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…
‘Have an ice day’ at the World Ice Art Championships in Fairbanks, Alaska
A pirate ship, a superhero scene, a faucet with a round, glistening drop of water. These are just some of the otherworldly ice sculptures on display through the end of the month at Ice Alaska: 2015 BP World Ice Art Championships in Fairbanks, Alaska. Artists travel from all around the world for the chance to…
Pulling together: In the ‘last great race on Earth,’ sled dogs are family
Two days before the ceremonial start of the 2015 Iditarod, 78 mushers gathered for a welcome in a hotel conference room in Anchorage, Alaska. In among the sweatshirt, bivy sack and other pre-race swag given to the mushers is a small but very important notebook: the vet book. It is in this notebook that a…
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…
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…
In rain, sleet or snow, Alaska Airlines avionics technician unicycles to work
For the past four years, in rain, sleet and even snow, Alaska Airlines avionics technician Shannon Barry has been an “alternative commuter” in the purest sense.
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…
Recipe: Alaska Airlines’ banh mi sandwich
Fresh, spicy, delicious. Three words you might not necessarily associate with airplane food – unless, of course, you’ve been flying Alaska Airlines.
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…
Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program brings dreams of college closer to reality
Going to college can be scary. Going to college on an urban, 14,000-student campus when you’ve spent your whole life in a rural community of several hundred can be even scarier. “For me, it was a challenge,” says Michael Bourdukofsky, chief operations officer for the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP), an organization with…
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…