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Alaska Airlines Temporarily Suspends Flights in Oregon, Washington

Alaska Airlines Temporarily Suspends Flights in Oregon, Washington

BY KYLE JONAS 19441d AGO 0 COMMENTS

Alaska Airline has announced that all flights into and out of Portland, Oregon, have been suspended until 3 P.M. Tuesday, due to the growing smoke and low air quality caused by the wildfires sweeping the West Coast of the United States. In a statement, Alaska said "Across the West, fires are creating thick smoke and haze, causing very poor air quality conditions in the Portland and Spokane areas. We made the difficult decision to stop our operation so that our employees and guests can remain safe."

 

Photo of N238AK - Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900ER
Alaska Airlines has suspended all flights into and out of PDX, as well as some in other cities in Oregon and Washington.  Jasper Kringen

 

Additionally, flights into and out of Spokane, Washington, were suspended and some flights in Eugene, Medford, Redmond, Pasco and Walla Walla were cancelled. This also applies to Alaska's sister airline, Horizon Air.

 

Alaska is the busiest airline serving PDX, and 74 Alaska AIrlines flights were cancelled on Monday. The Port of Portland, the group that runs the airport, said that no other airline has taken any similar steps yet. The COVID-19 pandemic has already slowed traffic at PDX, and the wildfires are only making that lull worse.

 

Photo of N236AK - Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900ER
Alaska cancelled 74 flights on Monday due to the wildfires. Andrew Salisbury

 

 

On Monday, Alaska said "Improving weather conditions in the coming days could begin to dissipate smoke in Portland and Spokane. However, other airports in the West could be impacted by drifting smoke." This means more airlines could take the same measures if conditions around airports worsen.

 

How do you feel about Alaska's actions? Do you think it was the right thing to do? Let us know!

 

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2020/09/alaska-air-suspends-all-pdx-flights-citing-wildfire-smoke.html

Kyle Jonas
Kyle is a high-school age aviation enthusiast born in Washington, D.C. but living in Chicago. He has always loved aviation. He lives right in between the approach paths for ORD and MDW, so he can watch the wide variety of aircraft land from his house. He hopes to become a commercial pilot when he grows older. In addition to aviation, Kyle likes baseball and running.

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