A pattern of Alaska Airways’ new livery for its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners.
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Alaska Airlines is beginning flights from Seattle to London and Reykjavik, Iceland, subsequent Could, including to its international enlargement following its acquisition of Hawaiian Airways final yr.
Alaska plans to fly day by day between Seattle and London’s Heathrow Airport on its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, in a wager on each enterprise and leisure journey demand. Seattle–Reykjavik will probably be served by a 737 Max 8 as a spring and summer time seasonal service.
The service in June introduced it plans to start out nonstops between Seattle and Rome subsequent yr. Just a few weeks later, rival Delta Air Lines, stated it, too, plans to fly between Seattle and Rome, in addition to Barcelona.
Alaska can also be planning to start out flights between Seattle and Seoul, South Korea, in September. Its day by day service to Tokyo’s Narita Worldwide Airport started in Could.
The service plans to have a minimum of 12 intercontinental nonstops from its dwelling hub of Seattle.
The airline additionally unveiled a brand new livery for its Boeing Dreamliners. New 787-9s coming off the manufacturing facility traces will get the contemporary paint scheme, with hues of deep blues and greens impressed by the northern lights.
When it acquired Hawaiian, which already had widebody planes in its fleet for long-haul flights over the Pacific, Alaska stated it might maintain the 2 manufacturers, which can stay on many plane.
“They may stay unchanged as important components of our manufacturers’ legacies and historical past,” Alaska stated Tuesday.