{"id":374165,"date":"2026-02-23T04:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alaska-airlines-hub-based-operations\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:30:17","slug":"why-alaska-airlines-is-moving-toward-hub-based-operations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=374165","title":{"rendered":"Why Alaska Airlines Is Moving Toward Hub-Based Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alaska-airlines-hawaiian-finalize-merger\/\" >Alaska Airlines finalized its acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines<\/a>, introducing widebody aircraft into the Alaskan fleet. This has solidified the carrier as the fifth-largest airline in the United States, and with the carrier&#8217;s widebody aircraft, it&#8217;s using these to establish itself even more as the prime operator at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2038913\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/seattle-tacoma-top-5-airlines-market-share\/\" >Seattle Tacoma International Airport<\/a><\/span> (SEA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More aircraft now means more flights to key markets from the airline&#8217;s busiest airports.<\/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":[396,476,516,1026,240,550,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-alaska-airlines","category-hawaiian-airlines","category-north-america","category-seattle-tacoma-international-airport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374165","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=374165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374166,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374165\/revisions\/374166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}