A teen passenger had his shirt sucked off his body when the door plug of an Alaska Airlines plane blew away in mid-air last week.
20.12.2023 - 21:19 / travelandleisure.com
Checking a bag on Alaska Airlines will get slightly more expensive in the new year.
For tickets purchased on or after Jan. 2, 2024, Alaska Airlines will increase rates by $5 for a traveler's first checked bag ($35) and a second checked bag ($45), according to a new chart published on the airline’s website. Additional checked bags beyond the first and second remain unchanged with a $150 per-bag fee.
“Alaska Airlines is committed to providing exceptional service to our guests,” a spokesperson said in a statement shared withT+L. “As we navigate rising operating costs — including high fuel prices — we occasionally need to adjust our fee structure to maintain a high level of excellence in the service we provide. “
This isn’t the first time Alaska bumped up its checked baggage rates, nor is the airline alone in implementing these markups. In 2018, almost all of the major domestic carriers (including Alaska) increased checked baggage fees to $30 and $40 for the first and second checked bags, respectively.
Despite these steady increases, Alaska offers a checked bag waiver to Alaska Airlines Visa Signature® card and the Alaska Airlines Visa® Business credit card holders — and up to six travelers on their reservation. Both cards have a $70 annual fee, making either one a no-brainer for Alaska loyalists who want to avoid paying pesky checked bag fees.
Other travelers exempt from checked bag fees include Mileage Plan MVP elite members, Club 49 members in the state of Alaska and all active duty military members.
However, the recent increases could establish a new standard for airline incidental fees, and other carriers may follow suit as they did roughly five years ago.
With Alaska’s recently announced plans to acquire Hawaiian Airlines, the new checked baggage rates could impact the merged airline. As it stands, Hawaiian charges two rates for checked bags on its intra-island and North America flights. The current first and second bag rates are posted on the Hawaiian’s website at $25 and $35, while the airline charges the industry-standard rate of $30 and $40 for flights to the mainland.
A teen passenger had his shirt sucked off his body when the door plug of an Alaska Airlines plane blew away in mid-air last week.
United Airlines has found loose bolts in its own Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft just days after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded the planes following a mid-air blowout on Alaska Airlines.
Over the weekend, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded flights on all Boeing 737-9 Max planes following a harrowing incident on Alaska Airlines flight 1282 in which a plug door near the rear of the plane blew out at 16,000 feet, six minutes into a flight from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, causing the cabin to lose pressure. Oxygen masks were deployed, and passengers described a rough ride as the plane quickly returned to the Portland airport; no one was seriously hurt, but several of the 177 people aboard were treated for minor injuries. The incident prompted a sweeping grounding of most of the 215 Boeing 737-9 Max planes that were flying worldwide.
On Friday, a fuselage panel blew out on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 plane seven minutes after takeoff from Portland, Oregon.
Hundreds of flights have been canceled and aircraft around the world have been grounded as officials investigate what led to this weekend's in-flight blowout of an Alaska Airlines plane over Oregon.
Alaska Airlines has issued a “flexible travel waiver” across its network following the Boeing 737-9 MAX incident on Friday night, grounding dozens of airplanes for further inspection.
The cockpit voice recorder for Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was overwritten, hampering investigators aiming to determine why a door plug for an exit door on the Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner blew out shortly after the flight took off from Portland on Friday night.
Investigators asked for the public's help Saturday night to find a missing piece of the Alaska Airlines jet that lost a plug in its fuselage on Friday.
Alaska Airlines has reached a new milestone in a multiyear overhaul of its fleet.
Alaska Airlines temporarily grounded its Boeing 737 MAX 9 fleet late Friday night after an aircraft departing the Portland International Airport (PDX) in Oregon experienced a sudden hull breach and decompression.
Alaska Airlines will temporarily ground its fleet of 65 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft after a cabin panel blowout forced a jetliner loaded with passengers to make an emergency landing on Friday, CEO Ben Minicucci said.
Airlines continue to roll out deals to jumpstart bookings in the New Year. Alaska Airlines' «2024 Takeoff Sale» has flight deals available from nearly all of the 115 destinations Alaska flies to. The sale is currently available until tomorrow, Jan. 5, at 11:59pm. The discounted flights vary in departure dates with the top deals including: