Pet Peeve: “Alaskan” Airlines
Dec 3, 2017, 8:44 am
#31
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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. 
For 100+ years Washington based companies have been sucking the money out of Alaskans, from airlines to shipping and fishing.
Dec 3, 2017, 9:39 am
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The sad thing about Eastbay1K's and Eujeanie's and others' posts is that my former boss made every single one of those mistakes nearly daily.
It was painful (though not the reason I did end up leaving that position
).
It was painful (though not the reason I did end up leaving that position
).
Dec 3, 2017, 11:18 am
#33
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Writing or speaking? I often wondered whether they were just typos, no one really says "quite" for "quiet", do they?
Dec 3, 2017, 11:28 am
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I was his designated copyeditor for everything he sent to his boss. He was not at all a writer--and at least he knew it.
Dec 3, 2017, 9:01 pm
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"Alaskan" is the beer.
"Alaska" is the airline.
"Alaska" is the airline.
Dec 3, 2017, 9:50 pm
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Seattle has long been the hub for transportation between Alaska and 'Outside'. Seattle was first "made" by outfitters for the Klondike gold rush; the outfitters in Seattle made more money than most of the prospectors. Nowadays, most anything that goes by ship to Alaska goes through Seattle; the Alaska fishing fleet is based in Seattle; etc.
I did once convince a DL agent that ANC is a perfectly logical connection point to SEA from the Southeastern US. I almost had a VDB on BNA-ATL-SEA and had BNA-CVG-MSP-ANC-SEA as my alternate itinerary as other flights were sold out or required an overnight stay and connecting in ANC got me to SEA by 5:30 am.
Maybe not as much as Hawai'i, but there are some people who think that Alaska is a different country. The Disney movie Snow Dogs had a scene about this. Apparently that is part of the reason why AS no longer has the Alaskan flag above the entry door of each aircraft, which I believe was after the Gold Rush livery.
Dec 4, 2017, 1:02 am
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Dec 4, 2017, 9:32 am
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Dec 4, 2017, 10:00 am
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As an employee of Alaska it drives me crazy.
on FB there is a page for airline employees to share loads.
I had someone ask for loads on Alaskan Airways.
when I told her how many F & Y were open she said o I thought you only flew small planes with only Y.
its sad she was an employee of American Airlines
on FB there is a page for airline employees to share loads.
I had someone ask for loads on Alaskan Airways.
when I told her how many F & Y were open she said o I thought you only flew small planes with only Y.
its sad she was an employee of American Airlines
BTW, if Alaskan changes its name to Seattlen Airlines (which cannot be abbreviated as SA), they won't be able to serve that good Baked Alaskan on board any more.
Dec 4, 2017, 2:01 pm
#41
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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.
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.