A pattern of Alaska Airways’ new livery for its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners.
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Alaska Airlines is beginning flights from Seattle to London and Reykjavik, Iceland, subsequent Might, including to its world growth following its acquisition of Hawaiian Airways final yr.
Alaska plans to fly day by day between Seattle and London’s Heathrow Airport on its Boeing
787-9 Dreamliners, in a guess on each enterprise and leisure journey demand. Seattle-Reykjavik can be served by a 737 Max 8 as a spring and summer season seasonal service, for the roughly seven-hour flight.
The service in June introduced it plans to start out nonstops between Seattle and Rome subsequent yr. Just a few weeks later, rival Delta Air Lines, stated it, too, plans to fly between Seattle and Rome, in addition to Barcelona, Spain. International travel, particularly for premium seats, has held up higher than U.S. home demand, the place the market is oversupplied.
Alaska can be planning to start out flights between Seattle and Seoul, South Korea, in September. Its day by day service to Tokyo’s Narita Worldwide Airport started in Might.
The service plans to have no less than 12 intercontinental nonstops from its dwelling hub of Seattle.
The airline additionally unveiled a brand new livery for its Boeing Dreamliners. New 787-9s coming off the manufacturing facility traces will get the contemporary paint scheme, which the airline says was impressed by the northern lights.
When it acquired Hawaiian, which already had wide-body planes in its fleet for long-haul flights over the Pacific, Alaska stated it could maintain the 2 manufacturers, which can stay on many plane.
“They may stay unchanged as important components of our manufacturers’ legacies and historical past,” Alaska stated Tuesday.
