Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air Offer Expanded Schedule From Portland to Las Vegas and California (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air today announced additional nonstop service from Portland, Ore., to Las Vegas and Oakland, Palm Springs and San Diego, Calif., beginning Jan. 28....more...Alaska Air's on-time performance in October is fifth best (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) Alaska Airlines flights were on time 79.5 percent of the time in October, which ranked the airline fifth among the 20 airlines surveyed by the U.S. government....more... U.S. missile defense system taking shape in Alaska: report (People's Daily) A missile defense system is taking shape in Fort Greely, Alaska, four years after U.S. President George W. Bush ordered a limited missile defense system to be built and nearly a quarter century after former President Ronald Reagan first proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative, The New York Times reported Sunday....more... More flights will head south from Portland (Salem Statesman Journal) Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air on Friday announced additional nonstop service from Portland to Las Vegas and San Diego, Oakland and Palm Springs, Calif., beginning Jan. 28....more... A missile defense system is taking shape in Alaska (International Herald Tribune) Despite teething problems, the staff at Fort Greely says it is ready to try to counter any threat from the Middle East or Asia....more... Missile defense system taking shape in Alaska (Helena Independent Record) FORT GREELY, Alaska ? Snow fences help keep drifts from piling up on the missile silos. Heat-sensing security devices that monitor the edges of this 800-acre installation are sometimes triggered by wayward moose....more... A Missile Defense System Is Taking Shape in Alaska (New York Times) Four years after President Bush ordered a limited missile defense system to be built, a former cold war training site shows the most progress....more... Missile defense system alters an outpost (Anchorage Daily News) Snow fences help keep drifts from piling up on the missile silos. Heat-sensing security devices that monitor the edges of this 800-acre installation are sometimes triggered by wayward moose. And the soldiers here, members of the three-year-old 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard, were just selected to help field test for the Army the third generation of the Extended Cold ...more... American may stay above the fray (Dallas Morning News) When US Airways Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. bought West Coast airlines in the 1980s, American Airlines Inc. was right there with them, acquiring regional carrier AirCal Inc....more... |