Alaska Air CEO says Silicon Valley business travel has dried up

The drought in Big Tech travel — which has hit Alaska harder than other carriers due to its focus on West Coast routes — comes as US corporate travel bookings remain well below pre-pandemic levels. Large corporations generally have returned to about 85% of 2019 travel, even as leisure trips and blended work-personal travel has fueled a rebound in overall bookings.

Chief Commercial Officer Andrew Harrison said on a conference call Thursday that about one-third of Alaska’s revenue is tied to California and that tech business-related travel has been “severely depressed for some time now.” But Alaska is optimistic that Big Tech’s travel budgets can only be cut so far and will eventually rebound sharply.

“These are like the most valuable companies on Earth,” Minicucci said on the same call. “And at some point, they are going to expand again, they’re going to get traveling again.”

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