Alaska Airlines plans to begin service to Kansas City International Airport next year. The airline announced that it would begin daily nonstop service between KCI and Seattle, on March 12. To introduce the new route, Alaska Airline is offering $99 one-way tickets between Seattle and Kansas City, although the tickets have to purchased by Oct. 18 and used through May 23.

“Kansas City is the seventh-largest market in the country from Seattle that we do not currently serve,” said Joe Sprague, Alaska Airlines’ vice president of marketing. “We’re looking forward to bringing our award-winning customer service and our smiling Eskimo to the ‘Show Me’ state.”

Frontier Airlines has announced plans to add nonstop service from KCI to Houston’s Hobby Airport and to Las Vegas starting in November, but the carrier also suspended twice-daily flights to Minneapolis.