Alaska Airlines
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Horizon Retires the Q400 But Its Mission Remains the Same
On Thursday evening at 7pm sharp, Horizon flight 2400 touched down in Seattle after a 51 minute flight from Spokane. This was…
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The Cranky Flier Interview with Horizon Air President Joe Sprague
Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s been quite awhile since my last Cranky Flier Interview, and I’m…
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3 Links I Love: Ops are Hard, Porg Party, Viva Avianca, LAX Tower
This Week’s Featured Link Travel chaos returns as Alaska Airlines blames … the calendar? – Seattle TimesAnother month, another mess. Will it…
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Alaska Always Wanted to Simplify Its Fleet, Now It Has Another Reason
Alaska Airlines has long loved to stretch the truth about its fleet simplicity, but only just a bit. The Virgin America merger…
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Alaska Takes a Stab at the Subscription Economy with California Flight Pass
Alex Corey, Alaska’s MD of Revenue Products & Strategy, told me yesterday that the airline had been developing the idea of entering…
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3 Links I Love: 5G Fun, Qatar’s Paint, LaGuardia Mostly Doesn’t Suck, AirBahn
This Week’s Featured Link All flights in and out of Paine Field canceled Monday as 5G bars regional jets – The Seattle…
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3 Links I Love: Alaska CEO’s Farewell, American Pilots, Norse Atlantic, and the Best Jacket Ever
This Week’s Featured Link Alaska Air CEO Tilden hands off a transformed airline – The Seattle TimesBrad Tilden is wrapping up his…
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Alaska Leans Into Its Oneworld Partnership With New Routes
Are You Leaving Cash on the Table?Missing out on credit card rewards is enough to make anyone cranky. GigaPoints analyzes your spending to recommend…
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Alaska Replaces Most of Its Airbus Fleet with the MAX
I know, I know. It’s a Wednesday, and you don’t usually get a post on Wednesday. But as I prepare my regular…
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3 Links I Love: JetBlue’s London Jaunt, Tariff Evasion, Hawai’i Demand
This week’s featured link JetBlue’s initial London play: Stansted and Gatwick – PaxEx.aeroJetBlue has the slots, and that means London is coming.…
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Alaska and oneworld Open Up Ahead of Today’s Official Joining Announcement
This morning, Alaska is announcing that the MOU is signed, and it is now officially a member-elect in the oneworld alliance. This,…
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September Capacity Cuts Begin While Southwest Adds New Last Minute Routes
It was another barn-burner of a weekend as I spent Friday night looking over all the new schedule data filed with Diio…