{"id":2261,"date":"2018-04-24T08:33:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T13:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2018-04-24T08:33:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T13:33:55","slug":"alaska-air-succumbs-to-basic-economy-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Air Succumbs to Basic Economy Pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Well, The Greyhound-ification of the skies is now complete. Alaska Air, one of the last US airlines to resist the &#8220;no-frills&#8221; model to some degree, has announced that they will begin offering a basic fare to sell cheaper tickets for seats in the rear of the plane.\u00a0The airline also is adding a premium charge for passengers who want the more roomy exit row seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The fee changes \u2014 including what the airline is calling &#8220;basic economy&#8221; fares \u2014 were announced Monday during a conference call following the airline\u2019s quarterly earnings report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Click the link below for the full story!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/news\/2018\/04\/23\/alaska-airlines-basic-economy-exit-row-charge.html?ana=yahoo&amp;yptr=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alaska Air Basic economy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2262\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Alaska-Air-Cargo-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Alaska-Air-Cargo-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Alaska-Air-Cargo-768x315.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Alaska-Air-Cargo.jpg 782w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, The Greyhound-ification of the skies is now complete. Alaska Air, one of the last US airlines to resist the &#8220;no-frills&#8221; model to some degree, has announced that they will begin offering a basic fare to sell cheaper tickets for seats in the rear of the plane.\u00a0The airline also is adding a premium charge for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,868],"tags":[539,118,847,946,41,595,218,241],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-transportation-news","tag-air","tag-airlines","tag-alaska","tag-basic","tag-boeing","tag-economy","tag-jetblue","tag-virgin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}