Alaska Airlines increasing flights out of Paine Field

EVERETT, Wash. – If you don’t want to travel all the way to Sea Tac for a flight, you’ll soon have other options.

The Everett Herald reports Alaska Airlines will increase flights out of Paine Field later this spring.

On May 19th, Alaska will resume service to San Francisco, one of their key hubs.

There will eventually be 18 daily departures from Everett, but the airline expects that number to go up even more when they hit their cap of 400 daily departures at Sea Tac.

According to a Snohomish County study, the annual passenger count at Paine Field could hit 4.3 million by 2040.

You can currently catch flights from Everett to Boise, Las Vegas, Orange County, Palm Springs, Phoenix, San Diego, Spokane and Tucson.