Alaska Air

Source: www.moreover.com --- 25 days ago
The job cuts represent about 9 percent to 10 percent of the airline's 10,000 employees. ...

Source: www.themonitor.com.com --- 25 days ago
Alaska Airlines announced today it is reducing capacity 8 percent compared to a year ago, effective with its winter schedule starting Nov. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 19 days ago
Portland International Airport is to see a reduction in flights as both Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air have announced they are cutting services from the airport. ...

Source: blogs.usatoday.com --- 53 days ago
See below for the "hub guide explainer" and for a Today in the Sky schedule update. Hubs: Alaska's main hub is Seattle, but it operates smaller hubs at Portland, Ore., Los Angeles and Anchorage. Seattle is also Horizon's main hub,... ...

Source: blogs.usatoday.com --- 25 days ago
Alaska Airlines announced today "it is reducing capacity 8% compared to a year ago, effective with its winter schedule starting Nov. 9 and continuing into 2009. The reduction in capacity (available seat miles) represents 15% fewer departures. As a result,... ...

Source: blogs.usatoday.com --- 39 days ago
Alaska Airlines retired its last MD-80 jet Thursday, part of the airline's switch to an all-Boeing 737 fleet. The Dallas Morning News' (free registration) Airline Biz blog writes "the MD-80s were getting old, but the key reason that Alaska speeded... ...

Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com --- 41 days ago
Seattle's Alaska Air Group Inc. confirmed it will lay off 80 non-unionized Alaska Airlines managers, at various levels, by Sept. 1. Most of the affected workers are based in Seattle. ...

Source: pacific.bizjournals.com --- 42 days ago
Alaska Air Group Inc. is laying off about 80 mid-level managers this month, a further effort to cut costs in response to rising fuel prices. (ALK) ...

Source: portland.bizjournals.com --- 33 days ago
Alaska Airlines said it carried fewer passengers last month compared with a year earlier. (ALK) ...

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com --- 53 days ago
GOP Senator Ted Stevens is fighting for his Senate seat, and released his first campaign ad today. It's called "Supporters from Across Alaska," and in it voters express their support for Stevens because of his seniority. Meanwhile, fellow Republican Rep. Don Young is facing a primary challenge from Sean Parnell. Parnell has released this ad that features popular Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin saying Parnell will be a "great fighter for Alaska." ...

Source: www.prnewswire.com --- 19 days ago
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Source: www.prnewswire.com --- 33 days ago
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Source: mediamatters.org --- 21 days ago
During the September 15 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends , co-host Brian Kilmeade stated that, on NBC's Meet the Press , Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) said, "I'd like to see [Gov.] Sarah Palin's tax returns, please. And I also would like to see a -- her having a non- -- put together a nonpartisan panel and agree to have a nonpartisan investigation on the trooper issue with the -- her ex-brother-in-law. So here we go, it's looking in the background." Kilmeade then asserted, "When you Air-drop 60 lawyers and investigators into Alaska, you know, they've got to quick -- do some quick work because winter's coming." Kilmeade did not cite a source for the claim, but in his September 9 column , Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund's wrote that "Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin's hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background." But, as Media Matters for America noted , the Democratic National Committee has reportedly called Fund's assertion a "flat-out absolute fabrication" and Fund's claim has also reportedly been "flatly denied by Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor, and unconfirmed elsewhere." Fund's claim that Democrats have "airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers" into Alaska to investigate Palin was repeated in an attack ad from Sen. John McCain's campaign, which Fox Ne ...

Source: www.king5.com --- 28 days ago
In the first safety move of its kind on passenger jets, Alaska Airlines announces it will install technology aimed at preventing runway crashes. KING 5's Charlotte Starck reports. ...

Source: blogs.thenewstribune.com --- 30 days ago
London's Skytrax Research has named SeaTac's Alaska Airlines "Best Regional Airline North America" in its annual World Airline Awards competition. Alaska was among just a few U.S. airlines honored in the awards, which were dominated by Asian, Mideast and Pacific carriers. Singapore Airlines won the research firm's "Airline of the Year" award for the third time in 10 years. Singapore was followed in the top ten list by Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways, Australia's Qantas, Thai Airways, Korea's Asiana Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Qatar Airways, Air New Zealand and Emirates and Abu Dubai-based Etihad Airlways. Among American carriers honored by Skytrax were Southwest Airlines, "Best Low-cost Carrier North America," and Continental Airlines, "Best Airline North America." Honored carriers with service to Sea-Tac besides Alaska, Southwest and Continental included Lufthansa, "Best Airline Europe;" Hainan Airlines, "Best Airline China;" Asiana Airlines, "Best Airline Northern Asia;" British Airways, "Best Airline Transatlantic." Asiana also won for "Best Economy Class." EVA Air, which serves Taipei from Seattle, won "Best Premium Economy Class." Skytrax awards are based on 15 million survey interviews conducted worldwide. Skytrax calls its survey the world's largest. ...

Source: blogs.thenewstribune.com --- 27 days ago
Sea-Tac's Alaska Airlines will become the first major airline to equip its entire fleet with a new electronic sensor system designed to avoid runway and taxiway collisions and overruns, the airline announced today. The Honeywell-built Runway Awareness and Advistory System will give pilots audible cues of the runway and taxiway they're on or moving toward and warn them if the runway is too short for takeoff. The system will ensure that pilots, sometimes operating in the dark and under poor visibility, correctly identify the runway. Confusion over what runway they were using has resulted in several major crashes over the last decade by some airlines. In August 2006, for instance, a Comair pilots with 47 aboard a commuter jet misidentified a runway in Lexington, Ky. They tried unsuccessfully to take off on a runway that was half the length of the one they were supposed to use. Forty-seven passengers and two crew members died. In October 2000, a Singapore Airlines 747 attempted to take off from a runway closed for construction in Taiwan. The jet collided with construction equipment on the runway and split in half. Eighty-three of 179 people aboard died. The runway and the construction were obscured by darkness and heavy rain. The Runway Awareness and Advisory System is the latest of several high technology safety systems Alaska has installed on its fleet. The airline was the pioneer in using a satellite navigation system called Requir ...

Source: www.thenewstribune.com --- 25 days ago
Alaska Airlines is cutting capacity by 8 percent this winter and slashing up to 1,000 jobs. ...

Source: cbs2.com --- 34 days ago
Blame high fuel prices. The carrier announced Tuesday that they would cut 165 jobs and 5 percent in the number of flights this fall and another 5 percent early next year. Paul Magers reports. ...