shares of alaska air group inc alk advanced 553 to 5207 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 178 to 464923 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 160 to 3549270 alaska air group inc closed 2218 below its 52week high 7425 which the company reached on april 7th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as southwest airlines co luv rose 384 to 4087 delta air lines inc dal rose 591 to 3852 and united airlines holdings inc ual rose 689 to 4393 trading volume 21 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 19 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use