Alaska Airlines Reports Improved Operational Performance.Business Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 2001 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. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ALK ALK Alkohol (German: alcohol) ALK Alkaline ALK Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase ALK Automatisierte Liegenschaftskarte ALK Activin Receptor-Like Kinase ALK Alkylation ALK Srilankan Airlines (ICAO code) ) today reported record operational performance levels for the first 10 days of October. Alaska reported a 98.9 percent flight completion rate for that period. The flight completion rate is the percentage of scheduled flights scheduled flight schedule n → vol régulier scheduled flight schedule n → Linienflug m that are actually operated. It also reported an 87.5 percent on-time-performance rate, which is the percentage of operated flights that reach their destination within 15 minutes of schedule. "Outstanding work on the part of our employees, greater aircraft availability and fewer air traffic control delays due to a lighter schedule, have combined to increase service reliability for our customers," said Ed White, Alaska's vice president of customer service. Earlier this week, Alaska announced that it plans to operate at 100 percent of its pre-September 11 level by February 10. Alaska serves 44 cities in Alaska, the Lower 48, Canada and Mexico. 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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