“Saturday Night Live” took on the Alaska Airlines incident in which the door panel of a Boeing 737-9 MAX experienced a blow-out mid-flight over Oregon on Jan. 5, forcing the pilot to turn Flight 1282 around and land at Portland International Airport.
The skit used actors Heidi Gardner, Jacob Elordi, and Kenan Thompson, playing the part of Alaska Airlines employees sharing the company’s new [fake] marketing slogan: “Alaska Airlines, you didn’t die and you got a cool story.”
Elordi says in the fake ad, “On other airlines, you can watch movies, but on Alaska, you’re in the movie.”
Watch the inaugural skit for the 2024 season of Saturday Night Live below: