ALASKA AIRLINES goes back to 1932, when Linious McGee, known as Mac, bought a three-seat airplane, packed it on a ship to Alaska and set up the first air link between Anchorage and Bristol Bay, off the state's southwestern coast.
"We've been fighting for our customers on this issue for years — testing an airplane packed full of Kindles, working with the F.A.A., and serving as the device manufacturer on this committee," Drew Herdener, a spokesman for Amazon, which makes the Kindle.
UNFRIENDLY SKIES -- Airplanes packed with summer travelers and a measure of relief in fuel prices have been enough to vault a few airlines back into the black last quarter.
Thousands will finish their journey on airplanes, packed in ice.
"I do wonder if the school was an excuse," he said, noting that Mr. Abdulmutallab remained in Yemen after his visa expired, disappearing into Yemen's Qaeda training grounds and emerging on Christmas Day with explosives on a packed airplane heading to Detroit.
And all the waiting creates a tense but silent anxiety, like a packed airplane cabin tremoring through severe turbulence.
Gradually, many of the leading industries of the first part of the 20th century—fish packing, shipbuilding, airplane and auto assembly, oil production, steel production, and tire and glassmaking diminished or vanished.
Those airplanes were always packed with 40 or so people.
Mayor Oscar B. Goodman said in a recent interview that he was "very bullish on our future," offering as evidence the packed airplanes he encountered both ways on a recent trip east to appear on "The Colbert Report".
There is a play pack on the airplane of Play-Doh, other things, food, to amuse him.
