The oneworld global airline alliance will welcome Alaska Airlines as its 14th member airline and sister carriers Horizon Air and SkyWest Airlines as oneworld affiliate members around the end of 2020.

Rocky Mountaineer is abandoning its tourist rail service between Seattle and Vancouver in 2020 due to underwhelming patronage.

Cathay Pacific Airways will commence new non-stop services to Seattle from 31 March 2019, becoming the only airline directly linking Hong Kong with the fastest-growing city on the west coast of the United States.