SEATTLE,
Feb. 15, 2018
/PRNewswire/ -- Alaska Airlines' board of directors elected
Todd Sproul and Shane Jones to its growing leadership team in
Seattle Wednesday. Sproul will
serve as vice president of system operations, a new position, and
Jones will be vice president, airport real estate and development,
filling a recent vacancy.
In his new role, Sproul will oversee Alaska Airlines'
systems operations control and coordinate with Horizon Air and
other regional partners to deliver excellent operational results. A
30-year veteran of Alaska Airlines, Sproul previously served as
managing director of systems operational control, responsible for
the airline's safety and on-time performance. Prior to that, he was
managing director of station operations, managing performance
oversight and vendor contracts, ground service equipment, financial
reporting, and staff and schedule planning.
Sproul joined Alaska Airlines in 1988 as a ramp service
agent and held a variety of positions in customer service, ground
operations and corporate real estate. He holds a bachelor's of
business administration from Western
Washington University.
"Todd brings a wealth of experience and internal knowledge
of our airline to this new role," said Ben
Minicucci, president and chief operating officer of Alaska
Airlines. "Not only has he owned safety and managed the day-to-day
continuous operational excellence of the airline, but he's also
helped us deliver on the integration and will lead our upcoming
move of Virgin America's operations control center to Seattle."
Jones comes to Alaska
most recently from Delta Air Lines, where he served as vice
president of corporate real estate and airport development. During
his tenure, he played a key role in developing Delta's long-term
airport infrastructure strategy, negotiated transactions in
strategic hub markets and completed large-scale projects including
a $1.4 billion JFK terminal
development. Prior to that he served as director of corporate
strategy & business development, where he worked extensively on
the Northwest Airlines merger. Jones joined Delta in
2003.
"Shane is responsible for shaping and executing the
strategic vision for our airport real estate,
including developing our long-term airport infrastructure growth
strategy and leading the team responsible for design
and construction," said Andrew
Harrison, the airline's executive vice president and chief
commercial officer. "His expertise and leadership skills for
overseeing large projects will be welcome as we continue to invest
in our guest experience."
Jones holds a bachelor's of business administration from
the University of Georgia and an MBA
from Goizueta Business School at Emory
University.
Alaska Airlines, together with Virgin America and its
regional partners, flies 44 million guests a year to more than 115
destinations with an average of 1,200 daily flights across
the United States and to
Mexico, Canada and Costa
Rica. With Alaska
and Alaska Global Partners,
guests can earn and redeem miles on flights to more than 900
destinations worldwide. Alaska Airlines ranked
"Highest in Customer Satisfaction Among Traditional
Carriers in North
America" in the J.D. Power North America
Satisfaction Study for 10 consecutive years from 2008 to 2017.
Learn more about Alaska's
award-winning service at
newsroom.alaskaair.com and
blog.alaskaair.com. Alaska Airlines, Virgin
America and Horizon Air are subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group (NYSE:
ALK).
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