* The International Civil Aviation Organization's code for Alaska Airlines

Alaska Airlines is by far the largest air carrier in the region, with Juneau's Juneau International Airport serving as the aerial hub for all of Southeast and Ketchikan's Ketchikan International Airport serving as a secondary hub for southern Southeast Alaska.

* 2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.

* 1971 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.

** Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.

* September 4 – A Boeing 727 ( Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 ) crashes into the side of a mountain near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.

The island was formerly served by Alaska Airlines from Anchorage, Petropavlovsk and Magadan.

Alaska Airlines headquarters

Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air are headquartered in the city.

* Alaska Airlines, IATA airline designator

Alaska Airlines is contracted by the mine to fly other mine workers out of Anchorage.

After he died in the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, his body was buried in Tanana.

Alaska Airlines, along with its regional subsidiary, Horizon Air, is the second largest carrier at the airport.

Alaska Airlines halted its San Jose – Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Lucas seasonal routes, Horizon Air discontinued its twice daily San Jose-Tucson service.

However, Alaska Airlines announced afterward it would begin new routes to Austin from SJC, and would upgrade service to Portland, Oregon, which was run by regional subsidiary Horizon Air, to commercial jet service which began on September 2, 2009.

Alaska Airlines added service to Kahului, Kona, Lihue, and Los Cabos / San José del Cabo.

On the same day, Alaska Airlines announced that it would upgrade its service to Kahului and Kauai to daily flights ; currently, Alaska flies daily to Kahului, Kauai, Kona, and Honolulu.

The airport is a major hub for Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, and serves as a maintenance facility for Horizon Air.

For example, following the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, the airline changed the flight number for subsequent flights following the same route to 295.

In the end the restriction was not lifted, but the FAA was permitted to add additional exemptions, which went not to AWA but to competitor Alaska Airlines.

The largest airlines at John Wayne Airport are Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, American Airlines, Air Tran, and Alaska Airlines.

The flight started from Svalbard in Norway, and crossed the Arctic Ocean to Alaska.

* John Callahan, former Division Chief of the Accidents and Investigations Branch of the FAA, Washington D. C., also a Disclosure Project witness, said that following the Japan Air Lines flight 1628 incident that involved a giant UFO over Alaska, recorded by air and ground radar, the FAA conducted an investigation.

Upon completion of flight surgeon training in 1984, he reported to the Navy Branch Hospital in Adak, Alaska, as Director of Medical Services.

Some Bar-tailed Godwits have the longest known non-stop flight of any migrant, flying 11, 000 km from Alaska to their New Zealand non-breeding areas.

This flight went from Spitsbergen ( Svalbard ) to Alaska nonstop, so there is little doubt that they went over the North Pole.

Later that same year he won his second Mackay Trophy, when he led ten Martin B-10B bombers on an flight from Bolling Field to Fairbanks, Alaska, and back.

On October 16, 1972, he was aboard a twin engine Cessna 310 with Representative Nick Begich of Alaska, who was facing a possible tight race in the November 1972 general election against the Republican candidate, Don Young, when it disappeared during a flight from Anchorage to Juneau.

The Rowells were returning from a photography workshop in Alaska on a flight that had originated in Oakland.

Most major U. S. passenger carriers serve ANC, with the majority of passenger flight operations by Alaska Airlines to and from Seattle ( an average of 20 flights per day ) and Fairbanks ( an average of 13 flights per day ).

It makes the longest known non-stop flight of any bird and also the longest journey without pausing to feed by any animal, along a route from Alaska to New Zealand.

St. Elmo's fire was observed and its optical spectrum recorded during a University of Alaska research flight over the Amazon in 1995 to study sprites.

* Air Force Lt. Col. Henry " Hap " Arnold led a bomber flight from Bolling Field on a 4, 000-mile journey to Alaska in 1934, to demonstrate the capabilities of long-range strategic bombing missions.

When Alex was a boy growing up in Anchorage, Alaska, United States, his father took the family for a flight in their airplane, which came under attack by a Shi ' ar spaceship.

Alaska 261 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Lic.

After flight training in Oklahoma, he was stationed in Alaska where he served as a F-4E Aircraft Commander and NORAD Alert Force Commander.

From June 2007, the airline was to offer a weekly flight with Tupolev Tu-214 equipment from Anchorage, Alaska to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky with a flight continuation to Khabarovsk.

After making a test flight in July, Post and Rogers left Lake Washington, near Seattle in early August and made several stops in Alaska.

* January 26 – A United States Air Force Strategic Air Command C-54D-1-DC Skymaster with 44 people on board disappears without trace over Canadas Yukon Territory near Snag during a flight from Elmendorf Air Force Base outside Anchorage, Territory of Alaska, to Great Falls Air Force Base in Cascade County, Montana.

* July 21 – Flying in heavy rain, icing conditions, and limited visibility, the Canadian Pacific Air Lines Douglas DC-4 CF-CPC disappears during a United Nations flight from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Anchorage, Territory of Alaska, in the United States with 37 people on board.

** A member of the Japanese Red Army and four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijack Japan Air Lines Flight 404, a Boeing 747-246B with 140 other people on board, shortly after it takes off from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands for a flight to Anchorage, Alaska, en route a final destination of Tokyo International Airport, Tokyo, Japan.

* January 31 – Due to inadequate maintenance, the horizontal stabilizer of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, jams during a flight from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Seattle, Washington, forcing the plane into a dive from 31, 500 feet ( 9, 601 m ) to between 23, 000 ( 7, 010 m ) and 24, 000 feet ( 7, 315 m ) in 80 seconds.

The International President of AFA currently is Veda Shook, an Alaska Airlines flight attendant since 1991.

Instead of a traditional strike, the Alaska flight attendants designed and executed a unique campaign that featured surprise tactics and intermittent strikes, called CHAOS ( Create Havoc Around Our System ).