Once flew SEA-ATL in less than 4 hrs. I was really counting on a bit longer nap time!

The Alaska Airlines credit card is the best in my opinion, especially without having to have a more expensive per year credit card offered by the majors, to get some of the same comparable benefits. Currently they are offering 70K miles, which is easily a RT to Europe if you book early, which I use Alaska miles on American. The companion fare as someone above mentioned, is also a great perk, 2nd passenger pays $99 plus taxes. Also 2 checked bags free if you are a cardholder. First year of card is free, $99 thereafter. I like when I call in that they have great customer service and phone reps from cities I am familiar with. I think all of the above are reasons they are growing by leaps and bounds.

Note, the card terms have changed for new accounts, so read all the fine print. You only get one free bag per person on your reservation and you need to spend $6k before you qualify for the companion fare.