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humor The Needling 2026-04-25

When Boeing Goes Under, Alaska Airlines Pivots to Dog Sledding.

Looks like the cost of jet fuel is too much, so Alaska is admitting that maybe air travel is officially dead. Guess the future of commercial aviation involves more skijoring and less fuel.


After reckoning with the unsustainability of keeping an airline financially afloat if jet fuel prices keep skyrocketing with no end in sight, today sources confirmed Alaska Airlines is preparing to pivot to dog sledding just in case the whole airline industry thing doesn&#8217;t work out. Β  β€œWe’ve crunched the numbers and it looks like higher [&#8230;] <p class="">After reckoning with the unsustainability of keeping an airline financially afloat if jet fuel prices keep skyrocketing with no end i...

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