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I see Alaska Airlines has a non stop flight between Raleigh and Seattle. I have never gone on Alaska. 5 1/2 hours non stop to Seattle. But a friend told me they are a no-frills airline with poor legroom, no food, and no live TV/Movies. Is he right?

dayone

On most flights, AS' standard coach seats have 31"-32" of pitch, the same or better than DL. Food, free entertainment and internet are available.

Main Cabin seating - Alaska Airlines

nomiiiii

The food isn't free and you must order the food in-app/online 20 hours or more before your flight leaves. This is probably why your friend thought they didn't have any food, because they indeed don't have any food if you don't preorder (terrible for casual travelers who aren't aware of this). Frankly this is terrible policy by Alaska - they can easily have some sandwiches for sale even if there is wastage but not sure why they don't.

Wifi is free with tmobile etc, bring an ipad etc for entertainment.

TxDucky

Watch the T-Mobile '*"...its free for some. The entire flight for up to 4 flights per year on Go5G and some of the older plans. Unlimited is via Go5G Plus and Next plans and some of the older plans, mostly the Max ones. If you don't have one of those credits available, there's the offer of "1 hour" free during the flight on the non-unlimited plans. Caveat, that's AS, AA, DL and UL, 100% of domestic and select international.

AKLifetimeFlyer

According to Oxford Dictionary, a “frill” is an “unnecessary extra feature or embellishment”. By this definition, Alaska has “no frills”. What it does have is: reliability, great customer service, baggage guarantee, and a valuable mileage program.

If you want frills, fly Delta.

Chugach

Your friend is wrong.

nomiiiii

The friend is absolutely correct for an infrequent east-coast traveler who isn't familiar with how Alaska Airlines works.

Not everyone monitors their emails to preorder food, or has the app downloaded to get the notification about it. In this case, they will absolutely be stuck without food on a 5+ hour flight.
Similarly, people might think that Alaska has seat-back tv similar to Delta and not have any media downloaded on their ipads etc. And unless they have tmobile they wouldn't have free wifi either.
Also if coming from the east-coast, the frequencies of Alaska flights are much less, so any irrop situation can easily derail the whole trip by 1-2 days.

Alaska Airlines should definitely offer free wifi and non-preordered food at the very least if they want to be comparable to delta etc (to offer "frills")

flytoeat

Alaska offers free entertainment on your mobile or computer device. https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...-entertainment

vanillabean

I thought Americans were hooked on intermittent fasting haha.

Of course I eat when served in F, but that's because it feels like a restaurant.

StevenSeagalFan

Legroom and seat comfort in economy is some of the best in the industry in my opinion. On board only boxed foods (think a pack with chips, jerky, etc) are for sale. They do offer a free soda, etc. No live TV however you can stream hundreds of tv shows and movies to your device at no charge. Their crews are very friendly.

UAPremierExec

Objectively thinking - Alaska has more food options than you'll find on a handful of airlines.... like the 3 snack boxes. You won't find those on AA or Southwest, for example. And they're cheaper than similar boxes on Allegiant, Frontier, and Spirit.

Eastbay1K

The only material difference is seatback screens on most DL aircraft. AA and UA, you could end up with streaming on your own device, such as AS.

PDXPremier

And if you're stuck with BOB in Y on AA, you're choices are much more limited.

kaiotes

No seat back entertainment. No lieflat seats in first.

beckoa

Or none at all if you end up on AA's CRJ200 Thankfully the flight was short.