ALK Alaska Air Group Inc

ITEM 8.01. Other Events

On March 31, 2021, pursuant to registration rights granted to the United States Department of the Treasury (together with its permitted assignees, “U.S. Treasury”), Alaska Air Group, Inc. (the “Company”) has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) prospectus supplements to its automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-249054) (the “Form S-3”) to register: (i) the resale of warrants (the “PSP1 Warrants”) to purchase up to 928,127 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), issued by the Company to U.S. Treasury in connection with the participation by the Company’s subsidiaries, Alaska Airlines, Inc. (“Alaska Airlines”), Horizon Air Industries, Inc. (“Horizon”) and McGee Air Services, Inc. (“McGee”), in the payroll support program under Division A, Title IV, Subtitle B of The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, and up to 928,127 shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of such PSP1 Warrants; and (ii) the resale of warrants (the “PSP2 Warrants”) to purchase up to 255,873 shares of Common Stock issued by the Company to U.S. Treasury in connection with the participation by Alaska Airlines, Horizon and McGee in the payroll support program under Subtitle A of Title IV of Division N of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, and up to 255,873 shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of such PSP2 Warrants.

The foregoing prospectus supplement relating to the PSP1 Warrants amends and restates a prospectus supplement to the Form S-3 previously filed by the Company on September 25, 2020, including to add 39,458 PSP1 Warrants (and 39,458 shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the exercise thereof) to the 888,669 PSP1 Warrants (and 888,669 shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the exercise thereof) initially covered by such prospectus supplement.

The Company is filing this Current Report on Form 8-K to provide the legal opinions of O’Melveny & Myers LLP as to the legality of the issuance and sale of the PSP1 Warrants and shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the PSP1 Warrants and the issuance and sale of the PSP2 Warrants and shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the PSP2 Warrants, which opinions are attached hereto as Exhibit 5.1 and Exhibit 5.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.