Frontier Airlines adds 3 Paine Field routes out of Everett

By  Chase Hutchinson Special to The Seattle TimesHeads up, budget travelers: Starting June 2, Seattle Paine Field International Airport will add three new routes from Frontier Airlines, which will fly to Denver, Las Vegas and Phoenix thrice weekly. The new routes, announced Tuesday morning at Paine Field, connect the Everett airport to Denver International Airport (where

Why high-speed rail will fail without better local train service

By  Josh Farley Seattle Times Opinion columnist An ambitious plan to bring bullet trains to the Pacific Northwest has drawn champions including former Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire and Microsoft President Brad Smith. They argue high-speed rail could interconnect the growing regions around Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, B.C., like no other form of transportation can. They

Inside the abrupt collapse of electric airplane startup Eviation

By  Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter The fall of zero-emissions electric airplane startup Eviation this month was triggered by a tense internal standoff among shareholders. In mid-January, the company’s deep-pocketed, Singapore-based financial backer sent a letter to the shareholders that outlined a deep rift with the two Israeli co-founders and delivered a potent threat.

State backs green aviation fuel plant as industry struggles to cut emissions

Workers connect a tanker truck at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris to an Airbus A350 passenger jet, operated by Air France-KLM, fueling it with sustainable aviation fuel ahead of a flight to Montreal. (Nathan Laine / Bloomberg, 2021)

By  Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter Washington state has awarded a new $1.5 million grant for a planned sustainable aviation fuels and renewable diesel production facility projected to open in 2029 at Wallula Gap on the Columbia River. That’s a very small portion of the funding required to complete the facility being developed by

Superstar engineer John Hart-Smith skewered Boeing’s strategy | Obituary

By  Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter More than two decades ago, aerospace engineer John Hart-Smith, then already a world-renowned expert on designing aircraft structures, gained fame beyond his field when he warned Boeing management that its shortsighted financial focus would be ruinous. In an internal Boeing presentation in 2001, and in essays written with hilariously