{"id":200451,"date":"2019-12-24T06:12:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/alaska-airlines-says-we-dropped-the-ball-apologizes-for-awful-holiday-travel-experience.html"},"modified":"2019-12-24T06:12:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:12:10","slug":"alaska-airlines-says-we-dropped-the-ball-apologizes-for-awful-holiday-travel-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/travel\/alaska-airlines-says-we-dropped-the-ball-apologizes-for-awful-holiday-travel-experience.html","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines says &#8216;we forsaken a ball,&#8217; apologizes for &#8216;awful holiday transport experience&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Starbucks' red crater is your sheet to early boarding on this airline\"><button class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__tp_a\" data-g-r=\"vp_ap vp_tg\" data-c-vpattrs=\"{muted:true,bContent:false,vidNum:1,docking:true}\" data-c-vpdata=\"{adsEnabled:true,awsPath:travel,byline:,canonicalURL:,contentSourceCode:BZ60,createDate:2019-11-07T16:25:26.072Z,credit:Buzz60,duration:50000,headline:Starbucks' red crater is your sheet to early boarding on this airline,hlsURL:https:\/\/hlsmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/e876ed7a-436a-4950-84c9-6bbcdef9cd6b\/1080p_30fps,720p_30fps,480p_30fps,master.m3u8,id:2517897001,image:{url:https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-thumbnails\/e876ed7a-436a-4950-84c9-6bbcdef9cd6b_poster.jpg,opto:true},initialPublishDate:2019-11-07T17:19:42.761Z,keywords:Alaska Airlines,Starbucks,mp4URL:https:\/\/downloadmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/e876ed7a-436a-4950-84c9-6bbcdef9cd6b\/1080p_30fps.mp4,origin:Buzz60,pageURL:{long:https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/travel\/2019\/11\/07\/starbucks-red-cup-your-ticket-early-boarding-airline\/2517897001\/},promoBrief:If you\u2019re drifting on Alaska Airlines this holiday season, walking adult to your embankment with a Starbucks red crater could meant reduction waiting.,publishDate:2019-11-07T17:19:42.761Z,series:,ssts:{leafName:travel,path:travel,section:travel,storysubject:,subsection:,subtopic:,taxonomyEntityDisplayName:Travel,topic:},tags:[{id:0c3bc8a3-9049-4ee5-981c-88387db653c0,name:Alaska Airlines},{id:1dadab21-811a-413f-ab63-1f5f23fd0c4c,name:Starbucks}],title:Starbucks' red crater is your sheet to early boarding on this airline,url:\/videos\/travel\/2019\/11\/07\/starbucks-red-cup-your-ticket-early-boarding-airline\/2517897001\/}\" aria-label=\"Play video\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/a0fa5_e876ed7a-436a-4950-84c9-6bbcdef9cd6b_poster.jpg\" data-g-r=\"vp_po\" \/><\/button><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Alaska Airlines deemed Friday <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">ugly sweater day<\/a>, though many passengers will remember it as transport nightmare\u00a0day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Seattle-based airline pronounced it had an surprising series of container handlers call in ill on Friday, environment off a sequence of events, including complicated moody delays, that lasted via a weekend. On Sunday, Alaska had some-more than 200 moody delays in Seattle, according to moody tracking website\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">FlightAware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The airline pronounced a astonishing ill calls during Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a home bottom and hub, meant it didn&#8217;t have adequate workers to bucket and unpack a high volume of checked bags that comes with holiday travel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;A reserve fast took figure and that prevented many bags from being installed on flights eventually causing a guest to arrive during their destinations but their checked bags,&#8221; a airline pronounced in a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">blog post on a website<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The workman necessity also meant it didn&#8217;t have adequate workers to staff a airfield ramp,\u00a0causing flights to wait on a tarmac for an open gate.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/7ca0d_airline-alaska-air-group-alk-boeing-737.jpg\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/a7469240904944f4f39f17a41630282884c98936\/c=0-0-1560-878\/local\/-\/media\/2019\/12\/21\/USATODAY\/usatsports\/airline-alaska-air-group-alk-boeing-737.jpg?width=1320height=744fit=cropformat=pjpgauto=webp 2x\" alt=\"Alaska Air has reported stellar distinction expansion in 2019.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Alaska didn&#8217;t sweeten a problems, arising a minute <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">public apology<\/a>\u00a0in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;With many opposite factors operative opposite us, we forsaken a ball, and by doing that, combined an awful holiday transport knowledge only when people rest on us a most,&#8221; a post said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;We simply did not have adequate people to do all a work. This caused us not to work a gates well and kept a aircraft out on a tarmac watchful until embankment space non-stop up. We have called in many government employees from opposite a association to support with a container backup and recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As of late Sunday, some passengers pronounced they were still watchful for bags, according to amicable media posts.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/93e7d_24270a50-478f-46db-abd3-680c6a619e94-Tanzania_-_Serengeti.jpg\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/12\/18\/USAT\/24270a50-478f-46db-abd3-680c6a619e94-Tanzania_-_Serengeti.jpg?crop=2120,1193,x0,y107width=1320height=744format=pjpgauto=webp 2x\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/613702862\/0\/usatodaycomtravel-topstories~Alaska-Airlines-says-we-dropped-the-ball-apologizes-for-awful-holiday-travel-experience\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines deemed Friday ugly sweater day, though many passengers will remember it as transport nightmare\u00a0day. The Seattle-based airline pronounced it had an surprising series of container handlers call in ill on Friday, environment off a sequence of events, including complicated moody delays, that lasted via a weekend. On Sunday, Alaska had some-more than 200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-200451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}