Alaska Airlines Gets the Saturday Night Live Treatment

Image: An Alaska Airlines 737-9. (Photo Credit: Boeing Media)

by Rich Thomaselli
Last updated: 4:40 PM ET, Sun January 21, 2024

The long-running satirical sketch show, Saturday Night Live, gave its usual treatment to Alaska Airlines.

The show satirized the carrier and even came up with a new slogan for the airline in the wake of its January 5 incident in which a cabin door was blown off a plane midflight.

The show joked:

“Here at Alaska, safety is our number one concern,” host Jacob Elordi, posing as an airline flight attendant, assured viewers.

SNL stalwart Kenan Thompson added: “Buuut you gotta admit, it looked pretty cool. Plane flying around. No door.”

Elordi then said: “Everyone screaming, cell phones whipping out in the sky…it was awesome.”

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