June 10 - You’ve already booked long-awaited summer travel plans to be reunited with family and friends. Great! But have you thought about a little something for yourself when the weather turns gloomy and cold this winter? A sun-drenched beach, a decadent poolside cabana, an all-inclusive oceanfront resort? Alaska Airlines is ready to get you there.

 

 

Alaska Airlines is now offering several new nonstop routes to make it easier to escape to places known for wintertime sun and fun:

• Just in time for the holidays, Alaska begin weekly, seasonal service between San Francisco and Cancun on December 16, offering the Bay Area guests a convenient way to get away to eastern Mexico • Alaska will launch two new flights from Portland on Dec. 16 to Tampa and New Orleans – the only nonstops from the Rose City to these two Southern destinations. These routes are also seasonal service, each with several flights a week • On November 19, Alaska will say howdy to another new route connecting Palm Springs and Austin. It's the only nonstop flight between the heart of the Coachella Valley and the Texas capital with flights five times a week

 

Many of Alaksa’s guests are leisure travelers – heading to Hawaii for vacation, visiting family in Boston, maybe off to a soccer tournament with the kids in Los Angeles. They turn to Alaska for low fares, great service and genuine hospitality. Alaska Airlines offers West Coast-inspired fresh meals and beverages, hundreds of free TV shows and movies to watch on personal devices, upgraded satellite Wi-Fi on more of the airlines’ aircraft and even free texting during flights.

 

Tickets for all flights are available for purchase now on alaskaair.com.

 

 

These leisure routes are part of a series of new ones Alaska has recently announced. With the addition of Alaska’s new nonstop service to Belize from Los Angeles and Seattle this November, their guests have access to 42 more nonstops now than they did before the pandemic.

 

As flyers begin traveling again, Alaska remains committed to Next-Level Care for its guests and employees by implementing more than 100 ways to maintain the highest standard of safety – from clean planes to clean air in the cabin (with hospital-grade air filtration systems). For everyone’s safety on board, Alaska continues to enforce the federally mandated mask policy, even for those who are fully vaccinated.

 

With hygiene and safety concerns top of mind, Alaska Airlines has made it easy for the travel journey to be nearly touch-free. You can check-in for your flight with the Alaska mobile app and get a mobile boarding pass. Plus, Alaska’s improved technology now allows them to scan boarding passes up to six feet away to help maintain physical distance, bag tags can be printed without touching the check-in kiosks, and food and beverages can be purchased on board using a stored credit card.

 

Alaska is the newest member of the oneworld global alliance. With oneworld and Alaska’s additional airline partners, guests can fly to as many as 1,000 destinations around the world. Flyers can also earn and redeem miles with the company’s highly-acclaimed Mileage Plan program to fly on 20 oneworld and airline partners.

 

 

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