Boeing and U.S. aerospace set back by Alaska Airlines fuselage blowout

Jan. 14, 2024 at 6:00 am Updated Jan. 14, 2024 at 6:00 am    By  Dominic Gates  Seattle Times aerospace reporter When a door-sized section of a 737 MAX 9 fuselage exploded out into the void 16,000 feet over Portland, Boeing’s once-solid reputation, already staggered by the two MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019, took another

Boeing is under fire after Alaska Airlines MAX 9 blowout. So is the FAA

By  Lauren Rosenblatt  Seattle Times staff reporter Nearly a week after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 aircraft midflight, lawmakers and federal regulators are starting to look to the Boeing plane’s troubled history to understand what happened — and what didn’t. On Thursday, fingers started pointing. The Federal Aviation Administration announced

Defenders Of Highline Forest: The Defenders expand their mission!

DEFENDERS OF HIGHLINE FOREST January 5, 2024 View this email in your browser Write us at info@KCTreeEquity.org What’s in a name? The Defenders expand their mission! News flash, folks: In response to the Port of Seattle’s plans to increase development around SeaTac Airport, we’re changing our name from Defenders of North SeaTac Park to Defenders of Highline

SB5990

S-3831.1 _______________________________________________   SENATE BILL 5990 _______________________________________________   State of Washington     68th Legislature   2024 Regular Session   By Senators Lovelett, Saldaña, Dhingra, Frame, Hasegawa, Keiser, Kuderer, Nobles, Salomon, Stanford, Trudeau, Valdez, and C. Wilson   Prefiled 01/04/24.Read first time 01/08/24.  Referred to Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology.   AN ACT Relating to integrating environmental

Is Sea-Tac Airport really the nation’s worst for international travel?

By  Vonnai Phair  Seattle Times staff reporter If you’ve traveled through an airport during the winter holiday season, you’ve probably experienced the habitual holiday horrors: weather delays, canceled flights, grueling lines, miserable crowds. Tack on the stresses of travelling internationally — and having to consider factors like customs and citizenship status — and holiday travel

How airline mergers hurt travelers — and how you can fight them

By  Christopher Elliott Special to The Seattle Times Travel Troubleshooter If the latest wave of proposed airline mergers has left you a little worried, then you have a good memory. Historically, airline mergers are terrible for passengers. And the latest two — the proposed combination of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, and of JetBlue Airways

With some flight attendants on welfare, Alaska Airlines faces contract fight

By  Dominic Gates  Seattle Times aerospace reporter You wouldn’t know it to look at them. Junior Alaska Airlines flight attendants say they are barely getting by on poverty level wages, many of them building up debt and scrambling to make rent. Yes, they look sleekly professional on the job. But some with children qualify for

Washington airports received $190 million in federal funding for 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C.—A total of $190,387,738 went directly to 37 Washington state airports during 2023 for projects to modernize: runways, maintenance areas, and equipment. In addition, the State of Washington received a $1,000,000 planning grant. U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Committee on

What tourists at a downtown Seattle hostel have to say about our city

By  Erik Lacitis  Pacific NW magazine writer Postscripts 2023: Catching up with some of this year’s cover story subjects. AMID OUR COMPLAINTS about this or that being wrong with Seattle, we locals can forget why this is a truly magnificent city. So thank you, tourists. In June, I wrote a story about the most-asked questions tourists have when