{"id":280559,"date":"2025-09-09T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/less-than-a-year-away-investors-alaska-long-haul-ambitions\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T04:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:00:16","slug":"less-than-a-year-away-how-do-investors-feel-about-alaskas-long-haul-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=280559","title":{"rendered":"Less Than A Year Away: How Do Investors Feel About Alaska&#8217;s Long-Haul Ambitions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines&#8217; leadership team knows very well that the commercial aviation industry is kill-or-be-killed. The team recognized this back in the 2010s, when it extended its financial capabilities to acquire <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259420\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/virgin-america\/\"  >Virgin America<\/a><\/span> and its coveted landing slots at a handful of major airports on the West Coast. Ultimately, this move paid off and allowed the carrier to expand its reach significantly and gain a foothold in a number of high-volume premium markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier has big ambitions to become a long-haul leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,516,10734,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-alaska-airlines","category-long-haul-routes","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280560,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280559\/revisions\/280560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}