Source: ATW Daily News Author: 08/18/2008
Subject Concerned: Airlines Human Resource
United Airlines parent UAL Corp. named VP-Investor Relations Kathryn Mikells to succeed Executive VP and CFO Jake Brace when he retires on Nov. 1.
Mikells, who joined UA in 1994 as a financial analyst and has held several leadership positions throughout the company, will be senior VP and CFO.
Brace joined the company in 1988 and has been CFO since 2001. He will continue to serve in an advisory role, UA said.
UAL also named former Northwest Airlines pilot and Air Line Pilots Assn. officer Howard Attarian as VP-flight operations, effective Sep. 1.
Separately, UA introduced its new lie-flat business class seat on its Asian network last week aboard a reconfigured 747 flying from San Francisco to Hong Kong.
Aircraft also will serve Singapore.
UA's entire widebody fleet will be reconfigured over the next two years.