Alaska Airlines

Alaska Airlines
IATA code :	AS
ICAO code :	ASA
Call sign :	ALASKA
Founding:	1932 (as McGee Airways)
Seat:	SeaTac , United States
Turnstile :	Seattle Anchorage Portland los Angeles
Home airport :	Seattle
IATA prefix code :	027
Management:	Brad Tilden ( CEO )
Sales:	$ 264 billion
Alliance :	Oneworld Alliance (2021)
Frequent Flyer Program :	Mileage Plan
Fleet size:	329 (+ 62 orders)
Aims:	national and continental
Website:	www.alaskaair.com

Alaska Airlines is an American airline based in SeaTac near Seattle .

history

From 1932, McGee Airways first started with a single-engine machine with three seats between Anchorage and Bristol Bay . The company name was changed several times through mergers and acquisitions and in 1944 the name Alaska Airlines was adopted. Between June 1949 and September 1950, the airline played a key role in the initially secret transports of around 49,000 Yemeni Jews to the new state of Israel. The sister company and regional airline Horizon Air was founded under the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 to fill gaps in the route network of major airlines in the northwestern United States. In 1985 the Alaska Air Group was founded as a holding company and one year later it acquired Horizon Air and Jet America Airlines .

Today Alaska Airlines is the seventh largest low-cost airline in the world. The company is constantly adapting new technologies; z. For example, Alaska Airlines was one of the first to offer flight tickets and check-in over the Internet , and to set up check-in machines at their airports.

In September 2011, Alaska Airlines was fined US $ 590,000 by the Federal Aviation Administration after breaking the rules while servicing a Boeing 737-400 , which resulted in a fire on board a few years later. In addition, the company had to pay damages for negligent behavior due to a lack of maintenance and two foremen were suspended.

In April 2016, the purchase of the airline Virgin America was announced. In 2018 the merger was completed and the Virgin America brand disappeared.

In October 2017, Alaska Airlines became the first airline to commission a conversion freighter based on the Boeing 737-700. For this purpose, the combined freighters are to be decommissioned by October 18th.

Destinations

The route network includes approximately 40 cities in the US , Canada , Mexico , and Costa Rica . The Russian East was also served in the past. The main hub is located at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). Additional hubs are located at the airports in Portland , Los Angeles and Anchorage .

fleet

Alaska Airlines Airbus A320-200

Alaska Airlines Airbus A321neo

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900 in the special livery of Spirit of Disneyland II

Alaska Airlines DHC-8-400

Alaska Airlines' Embraer 175 operated by SkyWest

Active fleet

As of April 2020, the Alaska Airlines fleet consists of 331 aircraft with an average age of 8.3 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats	Average age (April 2020)
Airbus A319-100	10			118	12.6 years
Airbus A320-200	49		eleven with winglets fitted	146	9.4 years
Airbus A320neo		30th		- open -
Airbus A321neo	10			185	2.1 years
Boeing 737-700	11		equipped with winglets	124	19.9 years
Boeing 737-700BDSF	3		Cargo planes	19,500 kg payload
Boeing 737-800	61		equipped with winglets	163	12.1 years
Boeing 737-900	12		nine equipped with winglets	181	6.1 years
Boeing 737-900ER	79		equipped with winglets	181
Boeing 737 MAX 9		32		- open -
De Havilland DHC-8-400	32		one inactive	76	12.2 years
Embraer 175	62		32 operated by SkyWest Airlines	76	2.6 years
total	329	62			8.3 years

Many Alaska Airlines aircraft are equipped with a system for Internet use on board the provider Gogo , which means that you can surf the web for a fee even during a flight, but currently only within the USA.

Previously used aircraft models

Former Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-400 in the special livery of Wild Salmon

Former Boeing 737-400C at Barrow Airport

Former McDonnell Douglas MD-83 of Alaska Airlines

Alaska Airlines has already used the following aircraft models in the past:

• Boeing 737-200/400
• Bombardier CRJ700
• De Havilland DHC- 8-100/200
• Dornier Do-328
• McDonnell Douglas MD-8 2/83

Incidents

• On April 17, 1967, came to the crash landing of a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation of Alaska Airlines ( air vehicle registration N7777C ) at the airport in Kotzebue (Alaska) , in which the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. The crew had forgotten to extend the landing gear before landing. All 32 occupants, 4 crew members and 28 passengers survived.

