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Investor Contact: Nancy Gore
Phoenix, AZ (PDT)
480/698-2843
Media Contact: Patty Nowack
Phoenix, AZ (PDT)
480/693-5729
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 3, 1999
AMERICA WEST NAMES NOMINEES FOR ELECTION AS DIRECTORS
PHOENIX (NYSE:AWA) - America West Holdings Corporation, in its proxy
statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, announced that
Robert J. Miller and Jeffrey A. Shaw had been nominated as candidates to join
the Company's board of directors and will stand for election at the Company's
annual meeting held later this month.
Miller, 54, served as governor of the state of Nevada from 1989 until
January 1999. He is currently a senior partner at the Nevada law firm of Jones
Vargas. Miller currently serves as a director of the Newmont Mining
Corporation, Paging Network, Inc. (PageNet) and Zenith National Insurance Corp.
He is also a director of the American Cancer Society Foundation, a member of
the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Board of Trustees and serves on the U.S.
Secretary of Energy Advisory Board.
Shaw, 34, is managing director of Texas Pacific Group (TPG), an
investment firm. Prior to joining TPG, Shaw was a principal of Acadia
Partners/Oak Hill Partners, an affiliate of Keystone, Inc. (formerly the Robert
M. Bass Group). Shaw currently serves as a director of Ducati S.p.A, Ducati
North America, Inc., Del Monte Foods Company, Favorite Brands International,
Inc., and Ryanair Holdings plc.
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America West Holdings Corporation
Nominates Directors / 2
In addition to former Governor Miller and Shaw, America West Executive
Vice President W. Douglas Parker, America West Airlines Executive Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer Gilbert Mook and John Tierney, already
directors of America West, also stand for election. America West directors are
elected in three classes.
The six directors whose terms continue include John Goolsby, richard
Schifter, William Franke, Walter Klenz, Richard Kraemer and Denise O'Leary.
Frederick Bradley is retiring from the Company's board of directors
effective upon the election of directors at the 1999 annual meeting. Bradley
has served on the Company's board of directors since 1992. James Coulter, a
managing partner of Texas Pacific Group and a director since 1994, resigned
from the board of directors in April 1999.
The Company's annual meeting will be held May 20, 1999, at The Regency
in New York.
America West Holdings Corporation is an aviation and travel services
company with 1998 sales of $2.0 billion. Wholly owned subsidiary America West
Airlines is the nation's ninth largest carrier serving more than 90
destinations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The Leisure Company, also a
wholly owned subsidiary, is one of the nation's largest tour packagers.
This press release, as well as releases issued in the past year by
America West Holdings and its affiliates, can be accessed on the America West
Internet site at www.americawest.com
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