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As they seek antitrust clearance for their pending merger, a waiting period for Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines may last for up to 90 days.

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

A revamped master supplier schedule is one sign the company may be serious about addressing years of problematic quality.

While majors make gains, regional carriers’ struggles start to abate.

Alaska Airlines believes the next milestone for its proposed merger with Hawaiian Airlines could be as soon as June.

New routes from and within the Americas region are being opened by Emirates, Air Transat and Alaska Airlines.

The absence of documentation on a process critical to an in-service occurrence points to broad gaps in Boeing's quality oversight process.

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

Investigators are still working to piece together what happened to the Boeing 737-9 in the weeks leading up to its delivery to Alaska.

The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) has requested additional information and documentary material.

Alaska Airlines SVP-fleet, finance and alliances Nathaniel Pieper will lead global airline alliance Oneworld as its next CEO.

As many challenges begin the year, carriers anticipate high labor and maintenance costs, delivery delays and air traffic control shortages in the rest of 2024.

Investigators determined the door plug was not opened between the airplane’s Oct. 31, 2023, delivery to Alaska Airlines and the accident flight.

“The accident on Jan. 5 demanded a different focus by our team,” CEO Pat Shanahan said, referring to Alaska Airlines Flight 1282.

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.

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

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

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