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Old Dec 3, 2017 | 8:44 am
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Originally Posted by bitterproffit
I'm just confused as to why its called Alaska Airlines, but its hub is in Seattle. When they started service to Nashville, a lot of my coworkers and friends were confused because they didn't think there was a big market for flights to Alaska. I told them the flight was to their hub in Seattle. Then they got confused because they didn't know Seattle was in Alaska.
It;s really a Seattle or Washington airline, as that's where the corporate offices are.
For 100+ years Washington based companies have been sucking the money out of Alaskans, from airlines to shipping and fishing.
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