More Than 1,100 Alaska Airlines Employees Wanted to Fly On the Carrier’s First Ever Flight to Europe: Only FOUR Got On

On Tuesday evening, Alaska Airlines operated its first-ever long-haul transatlantic flight to Europe, marking a major step forward in the Seattle-based carrier transforming itself into a global carrier, using widebody Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners for the first time. Alaska Airlines flight AS-180 departed SeaTac International Airport just before 6 pm on April 28 for the 10-hour…