Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air 2007 Annual Report Download - page 19

If you are a beneficial owner and do not
provide your broker, bank or other trustee with
voting instructions, your shares may constitute
“broker non-votes” and may not be counted in
connection with certain matters. See “What are
broker non-votes?” below.
If your shares are held in one of our 401(k)
retirement plans and the trustee of the plan
does not receive voting instructions for shares in
your plan account on a matter, your shares will
not be voted by the trustee on that matter.
What other business may be properly
brought before the meeting, and what
discretionary authority is granted?
Under the Company’s Bylaws, a stockholder
may bring business before the meeting for
publication in the Company’s 2008 proxy
statement only if the stockholder gave written
notice to the Company on or before
December 21, 2007. Aside from nominations for
director, the only such business as to which the
Company received proper advance notice from a
stockholder are (i) the three stockholder
proposals described in this proxy statement and
included on the Company’s proxy card, and (ii) a
stockholder proposal that we were permitted to
exclude from this proxy statement under
applicable rules and regulations of the SEC.
Under the Bylaws, stockholders may also act on
any business not set forth in the notice of
meeting but otherwise properly brought before
the meeting by or at the direction of the Board of
Directors.
The Company has not received notice that
any business other than that described or
referenced in this proxy statement will be
brought before the meeting. As to any other
matters that may properly come before the
meeting and are not on the proxy card, the proxy
grants to Messrs. Ayer and Loveless the
authority to vote the shares for which they hold
proxies in accordance with their best judgment.
With respect to the stockholder proposal
referenced above that has been excluded from
this proxy statement under applicable rules of
the SEC, Messrs. Ayer and Loveless intend to
utilize the discretionary authority conferred by the
proxies submitted to vote against such proposal
if it is properly presented at the Annual Meeting.
What does it mean if I receive more than
one proxy card, voting instruction form or
email notification from the Company?
It means that you have more than one
account for your AAG shares. Please complete
and submit all proxies to ensure that all your
shares are voted or vote by internet or telephone
using each of the identification numbers.
What if I change my mind after I submit my
proxy?
You may revoke your proxy and change your
vote by delivering a later-dated proxy or, except
for persons who beneficially own shares held in
trust in one of the Company’s 401(k) retirement
plans, by voting at the meeting. The later-dated
proxy may be delivered by telephone, internet or
mail and need not be delivered by the same
means used in delivering the to-be-revoked proxy.
Except for persons beneficially holding stock in
one of the Company’s 401(k) retirement plans,
you may do this at a later date or time by:
• voting by telephone or on the internet
(which may not be available to some
beneficial holders) before 11:59 p.m.
Eastern Time Monday, May 19, 2008
(your latest telephone or internet proxy
is counted);
• signing and delivering a proxy card with
a later date; or
• voting at the meeting. (If you hold your
shares beneficially through a broker,
you must bring a legal proxy from the
broker in order to vote at the meeting.
Please also note that attendance at the
meeting, in and of itself, without voting
in person at the meeting, will not cause
your previously granted proxy to be
revoked.)
Persons beneficially holding stock in one of
the Company’s 401(k) retirement plans cannot
vote in person at the meeting and must vote in
accordance with instructions from the trustees.
Subject to these qualifications, such holders
have the same rights as other record and
beneficial holders to change their votes.
If you are a registered stockholder, you can
obtain a new proxy card by contacting the
ŠProxy
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