Travel in state Alaska

The best airline loyalty program is one that's well-rounded and can meet the needs of a wide range of travelers.

It's a big moment for Hawaiian Airlines.

Let me tell you a story about the United Excursionist Perk, the little-known award travel tip even points and miles pros forget about.

The American Airlines pilots’ union said it has noticed a “significant spike” in safety and maintenance-related incidents. 

The “Great North American Eclipse” is over—now prepare for the “Greatest American Eclipse.”

Travelers who live on the West Coast of the United States have long bemoaned the lack of direct flights to the Caribbean from international airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. Normally, flying to the Caribbean from the West Coast requires stopovers and plane changes in hubs like Atlanta, New York, Houston, or Miami. Between the time difference and the layovers, flying from the West Coast to the Caribbean can easily take at least a full day—or may even require an overnight stop. With closer warm-weather destinations like Mexico and Hawai‘i beckoning, many travelers in the Pacific time zone simply skip the Caribbean.

The totality of an eclipse is never long enough. My first total solar eclipse experience in 2017 made for the shortest two minutes of my life: the sun transforming into a blazing diamond ring, the beautiful delirium of darkness, that perfect circle in the sky. Before I knew it, the eclipse was over—and my friends and I were plotting how we could catch our next.

Attention, Alaska Airlines elite members: If you are an MVP Gold 75K or 100K elite member, check your email inbox for your systemwide American Airlines upgrade vouchers.

Around a dozen United Airlines flight attendants picketed outside LaGuardia Airport on Thursday, demanding better pay and working conditions. 

AirTags have proved to be helpful devices for recovering lost baggage, but what happens if the tracker falls out?

An engineer at Boeing claimed the plane maker dismissed repeated concerns about the quality control of the 787 Dreamliner and 777, some of the most used widebodies in the airline industry. 

British Airways is offering a generous limited-time status match offer for U.S.-based members of its loyalty program, British Airways Executive Club.

For big adventures this year, consider expedition cruising to discover engaging and enlivening destinations across the globe. Wilderness Travel has a curated line-up for 2024—2025, which includes tours to the world’s last frontier—Antarctica; journeys to the far north in the Arctic; exclusive once-a-year odyssey cruises to multiple locales around the planet like the coast of West Africa, northern Europe, and Asia; and dynamic river cruises on the planet’s most well-loved rivers—the Danube, Mekong, Amazon, Magdalena, and Rhine. Keep reading to plan out your next voyage.

United Airlines has postponed a pair of inaugural flights, citing delays by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) following a series of recent safety incidents.

Yet another Boeing aircraft has encountered mechanical issues while flying passengers, this time on a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Houston in the morning of April 7. 

Holland America Line is celebrating a pair of sustainable seafood certifications—one from the Marine Stewardship Council, and the other from the Aquaculture Stewardship Council.

Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan members who dream of reaching far-flung paradisiacal shores on their next vacation are now in luck.   

For the first time ever, the profound and mystical journey of wild Pacific salmon will swim into IMAX and other giant-screen theaters around the world late next year. The new film in production from a team of seasoned large format veterans will be set in one of the Earth’s wildest, most pristine, and threatened places – the stunning mountainous river systems of the North Pacific. Wild salmon are some of the planet’s most valuable species, often approaching $1 billion in economic output annually in Alaska alone.

You can expect to pay more for plane tickets this summer, as airline capacity struggles to keep up with demand.

Did you see the total solar eclipse? Despite clouds in some regions, some sky-watchers in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada were able to get clear views of a totally eclipsed sun for as long as 4 minutes 28 seconds in what was the longest totality viewed from land since 2010—and the longest in the U.S. since 1806.

A Southwest Airlines flight safely returned to Denver International Airport on Sunday after the engine cover of a Boeing 737-800 fell off during takeoff and struck the wing flap, the Federal Aviation Administration said.