{"id":3950,"date":"2010-07-28T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T15:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2010-07-28T10:06:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T15:06:40","slug":"air-bear-alum-named-president-of-american-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/07\/air-bear-alum-named-president-of-american-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Bear: Alum named president of American Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"horton-july10\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/horton-july10.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Horton\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>If your summer vacation itinerary included flying somewhere, chances are good you traveled on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aa.com\" target=\"_blank\">American Airlines<\/a>; AA carried more than 85 million passengers last year, second-most among all U.S. airlines. But I&#8217;ll bet you didn&#8217;t know that American &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/fortune\/fortune500\/2010\/full_list\/101_200.html\" target=\"_blank\">ranked #120 in the most recent Fortune 500<\/a> &#8212; has a Baylor Bear leading the company.<\/p>\n<p>After six years as chief financial officer (CFO) for American and its parent company, AMR Corporation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aa.com\/i18n\/amrcorp\/corporateInformation\/bios\/horton.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Horton<\/a>, BBA &#8217;83, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/bus\/industries\/airlines\/stories\/DN-horton_22bus.ART.State.Edition1.3e89008.html\" target=\"_blank\">named president of American Airlines and AMR<\/a> earlier this month. At just 49 years old, he is, as the <em>Dallas Morning News<\/em> put it, &#8220;the youngest person in the company&#8217;s executive suite.&#8221; In between two stints at American\/AMR, he also spent three years as CFO at AT&amp;T. In regards to his new role, it&#8217;s interesting to note (as did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2010\/07\/24\/2357885\/amrs-new-president-is-focusing.html\" target=\"_blank\">most news accounts<\/a>) that the last three people to serve as president of American Airlines went on to become the company&#8217;s chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Coming from a Baylor family (his brother Steve, BBA &#8217;86, also graduated from BU), Horton has remained connected to his alma mater. He and AMR Chairman Gerard Arpey met with a group of Baylor accounting students in April 2009 to share professional advice, and Horton will again address a Baylor group in November, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/network\/event.php?event_id=65921\" target=\"_blank\">he is slated to speak at the Baylor Business Network of Dallas breakfast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Tom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your summer vacation itinerary included flying somewhere, chances are good you traveled on American Airlines; AA carried more than 85 million passengers last year, second-most among all U.S. airlines. But I&#8217;ll bet you didn&#8217;t know that American &#8212; ranked #120 in the most recent Fortune 500 &#8212; has a Baylor Bear leading the company. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}