SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2002--Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan members can now earn frequent flyer miles as they sleep at Canada's largest first-class hotel group.

A new frequent flyer partnership with Delta Hotels allows Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan members to earn 500 miles for each qualifying stay. To celebrate the new partnership, members can earn Double Mileage Plan miles for every stay through April 30.

Delta Hotels has more than 35 properties coast to coast, with 12 in British Columbia and Alberta alone, including three in Vancouver, two in Whistler and two in Calgary, Alaska Airlines' newest destination. Victoria and Edmonton, both served by Alaska's sister carrier, Horizon, also feature Delta Hotels.

Alaska Airlines has been rated as the best major U.S. carrier by the highly respected Zagat Airline Survey and has received similar accolades from the readers of Travel+Leisure magazine which named Alaska the "World's Best Domestic Airline."

For reservations, go to www.alaskaair.com, call Alaska's toll-free reservations line at 1-800-ALASKAAIR (1-800-252-7522) or call your travel agent. For more news and information visit the Alaska Airlines Newsroom on the Internet at http://newsroom.alaskaair.com.

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