Seattle fashion designer Luly Yang will design new uniforms for 12,000 Alaska employees
For the past six months, Seattle couture designer Luly Yang has been traveling undercover on Alaska Airlines flights, interviewing pilots, flight attendants and customer service agents about their uniforms. “I tell them I’m on a research project,” says Yang, who was tapped in February 2016 to redesign uniforms for Alaska’s 12,000 uniformed employees. The uniform…
Angel Flight West connects critically ill patients to life-saving medical care
In July 2014, Mike Rogers was given three months to live. He’d been diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive tissue cancer. But Rogers and wife Betty weren’t willing to accept the prognosis. “They told us he had three months to live,” says Betty. “We thought ‘No. No, no, no, no, no.’” The Anchorage, Alaska,…
Under our wing: PDX Rose Festival team honors Make-A-Wish teen with parade float, flight to Hawaii, meetup with Mariota
After a year of treatment for a rare form of cancer – 14 rounds of chemotherapy and two major surgeries – the only thing 18-year-old Payton Williams wanted was a family vacation somewhere “warm and tropical.” Thanks to Alaska Airlines and Make-A-Wish Oregon, the teenager’s wish will come true when he flies to Hawaii later…
Hero Miles: Keeping families together
It was nearly Christmas last year, and U.S. Army airborne paratrooper Justin Isham was facing the prospect of another holiday spent alone in the barracks at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. Isham’s wife and family were thousands of miles away in Phoenix while he completed 1.5 years in the Warrior Transition Unit at JBER,…
Hawaiian Airlines Expands Codeshare Agreement with Virgin Australia
HONOLULU – Hawaiian Airlines today announced an expanded codeshare agreement with Virgin Australia that offers travelers in more than a dozen Australian and New Zealand cities a broader and more convenient network of flights to Hawai’i. Travelers will…
#iAmAlaska: A little extra lift for boy and his dad
A tearful goodbye at the gate is always tough. But this time was a little different.
10 summer travel destinations, all an easy nonstop flight away
You don’t have to leave the United States to enjoy your vacation.
Holiday Lift Guide: Ideas for lifting people up
Instead of a traditional gift guide, we’re compiled a list of uplifting experiences for all the important people in your life.
Celebrating our own Captain Marvels
We’re shining a spotlight on a few of the incredible women at Alaska Airlines.
Swani song: Captain Mike Swanigan to make his final flight
After 36 years with Alaska Airlines, Captain Mike Swanigan will make his final flight this weekend. “Captain Swani” plans to retire after one last round-trip Sunday: Flight 648 Seattle-Tucson and then Flight 641 Tucson-Seattle, scheduled to arrive about 4:30 p.m. Swanigan became one of Alaska’s most recognized employees after he starred in a series of…
Who run the world? In Cordova, Alaska, it’s the salmon
For the 24 hours leading up to the Copper River salmon season opener each year, the fishermen of Cordova, Alaska may as well be 5-year-olds waiting for Christmas. The season doesn’t officially open until 7 a.m. on the mid-May morning chosen by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (this year on May 16), but…
5 must-do’s on Kauai, Hawaii’s Garden Island
Oh Hawaii, land of warmth and beautiful beaches, of delicious food and welcoming culture. I have a love affair with Hawaii. Working for an airline, I’m able to travel a lot and have been to the islands over 20 times — twice to Kauai in the last six months. The island of Kauai does have…
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