Alaska Airlines Vacations Introduces Washington, D.C. Packages.Business Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 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. is introducing a capital idea with its new vacation packages to Washington, D.C. Visitors can now enjoy the convenience and savings of a package that includes hotel accommodations, airport transfers, calling cards, guide maps and an array of optional tours that include the U.S. Capitol, the Vietnam Memorial, Arlington Cemetery and a host of other sites. And Alaska's award-winning service features non-stop flights between Seattle and Dulles International Airport or Reagan National Airport. To introduce the service, Alaska Airlines is offering Mileage Plan members 3,000 bonus miles in addition to the actual flight miles. To receive bonus miles, travel must be booked online by June 30 and travel completed by Sept. 13. Alaska Airlines Vacations offers packages for a wide range of budgets and includes a selection of hotels located near the Mall, Georgetown and Rock Creek Park Rock Creek Park: see National Parks and Monuments (table). , as well as a variety of airport transfers, including luxury sedans. In addition, vacationers can choose from a variety of tours that include an assortment of monuments, museums and historic sites: the White House; Smithsonian Institute; National Air and Space Museum The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution is a museum in Washington, D.C., United States, and is the most popular of the Smithsonian museums. It maintains the largest collection of aircraft and spacecraft in the world. ; the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials; embassy row
Embassy Row is the informal name for a street or area of a city where embassies or other diplomatic installations are concentrated. , Library of Congress and many more. And the packages offer tours away from the capital to sites such as George Washington's Mount Vernon Mount Vernon, estate, United States Mount Vernon, NE Va., overlooking the Potomac River near Alexandria, S of Washington, D.C.; home of George Washington from 1747 until his death in 1799. , Jefferson's Monticello, colonial Williamsburg Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. Colonial Williamsburg consists of many of the buildings that formed the original colonial capital of Williamsburg in James City County from 1699 to 1780, with all traces of later and Gettysburg. Alaska Airlines Vacations also offer packages to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Canada, Alaska, California, the desert Southwest, Mexico and Seattle. Vacation packages are available in conjunction with travel on Alaska Airlines or Horizon Air. Alaska Airlines Vacations is available at www.alaskaair.com, by calling 1-800-468-2248 or by contacting your travel agent. Alaska and its sister carrier, Horizon Air, together serve 85 cities in Alaska, the Lower 48, Canada and Mexico. For more news and information, visit the Alaska Airlines Newsroom on the Internet at http://newsroom.alaskaair.com. |
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