Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air 2014 Annual Report Download - page 15

You can vote by mail.
If you received this Proxy Statement by mail,
simply sign and date the enclosed proxy card or
voting instruction form and mail it in the
enclosed prepaid and addressed envelope. If you
mark your choices on the card or voting
instruction form, your shares will be voted as you
instruct.
You can vote by telephone or by the Internet.
Internet and telephone voting facilities for
stockholders of record and beneficial owners will
be available 24 hours a day and will close at
11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 6,
2015. To allow sufficient time for voting by the
trustee, voting instructions for the Company’s
401(k) plan shares must be received no later
than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday,
May 4, 2015.
Voting by the Internet or phone is fast and
convenient and your vote is immediately
confirmed and tabulated. By using the Internet or
phone to vote, you help Alaska Air Group
conserve natural resources and reduce postage
and proxy tabulation costs.
How will my shares be voted if I return a blank
proxy or voting instruction form?
If you sign and return a proxy card without giving
specific voting instructions, your shares will be
voted in accordance with the recommendations
of the Board of Directors shown above and as
the named proxies may determine in their
discretion with respect to any other matters
properly presented for a vote during the meeting
or any postponement or adjournment of the
meeting.
If my shares are held in a brokerage account,
how will my shares be voted if I do not return
voting instructions to my broker?
If you hold your shares in street name through a
brokerage account and you do not submit voting
instructions to your broker, your broker may
generally vote your shares in its discretion on
matters designated as routine under the rules of
the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). However, a
broker cannot vote shares held in street name on
matters designated as non-routine by the NYSE,
unless the broker receives voting instructions
from the street name (beneficial) owner.
The proposal to ratify the appointment of the
Company’s independent accountants for fiscal
year 2015 is considered routine under NYSE
rules. Each of the other items to be submitted
for a vote is considered non-routine under
applicable NYSE rules. Accordingly, if you hold
your shares in street name through a brokerage
account and you do not submit voting
instructions to your broker, your broker may
exercise its discretion to vote your shares on the
proposal to ratify the appointment of the
Company’s independent accountants but will not
be permitted to vote your shares on any of the
other items. If your broker exercises this
discretion, your shares will be counted as
present for the purpose of determining a quorum
at the Annual Meeting and will be voted on the
proposal to ratify the Company’s independent
accountants in the manner instructed by your
broker, but your shares will constitute “broker
non-votes” on each of the other items at the
Annual Meeting.
For a description of the effect of broker non-
votes on the proposals, see How many votes
must the nominees have to be elected? and Not
including the election of directors, how many
votes must the proposals receive in order to
pass?.
What other business may be properly brought
before the meeting, and what discretionary
authority is granted?
Under the Company’s Bylaws, as amended
April 30, 2010, a stockholder may bring
business before the meeting or for publication in
the Company’s 2015 Proxy Statement only if the
stockholder gave written notice to the Company
on or before November 28, 2014 and complied
with the other requirements included in Article II
of the Company’s Bylaws.
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