Alaska Airlines

Seats can be selected during the booking process. Seat availability is limited and may be reassigned by the airline.

Most tickets can be changed online as long as they contain travel within Canada, the US and Mexico, and contain no more than eight air segments. Your ticket cannot be changed if it contains a government or contract fare, is more than 13 months from date of purchase or is part of a group or vacation package booking. If the reservation is not eligible for online changes, they may be changed by calling  the reservation line (number above).

Infants under the age of two travel free on an adult's lap within the United States and from or to Canada. Children occupying their own seat pay the full adult fare.

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Alaska Airlines accepts most small domesticated pets. Other pets may be accepted with approval. When travelling with your pet in the cabin, the pet is considered your one piece of hand baggage. A personal item (e.g. purse, briefcase, laptop) is the only additional item which may be brought onboard. Reservations for pets are accepted up to 24 hours prior to departure and you will be charged $100 each way. Service animals travel in the cabin free of charge.

Small instruments, carried on board, count towards the hand-baggage allowance. Musical instruments, which cannot be properly stowed, may travel as cabin seat baggage.

Complimentary meals or light snacks are served to passengers in the first class cabin. In 2006 the airline launched its buy-on-board meal program, known as Northern Bites, on most flights over three hours, including all transcontinental flights. As part of the buy-on-board program, the airline offers various "Picnic Packs" for a charge in coach class on all flights. Alaska Airlines also offers hard-drive based, audio-video digital players called digEplayers that deliver movies, TV shows and audio programs on most long-haul flights. You can rent one for a fee.

The frequent flyer program is called Mileage Plan. Mileage Plan is the frequent flyer program of the Alaska Air Group, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air.The Mileage Plan program has no membership fee, and accumulated miles never expire. However, if a Mileage Plan member does not accumulate mileage within nine months of becoming a member, or a member's account remains inactive with zero miles earned or spent for a consecutive 24-month period, Alaska reserves the right to cancel the account and dissolve any unused miles. Cancelled accounts can be reinstated within one year of their deletion for a $75 fee.

See sample meals and the Northern Bites "Picnic Pack" at Alaska's Meal Service page; or read reviews of meals and see photographs taken by other flyers on AirlineMeals.net.

Alaska Airlines Magazine is available on all flights. You can see a sample magazine online and read some of the articles.

Alaska Airlines is part of oneworld Alliance and has codeshare agreements with 15 other airlines.

Alaska Airlines' story starts with Linious "Mac" McGee of McGee Airways who flew his three-seat Stinson between Anchorage and Bristol Bay, Alaska, in the early 1930s. It merged with Star Air Service in 1934 to create the largest airline in Alaska, which became Alaska Airlines. It and Horizon Air, its sister airline, are owned by Alaska Air Group. Alaska flies to 61 destinations and carries about 17 million passengers per year.