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.
the airline that became Alaska Airlines was founded in Alaska and originally headquartered in Anchorage. The headquarters was later moved to Seattle when the airline expanded routes to cities outside of Alaska.
You can read the history of the airline here if you want:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines
I lived in Fairbanks through the 1970’s, when it was nicknamed “elastic scarelines”, largely on account of the unfortunate 1971 crash at Juneau. Most Alaskans I knew then chose Wien Air Alaska for in-state flights, and PanAm or Western Airlines for flights from Alaska to “outside” ( including Hawaii).
After moving to Seattle in 1988 my family and I started flying Alaska for our frequent trips to the Bay Area. This rapidly became my favorite airline and is now our airline of choice for domestic travel. The AS mileage program has been very good to us for foreign trips, including First on Qantas to Sydney and Club World to Italy on BA, twice.