Alaska Airlines is wading deeper into prime Delta Air Strains territory, including a cross-country flight to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport (ATL).
Beginning Oct. 1, Alaska will launch nonstop service to Atlanta from its Portland Worldwide Airport (PDX) hub in Oregon. The Seattle-based service will function the each day flight year-round.
The transfer comes as Alaska continues to develop its transcontinental route community out of Portland. Subsequent month, it’s going to launch nonstop flights to Nashville Worldwide Airport (BNA). Plus, Alaska launched a Portland nonstop from Miami International Airport (MIA) in November.
“We’re at all times in search of methods to attach the Rose Metropolis to different locations throughout our community. We imagine our flights to Atlanta shall be a well-liked addition for our friends heading to the South,” Kirsten Amrine, Alaska’s vp of income administration and community planning, stated in a statement.
However this Atlanta route can also be a notable foray onto Delta’s dwelling turf. It isn’t essentially an outlier, both.
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Capability development in Atlanta and past
In all, Alaska’s scheduled seats to Atlanta this 12 months shall be up 32% from 2023, in response to information from aviation analytics agency Cirium.
That spike in seats comes as Alaska provides nonstops to Delta’s dwelling base from each Portland and San Diego Worldwide Airport (SAN), with the latter route set to launch Could 16.
Alaska already serves Atlanta from its Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport (SEA) dwelling base.
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For its half, Delta does already function an Atlanta-to-Portland route, with a number of each day nonstops.
Alaska can also be increasing its footprint fairly considerably at one other Delta hub in 2024. Its seats to Minneapolis-St. Paul Worldwide Airport (MSP) shall be up round 42% from final 12 months, Cirium information exhibits. That is helped by added capability between Minneapolis and two Alaska hubs: Seattle and Ted Stevens Anchorage Worldwide Airport (ANC) in Alaska.
Progress in Portland
In the meantime, Alaska can also be dramatically rising its flight schedule out of Portland.
In the course of the month of October, when this route launches, as an example, the service is about to extend its year-over-year seats from the West Coast airport by about 33% over final 12 months, per Cirium.
In a press release earlier this month, the service famous its elevated frequencies to different current cities on its route map out of Portland, led by Las Vegas’ Harry Reid Worldwide Airport (LAS), which can have 5 each day frequencies as of Aug. 20.
Alaska additionally famous Feb. 12 that it is placing the ultimate touches on the design for an all-new “Flagship Lounge” in Portland, which might open someday between 2025 and 2026 with greater than 10,000 sq. toes of area.
PDX-ATL route particulars
Here is how the itinerary shakes out for Alaska’s new flight between Portland and Atlanta. Once more, the route begins Oct. 1 and can function each day.
- PDX-ATL: Departs at 9:37 a.m., arrives at 5:12 p.m.
- ATL-PDX: Departs at 7:59 p.m., arrives at 10:14 p.m.
At the least from the outset, it seems, from Alaska’s reserving channels, that it’ll function a Boeing 737-900 plane on the route.
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