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Alaska Airlines Announces New Daily Flying from Portland to Three Midwest Cities

Introductory one-way fares starting as low as $139 for tickets purchased by Aug. 5*

7/30/2015 4:59 a.m.


SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines is launching daily nonstop service from its Portland, Oregon, hub to three Midwest metropolises including Kansas City, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Omaha, Nebraska, starting Feb. 18, 2016. The routes are in addition to new Portland – Austin, Texas service the carrier announced last month.

"We continue to expand our Portland service portfolio with new non-stops to America's Heartland", said John Kirby, the airline's vice president of capacity planning. "With these new routes, Alaska Airlines will offer more than three times the number of nonstop destinations from the Rose City than any other carrier."

Summary of new service:


Start date

City pair

Departs

Arrives

Frequency


Feb. 18

Portland-Kansas City

9:35 a.m.

2:59 p.m.

Daily


Feb. 18

Kansas City-Portland

3:40 p.m.

5:45 p.m.

Daily





Feb. 18

Portland-Minneapolis

10:55 a.m.

4:16 p.m.

Daily


Feb. 18

Minneapolis-Portland

5 p.m.

7:08 p.m.

Daily





Feb. 18

Portland-Omaha

6:50 p.m.

11:49 p.m.

Daily


Feb.19

Omaha-Portland

7 a.m.

8:45 a.m.

Daily


All times based on local time zones

To celebrate the new routes, Alaska Airlines is offering introductory one-way fares starting at $139 on flights from Portland to Kansas City, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Omaha.* Customers must purchase their tickets by Aug. 5 and travel by March 16, 2016. Visit www.alaskaair.com to find great savings and purchase tickets, or call 1-800-ALASKAAIR (800-252-7522 or Hearing & Speech Impaired (TTY): Dial 711 for Relay Services).

The airline also is offering members of its Mileage Plan double miles on flights from Portland to Minneapolis and Kansas City.** To qualify, travelers must be members of Alaska Airlines' Mileage Plan, register at www.alaskaair.com and travel between Feb. 18 and March 18, 2016. Customers who have not yet joined Mileage Plan can enroll at no cost online.

The daily flights will be operated by SkyWest Airlines with 76-seat E175 jets featuring 12 seats in first class and 64 in coach, and boasting cabin dimensions on par with a 737. Onboard amenities will include Alaska Beyond Delicious, featuring food and beverages sourced with items from iconic Pacific Northwest brands, and Inflight Internet access. The planes are also equipped with Alaska Beyond Entertainment, which offers free and premium entertainment direct to customer devices, First class customers will also enjoy power outlets at each seat.

98103

More inaugurals to book. Looks like it may be possible to do both MCI and OMA, if you're willing to spend a night in Nebraska.

FriendlySkies

That's great news ^. Looking forward to the inaugural MCI-PDX.

PV_Premier

PDXPremier is going to be doing kartwheels

i'm quite pleased about the Omaha service, particularly since the timings allow nice connections to/from SMF and RNO ^

PDXPremier

Yes I am! Now if they could just open up some saver award space so I can switch the award flights I already have booked to the nonstop....

AAerSTL

Interesting the routes are starting in February.

You were pretty excited about the double daily seasonal SEA service to MCI as well. I think WN serves this market already-of course AS will likely capture more POS from PDX, suspect WN captures more of the MCI originating traffic.

beckoa

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Glad to see adds and OMA graduate to F

What else does AS have planned for 2016?!

PV_Premier

Due to the 2x2 configuration?

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/gloss...tterSelected=P

me too. reserved a seat on the inaugural with some standing credit in MW. not sure if i'll fly it since i will be in SEA the preceding weekend, but alas, a bird in hand. if Missy can guarantee i cut the ribbon (), i'd take the trip and go visit some favorite restaurants in Lincoln.

FriendlySkies

I'm interested to see how they do against DL on the MSP flight/also a bit surprised they didn't start this route with mainline.

eponymous_coward

Not at all surprised, it means they don't have to dump an entire 738's worth of seats into the market.

Fred 3

While I am really excited about the additional flights, especially to MSP, I am really disappointed in the times. Trying to connect to Medford doesn't do me a lot of good -- means a few hour layover. Had they made it an hour or so later I would have booked many trips

AAerSTL

Maybe not for FT, but in airline network planning speak that is point of sale, as in the country/region or in this case, side of the route most of the seats are sold. Clearly AS has a relatively large presence and following in PDX but is very small at MCI where most local residents likely don't know about their presence.

AS for whatever reason seems to be big still on billboards on roadways around airports for new routes they start. I wonder if they will have billboards on the interstates leading into MCI. I assume the incentive payment from MCI includes a marketing component, as most all air service development incentive plans offer.

pdxasflyer

Would it be embarrassing to say I did a jump and fist pump combination when PDX-MSP was announced?

Beyond awesome. I've never done an inaugural, so might have to jump on this one.^^

3Cforme

MSP-PDX isn't a thin city pair. DL has seven mainline MSP-PDX today - nothing under 160 seats.

mbluecpa

I wonder what aircraft utilization will be on these routes. MCI and OMA could use the same plane, but adding MSP might mean a 175 shows up on another short route.