AIRLINES

Alaska Airlines Reaches Tentative Labor Pact: Alaska Air Group Inc. and its flight attendants said they reached the tentative agreement on a 3 1/2-year-old dispute involving 1,500 employees. Details of the deal were not disclosed, but Ray Vecci, chairman and chief executive of Alaska Airlines, said both sides showed “a willingness . . . to depart from entrenched positions.” The Assn. of Flight Attendants will recommend approval of the agreement when it goes to a vote in mid-February, union leader Gail Bigelow said. The previous contract expired in August, 1990. Negotiations broke down in June after the company imposed a new wage increase and work rules similar to its final proposal, which included a 3% pay raise.