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I'm with Aditya. Alaska Airlines sucks. Here is why:

• at least 50% of my flights are delayed
• they fly their planes so hard, they break all the time
• they only schedule 30-45 min turns on the ground which means that when one flight is delayed, it cascades throughout the day
• their "flight attendants" are incessantly annoying about stupid crap like sitting in the exit row, wearing headphones w/o any audio plugged in, and stuff like that
• their planes have the cheapest airline seats available, which are less comfortable than sitting on a wooden stool for 2 hours (some of their planes have new leather seats which are nicer, but not enough of them).
• Most of the Alaska Airlines PAX are happy go lucky tourists. When I am getting up at 5 am to go to Redmond at 7 am, to then return the same day at 8 pm, I don't want to deal with this crowd. I'm not on vacation, and the flight sux. They don't seem to care, and act like they have never been on a plane before. Grrr (yes, I am being unreasonable, but I'm allowed to be selfish every once in a while). Compare a Alaska flight to a United flight where 80% of the travelers are business travelers (and most elites). They know how to get on an off a plane quickly, and don't bug you during the flight and share my same thinking about flight delays and general micky mouse activity on a flight.

I have flown American 50,000 miles a year for 7 years. I have never had a delay that wasn't due to weather. Never had a mechanical delay.