{"id":41410,"date":"2019-01-15T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-air-group-plans-to-add-3000-jobs-this-year\/"},"modified":"2019-01-15T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T22:12:35","slug":"alaska-air-group-plans-to-add-3000-jobs-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/alaska-air-group-plans-to-add-3000-jobs-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Air Group plans to add 3,000 jobs this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE &mdash; Alaska Air Group says it plans to add more than 3,000 jobs this year, with three-fourths of the positions opening in Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Times reported the Seattle-based airline group says the new jobs will include maintenance technicians, airport operations, customer service, cargo specialists, flight attendants and pilots.<\/p>\n<p>The company says most of the openings will not require previous airline experience.<\/p>\n<p><ins><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/employees-ask-alaska-airlines-for-better-wages-job-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Employees ask Alaska Airlines for better wages, job security]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>A study commissioned by the airline found that employment at Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air grew by about 35 percent at the Seattle hub between 2013 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it recently hired its 10,000th employee in Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>The company employed about 8,500 people in California, Oregon and Alaska in 2017, with a total nationwide workforce of 21,300.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 This is an Associated Press report.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the openings will not require previous airline experience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":41411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[54,208,241,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-41410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-alaska-airlines","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41410"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}