Alaska Airlines

An event-saturated January followed a year not short on its own challenges, and during recent earnings calls airlines projected which issues might spill over.

Following receipt of an approved inspection and maintenance process from the FAA, Alaska expects to bring its first few 737-9s back into service on Jan. 26.

Boeing’s biggest problem is restoring trust.

When it comes to safety and the finger pointing falls on the wrong player, the reputational damage to the affected airline can be long-standing and costly.

Alaska Airlines is returning to Toronto after an absence of more than 30 years.

Listen in as editors analyze how the Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 door plug incident has affected airlines globally—and what this means for Boeing.

The review led by retired U.S. Navy Admiral Kirk Donald will examine Boeing’s commercial airplane quality management as well as its supplier quality oversight.

The Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative has been launched to advocate for the adoption of electric wing-in-ground-effect vehicles.

Problematic Spirit AeroSystems-supplied 737-9 panels evaded Boeing quality checks and may have caused a Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines accident.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

“This incident should have never happened, and it cannot happen again,” the FAA said.

“We’re not going to point fingers,” the Boeing CEO said. “Because, yes, it escaped their factory; but then it escaped ours too. So, we’re all in this together.”

Both carriers submitted Premerger Notification and Report Forms to the U.S. DOJ and FTC on Jan. 8, kicking off an initial 30-day waiting period.

Asia Pacific regulators are taking different approaches to the U.S. FAA’s recent order to ground the Boeing 737-9, although the effects are largely minimal.

FAA said there are 171 Boeing 737-9s worldwide with the panel-like plug configuration under scrutiny.

An initial examination by NTSB investigators found no airframe damage resulting from the still-unexplained accident sequence.

The average emissions of Alaska Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, and Spirit Airlines are notably lower than the average emissions of the Big Four.

NTSB reports that the door "plug" which detached from an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 during a mid-air incident Jan. 5 has now been found.

As it begins adding Boeing 737-8 aircraft to its fleet, Alaska Airlines will also modify cabins on aging 737-800s.

Airline fortunes differ widely north and south of the border.

For the airline and aerospace industries, many questions about pandemic recovery remain unanswered.

Alaska Airlines flight attendants will vote on strike authorization in January.

The latest airline route news, featuring network changes, schedule alterations, codeshares and interline agreements.

Continuing its growth into U.S. markets, Canadian carrier Porter Airlines has formed an interline agreement with Alaska Airlines.

Airlines worldwide look forward to more clarity on industry consolidation activity in 2024.