I found an airline I actually like!

[jmowreader]

Alaska Airlines is the shit, I'm here to tell ya.

I got to fly Alaska from Sea-Tac to Spokane last Wednesday, and Spokane back to Seattle on Sunday. It's only a 35-minute flight.

Anyway, two things really impressed me about Alaska. First is their boarding procedure. Every other airline I've ever been on does the same thing: they board the special-needs passengers, then the first-class, then all the weird "club" passengers, then finally the coach passengers by row. Little dinky-ass airplane with five rows on it..."we'd like to board rows 4 and 5...then rows 2 and 3..." Alaska puts the special-needs people on first, then all the people with first-class and club seats, and finally the whole rest of the plane. It's much quicker that way.

The other is how they get the plane off the ground. Everyone else drives the plane to the end of the runway, stops, then the captain runs up the engines to make sure they work, fiddles with the radio, has a Pepsi and a couple of doughnuts...The Alaska captains fiddle with the radio, have their snacks, and run up the engines back by the terminal--where the mechanic is. When an Alaska driver puts his plane on the active runway, there's no stops involved--they nail the gas and you're gone.

You can also check in at home via their webpage, and a lot of people do that. That's pretty slick--show up at the airport, go through security and board the plane.

Yeah, I'm a fan. Now if they'd only service the Carolinas.

[flamingyouth]

1. I always fly Alaska to California

I think their service is great.

[nini]

2. I had my luggage broken into with them once

they wouldn't cover anything after other than junk souveniers. I lost over 800 dollars worth of cds and a cd player. I didn't have any more room in my carry on because of digital camera et.c.


I was pissed and won't fly them again unless there are no other carriers going where I am.

[jmowreader]

5. No one covers things like that in checked baggage

Sucks, but that's life.

[MissB]

3. They used to give all graduating seniors

in Alaska a free roundtrip ticket to anywhere within Alaska. I used mine to fly to Denali National Park on one of their subsidiaries.

[HEyHEY]

4. The coolest is Canada's Westjet

Toilet paper races down the ails! - No kidding