Virgin America flights become Alaska next April

Alaska Airlines will operate all Virgin America flights as its own from April 25, 2018, with users of Virgin's website directed to Alaska's site from that day, the carrier confirms. "Alaska Airlines has posted the new Airbus schedule for flights after April 24," Alaska said in an internal memo to employees. "The flights will be Alaska flights and will only be available through Alaska channels… or through travel agencies and booking sites." Virgin America, which Alaska acquired in late 2016, operates Airbus A320 family narrowbodies, while Alaska Airlines operates an all-Boeing 737 fleet. "Today, we took an important step closer to completed our merger with Virgin America by combining our flight inventories into one," Alaska managing director of process engineering Sandy Stelling said. <br/>