, /PRNewswire/ -- In response to an increase in travel demand, Alaska Airlines is offering the largest summer schedule in the company's history, including new nonstop routes and international destinations we've never served before during our busiest months of the year. We're also expanding the number of daily flights in our network for convenience, flying to popular destinations based on guest feedback, unveiling innovative bag drop stations in some of our hubs and continuing to operate an industry-leading safe operation. "As best-in-class operators, our top priority is consistently delivering on our promise to guests to take them where they're going safely and on time – all while showing them the care for which we're known," said , chief commercial officer at Alaska Airlines.
"This summer, we're prepared to do more flying and welcome more guests to experience not only a safe operation, but also a premium experience. We've been hard at work on elevating all aspects of the travel journey for our guests from start to finish." During this year's peak summer months (June, July and August), we've added almost versus last year; these added seats will help guests get to more barbeques, baseball games, and beaches than ever before.
Our busiest days will be before and after Independence Day, where we expect to see almost 160,000 guest boardings each day. Guests are excited to travel away from home this year. This past Memorial Day weekend, we connected more than 500,000 guests to th.
