Alaska Airlines - Boeing's Centennial

Alaska Airlines - Boeing's Centennial

For Boeing, 2016 is an important year. The company celebrated its 100th anniversary on July 15th, and to commemorate this landmark birthday, Boeing’s longtime partner Alaska Airlines – whose mainline fleet is comprised entirely of Boeing aircraft and who, like Boeing, also shares a long, rich history with the city of Seattle – marked the occasion with the unveiling of a specially-painted Boeing 737- 900ER.

Dubbed the “Celebration of Boeing,” both sides of the jet’s fuselage were emblazoned with the Boeing logo and the phrase “100 years strong.”

Alaska Airlines also paid homage to Boeing’s illustrious past by focusing on future and the next generation of aviation innovators to come. It did this by inviting invited a group fourth and fifth grade students to fly on the “100 Years Strong” jet’s first passenger flight. The students were selected from children enrolled in the Museum of Flight’s summer camp, which encourages kids to pursue college degrees and eventual careers in S.T.E.M. related fields.

Alaska Airlines documented the children’s experience with a very sweet clip on the its YouTube channel , while Alaska CEO wrote a blog piece about the airline’s relationship with Boeing.

Aside from generating goodwill and extensive coverage from local media outlets like The Seattle Times and the Puget Sound Business Journal the special livery also made headlines everywhere from Kansas City to China .