Alaska Airlines Plans Anchorage -- Vancouver Nonstop, Increases Anchorage -- Portland Service.Business Editors/Travel Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2003 Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines, (NYSE: ALK) is an airline based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates hubs at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, and Portland International Airport. announced today that it will initiate non-stop non-stop non adj → ununterbrochen; (flight) → Nonstop-, Non-Stop- adv → ununterbrochen; [fly] → service between Anchorage Anchorage (ăng`kərĭj), city (1990 pop. 226,338), Anchorage census div., S central Alaska, a port at the head of Cook Inlet; inc. 1920. and Vancouver Vancouver, city, Canada Vancouver, city (1991 pop. 471,844), SW British Columbia, Canada, on Burrard Inlet of the Strait of Georgia, opposite Vancouver Island and just N of the Wash. border. and add a third daily Anchorage -- Portland non-stop. The new service will begin June 8. That same day, Alaska will add a second daily non-stop flight A non-stop flight in the aviation industry refers to any flight which does not involve any intermediate stops. Many laymen mistakenly assume that a "direct flight" is similar to a "non-stop flight". between Seattle and New York/Newark, which is timed for easy connections to the state of Alaska. All of the new flying is planned for seasonal service through early September. The Vancouver flight will depart Anchorage as Flight 102 at 1:01 p.m. and arrive in Vancouver at 5:19 p.m. On the return, Flight 105 departs Vancouver at 1:10 p.m. and arrives in Anchorage at 3:34 p.m. Alaska recently announced non-stop service between Seattle and Orlando. The Orlando flight, along with flights to Alaska Airlines' other East Coast destinations, is timed for connections to Anchorage, Juneau and other Alaska cities. The nations ninth-largest carrier, Alaska Airlines was just named 2003 Technology Leader of the Year by Air Transport World magazine. Alaska and its sister carrier, Horizon Air, together serve more than 80 cities in Alaska, the Lower 48, Canada and Mexico. For reservations go to www.alaskaair.com or call Alaska's toll-free reservations line at 1-800-ALASKAAIR (800/252-7522). For more news and information, visit the Alaska Airlines Newsroom on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the at http://newsroom.alaskaair.com. |
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