Alaska Airlines

Airlines are offsetting the spike in costs by flying bigger aircraft that have many more seats but aren't much more expensive to operate than regional jets.

Planes into and out of the airport rose from 73% to 77% of seats being occupied by the middle of the year.

Alaska/Horizon Airlines has added a second daily flight to the airport, but the airline will charge a $500,000 fee if it's not able to cover its costs.

Process for Checking Luggage at Pangborn Airport Will Speed Up Currently, the only destination out of East Wenatchee’s Pangborn Airport (via Horizon Air/Alaska Airlines) is Sea-Tac Airport. Alaska recently debuted jet service to the route in December of 2022. Al...

The new service from Alaska Airline's regional carrier Horizon will begin by the middle of September.

Yeah, We know when we live in a small town. And for the most part, we love it. Sure we don't have a few things that we would love to see come to Wenatchee. We've talked about before. But there are a few other signs. And we like to make fun of ourselves for it.

Horizon Air's Embraer (Em-Bray-er) 175 jet made its first landing on the runway of East Wenatchee's Pangborn Airport Friday.

It was one of the bigger stories here in the Wenatchee Valley in 2022. And it frustrated many trying to fly out of Pangborn Airport for business, family affairs, vacations, or for those who just enjoy sitting closely to others in very tiny uncomfortable seats on an airbus.

This was an interview I’ve been looking forward to all year. I tried to get a few words with him in his younger days. Of course as the Baby New Year, it was all incomprehensive gaga-googoo gibberish. In his teen days, it was hard to pin him down, for his time is limited. But now that his time is coming to a close, he had something to say. Although his words were few, and sometimes speaking gibberish much like when he was the Baby New Year of 2022.

This week has seen a return to daily flights on Alaska Airlines arriving at and departing from Pangborn Memorial Airport in East Wenatchee. Inbound and outbound flights on Alaska have been suspended at the airport since December 16. Airport director Trent Moyers says the halts were enacted due to ground instruments at Pangborn being offline combined with a limitation to the onboard equipment of Al