rustykettel

https://www.alaskaair.com/content/ad...R_Regional#pdx



News story here, and includes cancellations but apparently not a complete shutdown of ALW, EUG, MFR, PSC, and RDM.

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/...ire-smoke.html

gobeavs8

Great now im stuck in Seattle overnight after flying in from MCO later tonight, does Alaska typically provide overnight accommodations in situations like this? If so, how does the process work (i land in 3 hours). I have travel delay insurance should nothing be provided.

Calculon

Not likely, since it’s weather-related.

NoLaGent

AS won't, since it's weather. And you're going to be stuck longer than that, there's a few seats still available on Wed.

Rent a car.

fly747first

As airlines put it, "an act of God" and apparently God told them not to provide passengers with hotel rooms

MSPeconomist

Are any other carriers, such as DL, flying from SEA to your destination? You seem to be up in the air on the way to SEA so re-routing wouldn't be an option.

BTW, do you really want to fly into a region where there are wildfires and smoke? Some stuff will be closed, and people with breathing problems, allergies, etc. should certainly try to either stay away to plan to remain indoors as much as possible. You could declare a trip in vain upon arrival at SEA and be rebooked back to MCO on the first available flight.

gobeavs8

I do, because i live there. It appears other carriers are flying, as Alaska is currently the only one canceling their flights. Could attempt a early delta flight, but think driving is my best bet.

tom911

The 9:45am train from King Street station in Seattle is still on the schedule at $36 one way to Portland.

chrisl137

I'd put even money on the cancellations being extended through Wednesday - the rain that was on the schedule for Monday night/Tuesday seems to have been pushed back to Thursday thunderstorms. Given the way the smoke has been, I doubt it will be any better Tuesday evening than it is right now on Monday. I can't say I blame them - when I flew in this past Thursday evening, as soon as we hit about 10K feet the smoke coming in made the cabin environment eye-watering. It improved a little around 5K feet, and I think the AQI in SW Portland when I arrived was in the 400s. It's been in the 400s and 500s since I got here, dipping into the 300s only a few times. If it's worse at altitude, it's a reasonable safety & comfort measure to cancel flights.

So far this year I've had to reschedule flights from PDX to LA because of civil unrest in LA (*not* PDX) because while I would have been allowed to fly into LAX, I had no reliable way to get home with Uber and Lyft not running during the curfew. Now it's likely I'll have to reschedule because of smoke from apocalyptic forest fires. I'm betting that by Thanksgiving I'll have to reschedule because of a 200 ft fire-breathing lizard coming up out of the ocean in either PDX or LA.

PDXpress

I don't blame Alaska at all for not making their employees work in this stuff, but the linked story notes that "the Port of Portland, which runs the airport, said no other airline has taken a similar step yet."

I do wonder if the Q400s have particular smoke issues vs. other airlines regional jets.

Eastbay1K

People on the plane behind me today were taking an unexpected RT today as their onward flight was canceled and AS was able to get them back to OAK right away.

Calculon

Looks like Yakima and Wenatchee are getting cancellations, too.

Conflipper

Dont they talk about using state of the art filters to clean 99.9% of air. If you eyes are burning from the smoke how much is it filtering out?

RAD_PDX

There didn't seem to be any smoke inside of PDX as on Sunday so I'm guessing it's for the health of employees on the ground? It's odd that they waited to do this after several days of equally, and even one day of worse, air quality.

SNAnghbr

Only on the Boeings and the Airbus planes. They don't say anything about the e175 or the Q400.