SAN DIEGO—Alaska Airlines will begin offering daily nonstop flights between San Diego International Airport and Washington, D.C., and Eugene, Oregon, starting June 15, it was announced Jan. 30. Alaska will also run seasonal nonstop service between San Diego and Tampa, Florida, beginning Oct. 5. Flights to Tampa will operate daily, representing the only service between…

A leader of Delta Air Lines’ pilots union says he has been authorized “to send a strike authorization ballot to the membership,” if needed, according to a letter sent to union members. It’s the latest in a series of actions that pilots’ unions across the United States have taken in recent months, as airlines continue…

LOS ANGELES—An Irvine attorney filed court papers on July 30 alleging his family was denied boarding a return flight from Mexico to Los Angeles in the spring unless their 2-year-old child received the coronavirus vaccination, then denied boarding even after the child got the shot and tested negative. Marc Y. Lazo’s still-unofficial Los Angeles Superior…

PORTLAND, Ore.—Alaska Airlines canceled dozens of U.S. West Coast flights Friday as off-duty pilots picketed in several major cities over an impasse in nearly three years of contract negotiations, and the airline said more cancellations were possible through the weekend. More than 120 Alaska Airlines flights were canceled—about 9 percent of its operations—and about 15,300…

Alaska Airlines has announced that it is pausing ties with a Russian airline, noting that it is “deeply concerned by the humanitarian crisis” unfolding in Ukraine, as part of a concerted move by many companies around the world to isolate Russia for its initiation of war. “We are temporarily suspending our partnership with the Russian…

Alaska Airlines said Thursday it will trim its schedule by about 10 percent for the rest of January as it deals with “unprecedented” numbers of employees calling in sick during the current COVID-19 outbreak. The move by Alaska is similar to a decision last week by JetBlue Airways to cut about 1,300 flights through mid-January….