• On September 4, 1971, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 727-193 (N2969G) flew into the edge of a canyon while approaching Juneau Airport 35 km west of it during a heavy snowstorm. All 111 occupants (7 crew members and 104 passengers) were killed. The crew had initiated the descent prematurely due to a faulty navigation signal, the cause of which could not be determined (see also Alaska Airlines flight 1866 ) .

• On April 5, 1976, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 727-81 (N124AS) crashed while landing at Ketchikan Airport . After touching down with a tailwind, excessive speed and poor braking effect, the captain decided to take off . However, the reverse thrust could not be completely deactivated, so that full engine power was not achieved. The spoilers were then extended again and the go-around attempt was canceled again. The aircraft rolled over the end of the runway by 210 meters and was destroyed. One passenger of the 57 occupants was killed.

• On January 31, 2000, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-83 (MD-83) of Alaska Airlines (N963AS) crashed near Los Angeles , USA in the Pacific Ocean near Point Mugu near Oxnard ( California ). The machine was on the flight from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to San Francisco . The cause of the crash was the incorrectly determined wear of a screw nut on a threaded rod for adjusting the horizontal stabilizer , and changed, and thus inadequate maintenance. At first it was just difficult for the crew to maintain their altitude. When the threaded rod finally slipped out of the nut, the horizontal stabilizer began to oscillate loosely, causing the pilots to lose control of the elevators and thus of the aircraft. All 88 people on board died. (See also Alaska Airlines Flight 261 ) .

• On August 10, 2018 hijacked dispatcher the airline a De Havilland DHC-8-400 of Horizon Air , a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines from Seattle Center . After several risky flight maneuvers, the propeller plane, which should have been pushed into the sea by two F-15s of the US Air Force, crashed on the island of Ketron Island. The handler died; there were no other people on board (see also theft and crash of a De Havilland DHC-8-400 of Horizon Air ) .

Trivia

• Alaska Airlines traditionally handed out prayer cards with food until 2012. This has already led to complaints and a brief echo in the media.
• Beginning September 2015 acquired Alaska Airlines for ten years and 41 million dollars, the naming rights to the football - stadium of the University of Washington in Seattle. The Husky Stadium is henceforth named Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium .
• The vertical stabilizer of the airline shows the image of an Eskimo

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Alaska Airlines  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence of Alaska Airlines (English)
• Entry on Alaska Airlines in the online encyclopedia Historylink (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ israelnetz.com: American flight captain honored . Retrieved November 26, 2019 . 
2. ↑ aerosecure.de: Top 10: The ten largest low-cost airlines in the world (as of August 2007)
3. ↑ FAA Proposes $ 590,000 Civil Penalty Against Alaska Airlines ( Memento from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)
4. ↑ Jon Hemmerdinger: FAA grants single AOC to Alaska and Virgin America. Accessed March 31, 2020 (English). 
5. ↑ Alaska Air Cargo uses the world's first 737-700 conversion freighter - flight review (accessed October 2, 2017)
6. ↑ Alaska Airlines: Alaska Airlines Destinations , accessed March 27, 2018.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Alaska Airlines Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. April 29, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Airbus: Orders and deliveries. In: airbus.com. March 31, 2020, accessed on April 14, 2020 . 
9. ↑ boeing.com - Orders and Deliveries (English) accessed on April 15, 2020
10. ↑ Gogoair.com: Participating airlines ( Memento from December 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ accident report L-1049H N7777C , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 22 December of 2019.
12. ↑ Accident report B-727-100 N2969G , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 5, 2019.
13. ↑ accident report B 727-100 N124AS , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 5 February of 2019.
14. ↑ accident report DC-9-83 N963AS , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 6 of 2019.
15. ↑ Report on the plane crash on January 31, 2000 ( Memento of October 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
16. ↑ Seattle: Employees hijack parked plane and crash | aeroTELEGRAPH . In: aeroTELEGRAPH . August 11, 2018 ( aerotelegraph.com [accessed August 11, 2018]).
17. ↑ airliners.de: airliners.de - Prayed in Alaska
18. ↑ geekwire.com: UW inks $ 41M deal with Alaska Airlines for Husky Stadium naming rights article from September 3, 2015 (English)
19. ↑ aerotelegraph.com: Alaska Airlines changes its clothes ; from January 27, 2016; accessed on January 19, 2020