At 5:30 PM Pacific time yesterday, Alaska Airlines Flight AS180 pushed back from the gate at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport — and for the first time in 93 years of flying, Alaska Airlines crossed the Atlantic.
A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner bearing the Alaska livery streaked east-northeast over Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and the North Atlantic toward Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino Airport.