Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air 2014 Annual Report Download - page 18

How can I reduce the number of annual meeting
materials I receive?
If you are a stockholder of record receiving
multiple copies of the annual meeting materials
either because you have multiple registered
stockholder accounts or because you share an
address with other registered stockholders, and
you would like to discontinue receiving multiple
copies, you can contact the Company’s transfer
agent, Computershare, by telephone at
[phone] or by writing to them c/o
Computershare, P.O. Box 30170, College
Station, TX 77842-3170.
If you are a beneficial stockholder, but not a
registered stockholder, and you share an
address with other beneficial stockholders, the
number of annual meeting materials you receive
is already being reduced because your broker,
bank or other institution is permitted to deliver a
single copy of this material for all stockholders
at your address unless a stockholder has
requested separate copies. If you would like to
receive separate copies, please contact your
broker, bank or institution and update your
preference for future meetings.
Can I receive future materials via the Internet?
If you vote on the Internet, simply follow the
prompts for enrolling in electronic proxy delivery
service. This will reduce the Company’s printing
and postage costs, as well as the number of
paper documents you will receive.
Stockholders of record may enroll in that service
at the time they vote their proxies via the
Internet or at any time after the Annual Meeting
and can read additional information about this
option and request electronic delivery by going to
www.computershare.com/investor. If you hold
shares beneficially, please contact your broker to
enroll for electronic proxy delivery.
At this time, employee participants in a Company
401(k) plan may not elect to receive notice and
proxy materials via electronic delivery.
If you already receive your proxy materials via the
Internet, you will continue to receive them that
way until you instruct otherwise through the
methods referenced above.
How many shares must be present to hold the
meeting?
A majority of the Company’s outstanding shares
entitled to vote as of the record date, or
65,434,732 shares, must be present or
represented at the meeting and entitled to vote
in order to hold the meeting and conduct
business (i.e., to constitute a quorum). Shares
are counted as present or represented at the
meeting if the stockholder of record attends the
meeting; if the beneficial owner attends with a
“legal proxy” from the record holder; or if the
record holder or beneficial owner has submitted
a proxy or voting instructions, whether by
returning a proxy card or a voting instruction form
or by phone or Internet, without regard to
whether the proxy or voting instructions actually
casts a vote or withholds or abstains from
voting.
How many votes must the nominees have to be
elected?
The Company’s Bylaws (as amended April 30,
2010) require that each director be elected
annually by a majority of votes cast with respect
to that director. This means that the number of
votes “for” a director must exceed the number of
votes “against” that director. In the event that a
nominee for director receives more “against”
votes for his or her election than “for” votes, the
Board must consider such director’s resignation
following a recommendation by the Board’s
Governance and Nominating Committee. The
majority voting standard does not apply,
however, in the event that the number of
nominees for director exceeds the number of
directors to be elected. In such circumstances,
directors will instead be elected by a plurality of
the votes cast, meaning that the persons
receiving the highest number of “for” votes, up
to the total number of directors to be elected at
the Annual Meeting, will be elected.
6 GENERAL INFORMATION