Alaska Airlines has signed a general sales and service agent (GSSA) partnership with Global GSA Group ahead of its late-April launch of flights from Rome-Fiumicino to its Seattle hub. Global GSA will develop the airline’s cargo business out of Italy and position Seattle as a key air gateway to North America and beyond.
Daily Boeing 787-9 flights will offer connections via Seattle to over 100 destinations across the US, Asia Pacific, South Pacific and Latin America. for commodities such as aircraft spare parts, high fashion and accessories, foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals or machine parts.
Global GSA chief executive Aytekin Saray, said: “Rome-Seattle is a particularly attractive routing as it offers an additional, direct service into the Pacific Northwest and beyond, for the great variety of high value, special goods that Italy exports.”
Alaska Airlines is the fifth largest airline in the US and the 15th largest worldwideserving over 115 destinations.
