Alaska Airlines and ... handbags?

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Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Alaska Airlines and ... handbags?</h1>
                <h2><p>Have you been looking for a fashionable, sleek leather handbag? Alaska Airlines has come to your rescue. It has teamed up with Mariclaro, a Canadian bag maker that specializes in making handbags and other accessories out of leather airplane seats. The Puget Sound Business Journal reports that the airline began</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/ashli-blow/">Ashli Blow</a></p> 
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            <p>Have you been looking for a fashionable, sleek leather handbag? Alaska Airlines has come to your rescue. It has teamed up with Mariclaro, a Canadian bag maker that specializes in making handbags and other accessories out of leather airplane seats. <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/morning_call/2014/12/alaska-airlines-old-leather-737seats-turned-into.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">The Puget Sound Business Journal reports</a> that the airline began installing thinner Recaro seats on some of its 737s and was going to throw the old leather seats away, when Mariclaro said it could recycle them. Alaska’s vice president of maintenance and engineering, Greg Mays, said, “It’s not often that people can own a bag that has already traveled more miles than they have.” Or probably ever will. — C.R.</p>
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Have you been looking for a fashionable, sleek leather handbag? Alaska Airlines has come to your rescue. It has teamed up with Mariclaro, a Canadian bag maker that specializes in making handbags and other accessories out of leather airplane seats. The Puget Sound Business Journal reports that the airline began installing thinner Recaro seats on some of its 737s and was going to throw the old leather seats away, when Mariclaro said it could recycle them. Alaska’s vice president of maintenance and engineering, Greg Mays, said, “It’s not often that people can own a bag that has already traveled more miles than they have.” Or probably ever will. — C.R.

By Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow is a Seattle-based freelance writer who talks with people — in places from urban watersheds to remote wildernesses — about the environment around them. She’s been working in journal