Alaska Air Group

Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air
Washington
Transportation

Corprate Bias Ratings

Risk Level:

Rating - Danger
High Risk

Alaska Airlines terminated two employees who disagreed with the company's support for the Equality Act. The company covers the cost of "medically necessary transition-related care" for its employees and their children and discriminates against faith-based charities in its charitable giving. Alaska Airlines is a Gold partner of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees. For these reasons, Alaska Airlines receives a High Risk rating.

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Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

Alaska Airlines fired two employees for questioning the company’s position on the passage of the Equality Act, leading to a religious discrimination suit (1). Alaska Airlines received a score of 90 on the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index. Among other requirements, this means that the company has pledged to vet vendors for support of LGBTQ policies (2).

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
Rationale

Alaska Airlines’ giving guidelines expressly prohibit religious organizations from receiving funds (1).

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Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

Risk Level
Rationale

Alaska Airlines does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Rationale

The Alaska Airlines HRC CEI profile indicates the company covers the cost of “medically necessary transition-related” care for its employees and their children (1)(2). The company has advocated for the passage of the Equality Act (3). Alaska Airlines also created a new aircraft livery to promote Black Lives Matter amidst the protests (4). It also issued pro-Black Lives Matter pins and t-shirts for employees (5).

Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

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Rationale

Alaska Airlines is a gold partner of the HRC (1). Alaska Airlines has pledged to give employees abortion travel benefits following the Supreme Court overruling of Roe v. Wade (2).

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Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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Rationale

Alaska Airlines’ PAC gives in a bipartisan manner in accordance with business interests (1).

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November 15, 2023

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