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Dear Members,
Below is the announcement that was sent out by AWA Doug Parker, and US Airways Bruce Lakefield regarding the Officers that will be heading the New US Airways: For your Fyi... Via Newswire ------------ July 25, 2005 Dear America West and US Airways Employees: Just over two months ago, we announced our plans to merge America West and US Airways. Since that time, we have made tremendous progress. We have reached agreements with two additional investors, bringing the total amount of new equity investment supporting the transaction to $565 million. We have also obtained clearance from the Department of Justice for our proposed merger, and just last Friday, we obtained the ATSB's consent for the merger. We are pleased that our plans to close on the merger agreement by early fall remain on track. One important step is to determine the organizational structure for the new airline and assign areas of responsibility to individual executives. As we've already announced, Doug Parker will become chairman, president, and CEO of the merged company and Bruce Lakefield will become vice chairman. There will be three key areas that report to Doug: operations, marketing and administration. We plan to recommend to the new airline's board that three extremely talented individuals be elected to oversee these functions: - Operations: Al Crellin, currently US Airways executive vice president, operations, will have responsibility for the merged airline's operations, including safety, flight operations, maintenance, airports and inflight services. Al will retain his title of executive vice president, operations. - Marketing: Scott Kirby, currently America West executive vice president, sales and marketing, will be responsible for revenue management, information technologies, scheduling/planning, marketing, sales, alliances, distribution and reservations. Scott will retain his title of executive vice president, sales and marketing. - Administration: Jeff McClelland, currently America West executive vice president and chief operating officer, will become executive vice president and chief administrative officer. America West Chief Financial Officer Derek Kerr and General Counsel Jim Walsh will retain their current areas of responsibility and will report to Jeff. Other areas reporting to Jeff will include human resources, labor relations and the owned affiliate operations. Two additional areas, public affairs and communications, also will report to Doug. Overseeing those areas, respectively, will be C.A. Howlett, currently America West senior vice president, public affairs and Elise Eberwein, currently America West vice president, corporate communications. Over the next few weeks, the rest of the officer team will be selected and we will continue to work through the organization to ensure we assemble an outstanding leadership team and that everyone is given a fair opportunity to be part of that team. Our goal is to have the entire management team announced and ready to go on the day we close the transaction this fall. We are moving as quickly as we can while ensuring we are making thoughtful decisions for the new airline. We will continue to communicate with you often throughout this process, so keep your questions coming. In the meantime, thank you for continuing to take care of our customers.
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Accessing The Hub: http://thehub.usairways.com Logging in the first time your user name is u0(zero) and your five digit
employee number. Your initial password is the first five digits of your social
security number. Questions about the Hub? Please contact the EDS Help Desk at
336-744-6000 for assistance. More information can also be found HERE. Council 40 PIT 724-695-3329
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