{"id":9138,"date":"2020-12-18T00:50:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T06:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T19:18:16","slug":"alaska-airlines-adds-more-destinations-from-anchorage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=9138","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines Adds More Destinations From Anchorage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alaska Airlines continues to strengthen its presence at one of the airline&#8217;s key hubs in&nbsp;Anchorage&nbsp;with new nonstop service to three &#8220;sun and fun&#8221; destinations \u2013&nbsp;Las Vegas,&nbsp;Denver&nbsp;and&nbsp;San Francisco&nbsp;\u2013 and the expansion to year-round service to a popular fourth destination,&nbsp;Phoenix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come this summer,\u00a0Alaska\u00a0will fly eight nonstops from\u00a0Anchorage\u00a0to these destinations in the Lower 48: Chicago O&#8217;Hare,\u00a0Denver,\u00a0Las Vegas,\u00a0Los Angeles,\u00a0San Francisco,\u00a0Seattle,\u00a0Phoenix\u00a0and\u00a0Portland. Four of the cities on the West Coast are also\u00a0Alaska\u00a0hubs, which allow for improved connectivity for guests traveling to other locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly announced routes will connect&nbsp;Anchorage&nbsp;to more places that offer warm sunshine, big city vibes and the sky&#8217;s the limit on what to do. New service to&nbsp;Las Vegas,&nbsp;Denver&nbsp;and&nbsp;San Francisco&nbsp;begins this summer; the&nbsp;Las Vegas&nbsp;flight will be offered year-round with seasonal flights to&nbsp;Denver&nbsp;and&nbsp;San Francisco. The current seasonal flight between&nbsp;Anchorage&nbsp;and&nbsp;Phoenix&nbsp;will now fly year-round.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Anchorage-San Francisco&nbsp;flight \u2013 first announced in&nbsp;August 2019&nbsp;\u2013 was scheduled to start in&nbsp;April 2020, but it was delayed due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets for the new routes are now on sale at&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3014521-1&amp;h=622867381&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alaskaair.com%2F&amp;a=alaskaair.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alaskaair.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The demand for leisure travel in 2021 is beginning to return as our guests look ahead, and we&#8217;re offering even more nonstops to take Alaskans to the places they want to go,&#8221; said&nbsp;Marilyn Romano, Alaska Airlines&#8217; regional vice president. &#8220;We believe our guests will love the convenient nonstops to Vegas,&nbsp;Denver&nbsp;and&nbsp;San Francisco, in addition to our daily nonstop flight to&nbsp;Phoenix&nbsp;that&#8217;s now set to fly year-round.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Start Date<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>End Date<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>City Pair<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Frequency<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Aircraft<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>May 20, 2021<\/td><td>Year-round<\/td><td>Anchorage \u2013 Las Vegas<\/td><td>Th, F, Sa, Su<\/td><td>737<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>June 17, 2021<\/td><td>Aug. 16, 2021<\/td><td>Anchorage &#8211; Denver&nbsp;<\/td><td>Daily<\/td><td>737<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>June 17, 2021<\/td><td>Aug. 16, 2021<\/td><td>Anchorage \u2013 San Francisco<\/td><td>Daily&nbsp;<\/td><td>737<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Year-round<\/td><td>Year-round<\/td><td>Anchorage \u2013 Phoenix<\/td><td>Daily<\/td><td>737<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to&nbsp;Alaska&#8217;s&nbsp;continuing commitment to service at&nbsp;Anchorage, the airline partners with non-profit organizations throughout the state focused on helping those impacted by the pandemic. Alaska Airlines and Alaska Air Cargo are currently supporting residents across the state by transporting COVID-19 vaccines, including to some of the most remote communities in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;More than 1,800 Alaska Airlines employees call\u00a0Alaska\u00a0home, making our connections to the communities we serve here very personal. We&#8217;re here in good times and in difficult times,&#8221; said Romano. &#8220;We&#8217;re honored to play our role to make sure this life-saving vaccine gets to the people who need it most as quickly and safely as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/alaska185k3s-1024x650.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/alaska185k3s-1024x650.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/alaska185k3s-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/alaska185k3s-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/alaska185k3s-1536x975.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/alaska185k3s.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines continues to strengthen its presence at one of the airline&#8217;s key hubs in Anchorage with new nonstop service to three &#8220;sun and fun&#8221; destinations \u2013 Las Vegas, Denver and San Francisco \u2013 and the expansion to year-round service to a popular <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10174,797,3965,89,5637,8222,10701,10700,10339,5992,5670,2203,7313,10169,10176,1397,10173,10195,10171,868,10182,1103],"tags":[45,6518,4627,539,464,420,118,847,13104,3282,350,160,41,1235,1293,82,3998,1082,4380,10634,2493,1379,1774,2284,801,13103,6218,2725,4320,973,2188,7630,340,7348,2352,718,412,4452,3966,6006,10938,754,4637,6075,7155,6530,309,247,1055,1634,7877,5020,9064,1691,1658,11514,1916,10476,631,12391,1539,1013,3605],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline","category-airline-news","category-airport-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-consumer-news","category-coronavirus","category-covid-19","category-e-commerce","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-finance-news","category-las-vegas-news","category-news","category-stock-news-2","category-stock-news","category-stockairline","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","category-travel","category-travel-news","tag-45","tag-across","tag-adds","tag-air","tag-aircraft","tag-airline","tag-airlines","tag-alaska","tag-alaskaair-com","tag-anchorage","tag-arizona","tag-aviation","tag-boeing","tag-california","tag-cargo","tag-chicago","tag-coast","tag-colorado","tag-communities","tag-covid-19","tag-demand","tag-denver","tag-destination","tag-destinations","tag-expansion","tag-fun","tag-hubs","tag-illinois","tag-key","tag-las","tag-leisure","tag-locations","tag-los-angeles","tag-more","tag-nevada","tag-new","tag-news","tag-nonstop","tag-ohare-2","tag-oregon","tag-pandemic","tag-phoenix","tag-portland","tag-presence","tag-remote","tag-residents","tag-san-francisco","tag-seattle","tag-service","tag-state","tag-strengthen","tag-sun","tag-supporting","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-transporting","tag-travel","tag-traveling","tag-u-s","tag-vaccines","tag-vegas","tag-washington","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","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=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9140,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions\/9140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}