Alaska Airlines, a publicly owned entity headquartered in SeaTac, Washington, within the Seattle metropolitan area, was founded in 1932 and employs approximately 12,110 individuals. The company operates as a major American airline, recognized as the sixth-largest in North America by scheduled passengers carried as of 2023. Together with its regional partners, Horizon Air and SkyWest Airlines, Alaska Airlines operates a route network primarily focused on connecting cities along the West Coast of the United States to over 100 destinations across Alaska, Hawaii, the contiguous United States, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico.