Alaska Airlines celebrated new, daily nonstop service between Tucson and San Jose, California, on Tuesday morning as the first outbound flight departed for Mineta San Jose International Airport.
Tucson International Airport hasn’t had nonstop service to San Jose — a popular destination for local tech-company executives – since 2004, when Horizon Air dropped its flight to the Silicon Valley city.
The daily flights depart TIA at 7 a.m. and arrive in San Jose at 9:24, with the return flights leaving San Jose at 5:35 and arriving at 7:45 p.m.
The flights are flown aboard 76-passenger Embraer 175 jets, with 12 seats in first class and 64 in coach.
