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Alaska Air Group, Inc.

An airline holding company whose Alaska Airlines brand flies a West Coast network spanning Alaska, Hawaii and beyond, alongside regional carrier Horizon Air. It began in 1932 in Anchorage as McGee Airways, a single bush-flying operation serving remote Alaskan towns. The smiling "Chester" face on its planes' tails is said to honor a beloved reindeer-herder who greeted early flights.