At Alaska, safety is our top priority and our number one value. That drives all our decisions, as it does today. We are temporarily implementing additional safety measures focused on keeping our guests and employees safe, as well as working closely with the industry, FAA, TSA, law enforcement and others. Specific examples, which begin tomorrow, January 15, include:
Increased mask enforcement on the ground and throughout the journey for all routes, including in partnership with airports from which we fly.
To support law enforcement's calls to avoid travel to the area, we will limit the number of tickets purchased on flights to and from the DC metro area.
We will temporarily ban checked firearms on flights to the DC metro area, specifically flights to and from Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Dulles International Airport.
All passengers traveling to and from the DC metro area will be required to remain in their seats for one hour from take-off or landing to these airports.
We're adding extra personnel to support compliance.
We have procedures to ensure compliance prior to departure and takeoff, and for turn-back or diversions, should the circumstance warrant.
And, we will have a dedicated command center to monitor every phase of the journey - check in, boarding, taxi, climb, cruise, descent and arrival - to ensure compliance and allow us to quickly respond to and resolve any incidents.
We appreciate all that law enforcement and our crews are doing to ensure travel remains safe and respectful.
Alaska Airlines flies 31 flights a week to these three D.C. area airports from Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Through Jan. 14, Alaska Airlines has 303 people on its active ban list.
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Alaska Air Group, Inc. is engaged in operating airlines. The Company operates two airlines, Alaska, and Horizon. It also includes McGee Air Services, an aviation services provider. It operates through three segments: Mainline, Regional and Horizon. The Mainline segment includes scheduled air transportation on Alaska's Boeing 737 (B737) aircraft for passengers and cargo throughout the United States, and in parts of Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, the Bahamas, and Guatemala. The Regional segment includes Horizon's and other third-party carriers scheduled air transportation on Embraer E175 (E175) aircraft for passengers across a shorter distance network within the United States, Canada, and Mexico under capacity purchase agreements (CPA). The Horizon segment includes the capacity sold to Alaska under a CPA. With its regional partners, it flies to more than 120 destinations throughout North America. It provides its guests with global access to more than 900 destinations in 170 territories.