Alaska Air Group to block middle seats until Jan-2021

Alaska Air Group announced (22-Oct-2020) plans to continue blocking middle seats on mainline aircraft until 06-Jan-2021. During 3Q2020, the carrier also announced 15 new routes aimed at key leisure destinations and plans to officially join the oneworld alliance on 31-Mar-2021. Furloughs have been limited to approximately 400 employees, following the implementation of voluntary early out and incentive leave programmes which were accepted by more than 4000 employees. [more - original PR]