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Alaska Airlines

In 2025 Alaska Airlines flew 78.5 passenger-miles per gallon of jet fuel, ranking 2 of 13. That is 16% better than the all-airline figure that year. Since 2000 its figure has risen 117%.

78.5passenger-miles per gallon, 2025
0.124 kgCO2 per passenger-mile, 2025
83%of seats filled, 2025
705 milliongallons of jet fuel burned in scheduled passenger flying, 2025
Alaska Airlines: passenger-miles per gallon by yearLine chart of Alaska Airlines passenger-miles per gallon of fuel from 2000 to 2025, with the all-airline average for comparison.304050607080200020052010201520202025Passenger-miles per gallonAlaska AirlinesAll airlines
Alaska Airlines against the all-airline figure, 2000 to 2025.

Alaska Airlines sells seats on flights operated by regional partners. In 2025 about 0.3% of its seat-miles were flown by regionals. How much of each regional's flying belongs to Alaska Airlines is an estimate based on the hubs the regional serves. The figure for 2025 sits between 78.5 and 82.9 passenger-miles per gallon depending on how multi-airline regionals are split. See the methodology.

Alaska and Virgin America began reporting jointly in April 2018, and Virgin America flying in 2018 is counted with Alaska. Horizon Air, which Alaska Air Group owns, counts as Alaska throughout.

Year by year

YearPassenger-miles per gallonkg CO2 per passenger-mileSeat-miles per gallonLoad factorPassengers (millions)Fuel (million gallons)CO2 (thousand tonnes)
2025 78.5 0.124 94.7 82.9% 42.8 705 6,875
2024 78.7 0.124 93.7 83.9% 42.2 717 6,989
2023 77.4 0.126 92.6 83.6% 41.1 714 6,962
2022 76.6 0.127 90.7 84.5% 39.0 645 6,288
2021 70.2 0.139 95.4 73.6% 31.5 531 5,181
2020 55.2 0.177 99.8 55.3% 17.5 360 3,509
2019 74.9 0.130 89.2 84.0% 47.1 730 7,117
2018 74.2 0.131 88.8 83.6% 47.5 728 7,097
2017 76.3 0.128 90.3 84.5% 35.3 498 4,857
2016 76.6 0.127 91.2 84.0% 34.6 464 4,528
2015 75.7 0.129 90.4 83.8% 33.5 440 4,286
2014 75.2 0.130 88.8 84.7% 31.4 408 3,979
2013 73.2 0.133 85.9 85.2% 29.3 392 3,827
2012 72.8 0.134 85.3 85.5% 27.5 367 3,583
2011 72.2 0.135 86.0 84.0% 26.9 347 3,388
2010 61.0 0.160 74.5 81.9% 25.4 376 3,670
2009 58.4 0.167 74.8 78.1% 24.5 359 3,504
2008 54.0 0.181 70.8 76.3% 26.5 400 3,900
2007 51.6 0.189 68.5 75.4% 27.6 419 4,088
2006 50.8 0.192 67.1 75.7% 26.9 410 4,002
2005 49.2 0.198 65.7 75.0% 26.4 403 3,927
2004 45.7 0.213 63.5 72.0% 25.9 415 4,049
2003 42.3 0.231 61.5 68.6% 23.4 394 3,843
2002 40.0 0.244 59.6 67.1% 21.2 372 3,627
2001 37.4 0.260 55.2 67.8% 19.5 363 3,536
2000 36.1 0.270 52.9 68.3% 19.8 372 3,623

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