---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000766421-25-000045"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ALK"
cik: "0000766421"
company_name: "ALASKA AIR GROUP, INC."
filed_at: "2025-09-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:37:55.570076+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alaska Air Group names Jason Berry COO; Constance von Muehlen to retire Feb 2026

## Summary
- Constance von Muehlen, EVP and COO, to retire Feb 15, 2026, will serve as advisor from Nov 3, 2025.
- Jason Berry elected EVP and COO effective Nov 3, 2025; will lead operations, labor relations, cargo.
- Andrea Schneider named CEO and President of Horizon Air, succeeding Berry, effective Nov 3, 2025.
- Berry's base salary set at $525,000, target bonus 85% of base, LTI target $1.6M under 2016 PIP.
- Single operating certificate with Hawaiian Airlines anticipated later this fall; cited as transition timing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000766421-25-000045
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ALK
- cik: 0000766421
- company_name: ALASKA AIR GROUP, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-09-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766421/000076642125000045/0000766421-25-000045-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766421/000076642125000045/alk-20250926.htm

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