Information needed on Alaska Air

[Purple Nightshade]

I'm flying to San Diego soon and will be flying Alask Air. Tell me your experiences with this airline, good or bad.

Thanks,
PN


(We need a flying smilie)

 

[adkkev]

We've always been very pleased with Alaska Airlines.

 

[bekkiz]

I fly them all of the time, it's a pretty good airline. We only had an issue once, when there was a mechanical issue, and the flight got cancelled. But Alaska was pretty good about getting us a hotel for the night and getting us on a flight the next morning, plus they sent a $300 voucher each for the trouble.

 

[honugirl]

Fly them all the time, never had a problem.

 

[barkley]

we use them almost exclusivly and have never had a problem. i like that you can preselect seats (none of that standing in line stuff like with southwest ), and i also appreciate that they are nice enough to offer complimentary wine and beer (and not the nasty stuff-alternating offerings of decent micro brews and wines local to the region).

they seem to have a good track record with on time departures and arrivals.

 

[dismom2]

My experience with Alaska Airlines has been positive.

 

[Piglet4Ever]

We love Alaska, fly with them 90% of the time and so far have never had a problem(knock on wood).

 

[staley7580]

Love em.. Its pretty much the only airline we use!

 

[BriarfoxinWA]

We use them quit a bit and have had good experiences.

 

[Judy from Boise]

My favorite airline!

 

[bumbershoot]

I like Virgin America and then Southwest better (ha, like people don't stand in line waiting to be first to go get their assigned seats on other airlines!), but Alaska is totally fine. Simple, basic planes (unlike VA with their cool purple and pink lighting). Ontime except for that one time when storms delayed it by over 2 hours, hands-off flight attendants...a good basic airline.

And if your flight price goes down in a certain small number of months after booking, they round up to the nearest $25 as a credit. So last November, when our flights changed by a whole $5...we got a total of $75 credit (25 each). That was nice. Can't combine it, each credit was assigned to our own alaska frequent flyer number, but still, nice.