Alaska Airlines launches official Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge plane

Alaska Airlines will be giving customers who are dressed in Star Wars apparel the chance to enjoy early boarding on May 4th. This morning, Alaska Airlines revealed an exclusive collaboration with Disneyland Resort and Lucasfilm.

The design features cute little porgs on the winglets and boarding door, as well as the Star Wars:Galaxy and Disneyland Resort logos in the center body of the fuselage. The seventh plane in the collaboration with Disneyland Resort is themed.

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“One of the things we knew we wanted to do was really think about the core fans of Star Wars and get them excited and engaged,” Natalie Bowman, managing director of marketing and advertising for Alaska Airlines, told Fast Company. “We thought: Wouldn’t it be amazing to put the Millennium Falcon in the air? So a big part of the design is the Millennium Falcon in the night sky, in space.”

The Alaska Airlines team spent 540 hours painting the airplane over the course of 27 days, using 23 base colors and custom colors created on-site to capture the details.

As a west coast airline, we are known for being a caring airline and bright and happy. It is very Star Wars and very unexpected for Alaska Airlines.

The official “Star Wars transport to the Disneyland Resort”—tail number N538AS—is scheduled to fly in the Alaska fleet for at least eight years, and has the capability to fly throughout the network, including to Hawaii, with scheduled routes shared on the airline’s website one week in advance.

Lynn Clark, vice president of sales and services at Disneyland Resort, said in a statement that Star Wars:Galaxy's Edge is one of the most popular destinations at Disneyland Resort.