Alaska, Horizon Add Service to Hawaii, Mexico, California

Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air announced expanded service to Hawaii and Mexico, and new service between San Jose, Calif., and Los Angeles that will strengthen international connections with the airlines’ alliance partners.

Alaska Airlines will inaugurate daily service between San Diego, Calif., and Kahului, Maui, beginning Oct. 1, and daily seasonal service between San Diego and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, starting Nov. 12. It will also begin seasonal flying between Portland, Ore., and Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii, four times a week starting Nov. 12. Additionally, it will add a second flight between Seattle and Kona that will operate thrice weekly from Nov. 11 to April 10.

These new flights are in addition to the new daily service between Portland and Honolulu the carrier announced last week. Alaska Airlines is offering introductory one-way fares of $159 on tickets purchased by May 4, 2010, for travel through Feb. 11, 2011, on all Hawaii flights from Portland and San Diego.

Horizon Air will add four daily roundtrip flights between San Jose, and Los Angeles starting Aug. 23, 2010. The new service is timed for convenient connections to domestic and international destinations on Alaska Airlines’ alliance partners Air France, Air Pacific, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Delta Air Lines, KLM, Korean Air, LAN and Qantas.