Alaska Airlines has celebrated the groundbreaking of its brand-new new maintenance hangar in Portland, Oregon.
Following the receipt of final permit approvals; the hangar will be constructed adjacent to the airline’s existing Horizon Air Ops Center & Maintenance Hangar at Portland International Airport (PDX), and will add roughly 125,000 square feet of space for indoor aircraft maintenance of both Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines’ mainline fleets, as well as 60,000 square feet of space for offices, engine, machine and sheet metal shops and support areas.
The new facility is expected to allow maintenance technicians to work on up to three narrowbody aircraft or two widebody aircraft at one time, enabling the airline to recover out-of-service aircraft quickly and relieve pressure on primary maintenance facilities in Seattle, as well as a number of other hubs.
Benjamin Brookman, Vice President of Real Estate and Airport Affairs, Alaska Airlines, said:A new maintenance hangar in Portland is both an investment in one of our critical hubs and a key that unlocks growth possibilities throughout our network.
With more flexibility on where we can perform maintenance and the aircraft we can service, we can run our operation more efficiently.
Once fully operational, the new facility will create more than 100 highly skilled jobs for local maintenance technicians, engineers and service professionals.
