Alaska acquired dozens of Airbus A320 family jets during its merger with Virgin America. It's now retiring them in favor of an all-Boeing fleet.

Unalakleet is a community of some 690 people in western Alaska, about 150 miles southeast of Nome and 395 miles northwest of Anchorage. Nome is known as the finish line of the 1,000-mile Iditarod.

An Alaska Airlines plane takes off from Los Angeles International Airport on Dec. 4, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images Travelers at a packed Seattle-Tacoma Airport after the outage.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory says that if the more than 11,000-foot-tall, snowcapped volcano erupts, the impacts could include: Damage to aircraft from ash, especially since 60,000 planes fly ...