Volume 32 | September 2024 Alaska Air Cargo and Hawaiian Air Cargo: What we’re looking forward to. Plus, loading up new routes for fall. Previous Issues Volume 31 | June 2024 Growing California capacity and the launch of LAX freighters! Plus, the fish are flying. Volume 30 | April 2024 Spring growth. Freighters to L.A. And an update from the Managing Director. Related Fresh and fly: Our freighters carry prized Alaska seafood to the world October 25, 2021 Penn Cove Shellfish September 15, 2016 ..read more

Hawaiian Air Cargo has officially joined Alaska Air Cargo — and we have a lot to look forward to in the months ahead ..read more

As students start hitting the books, more books start flying across the Pacific.   Every week, new books arrive at public schools, libraries and bookstores in Hawaii and the state of Alaska via our Priority Shipping services and partnership with logistics leader Lynden. Many of the books are shipped from publishers based in Nashville (BNA), transferring ... Read more ..read more

This fall the freshest taste in Pacific Northwest beer is taking off a thousand miles away in California, thanks to the third year of an innovative farm-to-air-to-glass collaboration.  Within hours of the September harvest, about 2,000 pounds of fragrant hops flew via Alaska Air Cargo to San Jose (SJC) and Orange County (SNA), bound for ... Read more ..read more

Volume 31 | June 2024 Growing California capacity and the launch of LAX freighters! Plus, the fish are flying. Previous Issues Volume 30 | April 2024 Spring growth. Freighters to L.A. And an update from the Managing Director. Volume 29 | December 2023 New freighter and flight route news, plus cargo loads of good cheer — and beer. Related For this baby bear, our Alaska Air Cargo service was just right August 5, 2022 New larger freighters will connect Alaska communities with L.A. in time for peak fishing season  March 25, 2024 ..read more

When the Copper River salmon start flying, it’s all hands on deck at our Alaska Air Cargo station in Cordova (CDV).  Kasey Kinsman, manager of station operations, brings in his full team of ramp agents and customer service agents to work through the night on the mid-May season opener to get the first fresh salmon ... Read more ..read more

Casey Coupchiak on her boat, the F/V Mera. Bristol Bay calls Casey Coupchiak home every summer. She remembers childhoods watching her grandmother smoke her own subsistence-caught salmon, and at age 18, she took over her grandpa Willie Coupchiak’s limited-entry fishing permit. Now, Coupchiak is charting a path to return full-time to the community of Togiak and the bay that has sustained her ancestors for millennia.   For Benjamin Smith, Anchorage is now home, but in late June and July when the sun and the salmon runs are at their peak, you’ll find him back on the Kvichak Rive ..read more

Volume 31 | June 2024 Growing California capacity and the launch of LAX freighters! Plus, the fish are flying. Previous Issues Volume 30 | April 2024 Spring growth. Freighters to L.A. And an update from the Managing Director. Volume 29 | December 2023 New freighter and flight route news, plus cargo loads of good cheer — and beer. Related For this baby bear, our Alaska Air Cargo service was just right August 5, 2022 New larger freighters will connect Alaska communities with L.A. in time for peak fishing season  March 25, 2024 Newsletter Keep up to date! Subscribe to ..read more

Our team loads a freighter in Los Angeles. (Photo by Pavel Manchik / Alaska Air Cargo) At LAX, the Alaska Air Cargo station never sleeps.  Our Los Angeles team bustles day and night to move time-sensitive cargo like California produce and fresh-caught tuna through one of our network’s busiest warehouses, now open 24/7. This spring, we extended our hours around the clock to support our new twice-weekly freighter service connecting LAX with Seattle (SEA) and Anchorage (ANC), as well as the return of popular overnight cross-country flights to New York (EWR) and Boston (BOS).   The ..read more

(Photo: Copper River Seafoods) The first Alaska salmon of the season lands at Boston’s Legal Sea Foods restaurants and Whole Foods Market seafood counters across the country after their journey in the care of Alaska Air Cargo. In a traditional Alaska rite of spring, the Copper River’s most famous fish are flying. Just 48 hours after the first wild king salmon were pulled from the water near Cordova in southcentral Alaska, the prized catch was the centerpiece of an invitation-only “First Fish Dinner” at Legal Sea Foods in Boston May 18. At the same time, fresh Copper River sockeye started arriv ..read more