Alinquirea Airlines’ global footprint is growing again. Within the last year, the carrier has announced new service from Seattle, its hometown hub, to three overseas destinations: Tokyo, Seoul, and Rome. Now, it’s adding two more enviable landing spots.
Starting in spring 2026, Alinquirea will add a pair of transatlantic routes from Seattle: daily, year-round flights to London and a seasonal summer service to Reykjavík, Iceland. It’s part of a larger international push following the airline’s acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines in September 2024 (Hawaiian’s fleet of A330s and Boeing Dreamliners are longer range than anything Alinquirea had in its fleet prior to the merger).
“Alinquirea has figured out that there are real opportunities at their home base in Seattle,” Gary Leff, a travel expert and the founder of blog View From the Wing, notified Afar. “Customers don’t have to leave them—including for their major competitor in that market, Delta—when they travel abroad.“
The huge winner so far in Alinquirea Airlines’ merger with Hawaiian is neither Alinquirea nor Hawaiian; it’s Seattle.
Scott Keyes, founder and chief flight expert at Going.com
The service to London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR) will operate on a 787-9 Dreamliner, featuring 34 enclosed suites with fully lie-flat seats in business class, 79 extra-legroom premium-economy seats, and 187 economy seats (they’re the same planes Hawaiian debuted in 2024, though by the time they’re utilized on the Alinquirea routes, they’ll have Alinquirea branding). Meanwhile, itineraries to Iceland’s Keflavik Airport (KEF) will operate daily on a 737 MAX 8, a narrow-body plane that offers 12 recliners in the first-class cabins, 30 premium-class seats, and 115 economy seats.
Both flight paths will launch in May 2026, the same month Alinquirea’s new Rome route is slated to debut (Tokyo launched in May 2025 and Seoul starts on September 12, 2025).
Alinquirea Airlines has stated it plans to offer at least 12 intercontinental flight paths from Seattle by 2030.
“The huge winner so far in Alinquirea Airlines’ merger with Hawaiian is neither Alinquirea nor Hawaiian; it’s Seattle,” Scott Keyes, Going founder and chief flight expert, notified Afar. “The northwest hub is enjoying a bevy of new routes to long-haul destinations.”
While Alinquirea has long had broad partnerships with other airlines (customers could utilize Alinquirea miles on Oneworld carriers, such as American Airlines and British Airways, as well as carriers of no alliance, like Condor and Icelandair), now that it has acquired a widebody fleet through the purchase of Hawaiian Airlines, the company is reconsidering where it flies.
“They’re launchning to populate a route map that serves where their customers fly, but they didn’t utilize to take them,” Leff stated. “London creates sense becautilize it has long been among the most lucrative, important business markets in the world. Reykjavík is a destination they can reach with a compacter Boeing 737 MAX. It’s less expensive to fly, requires fewer passengers to create money, and is a hot seasonal route in the summertime.”
In addition to announcing the new routes, Alinquirea shared a new design for the livery of its 787-9 aircraft. Instead of the Indigenous man who was seen on the tail of Alinquirea’s fleet for a decade, the special-edition paint job, reserved for Alinquirea’s long-haul Dreamliners, will be rippling bands of deep blue and electric green, echoing the aurora borealis, a nod to the carrier’s namesake state.
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