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Horizon Air employee’s fatal joyride points to gaps in airport security, and we’re lucky it wasn’t worse

The day after a Horizon Air employee stole an airplane, flew aerial stunts and crashed into a sparsely inhabited island… Read More

How to deal with SaaS slackers: CIOs share lessons from unreliable Software as a Service vendors

Most enterprise software is delivered as a service these days because paying an expert to manage a complex application just… Read More

Why some CIOs are walking, not running, to the cloud

If you listened to the morning presentations and tech talks at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, you might have walked… Read More

Pittsburgh Postscript: Surprises, gripes, memorable characters and epic experiences from GeekWire’s month in the Steel City

PITTSBURGH — What an incredible experience. A rotating cast of GeekWire reporters and editors spent the month of February 2018… Read More

Bill Gates stars in new Code.org ‘How Computers Work’ video series to run on Alaska Airlines flights

The next time you fly, you may be able to learn more about the laptop or other computing device you… Read More

Shortcut to Silicon Valley? Alaska Airlines will fly to 8 cities from Everett’s Paine Field

Alaska Airlines says it’ll offer daily nonstop flights to eight cities including San Jose, Calif., from Paine Field in Everett,… Read More

Alaska Airlines cuts Seattle to Portland flight prices after Amtrak train derailment blocks I-5

Alaska Airlines has dropped prices for flights from Seattle to Portland, providing an alternative for holiday travelers impacted by the… Read More

Alaska Air to offer nonstop flight from Seattle to Pittsburgh — ‘great news’ for UW … and Amazon?

Alaska Airlines announced Wednesday morning that it will begin offering daily, nonstop service between Seattle and Pittsburgh — further connecting… Read More

Alaska Airlines will end flights to Cuba, due to policy changes and fading demand

Less than a year after Alaska Airlines began daily flights to Cuba amid a burst of red-white-and-blue fanfare, the Seattle-based… Read More

Students at Mountlake Terrace High School

Aerospace leaders see education as the key to employment in Washington state

The state of the aerospace industry in Washington state is still great, but industry leaders say the educational system will… Read More

Alaska Airlines sets up flight to chase total solar eclipse – with a two-seat giveaway

Alaska Airlines has scheduled a flight from Portland to chase views of the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse over the… Read More

Alaska Airlines plans flights from Everett’s Paine Field to dodge Sea-Tac traffic jam

Bugged by I-5 traffic to Sea-Tac? Alaska Airlines is promising a work-around: The Seattle-based airline says it will start running regularly… Read More

Richard Branson has warm words for Seattle, cold criticism for Alaska Air

British billionaire Richard Branson kicked off Virgin Atlantic’s nonstop service from London to Seattle today with a rhetorical kiss for the Emerald… Read More

‘The Day the Music Died’? Billionaire Richard Branson mourns Virgin America

The Virgin Group’s billionaire founder, Richard Branson, says “many tears” are being shed over Alaska Airlines’ decision to retire the… Read More

Virgin America and Alaska Airlines tails

Why Alaska Airlines is killing off the Virgin America brand – and boosting perks

It all comes down to cost and consistency of branding: That’s why Alaska Airlines announced today that it would retire the… Read More

From Seattle to L.A. to Havana with love: Alaska Air makes a historic flight to Cuba

For the first time in decades, passengers got on a jet at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport that could take them all the… Read More

Alaska Airlines breaks ties with Delta after hooking up with Virgin America

Breaking up with old flames is part of getting married, and that’s what Alaska Airlines and Delta Air Lines are doing… Read More

Blended branding for Alaska Airlines and Virgin America

Alaska Air makes its takeover of Virgin America official with a blue-red Boeing jet

Alaska Air Group completed its acquisition of Virgin America today, celebrating the rise of the nation’s No. 5 air carrier… Read More

Another boost for biofuel: Waste wood helps power Alaska Airlines commercial jet

Alaska Airlines says it sent a Boeing 737 jet on the first commercial airline flight that was partially fueled by… Read More

Can biofuels take flight? Alternative fuels for jetliners face political and economic headwinds

Two major steps in Washington’s infant jet biofuel industry are expected to take place in the next couple months. In… Read More

Feds clear Alaska Airlines for flights to Cuba as JetBlue ends 55-year travel gap

Seattle-based Alaska Airlines today won the federal government’s formal approval to fly between Los Angeles and Havana, on the same… Read More

Alaska Airlines wins tentative approval to fly Seattle-L.A.-Havana route to Cuba

The U.S. Department of Transportation today gave its tentative go-ahead for Alaska Airlines to fly between Los Angeles and Havana, the capital of… Read More

New real estate startup FlyHomes rewards homebuyers with airline miles

Buying a home will probably be the biggest purchase of your life. Imagine earning airline miles for it. That idea was… Read More

Alaska Air confirms purchase of Virgin America for $2.6 billion after ‘hard-fought competition’

Alaska Air Group confirmed reaching a $2.6 billion deal to buy Virgin America after a bidding war with JetBlue Airways. “This… Read More

Alaska Air Group reportedly closes in on $2 billion purchase of Virgin America

Seattle-based Alaska Air Group is close to a $2 billion deal to purchase Virgin America, beating out a rival… Read More

Alaska’s Mount Pavlof volcano settles down, and so do flight disruptions

Update for 6 p.m. PT March 29: The massive ash cloud from Alaska’s Mount Pavlof has thinned out, two days… Read More

Alaska Airlines changes Anchorage-Honolulu flight to catch total solar eclipse

Now, that’s service: Amateur astronomers persuaded Seattle-based Alaska Airlines to shift its departure time for Tuesday’s flight from Anchorage to… Read More

Sea-Tac through September still busier than ever, sets record traffic numbers

Summer is over, but Sea-Tac’s record-breaking traffic numbers have not slowed down a bit. According to this News Tribune report,… Read More

Microsoft, Starbucks, Porch, others team up to create jobs for young people

A group of Seattle-based companies including Microsoft, Starbucks, Alaska Airlines, and Porch today helped launch a new initiative that aims to… Read More

Apple Watch apps: Starbucks, Microsoft, and other Seattle-area companies jump on board

There are few things more sad to the iPhone faithful on launch day than a connected, yet unfulfilled, Apple Watch (beyond… Read More