On Wednesday, two years to the day after announcing that it would acquire Virgin America, Alaska Air (NYSE: ALK) rolled out some more changes to the route network it inherited from Virgin.
As part of the Virgin America deal, Alaska Air acquired 23 slots at New York’s JFK Airport. (Each slot allows one takeoff or one landing at a specified time between 6 a.m. and 10:59 p.m.) Virgin America used nearly all of these slots to operate flights to its main bases of San Francisco and Los Angeles. By contrast, Alaska Airlines plans to redeploy some of these slots to enable more flights to other West Coast cities where it has a strong presence — and where it faces less competition.
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Alaska Air Adds Flights at JFK
