Alaska Airlines CEO sees ‘business travel finally starting to come back’

By Mark Calvey – Senior Reporter, San Francisco Business Times Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci said Tuesday that business travel is coming back, including in Seattle. “We’re seeing more business traffic come back,” Minicucci told those attending the J.P. Morgan Industrials Conference Tuesday. “What’s really been helpful is the return of business and corporate traffic for us

Boeing hit by quality lapses, certification delays; Airbus soars to dominance

By  Dominic Gates  Seattle Times aerospace reporter While Boeing’s leadership scrambled to contain its latest crisis — following the in-flight door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 — top executives at Airbus confidently laid out the rival’s success in 2023 and its dominance of the commercial airliner business. The data on last year’s jet

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

Why flying is miserable

Ahead of the holiday travel season, Harvard Law graduate Ganesh Sitaraman argues in a new book that deregulating the airline industry has led to higher costs, less choice, and more misery for the flying public Nov 14, 2023 By Jeff Neal The upcoming holiday travel season promises to be one of the busiest on record, with