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Alaska Air lowered its 2025 profit forecast on Thursday as higher fuel costs and operational challenges, including adverse weather, weighed on its margins.

The carrier also forecast its fourth-quarter profit well below analysts' expectations.

Refinery outages on the U.S. West Coast have significantly tightened fuel supplies, sending prices sharply higher and adding pressure to airlines already grappling with rising operational costs.

"Fuel, it's volatile, and that's one of the things that we're having to manage through in terms of making an estimate for earnings in the fourth quarter," Alaska Air CFO Shane Tackett told Reuters.

Operational disruptions have increasingly pressured U.S. carriers this year, wi

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