Short interest in Alaska Air Group Inc (NYSE:ALK) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 12.07M to 12.41M. This put 12.5% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 3.11M shares traded per day, it would take 3.99 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.