{"id":282,"date":"2016-01-26T00:34:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T06:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2016-02-11T22:56:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T04:56:38","slug":"alaska-airlines-gets-a-facelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines gets a facelift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content__segment\"><strong>Alaska Airlines<\/strong> got a new facelift yesterday, with the first update to the airlines livery\u00a0in 25 years.\u00a0The plane flew\u00a0in to the airport\u00a0under cover of darkness in the wee hours of the morning, fresh from the paint shop in California. It\u00a0was then quickly\u00a0taxied and parked inside one of the Alaska Airlines hangars.\u00a0A\u00a0new paint job covered the Boeing 737 as it was unveiled later in the\u00a0afternoon in Seattle. The new livery has been labeled as more of an evolution than a revolution, and included inputs from the airlines employees.\u00a0The airline has been ranked as having the highest customer satisfaction by J. D. Power and Associates \u00a0for the last 8\u00a0consecutive years. In other\u00a0Alaska Air Group news, the airline has once again posted record fourth quarter and full year earnings for 2015,\u00a0reported a fourth quarter profit of $186 million and a net income for the year of $842 million.\u00a0The quarterly profit is a 49 percent year-over-year improvement and the full-year return is 47 percent better than 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-283\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-2016-01-26-00.21.24-300x155.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2016-01-26 00.21.24\" width=\"648\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-2016-01-26-00.21.24-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-2016-01-26-00.21.24-768x396.png 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-2016-01-26-00.21.24-1024x529.png 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screenshot-2016-01-26-00.21.24.png 1943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines got a new facelift yesterday, with the first update to the airlines livery\u00a0in 25 years.\u00a0The plane flew\u00a0in to the airport\u00a0under cover of darkness in the wee hours of the morning, fresh from the paint shop in California. It\u00a0was then quickly\u00a0taxied and parked inside one of the Alaska Airlines hangars.\u00a0A\u00a0new paint job covered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-alaska-airlines-eskimo-new-livery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}