Alaska Airlines to Launch Service to Four West Coast Cities from Salt Lake City

Alaska Airlines will begin daily non-stop service in June linking Salt Lake City with Portland in Oregon, and with the California cities of Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose.

In June Alaska Airlines will also add a third daily non-stop flight to its existing service between Salt Lake City and Seattle.

Alaska Airlines painted this Boeing 737-800 in a special livery to commemorate its strong network ties to the U.S. island state of Hawaii and unveiled the theme-painted aircraft, which it calls ‘Spirit of the Islands’, at Honolulu International Airport

Sale fares on the new flights will be available for booking from Tuesday, December 10.

To promote the new service, Alaska Airlines is offering members of its Mileage Plan double mileage points on these routes, which count toward status in the airline’s MVP, MVP Gold and MVP Gold 75K elite-level programs.

“Salt Lake City has long been a top requested market by our customers and we are pleased to add to our successful Seattle-Salt Lake City flights with additional service from four other West Coast gateways,” says Joe Sprague, Alaska Airlines’ vice president of marketing.

Alaska Airlines first began service between Seattle and Salt Lake City on April 4, 2013.

The carrier’s new daily Los Angeles-Salt Lake City service will see its flight depart Los Angeles International Airport (IATA code LAX) at 5:35 p.m. from June 11 and land at Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) at 8:20 p.m. local time.

Alaska Airlines painted this Boeing 737-800 with a Hawaiian lei adorning its well-known Eskimo tail logo in honor of the airline’s now-sizable network linking Alaska and the mainland U.S. with various destinations in the Hawaiian Islands. The aircraft is photographed here flying near Honolulu’s famous Waikiki Beach

In the other direction, Alaska Airlines’ daily flight will leave SLC at 7:00 a.m. from June 12 and arraive at LAX at 7:55 a.m. local time. In both directions, the service will be operated by Boeing 737NG equipment.

Alaska Airlines will operate its Portland-Salt Lake City route on a twice-daily basis, one flight operated by a Boeing 737NG and the other by a 70-seat Bombardier CRJ700 operated for Alaska Airlines by regional airline partner SkyWest Airlines.

The Portland-Salt Lake City schedule calls for one flight (operated by a 737NG) to leave Portland International Airport (PDX) at 3:10 p.m. daily from June 9 and to reach SLC at 6:00 p.m. local time. The second flight, which begins on June 10 and is operated by a CRJ700, will depart PDX daily at 9:50 a.m. and touch down at SLC at 12:45 p.m. local time.

In the other direction, one flight, operated by a 737NG, will push back from the gate at SLC at 6:50 p.m. daily from June 9 and get to PDX at 7:45 p.m. local time. The other flight, which begins on June 10 and will be operated by a CRJ700, will depart SLC at 8:05 a.m. daily and arrive at PDX at 9:05 a.m. local time.

SkyWest Airlines operates a number of Bombardier CRJ700 jets on behalf of Alaska Airlines. Each of the CRJ700s is configured to seat 70 passengers

Alaska Airlines will offer twice-daily service on the San Diego-Salt Lake City route, one flight operated by a Boeing 737NG and the other by a SkyWest Airlines CRJ700.

The schedule for the San Diego-Salt Lake City route calls for the first flight to leave San Diego International Airport (SAN) at 7:00 a.m. daily from June 10 and land at SLC at 9:55 a.m. local time. The second flight, operated by a SkyWest Airlines CRJ700, will depart SAN at 7:55 p.m. daily from June 10 and touch down at SLC at 10:45 p.m. local time.

In the other direction, one flight (operated by a Boeing 737NG) will begin taxiing at SLC at 1:20 p.m. daily from June 10 and get to SAN at 2:20 p.m. local time. The other flight (operated by a CRJ700) will depart SLC daily at 8:30 a.m. from June 11 and will reach SAN at 9:25 a.m. local time.

Alaska Airlines will offer a daily service on the San Jose-Salt Lake City route, the daily flight to be operated by a Boeing 737NG. The flight will leave Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) at 8:55 p.m. daily from June 12 and will arrive at SLC at 11:40 p.m. local time.

Alaska Airlines painted this Boeing 737-800 in a special retro ‘Starliner’ livery similar to the airline’s colors in the 1940s to celebrate Alaska Airlines’ 75th anniversary, and named the aircraft ‘Starliner 75’

In the other direction, Alaska Airlines’ daily flight, again operated by a Boeing 737NG, will push back from the gate at SLC at 7:00 a.m. daily from June 13 and will touch down at SJC at 8:00 a.m. local time.

On Alaska Airlines’ existing Seattle-Salt Lake City route, the carrier will add a third daily flight from June 9. The new flight, to be operated by a SkyWest Airlines Bombardier CRJ700, will leave Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) at 8:30 p.m. daily from June 9 and will land at SLC at 11:30 p.m. local time.

In the other direction, the new, third flight (also operated by a CRJ700) will depart SLC at 10:30 a.m. daily from June 10 and will get to SEA at 11:40 a.m.