An Alaska Airlines plane is parked at a Seattle-Tacoma International Airport gate on Jan. 5, 2022. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) Alaska Airlines announced Monday it is ending its mask requirement.

Sen. Lora Reinbold, R-Eagle River, co-hosts an Alaska Legislature listening session at the Anchorage Baptist Temple on Nov. 22, 2021, "related to government action to COVID". (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public ...

WASHINGTON — After a federal judge struck down the federal mask mandate covering air travel and other public transportation Monday, major U.S. airlines are confirming that masks are now optional for ...

With a federal judge in Florida voiding the national mask mandate covering airplanes and other forms of public transportation, Alaska Airlines said Monday masks are now optional in airports and ...

SEATTLE — Masks are no longer required on public transit or in transit facilities around the Puget Sound region effective Tuesday, according to a news release from Sound Transit. Tuesday’s ...

Alaska Airlines and most other major carriers said Monday afternoon that face masks will be optional on planes, effective immediately. The decision came just hours after a mandate that required masks ...

Some air travelers who were banned after breaking mask rules earlier in the pandemic may get a second chance to fly the friendly skies. At least three airlines – Delta, United, and Alaska – are ...

SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines has said that masks will be optional on their flights after a federal judge in Florida voided the national COVID-19-related mask mandate covering airlines and other public ...

A former Alaska legislator who was banned from flying on Alaska Airlines for refusing to comply with coronavirus masking policies is now suing the airline and more than a dozen of its employees.