Today is a busy news day for our hometown airline, Alaska, with three articles in the *Seattle Times*. I thought Mifnetters would be interested in one or more of these stories including the piece on airline mileage theft. The bad guys are everywhere.
(Full disclosure - I worked for Alaska and retired after a great 21 years there.) Fuel flowing after Olympic Pipeline leak disrupted Sea-Tac flights | The Seattle Times <https://www.seattletimes.com/news/fuel-flowing-after-olympic-pipeline-leak-disrupts-sea-tac-flightw/> They were saving up Alaska Air miles. Then their accounts got drained | The Seattle Times <https://www.seattletimes.com/business/alaska-airlines/they-were-saving-up-alaska-air-miles-then-their-accounts-got-drained/> How Alaska Airlines responds to wild weather, IT troubles and travel chaos | The Seattle Times <https://www.seattletimes.com/business/alaska-airlines/how-alaska-airlines-responds-to-wild-weather-it-troubles-and-travel-chaos/> Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Cliff Argue
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