Alaska Airlines, which acquired Virgin America last year, said on Thursday that it is adding a dozen new routes from the Bay Area this year.

In Alaska’s almost eight decade history, this expansion marks the single largest new market expansion.

John Kirby, Alaska’s vice president of capacity planning said that they want to serve the Bay Area’s biggest markets.  Kirby joined the Seattle-based carrier last year from Southwest Airlines.

He also said after the route expansion the company will fly to 13 of the 15 largest markets from the Bay Area.

The airline is adding ten routes from San Franciso and three from San Jose. Residents of Bay Area will be able to fly Virgin America flight on daily nonstops from San Francisco to towns in southern such as Nashville and Rale, along with the popular destinations such as New Orleans and Kona, Hawaii.

Baltimore, Philadelphia and Indianapolis are the other nonstop daily destinations. These destinations will also be covered by Virgin America planes, which is a key point for the airlines fans and it’s on demand food service and other amenities.

The airline will also debut nonstop flights from San Francisco to Albuquerque and San Francisco to Kansas City, which will be flown by Alaska and operated by subsidiary Horizon Air.

CEO Brad Tilden will also be introducing services from San Franciso to Mexico city this year.

The airline will see a limited financial benefit from the Mexico City expansion, but the step is an important in Alaska’s long-term growth plan, which relies on becoming one of the top carriers in California.

From Mineta San Jose International Airport, the airline company is debuting daily nonstops to Austin and Tucson in August and to Los Angeles in September this year to be operated by Alaska partner SkyWest. The San Jose to Los Angeles flights will occur four times a day.

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