Two more Alaska Airlines flights between Seattle and San Francisco from July 7

16 May, 2008: Alaska Airlines will start, from July 7, 2008, two additional weekday roundtrip flights between Seattle (Washington) and San Francisco (California) for a total of 10 daily roundtrips.

With the addition of the two flights, Alaska Airlines will have 24 flights between Seattle and the Bay Area, which is more than any other airline has.

The decision to add two additional weekday roundtrip flights between Seattle and San Francisco follows the airline’s launching on April 27, 2008, of its new ‘West Most’ schedule – with flights departing on the hour or half-hour on routes between Seattle and 6 Californian cities.

Alaska Airlines, based in SeaTac, Washington, the United States, and sister airline Horizon Air together serve 16 airports in the Golden State.

Alaska Airlines has also announced a ‘Bay Area Summer Double’ offer which awards double miles to members of the ‘Mileage Plan’ for flights in the summer of 2008 between Seattle and San Francisco; Oakland and San Jose.

In a statement, Andrew Harrison, managing director of planning, Alaska Air Group, s aid: “The new flights give our business travellers optimum flexibility with a total of 24 daily flights between Seattle and the three Bay Area airports.”

In the new flights between Seattle, Washington, and San Francisco, California, that starts on July 7, 2008, customers can qualify for Alaska’s ‘Bay Area Summer Double’ offer by registering their ‘Mileage Plan’ number at the website alaskaair.com starting from May 13, 2008.

'Double miles’ apply on the non-stop Seattle-San Francisco, Seattle-Oakland, and Seattle-San Jose flights between June 1, 2008, and August 31, 2008. Customers can register and review terms and conditions at alaskaair.com

Alaska Airlines’ new announcement comes soon after the carrier’s frequent-flier programme ‘Mileage Plan’ winning the ‘Programme of the Year’ award at InsideFlyer magazine’s 20th Annual Freddie Awards.

Apart form its 10 flights between Seattle and San Francisco, Alaska Airlines’ ‘West Most’ schedule includes 15 daily roundtrip Seattle-Los Angeles flights departing on the hour south-bound and on the half-hour north-bound, according to the company’s statement.

Alaska Airlines also offers departures nearly every 2 hours on the hour or half-hour for flights between Seattle and Oakland (7 daily roundtrips), Orange County (9 daily roundtrips), San Diego (7 daily roundtrips, increasing to 8 in June 2008), and San Jose (7 daily roundtrips).

Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air together serve 93 cities through an extensive network in Alaska, the Lower 48, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico.

For reservations, customers may visit the website alaskaair.com and for more news and information, the Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air Newsroom at alaskaair.com/newsroom