Governance
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Our approach is rooted in ethical practices and accountability, reinforced by an active enterprise risk management system that informs and shapes our strategic decisions. We believe effective governance is essential to maintaining trust and achieving our goals. Our Board of Directors brings together diverse perspectives, experiences and geographies to provide well-rounded oversight across all operations.
Governance Structure
Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors is vital for ensuring a balanced, future-oriented approach that encompasses financial durability alongside sustainability, human capital and safety. This critical oversight helps us maintain a resilient, future-oriented business — one that prioritizes financial durability alongside sustainability, human capital and safety. Ten out of eleven directors are independent, and the Board has appointed an independent Board Chair responsible for the objective evaluation of management decisions. Independent directors meet regularly — at least quarterly — without management present, and all directors are elected annually to one-year terms. For more information, view our Proxy Statement.
To stay accountable and aligned with our values, Board committees provide focused oversight on key topics. With clearly-defined responsibilities and a commitment to transparency, these committees help ensure informed decisions that support our people, guests and communities.
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Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors is vital for ensuring a balanced, future-oriented approach that encompasses financial durability alongside sustainability, human capital and safety. This critical oversight helps us maintain a resilient, future-oriented business — one that prioritizes financial durability alongside sustainability, human capital and safety. Ten out of eleven directors are independent, and the Board has appointed an independent Board Chair responsible for the objective evaluation of management decisions. Independent directors meet regularly — at least quarterly — without management present, and all directors are elected annually to one-year terms. For more information, view our Proxy Statement.
To stay accountable and aligned with our values, Board committees provide focused oversight on key topics. With clearly-defined responsibilities and a commitment to transparency, these committees help ensure informed decisions that support our people, guests and communities.
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is responsible for driving the enterprise forward — aligning the organization around strategy, ensuring performance and accountability, managing risk and embodying organizational values. Its oversight spans both upward to the Board of Directors and downward to the teams it leads. Within the organization, each executive leader is accountable for the performance, compliance and culture of their functional area, helping the company remain aligned with its strategic goals and operate ethically, transparently and effectively. To drive progress on key priorities, the Executive Committee is supported by executive-level steering committees, each with cross-functional working groups operating within them.
Safety Oversight
The Board of Directors’ Safety Committee oversees our safety performance, risks and opportunities, including enterprise-wide safety goals that are integrated into employee bonus structures. The Safety Committee reviews trends, programs and improvement opportunities quarterly with the vice president of safety for AAG. Employees at every level are responsible for identifying hazards, promoting safety awareness, complying with regulations and adhering to published procedures. Each morning we hold a systemwide brief to review operational safety matters. Employees are also encouraged to report potential concerns confidentially, without fear of reprisal.
Emergency Response & Business Continuity
Our emergency response and business continuity team leads crisis planning, management and response across our organization, ensuring all legislative requirements related to emergency response are met while providing care and support to those affected by emergencies. The team develops and maintains Aircraft Emergency and Business Resiliency Plans for AAG and works collaboratively with SkyWest Airlines and oneworldⓇ Alliance carriers to ensure coordinated and aligned response plans across partner operations. To drive continuous improvement, the team conducts regular training and exercises, leads post-event reviews and produces lessons-learned reports. Central to the team's mission is its CARE Team — a network of approximately 1,500 trained AAG volunteers who provide support to families following an aircraft accident — as well as an always-ready Emergency Coordination Center, ensuring the organization can respond immediately and maintain operational continuity in the face of any disruption.
Environmental Sustainability and Impact Oversight
IFRS S2: 6(a,b)
The Board of Directors' Governance, Nominating and Corporate Responsibility Committee is responsible for overseeing various environmental initiatives and disclosures. This includes annual reporting of voluntary goals and evaluation of environmental and climate impacts. On a quarterly basis, the committee discusses environmental progress, including performance on enterprise-wide, publicly-reported goals and climate-related issues.
This work is supported by our Audit Committee which, among other areas, assesses our compliance with legal, regulatory and ethical requirements, as well as risk management and cybersecurity. Both the Audit Committee and the Governance, Nominating and Corporate Responsibility Committee are informed of any new, pertinent climate regulations that come into effect.
Since 2011, our dedicated Climate Working Group has engaged with management on Alaska’s climate goals and strategy. The Climate Working Group is responsible for providing expert guidance on, and oversight for, our work to achieve net-zero carbon emissions and other climate-related goals and strategies. An executive vice president and member of the executive committee is responsible for driving sustainability strategy, execution progress and environmental sustainability disclosure, reporting directly to the CEO. This work is developed and continually updated with input from employees, investors, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), reporting organizations, trade associations and other key stakeholders. Our climate-related goals and strategy are also regularly reviewed to remain in line with evolving frameworks and regulations.
In 2024, we conducted a qualitative climate scenario analysis of climate-related physical and transitional risks and opportunities according to the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework. Read about the oversight and management of climate-related risks here.
