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Alaska Air Group Inc. is getting closer to breaking even more than a year into the pandemic but it’s not quite there yet.
The parent company to Alaska Airlines and regional carrier Horizon Air reported a $131 million first-quarter loss April 22.
The early 2021 results are a significant improvement over a year ago, when the Seattle-based airline company lost $232 million; however, the most recent $131 million loss includes federal CARES Act Payroll Support Program funding. Without that and other special items, the first quarter loss would have been $436 million. according to the company.
Alaska Air Group netted $181 million in the first quarter of 2019. The company lost $430 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 and more than $1.3 billion in all of last year.