Alaska Airlines continues to grow its footprint along the West Coast, announcing two new routes from San Jose in California’s Silicon Valley. Alaska Airlines will add service from San Jose to both San Diego and Orange County. The new intra-California service begins June 5, with Alaska Air offering three daily round-trip flights on both routes. Alaska Airlines has considered San Jose to be one of its focus cities since 2010, when the carrier expanded there with nonstop flights to Hawaii and Los Angeles. Alaska Airlines will go head-to-head with Southwest Airlines on the San Jose routes. Southwest flies 10 daily round-trip flights between San Jose and San Diego and nine between San Jose and Orange County, according to Southwest's summer schedule. Alaska Air will operate 28 peak-day departures to 14 destinations from the San Jose once the San Diego and Orange County flights begin. That will give the carrier more nonstop destinations from the city than any other airline. Southwest Airlines flies to 13 destinations nonstop from San Jose, according to the Mineta San Jose International Airport website. “These new routes will bring low fares and an elevated inflight experience to our California customers, offering convenient connections to popular leisure destinations in Mexico and Hawaii served by Alaska as well as to Beijing and London, served by our partner carriers Hainan Airlines and British Airways,” Andrew Harrison, Alaska Airlines’ Chief Commercial Officer, says in a statement.