Alaska Airlines signs on as official sponsor for Portland Thorns
Participating in this sponsorship deal:
About Sponsor:
Alaska Airlines is an American airline based in the Seattle metropolitan area of the state of Washington. The company was founded in 1932 as McGee Airways, offering flights from Anchorage, Alaska. Alaska Airlines has flights to more than one hundred destinations in the contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba and Mexico. The airline is a major air carrier and, along with its sister airlines Horizon Air and Virgin America, [8] is part of the Alaska Air Group.
About Property:
The Portland Thorns FC is an American professional women's soccer team based in Portland, Oregon. The team will begin play in 2013 in the new eight-team National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) that will receive support from the United States Soccer Federation (USSF), the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) and the Mexican Football Federation (FMF).[1] The Portland franchise is owned by Peregrine Sports LLC, which also owns the Portland Timbers, making it the only NWSL team with Major League Soccer affiliation.