Letters to the Editor

Letter: Messaging discrepancy

Alaska Airlines recently announced that it is dropping fresh meals and all but one-beverage service on flights for the rest of January, for starters. Apparently in response to its flight attendants, Alaska Airlines will be cutting back beverage service to one per flight no matter how long the flight is. Alaska Airlines will also be dropping fresh meals on medium-haul flights and reducing the number of pre-order meals available on transcontinental flights and legs to Hawaii.

Alaska Airlines said that the changes would help limit flight crews’ exposure to passengers and exposure to COVID-19. Forgive me, but if I am not mistaken, hasn’t Alaska Airlines been boasting for well over a year that it is much, much safer to fly regarding the exposure to COVID-19 variants than going shopping or to the movies or work or spending time out in the general public because the airlines uses those fantastic HEPA filters in the planes air filtration system? So which is it? Is it safe to fly Alaska Airlines and other carriers, or not?

— Eric Olenick

Anchorage

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