Alaska Airlines
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Alaska Prepares to Shuffle Airbus and Boeing Fleets
The “proudly all-Boeing” Alaska Airlines is no more. With the Virgin America merger done from a customer perspective, there are both Airbus…
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Virgin America Has One More Day Before it Disappears and Alaska Is Prepared
Virgin America’s time is almost up. After the last flight goes tomorrow night, April 24, the airline will officially be gone from…
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A Pleasant Alaska First Class Flight to Puerto Vallarta and an Equally Pleasant Return on Delta in Coach (Trip Report)
I celebrated my 40th birthday in Hawai’i last year. This year, it’s my wife’s turn. Though our big celebration is this summer,…
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Washington’s Paine Field Begins Commercial Service This Fall and It’s Already Out of Room
There’s nothing quite like building a brand-spanking-new terminal only to find out that it’s completely full before it even opens. This sounds…
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United Improves While JetBlue, Alaska, and Southwest Don’t in 2017 On-Time Derby
It’s time for some fun with numbers. The year is over, and my technical issue with masFlight was fixed. That means I…
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3 Links I Love: Why JFK is Terrible (Reason #3,194), Alaska’s Winter of Discontent, Americans Flee to Tijuana
This week’s featured link: Why Did New York’s JFK Airport Struggle to Cope With Its Flight Backlog After the Bomb Cyclone? –…
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3 Links I Love: Delta Checks In, Saying Goodbye to the 747 and the 737-400 Combi
It’s a trio of airline-produced content this week… This week’s featured link: Delta introduces auto check-in for Fly Delta app users –…
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Southwest Declares War Against Alaska and Anyone Else Who Wants a Piece of California
I spent the beginning of this week at the Boyd Conference (aka International Aviation Forecast Summit), and while I was there, war…
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72 Hours With Alaska: Going Home and Wrapping Up
And so the adventure was over. After a night in Seattle, all I had to do was get back home. Unfortunately, I’m…
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72 Hours With Alaska: The Southern Part of the Milk Run
After the tranquil morning flying floatplanes with so few people around, entering the terminal at Juneau was a wake-up call. That’s where…
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72 Hours With Alaska: Juneau and Alaska Seaplanes
Once we landed in Juneau, Alaska EVP External Relations Joe Sprague was in his element. We had big plans until our flight…
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72 Hours With Alaska: The Northern Part of the Milk Run
We left off in Anchorage. After spending 24 hours on the ground, it was time to get that 737-400 Combi up in…