Alaska Air to Seattle

We have our own distribution center and retailer in Columbus. With a Columbus field station at Boeing, Amazon employs more than 4,000 people in the city's computer centres and storage facilities. The Columbus is also in the race for Amazon HQ2, a contest between 20 towns for the $5 billion second home of the technology behemoth.

Amazon HQ2's chosen town will not be the only winning town in the competition. The Alaska Airlines will certainly see an upward trend in leaflets as Amazon's thousand workers commute between Seattle and second headquarters. When Alaska won the bid, it had non-stop services to 17 of Amazon's 20 shortlisted towns for HQ2.

Alaska flies non-stop to Pittsburgh in September, another HQ2 nominee. It' gonna be the only one-way service between the two towns. Columbus' additions mean that 19 of the 20 towns competing for HQ2 will have non-stop services to Alaska from Seattle. Getting to Alaska will increase Columbus' and Pittsburgh's odds.

For Amazon, day-to-day non-stop Seattle services are "an important factor" in the company's choice. However, even for non-stop services, the two Middle Western towns are long shots in comparison to major eastern and southern metropolitan areas that compete for HQ2. Puget Sound Business Journal was the first to report on Alaska's new Columbus mission.

Alaska Airlines welcomed to Music City by Nashville International Airport

NVASHVILLE ? Today Alaska Airlines is welcomed to visit BNA (Nashville International Airport) in Newville. Beginning September 23, the carrier will offer a non-stop day to day Seattle flight to Seattle. These announcements follow a series of recently-heralded new non-stop goals for the Metropolitan Airport Authority (MNAA), supported by the Air Services Coalition, by focusing on strategic goals that are important to Nashville's businesses and residents, such as Seattle.

In early 2014, MNAA founded the Nashville Air Service Coalition, a coalition of Nashville and Middle Tennessee senior executives representing the region's various industry sectors, ranging from transportation, electronics, technology, entertainment, automobiles, education and health, to regional, state and national governments, business promotion agencies, chamber of Commerce, and hotel and tourist organisations.

One of the world' s biggest low-cost carriers, Alaska Airways is the 7th biggest US airliner. Along with its local partners, Alaska Airways services more than 100 destinations through an extensive global service hub in the United States, Canada and Mexico. One of the world' fastest-growing US hubs, Nashville International Airport posted a 2014 attendance of 11 million and breaks monthly records.

Currently operated by nine carriers, BNA provides 390 non-stop departures and arrivals a day to more than 50 cities.