Alaska Air Group released that its board of directors approved a stock repurchase program authorizing the company to purchase up to $50 million of its common stock. The new program follows the completion on Feb. 29, 2008, of a program to repurchase $100 million of the company’s outstanding stock. Under the program just completed, the company repurchased 4,113,782 shares, or 10% of the outstanding stock at the start of the program, at an average price of $24.31 per share.

Brussels Airlines to welcome Dorothea von Boxberg as new CEO
Currently Chairperson of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Cargo AG, Dorothea von Boxberg will shortly become the new CEO of Brussels Airlines. The appointment is subject to a pending resolution by the Board of Directors of SN Airholding. She is due to take up her new position on April 15 this year and will also