Alaska in significant West Coast expansion

Alaska Airlines has announced a sizeable expansion of service on the US West Coast that includes eight new routes between the Pacific Northwest and California starting early next year. Most of the routes will be served by Alaska’s Embraer 175 jets with no middle seat, three classes, wireless streaming of entertainment and wi-fi available for purchase. READ our ratings for Alaska Alaska has also renovated its airport lounges in Anchorage, Los Angeles and Seattle and plans to open a new San Francisco lounge in 2020. The new scheduled services link Spokane, Washington, to  Los Angeles (two daily services) from January 7  and to San Francisco (also twice daily) from March 19. They also connect Redmond/Bend, Oregon, to Los Angeles from January 7 as well as to  San Francisco and San Diego from March 19. Residents of Boise, Idaho, will get new twice-daily service to LA from March 19 while those in Missoula, Montana will be able to head to LA from the same date. READ: Virgin, Qantas face off over Tokyo Haneda. Finishing off the route expansion from April 21 will be a new daily service from Anchorage, Alaska, to San Francisco. But like that advertisement with the steak knives, there’s more. Frequencies are also increasing on a number of routes.. They include an additional flight between San Francisco and Orange County form January 7 for a total of seven daily nonstops. On March 19, there will be the addition of a second daily flight between San Francisco and Chicago O'Hare. The San Diego-Orlando service on January 7 will increase from five times a week to daily and second daily flights will start from March 19  between San Diego and Boise as well as between San Diego and Santa Rosa, Other increases include a boost from four to six flights a week between San Diego and San Jose from March 19 and a second daily flight between San Diego and Boston from May 21.