MGM Resorts flies to Anchorage the week of its Q1 earnings call

MGM Resorts flew from Boeing Field in Seattle to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on the evening of May 17, a 3-hour-20-minute hop aboard its Embraer Legacy 500, tail N783MM. The arrival comes just over two weeks after the company reported record first-quarter consolidated net revenues for the period ended March 31, 2026, driven by MGM China and MGM Digital, per its April 29 earnings release [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mgm-resorts-international-reports-first-quarter-2026-financial-and-operating-results-302756621.html).

The timing of the Alaska stop is notable because the same week the earnings call went out, MGM Resorts closed the sale of its MGM Northfield Park operations for $546 million, a transaction CEO Bill Hornbuckle described as providing incremental liquidity for share repurchases. The company also recently renewed Hornbuckle's employment agreement through 2028, with an advisory role tied to its integrated resort project in Osaka, Japan [nasdaq.com](https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/mgm-resorts-announces-new-employment-agreement-ceo-president-bill-hornbuckle-2025-05).

This flight appears to be the final leg of an extended Asia-Pacific sourcing trip: the aircraft's recent track shows it flew from Macau to Tokyo, then to a remote Alaskan airstrip near the previous week, before returning to Las Vegas and then heading north again. Anchorage is a common refueling and crew-change stop for trans-Pacific corporate flights, suggesting the jet is repositioning after a high-roller circuit that spanned MGM Resorts' Macau properties and its Japanese development interests.