Alaska Airlines Records February Traffic Increase CheapOair Staff March 4, 2011 general Alaska Airlines Flies High in February Traffic jumped 19 percent on Alaska Airlines in February. The airline announced that 1.61 billion passengers were flown according to Bloomberg Businessweek. It was also an increase from 1.35 billion passengers in Feb. of 2010. Total traffic is up 17.3 percent throughout the first two months of the year.