Halley Knigge, Staff Writer

Halley is a media relations and content manager for Alaska Airlines. She loves to write, eat and travel. Her favorite part of her job is getting to impress her former aerospace-reporter father with all of the fascinating things she gets to learn at work each day. Her wildest travel experience was spending a night in the Villa Hamster in Nantes, France.

** Profile photo: Iditarod sled dog selfie in Big Lake, AK, 2014. **

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Alaska launching Apple Watch app

The mobile team at Alaska Airlines is all about saving travelers time and hassle. So when they received the developer kit for Apple’s brand-new Apple Watch – launching tomorrow – back in November, they couldn’t wait to get started. Four months of planning, customer interviews, field trips to the airport and many, many sticky note…

How it works: Alaska Beyond™ Entertainment

We get it: long flights can be boring. Enter Alaska Beyond™ Entertainment – a new service that enables you to watch hit TV shows, movies, and exclusive content from Alaska on your own device at cruising altitude. We’ve been upgrading our Boeing 737 fleet with direct-to-your-device entertainment, and today are thrilled to announce we’re just…

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Onboard cocktails: Alaska holiday punch

Flying this week? Try your hand at inflight bartending with our drink cart cocktail recipes and you might even make a friend or two along the way. Erik Chapman, barman and distiller at Seattle’s Sun Liquor, which produces the premium gin, rum and vodka served onboard Alaska Airlines flights, suggests this make-your-own holiday punch. “When…

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Alaska’s picks: Pacific Northwest foodie gift guide

At Alaska, we pride ourselves on knowing our food. Our food and beverage team scours our hometown of Seattle as well as the cities we fly for culinary inspiration, and offers this holiday shopping guide for the food-lover in your life. We think your out-of-town relatives will be particularly impressed with all the Pacific Northwest…

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An insider’s guide to Washington, D.C.

The District of Columbia – it’s a city of history, culture and fabulous dining. There’s so much to do that a first-time visitor might not know where to start. For help, we turned to Ginny Carruthers, Alaska’s District of Columbia-based director of government affairs. She’s been with Alaska for 27 years, the past 10 of…

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Port Jobs developing Sea-Tac workforce

Students take notes at an Airport University class. Photo courtesy Don Wilson, Port of Seattle. Connie Aguilar is nothing if not ambitious. She works full-time at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where she’s tackling the added responsibility of a recent promotion, takes college-credit classes through a special program for airport workers, has two grown children, spends her day…

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Onboard with Skillet Street Food

Back in 2007, before the explosion of the street food movement, a single vintage Airstream trailer roamed the streets of Seattle, serving tasty, innovative food from fresh, local ingredients. Each day, Skillet Street Food would send an email update to its hungry customers, letting them know where they could find Skillet’s signature lunch fare that…