Alaska Airlines Says ``Quyana,'' Yup'ik Eskimo for ``Thank You;'' Eskimo Pies to be Distributed Throughout the Bay Area and Portland to Celebrate 20 Years of Service.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 1999-- 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) ) will be giving away over 200,000 custom-wrapped Eskimo pies to residents and travelers in the Bay Area and Portland throughout October. The special "Quyana" wrapping, which means "thank you" in Yup'ik Eskimo and is pronounced Kwee-ah-na, was created to celebrate Alaska's 20 years of service to Portland and the Bay Area. "We want to let people in the Bay Area and Portland know that we appreciate their support of Alaska Airlines," said Dave Palmer Dave Palmer may refer to:
Eskimo pies will be given out at local events such as fairs, festivals, and selected downtown locations, as well as on all outbound flights from Portland and the three Bay Area airports. In 1979 Alaska Airlines began providing three flights a day between San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Seattle and two flights a day between Portland and Seattle. Today Alaska offers over 140 flights daily from Portland on Alaska and Horizon Airlines to dozens of cities throughout the West and over 50 flights a day from Bay Area airports. |
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