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Wine flies free on Alaska Airlines in OR & WA

07/28/13

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Student’s design lands on Alaska Airlines airplane

06/03/13

It must be quite a thrill to see your artwork on an airplane. A design created by a 17-year-old high school student from Honolulu won Alaska Airlines’ latest “Paint-the-Plane” contest and on Monday a Boeing 737-800 with Aaron Nee’s “Spirit of the Islands” paint theme touched down at Honolulu International Airport. Students across the Hawaiian →

liveries

Airlines encouraging disaster relief donations

05/22/13

Heartbroken over the images and stories coming out of Oklahoma? Airlines are joining in to encourage you to help out by donating some money or miles. Here are a few that have posted notices on their websites: Through June 30, 2012, American Airlines AAdvantage members can earn a one-time bonus of 250 AAdvantage →

Assistance

Two unscheduled landings; two different reasons

02/01/13

An Alaska Airlines plane flying from Los Angeles to Seattle with 116 passengers and five crew members on board had to make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon Thursday night because the pilot lost consciousness. According to an airline spokesperson, the co-pilot declared an emergency and landed Flight 473 safely. Medical personnel met the airplane →

Air traffic control

Week long delay for some Alaska Airlines passengers?

01/08/13

My route home to Seattle from Santiago, Chile was via Miami and Chicago, so I suspected I was maybe just very tired and a bit out of it when I looked at the “Departures” and “Arrivals” screens for Alaska Airlines at O’Hare International Airport. The departures were definitely for January 7th – my day of →

Fun Stuff

Alaska Airlines’ paint the plane contest

12/14/12

Alaska Airlines is having a Paint the Plane contest. The airline has decided to paint a 737 with a Hawaiian theme and asked Hawaii schoolchildren to submit their ideas. These three designs have been chosen as finalists and Hawaiian residents are being asked to vote for a winner. The winning design will get painted on →

Bad day for Alaska Airlines

10/09/12

We all know how irritating it is when our the internet signal goes down in our home or office. Magnify that feeling times a bazillion and you probably won’t be anywhere near what Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air and their customers across the country had to deal with when the the connection to the ticketing system →

Air Travel

World’s largest salmon lands in Anchorage

10/05/12

This is just plane fun. On Thursday, Alaska Airlines unveiled the world’s largest salmon: a 91,000 pound, 129-foot long fish-themed Boeing 737-800 at a ceremony in Anchorage. The new “Salmon-Thirty-Salmon II” is almost identical to an earlier version of the paint scheme the airline used on a 737-400 in 2005. (That plane was re-painted with →

Airplanes

Making it easier to fly with wine

08/18/12

Wine has become a big deal in Washington State, especially in the Yakima Valley, Tri-Cities and Walla Wall Valley regions. And, come September, anyone planning a wine-tasting trip will be happy to know that Alaska Airlines, Enterprise Rent-a-Car and the area tourism bureaus are expanding the Washington Wine Country Taste and Tote program that makes →

Food

Horizon Air president apologizes to mistreated passenger

08/07/12

Over the weekend, a Bend, Ore., man took to Facebook to describe the incivility he alleged was inflicted on a fellow passenger on an Horizon Air flight out of Oregon’s Redmond Municipal Airport. Cameron Clark witnessed what he described on Facebook as “the worst of humanity” when airline staff on duty appeared to ignore and refuse →

Stuck at the Airport

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