Business in brief: Horizon Air to include new nonstop flights
In July, Horizon Air will add new nonstop flights between Spokane and Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Diego. On July 1, the airline will begin offering two daily nonstops between Spokane and Los Angeles, replacing one daily flight currently offered by Alaska Airlines, according to a Horizon news release. A new daily flight to Sacramento also will be added on that day. On July 22, Horizon will begin offering a daily nonstop flight from Spokane to San Diego and will add a third nonstop to Sacramento.
The airline will fly 70-seat regional jets with four-seat rows.
The first new outbound flight to Sacramento will depart daily at 12:55 p.m., arriving at 3:05 p.m., with the return departing at 3:35 p.m. and arriving at 5:45 p.m. Starting July 22, the additional flight will depart Spokane at 6:20 a.m., arriving at 8:20 a.m., with a return at 8:55 a.m., arriving at 10:55 p.m.
The two daily nonstops to Los Angeles will depart at 6 a.m., arriving at 8:40 a.m.; and 6:15 p.m., arriving at 8:55 p.m. Returns leave Los Angeles at 9:30 a.m., arriving at 11:55 a.m. and 8:25 p.m., arriving at 11:05 p.m.
Service to San Diego will embark at 10:50 a.m., arriving at 1:25 p.m.; returns will leave at 7:20 p.m., arriving at 9:55 p.m.
ExpressJet Airlines to make first trip
ExpressJet Airlines will make its inaugural flight out of Spokane International Airport on Monday, with service to Ontario International Airport near Los Angeles.
On that day, the airline will begin phasing in daily non-stop service to three California cities: Ontario, Sacramento and San Diego.
Initially, it will offer two departures and two return flights from Spokane to Ontario. On April 9, it will add three daily flights out and back to Sacramento. And in June, it will add a pair of departures and returns from San Diego.
Seattle
Attacks worse on some Windows versions
Hackers stepped up attacks Friday on computers running some versions of Windows, a day after Microsoft disclosed a hole related to the mouse cursor.
Microsoft Corp. sent out a security advisory Thursday warning customers that a vulnerability in “.ani” files – used to change the cursor into an hourglass while a program works, or into a dancing animal or other animation on specially designed Web sites – was allowing hackers to break into computers and install malicious software.
“Overnight we did see the attacks change from limited and targeted attacks to slightly more, but do still categorize it as a limited attack,” said Mark Miller, director of the software maker’s security response group.
The so-called zero-day attack, a vulnerability that is discovered before Microsoft has a chance to fix the problem, is aimed at PCs running Windows Vista, the new operating system that the company has touted as its most secure. The hole has also been found on Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP Service Pack 2 and some versions of Windows Server 2003.