Background
Kennedy was born in Denver, Colorado in 1938.
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Bruce Kennedy
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He moved to Alaska as a teenager and graduated from the University of Alaska in 1963.
Career
He retired in the early 1990s to do humanitarian work before his death in 2007. He also served as a national leader in his church. He later entered the real estate business before his company acquired when it was nearly bankrupt in 1972.
Kennedy became the Chief Executive Officer of in 1979.
Annual revenue for the airline grew from $234.5 million in 1982 to $1.1 billion in 1991. He was largely responsible for the airline developing two routes to southern California, Russia and Mexico.
As well, he fostered the development of subsidiary Horizon Air. He retired in 1991 to undertake humanitarian work.
Kennedy traveled to China to teach English and sheltered refugees in his house.
He was the chairman of Quest Aircraft which made aircraft for dangerous and remote locations and served on the boards of Christian organisations. He also served on the board of Alaska Air which was now based in Washington where he lived. He was an elder in John Knox Church in Seattle at the time of his death.
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American