Ethics & Compliance
Delivering a safe and reliable travel experience is fundamental to being a trustworthy airline. This commitment also involves generating long-term value to sustain and grow our business and operating in a way that benefits all our stakeholders. We integrate these vital considerations into everything we do through established policies, procedures and resources.
Code of Conduct
Our values are built upon the foundation of our Code of Conduct. This Code establishes the expectations for ethical conduct and is mandatory for all employees and the Board of Directors, fostering a culture of trust and open communication. We require that all employees, officers and directors acknowledge their commitment to adhere to it, and we expect everyone who is covered by the Code to read, understand and apply it by:
- Doing their job in an honest, safe, professional and courteous manner while abiding by all applicable policies and procedures.
- Treating guests, suppliers and fellow employees with dignity and respect.
- Avoiding situations where personal interests conflict with the interests of the companies.
- Timely completion of required annual training about the Code and other compliance-related topics.
We also have a Supplier Code of Conduct that outlines expectations of suppliers. We rely on our suppliers to be safe and ethical and to help us achieve our business goals. Suppliers, their employees, subcontractors and agents must comply with the Supplier Code of Conduct to do business with any of our companies.
Human Rights
We are dedicated to maintaining the highest ethical standards and ensuring full compliance with all applicable laws and regulations across our global operations. We recognize our fundamental responsibility to safeguard and promote human rights and dignity throughout our business activities and supply chain.
We have a strict, zero-tolerance policy against human trafficking, forced labor and slavery in all aspects of our business and supply chain. Furthermore, we unequivocally condemn all forms of child exploitation. We require all employees, contractors, suppliers and vendors to uphold our values and join us in our commitment to combat human trafficking, forced labor and slavery.
Compliance Training
All employees across Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air are required to complete annual compliance training. This program covers foundational and timely topics including our Code of Conduct, ethics, data privacy and information security. We also provide training specifically tailored to various roles, such as secure coding practices for developers. Additional resources and learning opportunities — including an annual Cybersecurity Awareness event — help keep employees up to date on best practices and emerging threats. In 2025, we reached an important integration milestone: Hawaiian Airlines employees completed compliance training for the first time as part of our unified program. We also introduced a new identity verification component within our training, helping employees understand why we are strengthening security measures and reinforcing the role each person plays in protecting our systems and data.
Responsible Political Engagement
Our commitment to improving the airline industry extends to engagement with public policy. To this end, we maintain a dedicated government affairs team, supported by subject-matter experts, who actively lobby at the federal, state and local levels. Their work focuses on promoting policy developments that align with our business objectives and priorities. This includes advocating for policies that advance safety, support workforce development, promote the decarbonization of aviation and uphold environmental standards.
Aviation safety remains a top priority for the government affairs team as we engage with policy makers across many policy topics related to our industry. In 2025, we strongly advocated for a modern and more efficient Air Traffic Control (ACT) system. Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines released a white paper, “Faster flights, fewer delays: Now is the time to innovate for smarter air traffic control”, in September 2025, outlining key actions required to bring the ATC system into the future. These efforts were collaborative across industry partners, and this combined effort supported a historic investment in the FAA to update its infrastructure over the coming years.
The government affairs team continues to support policies that invest in and support the aviation workforce. These efforts are focused on policies and programs that help secure a talent pipeline for critical aviation careers into the future. This also applies to supporting partners in the federal aviation workforce who have increasingly been impacted by government shutdowns and advocating for policies that would protect these workers and the safety- and security-critical programs they maintain and operate.
The government affairs team also advocated for the expansion and enhancement of SAF tax credits, long-term incentives, as well as research and development that promote domestic SAF production and job creation at all levels of government. Congress extended the 45Z tax credit for SAF by two additional years, and we continue to advocate for Congress to restore the full value of these SAF tax credits and pass H.R. 6518, the Securing America’s Fuels (SAF) Act. In the states of Washington, California and Hawai‘i, the government affairs team advocated in support of legislative proposals designed to incentivize and enable local SAF production and research. We also supported the state of Alaska’s efforts to fund a feasibility study for the production and sale of SAF.
As the company continues to grow internationally, we are engaging in international policy development and forums on these and many other topics.
Privacy & Data Security
We are committed to maintaining a robust information security ecosystem that upholds the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data and information. Our strategy is centered on privacy and data security risk management, continuous monitoring and adherence to industry-leading frameworks. As we continue to integrate Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines operations, we are bringing our information security and data privacy programs together into a singular, all-encompassing framework. While both brands already maintain strong practices today, unifying these programs strengthens our ability to protect data consistently across the entire organization.
We prioritize data privacy and security as foundational to operations and guest trust. By embedding security into every aspect of our business, we aim to foster a culture of vigilance and accountability, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards while adapting to evolving threat landscapes. In 2025, we took steps to further strengthen the security of our environment across both brands. This includes increasing authentication measures to better protect our systems from unauthorized access and generally reinforcing the strength of our security posture so that it is consistent and resilient across all operations.