
For Alaska Airlines, which has a strong following on the West Coast, the deal will help fulfill its plans to grow.

For Alaska Airlines, which has a strong following on the West Coast, the deal will help fulfill its plans to grow.

Travelers at Denver International Airport last week. On Monday afternoon, insufficient air traffic controller staffing caused arriving flights to be delayed about 40 minutes.

The Alaska Airlines plane that lost a piece of its fuselage on Friday, parked outside a maintenance building at the airport in Portland, Ore., this weekend.
