June 1, 2020 Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden email to employees: ‘We must do better’ Yesterday, CEO Brad Tilden sent the following message to Alaska’s 23,000 employees. We wanted to share it with you.
May 30, 2019 CEO Brad Tilden: Recognizing a pilot’s pilot Most of us believe the biggest key to Alaska Airlines’ success is the extraordinary service that our people provide. Pilot Mike Baumgartner is one of our “Customer Service Legends.”
May 2, 2019 Opinion: Some kids need a little lift to see aviation as a career path (Seattle Times) In aviation and in other realms, “lift” is the force that lifts airplanes into the sky, pulls sailboats forward, and makes propellers on windmills work.
March 8, 2019 Celebrating our own Captain Marvels We’re shining a spotlight on a few of the incredible women at Alaska Airlines.
February 13, 2019 We pledge to increase our Black female pilots by 2025 Alaska Airlines pledges to increase Black female pilots by 2025. The number of Black female pilots within our industry serves as a reminder of how far we have to go to advance racial equity and increase representation.
January 30, 2019 CEO Brad Tilden: My week in Alaska job shadowing frontline employees Our managing directors and above are spending a week in the operation.
January 24, 2019 Alaska Airlines CEO on government shutdown It takes airline and government employees to ensure flyers get to where they are going in a timely and safe manner.
November 20, 2018 Leading the West Coast with 50% women on our board Alaska Air Group’s female independent board directors. From left: Phyllis Campbell, Patricia (Patty) Bedient (seated), Helvi Sandvik, Susan Li and
November 6, 2018 Brad Tilden: Meet Kennie Luu, one of our best By Brad Tilden, CEO Chances are, if you’ve flown through Seattle, you’ve seen and may even know Kennie Luu. He’s
August 8, 2018 Alaska Airlines and Pearl Jam band together to fight homelessness Pearl Jam is home for the first time in five years. To say Seattleites are excited is an understatement. The
July 19, 2018 What does sustainability mean at Alaska Airlines? Introduction by Brad Tilden, CEO Each spring, hundreds of aspiring young aviators pour through our maintenance hangar doors in Seattle
April 2, 2018 Brad Tilden: It’s all about Respect More than a thousand times a day, our planes take off, following a careful symphony of process and procedure, to