Glenn Johnson

Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Finance
Alaska Air Group and Alaska Airlines

Snapshot
	Hometown: Red Bank, N.J. First job as a kid: Painting the entire interior of a nursing home at age 15 Least favorite household chore: All of them — I’d rather be playing! Comic book character he’d most like to be: Garfield Hobbies: Snow skiing, scuba diving Favorite vacation spot: Mykonos, Greece Favorite food: Greek and Italian Music preference: Classical Pet: Cats Naxos and Mykonos

Glenn Johnson is responsible for the Finance, Information Technology, Corporate Real Estate, Strategic Planning and Fuel Administration organizations at Alaska Air Group and Alaska Airlines. 

Johnson previously served as executive vice president of airport services and maintenance and engineering, leading the airline’s maintenance, ground operations and airport customer service functions. Before that, he was senior vice president of customer service – airports. 

Admittedly a “numbers guy,” having joined the company in finance, Johnson also found great passion in directing Alaska Airlines’ multi-faceted operations teams, promoting increased teamwork and streamlining operations to ensure schedule reliability for the airline’s customers.

Johnson joined Alaska Airlines in 1982 as a staff auditor and was promoted to director of revenue accounting. In 1991, he left Alaska to become vice president and treasurer of sister airline, Horizon Air. He later served as Horizon’s senior vice president of customer service, where he was responsible for station operations at 40 airports in the United States and Canada.

Johnson went back “across the street” to Alaska Airlines and Alaska Air Group in 2003 as vice president of finance and treasurer, where he served before being promoted to lead the Customer Service – Airports team.

A graduate of the University of Washington, Johnson worked in public accounting, where he achieved his CPA designation, before entering the airline business. 

Johnson resides in Seattle with his partner, Mike, and is an avid traveler, snow skier and scuba diver.