Alaska Air Group

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Headquarters for Alaska Air Group

Alaska Air Group Inc., is an aviation holding firm / corporation based in SeaTac, Washington which owns two certificated airlines operating in the United States: Alaska Airlines^[1] and Horizon Air.^[2] In 1985, it was formed and a year later the holding company acquired Horizon Air and Jet America Airlines. Jet America Airlines, and their employees were merged into Alaska Airlines in 1987. Alaska Air Group has no relationship to JetAmerica, an airline launched in 2009.^{[citation needed]}

Alaska Air Group subsidiaries employ 9,866 staff as recent as 2007 but has cut that number back substantially by 2008. It remains undetermined how many employees actually work for Alaska Air Group itself. Alaska Airlines operates only U.S. built Boeing aircraft with up to 172 seats while Horizon operates only Canadian built Bombardier aircraft with up to 76 seats.^[3]

The separation of the two companies is not due to "Scope Clauses," as is the case with other similar holding companies and their airlines such as Mesa Air Group and Freedom Airlines or Republic Airways Holdings and Shuttle America.^{[citation needed]}

Alaska Air Group is the parent company and holding company of both independently "branded" Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air operations.^[4]

Fleet

As of November 2008, Alaska Air Group has a total of 157 aircraft, making it comparable in size to AirTran Holdings.

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v • d • e Alaska Air Group Alaska Airlines Parent / affiliate Alaska Air Group • Horizon Air Acquisitons / mergers Pre - Deregulation: Alaska Coastal Airlines • Barnhill & McGee Airways  • McGee Airways  • Star Air Service Post - Deregulation: Alaska Air Group is formed and merges Alaska Airlines with Jet America Airlines Code-share partners AA  • AF  • BA  • CX  • DL  • FJ  • HA  • KE  • KL  • KS  • LA  • MW  • QA • QX  • 7H Destinations / hubs Alaska Airlines destinations  • ANC  • LAX  • PDX  • SEA Former fleet Boeing 727-100 • 727-200 • 737-200 Convair CV-880 • CV-990 Douglas C54B • DC-3 • DC-4 • DC-6A Lockheed Constellation • L-100- McDonnell Douglas MD-80 Special liveries "Dot.com - reverse color" • "Etops Hawaiian Lei" "Magic of Disneyland" "Spirit of Disneyland"  • "Spirit of Make-A-Wish" • "Spirit of Seattle" "Salmon-Thirty-Salmon"  • "Starliner 75" • "We're all pulling together" Aircraft / incidents Boeing 737 Classic  • 737 Next Generation (No accidents involving these types) Horizon Air Parent • Affiliate Alaska Air Group • Alaska Airlines Acquisitons / mergers Pre - Alaska Air Group: Air Oregon  • Transwestern Airlines Post - Alaska Air Group: None since Alaska Air Group acquires Horizon Air Code-share partners AS  • AA  • DL Destinations / hubs Horizon Air destinations  • LAX  • PDX  • SEA Former fleet Bombardier Dash 8-100 Dornier 328 Douglas DC-9 Fairchild Metroliner II  • Metroliner III Fokker F-27 • F-28 Special liveries Oregon State University University of Oregon Washington State University Aircraft / incidents Bombardier CRJ-700 Regional jet  • Q-400 Regional airliner No accidents involving these types v • d • e For related media, see the Wikimedia commons category at Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air AS/QX --- Flight events Flight 261 • Flight 536 • Flight 1866

v • d • e Airline holding companies of the United States Current AirTran Holdings  • Alaska Air Group  • AMR Corporation  • Global Aviation Holdings  • Hawaiian Holdings  • Mesa Air Group  • Pinnacle Airlines Corp.  • Republic Airways Holdings  • SkyWest, Inc.  • Trans States Holdings • UAL Corporation  • US Airways Group Former Amtran  • America West Holdings  • Icahn & Co.  • Frontier Airlines Holdings  • MAIR Holdings  • Midwest Air Group  • Metro Airlines  • Northwest Airlines Corporation  • Pan Am Corporation • Pan Am Systems  • Texas Air Corporation  • Trans World Corporation  • TPG Capital  • Transamerica Corporation See also: List of airline holding companies

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