Watch Saturday Night Live Spoof the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Incident
by Daniel McCarthy /Alaska Airlines, which is still canceling flights as the FAA and Boeing work through the 787 MAX 9 investigation, got the Saturday Night Live treatment during the show’s latest episode this past weekend.
The episode, which was hosted by Jacob Elordi of the HBO series Euphoria and Saltburn, featured a sketch on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282. The flight infamously had a side panel blow off mid-flight, forcing an emergency landing back at Portland International Airport.
No one onboard was seriously injured, which gave SNL the opportunity to come up with a new slogan for Alaska Airlines—“Alaska Airlines, you didn’t die, and you got a cool story.”
“On other airlines, you can watch movies, but on Alaska, you’re in the movie,” Elordi said, playing an Alaska Airlines crewmember.
“You got to admit, it looked pretty cool—a plane flying around, no door,” cast member Kenan Thomson said in the sketch. “We’re the airline where a pilot tried to turn off the engine midflight while on mushrooms, and we’re proud to say that’s our second worst flight.”
This past weekend was far from the first time SNL spoofed the travel industry. Just about a year ago, the SNL cast, and host Michael B. Jordan, spoofed Southwest Airlines’ reaction to its December meltdown that saw roughly half of its schedule, and 16,700 flights, canceled from Dec. 21, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022, the peak of the holiday travel period.
