SEATTLE, Sep 14, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Alaska Airlines (NYSE:ALK) announced that tomorrow, September 15, it will add extra flights from Seattle to Anchorage and Fairbanks and back to Seattle in order to assist travelers.

These extra flights are in addition to the 20 regularly scheduled daily round-trip flights between Seattle and the two cities. The extra flights will be operated with 172-seat Boeing 737-900.

	   Flight numbers and times are:
7201 Seattle/Anchorage   depart    8:20 a.m.      arrive   11:08 a.m.
7202 Anchorage/Seattle   depart   12:08 p.m.      arrive    4:25 p.m.
7207 Seattle/Anchorage   depart    4:25 p.m.      arrive    7:00 p.m.
7208 Anchorage/Seattle   depart    8:00 p.m.      arrive   12:07 a.m.
7205 Seattle/Fairbanks   depart    7:00 a.m.      arrive    9:50 a.m.
7206 Fairbanks/Seattle   depart   10:50 a.m.      arrive    3:20 p.m.
7203 Seattle/Fairbanks   depart    5:30 p.m.      arrive    8:20 p.m.
7204 Fairbanks/Seattle   depart    9:20 p.m.      arrive    1:43 a.m.

Customers who are not currently holding a confirmed reservation may call their travel agent, tour company or Alaska Airlines at 800/426-0333 to book space, or they may go to the airport and ask to be placed on a standby list.

For more news and information, visit the Alaska Airlines Newsroom on the Internet at http://newsroom.alaskaair.com.

CONTACT:          Alaska Airlines 
                  Jack Walsh, 206/901-8753                          
                  or
                  Jack Evans, 206/433-3134