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Alaska Airlines was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 2, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed
September 30, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed
October 13, 2024	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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Alaska Air Mileage Plan image

That image has always struck me as being out-of-place, like an old advertisement that somebody forgot to take down, like a Pepsi machine featuring The Phantom Menace. Does its presence really enhance this page? BOTTO_(T•C) 21:08, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to WP:BOLDly remove it if you think it doesn't enhance the page (I've no strong opinion either way), but I'll note that the image itself is in the public domain because it's below the threshold of originality, so the image doesn't seem to be problematic from an WP:NFCC standpoint. Mz7 (talk) 20:12, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Usage of the Word Eskimo

What do we think about changing Eskimo to Inuit here? Vitalen1 (talk) 01:37, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Vitalen1, I would not recommend it. The Iñupiat of Alaska are not Inuit speakers, speaking the Iñupiaq language instead. Name Omitted (talk) 03:08, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alaska Airlines’ quasi-official name for the logo is “the Eskimo” so it would feel strange to not use the name at least once. Beyond that, if repeated use doesn’t feel right, might I recommend the more generic Alaska Native. RickyCourtney (talk) 04:23, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alaska Destination Tables

These need to be split into three sections because of Alaska mainline Alaska horizon and Alaska SkyWest. Lucthedog2 (talk) 01:19, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Alaska Airlines

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:40, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article relies excessively on references to primary sources and have several uncited statements. Real4jyy (talk) 02:10, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Honolulu as an Alaska hub

I have a question about including Honolulu as a hub here on the Alaska Airlines page and on the Honolulu airport page. Yes, the Alaska Air Group has acquired Hawaiian Airlines and they are planning to merge all or at least most of its operations. But the two are (and are planned to remain) separate brands.

First, if you look at the Lufthansa page, the infobox lists Frankfurt and Munich as hubs. A footnote notes that, while the airline officially counts Berlin, Düsseldorf, Vienna, and Zurich among its hubs as well, they are not listed there because they are the hubs of its subsidiaries (Eurowings, Austrian, Swiss) and not of Lufthansa proper. In other words, they may be wholly owned subsidiaries but they are separate brands.

Second, on the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport page, listing both Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines in the infobox under "Hub for" seems redundant. It is a hub for Hawaiian. Please share your thoughts. Thanks. Precision123 (talk) 18:55, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone provide a reliable source saying that Honolulu is a hub for Alaska Airlines? RickyCourtney (talk) 00:14, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's all the focus on short-shelf-life content and editing activity which caused this article to become unstable and subsequently delisted as a GA. You're all over the revision history as a primary culprit. Why don't you explain why you believe it's appropriate to keep pushing the article in this direction? I scanned a bunch of Talking Totem issues, but feel it's a waste of my time to upload the images to Commons if they're not going to be used appropriately. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 15:21, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @RadioKaos, who are you referring to and can you describe what you mean? Thanks. --Precision123 (talk) 17:28, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]