Alaska Air Group, Inc. (ALK)

Airlines, 35,951 employees, 81% union. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 24 of the 47 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing counts its people by subsidiary (a), three airlines and a ground handling company, so the airline and airport services shares are stated counts.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 17% now, 20% at the end of 2027, 21% at the end of 2028, 22% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 22% desk work, 26% people work and 53% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 78% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 16% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

35,951 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country; certain employees outside the U.S. are represented by unions or local groups.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, Air Group entities employed 35,951 active employees (22,377 at Alaska, 6,456 at Hawaiian, 3,846 at Horizon, and 3,272 at McGee Air Services).”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 35,951 active employees: 22,377 at Alaska, 6,456 at Hawaiian, 3,846 at Horizon and 3,272 at McGee Air Services; 89% full-time; labor unions represent 81%, with union groups counted by carrier (pilots, flight attendants, technicians, clerical and passenger service, ramp, dispatchers).

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Scheduled Air Transportation, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• American Airlines (AAL, 139,100 employees)17% now, 21% by 2028
• United Airlines (UAL, 113,200 employees)17% now, 21% by 2028
• Delta Air Lines (DAL, 103,000 employees)17% now, 21% by 2028
• Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV, 72,790 employees)17% now, 21% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

3 sentences in the filing name AI. Three sentences: Flyways AI, used by Alaska and Horizon for fuel-efficient flight paths, AI among emerging technologies with possible disruptive impacts, and AI increasing cybersecurity risks.

• “Alaska and Horizon use Flyways AI, a technology which leverages artificial intelligence to enable more fuel-efficient flight paths.”
• “We continue to monitor emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, that may have disruptive impacts which are out of our control.”
• “The continued evolution and increased usage of artificial intelligence technologies may further increase our cybersecurity risks.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20211median 0
• Fiscal 20222median 0
• Fiscal 20232median 1
• Fiscal 20242median 4
• Fiscal 20253median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• Union groups are counted by carrier in the filing's tables; the 3,272 at McGee Air Services, the ground handling subsidiary, take the airport services pattern (a).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000766421-26-000010, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.