 Alaska Airlines is an American airline based in the Seattle metropolitan area , Washington . Before this they were McGee Airways in 1932 , offering flights from Anchorage , Alaska . Today , Alaska has flights to more than one hundred destinations in the contiguous United States , Alaska , Hawaii , Canada , Costa Rica and Mexico . The airline is a major air carrier and , along with its sister airline Horizon Air , is part of the Alaska Air Group . The airline has been ranked by J. D. Power and Associates as having the highest customer satisfaction of the traditional airlines for nine consecutive years . 
