{"id":2321,"date":"2018-05-09T09:14:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T14:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2018-05-09T09:14:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T14:14:21","slug":"alaska-airlines-delaying-aircraft-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2321","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines Delaying Aircraft Deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #26282a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-reactid=\"11\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Alaska Air\u00a0<span class=\"ticker\">(NYSE: ALK)<\/span>\u00a0has experienced severe margin compression over the past several quarters, due to a combination of rising fuel costs, stiff competition, and merger pains following its 2016 acquisition of Virgin America. However, management is laser-focused on rebuilding the company&#8217;s profitability. Toward that end, Alaska Airlines is set to reduce its growth rate\u00a0until it starts hitting its margin and return on invested capital goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #26282a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-reactid=\"12\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Last quarter, Alaska Airlines began taking concrete steps to align its fleet plan with its new target of 4% annual growth and $750 million of annual capital expenditures for 2019 and 2020. The carrier restructured its orders with\u00a0Boeing\u00a0<span class=\"ticker\">(NYSE: BA)<\/span>,\u00a0Airbus\u00a0<span class=\"ticker\">(NASDAQOTH: EADSY)<\/span>, and\u00a0Embraer\u00a0<span class=\"ticker\">(NYSE: ERJ)<\/span>\u00a0to better fit its projected needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"12\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Click the link below for the full story!<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"12\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/alaska-airlines-delays-aircraft-deliveries-132500672.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alaska Airlines Delaying Aircraft Deliveries<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"12\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2322\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/alaska-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"885\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/alaska-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/alaska-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/alaska.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Air\u00a0(NYSE: ALK)\u00a0has experienced severe margin compression over the past several quarters, due to a combination of rising fuel costs, stiff competition, and merger pains following its 2016 acquisition of Virgin America. However, management is laser-focused on rebuilding the company&#8217;s profitability. Toward that end, Alaska Airlines is set to reduce its growth rate\u00a0until it starts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[798,797,89,799,868],"tags":[539,47,118,847,914,41,168,218,219,512],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-news","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","category-transportation-news","tag-air","tag-airbus","tag-airlines","tag-alaska","tag-america","tag-boeing","tag-embraer","tag-jetblue","tag-mint","tag-virgin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}