The newest member of the oneworld alliance, Alaska Airlines, and Qatar Airways have filed with the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to codeshare on US routes. If granted by the DOT, this codeshare will see Qatar Airways place its QR designator code on many of Alaska’s flights.
Alaska and Qatar file for US codeshares
Qatar Airways wants to place its QR designator code on Alaska Airlines routes primarily out of Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland, and San Francisco. The initial codeshares include a variety of routes stretching to Mexico, intra-California routes, and transcontinental flights. Some of the routes are operated on regional jets that Horizon Air and SkyWest fly on behalf of Alaska Airlines.
The full map of routes Alaska and Qatar want to codeshare on out of Seattle is below:
Out of Portland, there are fewer routes that Qatar Airways wants to codeshare on with Alaska Airlines, though still a significant list:
San Francisco, a new market for Qatar Airways, will get the following codeshare routes:
Los Angeles, one of Qatar Airways’ most important cities, will also see extensive codesharing:
Lastly, there are also some other routes not touching one of those four airports that the airlines have also applied to codeshare on: