SEATTLE, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alaska Airlines and the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA today jointly announced a tentative agreement on a proposed two-year contract extension for the airline's 2,830 flight attendants.

The proposal to extend the contract through April 2012 was presented late yesterday to union members for review and a ratification vote. The ratification process is expected to be completed by mid-March.

Currently, the contract is amendable on May 1, 2010.

For over 60 years, the Association of Flight Attendants has been serving as the voice for flight attendants in the workplace, in the aviation industry, in the media and on Capitol Hill. More than 55,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines come together to form AFA-CWA, the world's largest flight attendant union. AFA is part of the 700,000-member strong Communications Workers of America (CWA), AFL-CIO. Visit us at http://www.afanet.org.

Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group (NYSE: ALK), together serve more than 90 cities through an expansive network in Alaska, the Lower 48, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico. Alaska Airlines ranked "Highest in Customer Satisfaction among Traditional Network Carriers (tie)" in the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 North America Airline Satisfaction Study(SM). For reservations, visit alaskaair.com. For more news and information, visit the Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air Newsroom at alaskaair.com/newsroom.