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Horizon Air Coordinates Service with Alaska
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Alaska Airlines Launches Two New Routes
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6/9/2003 9:07 a.m.
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Alaska Airlines continues to fortify its route system with the launch Sunday of two new nonstop routes—Los Angles-Reno and Vancouver-Anchorage. And it is coordinating service with its sister airline, Horizon Air, on three additional routes.
For the first time, the carrier will offer two daily roundtrips between Los Angeles and Reno with 140-seat Boeing MD-80 aircraft, and one daily roundtrip between Vancouver and Anchorage with 138-seat Boeing 737-400 airplanes.
In a step toward greater coordination of service between Alaska and Horizon, Alaska will begin service to Boise with two daily Seattle flights with 140-seat Boeing MD-80 aircraft. The Alaska flights replace three flights currently operated by its sister carrier, Horizon Air. Horizon will continue to operate five daily flights with 70-seat aircraft. The change results in a 12-percent increase in the number of seats between the two cities.
Alaska also begins service between Portland and Sacramento with one daily flight operated with an MD-80, replacing one of Horizon's five flights. In addition, Alaska replaces Horizon's two 70-seat Portland-Denver flights with two flights operated with Boeing 737-400s. The net result is a capacity increase between Portland and Sacramento of 70 seats and between Portland and Denver of 136 seats.
"The new routes are part of our strategy to better connect cities that we currently serve and to coordinate our schedule with Horizon Air," said John MacLeod, Alaska's managing director of planning. "The substitution of Alaska planes will provide more seats for our customers at the busiest times of day. And customers will also have the opportunity to select First Class service on Alaska flights."
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