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...Alaska believes these challenges will pass. It is projecting $235mn of “synergies” — mostly cost savings one would hope....
...The mid-air breach of the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing aircraft has put the spotlight on Spirit AeroSystems, one of the plane maker’s biggest suppliers....
...Alaska Airlines has cancelled 22 per cent....
...backyard of a Portland resident on Sunday night, according to Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, the independent US government agency responsible for investigating civil transport...
...Some 4.7bn people are expected to take to the skies in 2024, according to the International Air Transport Association. That is 200mn more than the pre-pandemic high set in 2019....
...Five US carriers have raised bag fees by $5 in the past two months, starting with Alaska Airlines and JetBlue Airways in January and February, then American Airlines, United Airlines and Delta in a two-week...
...Leading operators include United Airlines, Alaska Airlines and Delta Air Lines....
...Alaska said on Saturday that it had decided to take the “precautionary step” of temporarily grounding its fleet of Max 9s....
...Hawaiian was hurting terribly and Alaska pounced. Alaska may not think about the deal in these exact terms, but this is a move where currency could prove a huge sweetener....
...Hours later, the chief executive of Alaska Airlines revealed that his airline had found “some loose bolts on many” Max 9s during inspections of the planes....
...His comments follow strong words from bosses at rivals United Airlines and Alaska Airlines....
...The door panel that blew out during the Alaska Airlines flight was later found in the garden of an Oregon physics teacher....
...The statement on behalf of the owners said the vessel was “drifting, well away from land” and that salvage arrangements were being made....
...The Alaska incident would suggest not,” he added....
...Pat Shanahan, interim chief executive, said Spirit was taking a “hard look” at its processes following the Alaska incident....
...The airline does not operate any Max 9 aircraft, currently the focus of a federal investigation after a damaging fuselage breach of an Alaska Airlines aircraft 11 days ago....
...Cargill’s head of ocean transport has called on the shipping industry to give wind power a chance in its efforts to decarbonise, as one of the world’s largest marine freight operators prepares to test the...
...JetBlue made a failed bid for Virgin America, which was ultimately bought by Alaska Airlines for $4bn in 2016, in the most recent airline merger greenlit by the justice department....
...But the real focus is on marine transport and heavy industry....
...The last large airline merger to be cleared by the DoJ was in 2016 when Alaska Airlines bought Virgin America for $4bn....
...Brad Tilden, head of Alaska Airlines, left the company on March 31. “My guess is the pandemic bunched [the departures] together,” Parker said....
...Flexjet’s chief executive “pretty much spent the last nine months shopping for aircraft”, said the fractional ownership company’s European managing director Marine Eugene....
...Dutch shipping services provider Boskalis, which own Smit Salvage, a group involved in the rescue effort, likened the operation to trying to free a beached whale....
...“We are now working with the SCA to finalise a signed settlement agreement as soon as possible,” said Faz Peermohamed, director of Stann Marine, a law firm that represents the owners and insurers of the...
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