Alaska Airlines is starting flights from Seattle to London and Reykjavik, Iceland, next May, adding to its global expansion following its acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines last year.

Alaska plans to fly daily between Seattle and London's Heathrow Airport on its Boeing

787-9 Dreamliners, in a bet on both business and leisure travel demand. Seattle-Reykjavik will be served by a 737 Max 8 as a spring and summer seasonal service, for the roughly seven-hour flight.

The carrier in June announced it plans to start nonstops between Seattle and Rome next year. A few weeks later, rival Delta Air Lines , said it, too, plans to fly between Seattle and Rome, as well as Barcelona, Spain. International travel , especially for premium seats, has held up better than U.S. domes

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