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Marce Edwards is the business editor. She has been at The News Tribune for seven years and has written about technology and big businesses in the South Sound including Weyerhaeuser and Russell. Before moving to Tacoma, she worked at The Idaho Statesman in Boise. She is a Northwest native who likes to garden and refuses to use an umbrella. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and two kids.
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Kelly Kearsley has been a business reporter at The News Tribune since 2005. She covers the Port of Tacoma and international trade. Being born and raised in Spokane she’s used to living in cities with inferiority complexes and, in fact, prefers it. Prior to working at The News Tribune, she spent three years as a reporter for The Bulletin in Bend, Oregon and another year working stints for The Associated Press and Seattle Times. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and miniature schnauzer.
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Sea-Tac Airport's dominant airline, Alaska Airlines, is offering its frequent fliers a winter bargain.
The carrier is knocking 10,000 frequent flier miles off the cost of its regular 25,000-mile Super Saver round trip award between Sea-Tac and Long Beach, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Another deal applies to first class, where seats are available for 30,000 Mileage Plan miles to those same cities instead of the usual 50,000 miles.
One-way trips are also available at a reduced miles cost. One-way is available in economy for 7,500 miles to those same three cities.
Here's the fine print: the offer is available for travel between Jan. 6 and March 19.
Of course, the awards are subject to availability of seats, says the airline.
After two years of environmental delays, Weyerhaeuser Co. is loading its first log ship this week at new facilities at the Port of Olympia.
The company is expected to bring more than three dozen vessels to the port during 2009 to load logs and wood products.
The company is moving its log operations to Olympia from the Port of Tacoma. The Port of Tacoma intends to turn the log-loading facility into a new container terminal.
The new deal with Olympia is expected to generate some $1.5 million in annual revenue for the Olympia port.
The first log ship, the Lavieen Rose, is expected to depart this weekend.
The opening of the new log facility was delayed by concerns about the facility's affect on the environment, particularly on truck traffic to the port.
Some 80 to 100 trucks a day are expected to use the log yard, reports the Olympian.
The final numbers won't be released for a few weeks, but based on preliminary figures, Airbus will win the orders race with Boeing for 2008.
Airbus reports through Nov. 30 net orders, new orders minus cancellations, of 756 commercial aircraft.
That compares with 662 for Boeing through Dec. 23.
Both planemakers will likely add a few mop-up orders before the final 2008 numbers are announced, but the Airbus number appears insurmountable.
The Boeing figure, for instance, doesn't include four 737-800s ordered this week by Panama's COPA Airlines, and Airbus' tally doesn't include any December orders.
The totals for both manufacturers are a huge drop from last year. In 2007, Airbus won 1,341 net orders. Boeing tallied 1,413.
Both manufacturers enjoyed unprecedented sales in the 2005, 2006 and 2007, so a cyclical slowdown was expected even without today's present economic woes.
An order total of 600-700 would have been a banner year until recently.
Consider Boeing's net orders for the 10 years from 1994 through 2004.
1994 - 125
1995 - 441
1996 - 708
1997 - 543
1998 - 607
1999 - 355
2000 - 589
2001 - 314
2002 - 251
2003 - 244
2004 - 277
