{"id":1078,"date":"2016-04-01T21:23:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T05:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2016-04-03T22:06:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T06:06:25","slug":"a-is-for-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/a-is-for-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"A is for Alaska&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines, that is! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/alaska-air-nears-virgin-america-deal-after-frenzied-bidding-1459716960\" target=\"_blank\">They&#8217;re in the news<\/a> because they&#8217;re looking to buy out the airline of hipsters, Virgin America. \u00a0Don&#8217;t know how mood lighting and a Banana Republic clad cabin crew will work out with the more prim and corporate Alaska Airlines. \u00a0It&#8217;s unfortunate because Virgin America was truly an option out of SFO. \u00a0If you needed to fly to JFK or LAS, you weren&#8217;t stuck on the bus (Southworst) or on the sucky legacy airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Like they say, nothing&#8217;s worse (for the passenger) than good economic times for airlines.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/consumerist.com\/2016\/03\/23\/now-that-it-knows-its-attractive-to-buyers-virgin-america-considering-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.zemanta.com\/366701304_80_80.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 83px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; background-image: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/consumerist.com\/2016\/03\/23\/now-that-it-knows-its-attractive-to-buyers-virgin-america-considering-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\">Now That It Knows It&#8217;s Attractive To Buyers, Virgin America Considering Sale<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/investorplace.com\/2016\/03\/virgin-america-va\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.zemanta.com\/366873008_80_80.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 83px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; background-image: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/investorplace.com\/2016\/03\/virgin-america-va\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sale Rumors help Virgin America (VA) Shares Soar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines, that is! \u00a0They&#8217;re in the news because they&#8217;re looking to buy out the airline of hipsters, Virgin America. \u00a0Don&#8217;t know how mood lighting and a Banana Republic clad cabin crew will work out with the more prim and corporate Alaska Airlines. \u00a0It&#8217;s unfortunate because Virgin America was truly an option out of SFO. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/a-is-for-alaska\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A is for Alaska&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-atoz-2016","tag-alaska-airlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-ho","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}