Well, if Alaska Airlines had anything to do with Alaska other than the name, the blue Eskimo, and sucking every dime out of the State that it can, this might have some relevance, but Alaska Airlines is about Seattle and the Seattle - Silicon Valley connection, not about déclassé Alaska from which you can see Russia.   Seattle can do commie cool every bit as well as San Francisco or New York, better in some regards.   Virgin might even see an increase in gay flight attendants and weird, inedible food.