Alaska airlines.

• Author: Slaten, Russ
• Position: INSIDE ALASKA BUSINESS

Alaska Airlines' fleet of fuel-efficient Boeing airplanes is growing again. Seattle-based Alaska Airlines is purchasing six more Boeing 737-900 Extended Range aircraft, valued at $594 million, Boeing's current list price. The new planes, four scheduled for delivery in 2016 and two in 2017, bring Alaska's total of domestically manufactured jets on order to seventy-nine.

Expedited delivery of four new Boeing 737-900ERs increases the number of planes Alaska Airlines will receive next year to nineteen. Alaska operates one of the youngest fleets in North America. The airline is transitioning to Boeing's most modern and efficient 737...