ATW Daily News

Delta, Alaska Air expand marketing agreement

Tuesday November 18, 2008

Delta Air Lines and Alaska Air Group, parent of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, expanded their marketing services agreement to give AS passengers more access to DL's international flights and DL passengers more access to AS and Horizon's western US network.

The new pact, to be implemented next year, builds on an AS-DL agreement launched in 2004 and a codesharing relationship between AS and DL subsidiary Northwest Airlines that goes back more than 20 years. DL/NWA will add AS's code to new NWA Seattle-Beijing flights launching March 1 and DL Los Angeles-Sao Paulo Guarulhos service scheduled to begin next spring.

By the end of 2009, DL and NWA frequent-fliers will have access to AS lounges in Anchorage, SEA, LAX, Portland, San Francisco and Vancouver and AS frequent fliers will have access to DL and NWA lounges worldwide. Elite frequent fliers will have reciprocal access to priority boarding, check-in, seat assignments and upgrades.

by Aaron Karp

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