Alaska Airways plans to fly its largest-ever summer season schedules from Ted Stevens Anchorage Worldwide Airport (ANC) and Portland Worldwide Airport (PDX) subsequent yr.
The Seattle-based provider unveiled seven new routes from the 2 hubs on Thursday, all of that are set to launch between March and June 2026. The additions embody its first-ever nonstop between ANC and Boston Logan Worldwide Airport (BOS) and extra connectivity throughout the Pacific Northwest from PDX.
The enlargement comes as Alaska fortifies its house territory in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest towards competitors.
The provider is including flights and transferring extra home connections to PDX because it reshapes its Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport (SEA) hub into a global gateway. Starting in April, Alaska will debut its first-ever flight to Europe with day by day service from SEA to Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport (FCO). Flights to Keflavik Worldwide Airport (KEF) close to Reykjavik and London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR) start in Could.
Kirsten Amrine, vice chairman of income administration and community planning at Alaska, described the summer season 2026 additions from ANC and PDX as bolstering “important airports to our visitors and us in our rising international community.”
From ANC, Alaska will add the next routes:
- Boise Airport (BOI) in Idaho: twice weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays with a Boeing 737 from June 10 to Aug. 15, 2026
- BOS: weekly on Saturdays with a 737 from June 13 to Aug. 15, 2026
- Spokane Worldwide Airport (GEG) in Washington: twice weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays with an Embraer E175 from June 10 to Aug. 15, 2026
From PDX, the airline will add:
- Bellingham Worldwide Airport (BLI) in Washington: day by day with an E175 from March 18, 2026
- Seattle Paine Area Worldwide Airport (PAE) close to Everett, Washington: day by day with an E175 from June 10, 2026
- Jackson Gap Airport (JAC) in Wyoming: twice weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays with an E175 from June 10 to Sept. 30, 2026
- Tri-Cities Airport (PSC) close to Pasco, Washington: twice day by day with an E175 from June 10, 2026
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The entire new routes hyperlink current locations on Alaska’s route map.
In October, Alaska introduced new flights from PDX to Baltimore/Washington Worldwide Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), Idaho Falls Regional Airport (IDA), Philadelphia Worldwide Airport (PHL) and St. Louis Lambert Worldwide Airport (STL).
The airline is ready to fly its largest-ever summer season schedules from each ANC and PDX subsequent yr, schedule information from aviation analytics agency Cirium reveals. For the height June-to-August months, Alaska could have a mean of not less than 66 day by day departures from ANC and not less than 145 from PDX.
SEA, Alaska’s largest hub, will see a mean of 373 day by day departures throughout the identical interval in 2026.
Not all of Alaska’s new routes are new. The airline final flew ANC-GEG in 2016, PDX-PSC and PDX-BLI in 2018, and PDX-PAE in 2022, Cirium schedules present.
Alaska would be the sole provider on the seven new ANC and PDX routes.
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