President Trump’s Department of Transportation Secretary nominee has pledged to maintain a cap on Boeing 737 MAX production brought in by the FAA last year.

Alaska Air Group has released details of its combined schedule for Alaska and Hawaiian airlines, with adjustments beginning to take effect in March. In an email to Pacific Business News, Alex Da Silva, Hawaiian director of external communications, listed the current Hawaiian routes that will be replaced with Alaska services later this year.

Alaska Airlines is the only United States-based carrier that was in AirlineRatings' top 10—although Hawaiian, American, Delta and United were in the top 25.

A Seattle-based airline with a global reach, Alaska Airlines is at the forefront of regional and industry sustainability initiatives. It is also a leader in workforce development, attracting purpose-driven young professionals like Pak and others who want to pursue careers in aerospace.

Air New Zealand, which flies one of the longest regularly scheduled routes on the entire planet, took the top award, handed out by AirlineRatings.com. The Kiwi carrier serves Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, from New York’s JFK Airport — a distance of 8,828 miles. The trip takes 16 hours and 15 minutes.

Emirates president Tim Clark told BI that Boeing workers were unfairly treated by previous management, which prioritized profits over quality.

Boeing delivered 348 aircraft last year — less than half Airbus managed and the lowest since the pandemic. The new CEO has a mountain to climb.

A nascent recovery from Boeing’s troubles stalled in the fall when a 52-day Machinists union strike stopped almost all Boeing jet production in its Puget Sound assembly plants.

Alaska Airlines will offer travelers three new nonstop ways to visit its namesake state next summer, including a new longest route for its smallest jet.

This week, announced two summer seasonal routes from Anchorage, flying to Detroit and Sacramento. In addition, the airline will resume flights between Fairbanks and Portland. With the updated schedule,

Hawaiian Airlines has begun its second round of merger-related layoffs, and on Thursday issued WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notices to 61 of its noncontract workforce based in Honolulu.