The move, which the Seattle-based airline said could save it several million dollars a year, will expand a meal-for-purchase program introduced in 2005 on most flights to and from Mexico.
Alaska Airlines will soon quit offering free snack sandwiches on certain transcontinental flights and instead sell $5 meals in the main cabin, the company said Thursday.
Alaska Airlines today announced it will continue to expand its Northern Bites meals-for-purchase program, replacing complimentary snack sandwiches with $5 meal options in the main cabin on designated mealtime flights.
Alaska Air posted 1.4 billion revenue passenger miles last month, up from 1.33 billion a year earlier. A revenue passenger mile is equal to one paying passenger flown one mile.
Alaska Air Group Inc. on Tuesday said September passenger traffic for subsidiaries Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air rose 5.9 percent and 4.6 percent, respectively.
