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Alaska Airlines’ big, bold Boeing plane order

01/07/26

Seattle-based Alaska Airlines is going big in so many ways. There’s the Hawaiian Airlines purchase. The revamp of its loyalty program. And the ever-lengthening, and quite thrilling, list of new destinations. Stuck at The Airport is Seattle-based, and we’re planning trips on Alaska to Tokyo, Seoul and, starting this summer, to London, Rome and Reykjavik, →

Airlines

Museum Monday: Posters for Boeing’s canceled supersonic transport (SST) aircraft

07/03/23

They are easy to miss as you cross the pedestrian bridge connecting the main campus of Seattle’s sprawling Museum of Flight to the museum’s Space Gallery and Aviation Pavilion across the street. But as part of the delightful Art+Flight exhibit currently underway at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, there is a display of charming motivational posters →

Museums

Virgin Australia Picks Up Its 1st Boeing 737-8

06/28/23

A team from Virgin Australia was in Seattle this week to take delivery of the carrier’s first Boeing 737-8 aircraft. Picking up a new plane is a big deal anytime. But this is the first of 33 MAX family aircraft the carrier plans to take delivery of over the next five years. The order includes →

For National Book Lovers Day: our new book

08/10/22

August 9 was National Book Lovers Day and we celebrated by visiting some of the places in Seattle that are featured in our new book, 111 Places in Seattle That You Must Not Miss, which begins shipping today. The book is part of the international 111 Places series, which offers locals and experienced travelers guides →

Books

Alaska Airlines shows off first retrofitted Virgin America aircraft

03/01/19

Alaska Airlines shows off its first retrofitted Virgin America Airbus aircraft. →

Airplanes

Airline industry, non-profits save lives with flights

06/20/16

Airlines, aircraft manufacturers and non-profits are working together to bring humanitarian aid to communities that need it most - and to disaster-hit areas that need it fast. →

Boeing’s self-cleaning airplane lavatory

03/10/16

Boeing engineers and designers have come up with an idea for a self-cleaning airplane lavatory. Hooray!!! Now let's hope the idea actually makes its way on to airplanes. →

Bathrooms

Coolest new airline? Maybe.

10/13/15

Can the air travel experience be calmer, cooler and more comfortable? The big thinkers at TEAGUE, the Seattle-based design consultancy surely think so. The company helped design Microsoft’s first Xbox and has been Boeing’s key design partner forever. And to float some ideas about what might make air travel better, they created a new – →

Sneak peek at ANA’s Star Wars plane

09/12/15

With R2-D2, C-3PO and the Star Wars Stormtroopers on hand, on Saturday Boeing and Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) showed off the carrier’s R2-D2-themed jet at the Boeing Everett Factory north of Seattle. The cool design features aren’t just on the outside. Inside the plane there will be Star Wars-themed service items as well, including →

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Seattle’s Museum of Flight gets a Dreamliner

11/07/14

It’s still so new – but the 787 Dreamliner is already a museum piece. On Saturday, Nov. 8, the Boeing Company will officially donate Dreamliner “Number 3” to Seattle’s Museum of Flight. If you’re in town, you’ll be able to see the plane in the museum’s East Parking Lot all weekend and tour it from →

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