Aircraft
Alaska Airlines to Add E-Jets, Maxes for Post-Covid Expansion
Seventeen E175s will enter service with partners Horizon Air and SkyWest starting in 2022 and 13 more 737 Max 9s will enter the mainline in 2023 and 2024.
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900ER (foreground) and Horizon Air Embraer E175s populate a ramp at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. (Photo: Alaska Air Group)
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900ER (foreground) and Horizon Air Embraer E175s populate a ramp at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. (Photo: Alaska Air Group)

Alaska Airlines has decided to expand its fleet ahead of a projected return to pre-Covid levels of domestic travel by summer 2022 with the addition of 17 Embraer E175s to its network and a conversion of options on 13 Boeing 737 Max 9s, Alaska Air Group said Wednesday. Plans call for wholly owned subsidiary Horizon Air to fly nine of the E175s and for St. George, Utah-based affiliate SkyWest to fly eight.